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When is the show exactly broadcasted? (day and local time)

From Fansub Wiki Who Subs What: FALL 2008 or from mahou Showtime.

Saturday at 22:30PM on the Tokyo MX Network.

Thank you! :nod:

Why is there a plaster on Jin's nose at the start of the series?

Hi

so is this a 12-13 episode series? I believe wikipedia mentioned that 4 DVD is planned with 2-3 episodes per.

I assume that the manga is nowhere near ending as well? I seen some translations, but cannot tell how far behind it currently is.

The manga is up to chapter 33, no idea how much longer it's planned to be.

Actually the manga is up to chapter 35

12 episodes i believe,source from http://www.mahou.org/Showtime

So... I hear that this Jin guy can fight pretty well. Is this true?

Since yesterday on 4chan there was so much stuff about nagi being a slut and stuff. Can anyone fill in the blanks for me on that?
All i know is she had an ex-bf and lost her virginity?
like is that from the manga?

@ frubam
He is above average, but he is not really outstanding


@ Dream

I think the moral of the story is that a fair number of 4chan'ers are hypocritical self-righteous twits who should be smacked for their temerity in questioning how a kami spent her eons. Sometimes its hard to believe I'm in the same species as that lot.

Just so you know 2ch is saying the same thing.

And the same comment for those posters as well.... my attitude towards certain native otaku dive when they get stuffed and so righteous over "purity" when they're such a garbage bag of impure thoughts themselves (immature hypocrisy, they want to do the girl but then they think badly of her :eyebrow: ). They pull this same bullshit on real life voice actresses....

I very much agree with Vexx...

A similar outburst also happened with Minna of Strike Witches. Just because it was revealed that she had a boyfriend and could have done "X, Y and Z", her popularity since that episode dropped all the way to hell.

""Purity" bullshit" is right...and I couldn't have described it any more to the point :rolleyes:

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Oh...there is an actual article on it...

does kannagi have some parodies? just wondering... cause i dunno, but that eyes on episode 6 i think is from TTGL isn't it? haha i dunno D:

Vexx, one of reason of such strong reaction I believe is taht it IS shounen. Meaning that not-grown ups tend to read it and you cannot ask from 12 year old to be really acting mature and so.

Of course we also know that a lot of otakus are not that young yet keep the childish act, but i believe if Kannagi were seinen of josei the reaction would have been more subdued. it is just taht in shounen case more of immature public gathers and thats why such threads begin...

In one way or another, unless the issue gets solved soon, the author will be hurt financially. As the popularity of Nagi and the whole manga will go down the hill.

Don't really care if they're 12 or 20 or whatever.... that's one way youngsters learn - when someone calls their ass on the carpet for such nonsense. Its not only childish, its unmanly :)

Besides... we're talking about a Shinto goddess who's effectively been around for hundreds of years. That almost moves their ranting from poor manners to delusionary :) especially when she flat out says there was someone she liked early in the story.

Meh.... this is one of the reasons I tell Americans to think really hard before calling themselves "otaku".

Hi, everyone. Take this discussion somewhere else you want to continue. Here is a place to ask and answer questions, not to discuss such indepth social phenomenon.

Does this series eventually turn into a harem?

If you mean manga, it doesn't.

Good. Good.

herbert, so, actually, Nagi doesn't has any interest in Jin too ?

This is not a place for discussion, so I'll answer you in Zange/Hakua thread.

herbert, thanks for the info.

Is the physical manifestation of Zange her actual form, or is it Hakua's? When Nagi was explaining about how her sister came about, the form Zange was in the form she has now. But it seems she has the same hair color of her father and some of the students call her Hakua as well. Its confusing

Hakua's. Hakua looks like what you see now.

How many episodes will the anime have?

Quoted, since I have no idea myself and I only looked at one post.

What Japanese lengeds are included in Kannagi?

Is it just me, or are at least two of the episodes of the Ayako version repeated? :confused:

I don't think there are any *specific* legends... but much of the storyline uses Shinto motifs and such.
Cloning the trees is a very "japanese" solution to the river crossing problem.
Cutting down the tree is a horrible thing --- Nagi's tree was probably forgotten in the records long before Jin existed.
The connection of kami to the land is inherent... this idea of people/worshippers being important to their influence and power is kind of a modern interpretation. The traditional idea is that ignoring or disrespecting kami precedes bad things happening (disease, poor harvest, bad economy).
Impurities are fundamental to many ideas and customs in Shinto.

There are a number of excellent books on Shinto these days as studiers realize the need to write *something* down about it. Just search on Amazon for "shinto"

One thing I'm confused about is whether Nagi is the spirit of the tree, which happens to act as a guardian deity of the land, or whether she is the goddess of the land itself, which happened to use the tree as its home or vessel. The latter seems to be how it is being portrayed, but the former is how I understand the animistic idea of kami: that they are the spirits of the specific things in question.

Kami can take residence in "vessels" or "things" which are made sacred by being focal points of contact ... so your latter guess comes closer to the truth.

I went back and watched the opener to episode one.... her tree did indeed have a sacred rope (shimenawa) so we can't say the shrine priests weren't aware of its status. I'm kind of at a loss to explain how they'd even consider cutting it down unless they performed some ritual that they *thought* would transfer the kami to some other place (though I can't find any reference to such a thing).
At the moment, only "baka" comes to mind on why approval was given to cut it down - I may write a Shinto priest I know and see if he can enlighten.

Vexx, here is some manga info.

But I incline to the spirit of tree speculation. Because Zange doesn't care if her tree sacred or not, the worship towards to her seems making no difference from the worship towards her tree.

There's news that Kanagi manga will be canceled is it true?

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_33OMdOqFeWI/ST...Y/s800/kan.jpg

"According to Comic REX magazine, Takenashi Eri's manga "Kannagi" will be withheld from publication for some while due to the ill health of the author. It's unknown when the manga will resume publication." (taken from another forum).

Uwaa... Seriously...? Hope she gets well soon then...