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Fellis posted:Has Atomic Samurai's sword hand-guard always been a swastika? in the murata version it appears that its some kinda flower/orbit thing 
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its a drawing of a electrons path around the nucleus of a atom probably, in the murata version
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Jan 13, 2017 23:21
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Law Cheetah posted:in the murata version it appears that its some kinda flower/orbit thing Looks like an atom symbol
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Jan 13, 2017 23:22
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Fellis posted:Has Atomic Samurai's sword hand-guard always been a swastika? More accurately, it's a manji. http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1669
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Jan 13, 2017 23:49
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Fellis posted:Has Atomic Samurai's sword hand-guard always been a swastika? No, that's Bleach.
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Jan 13, 2017 23:52
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Fellis posted:Has Atomic Samurai's sword hand-guard always been a swastika? It's a Manji, a symbol that means luck or fortune or something and used to be all over everything, even in America. Then the nazis flipped it, and like armbands, no one uses them any more except the Japanese who were all on vacation for WW2, honest, why would anyone talk about it anyway.
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Some people like to make a verbal distinction between manji and swastika but there isn't, manji is literally just the japanese word, "whirlwind," for the symbol known in India as the svastika, which itself is a sanskrit word. The swastika is a holy symbol from the Indian subcontinent and spread out with the various religions that originated there, including Buddhism, which is the context from which you see it used in Japan. However people aren't robots and know exactly what its modern context is, though you occasionally see people trying to "reclaim" it or to use it to be visually provocative without technically endorsing Nazism. To put it into context, the first uses of the svastika in the West was a part of a cultural push among archaeological and linguistic circles to find the connections between Europeans and India. This happened sometime around people figured out that European, various Middle Eastern, and Indian languages probably had a common ancestor, speculatively called Proto-Indo-European. And that Indian culture had spread earlier than people had initially realized. On this topic, the Nazis also coopted another term from India, the word Aryan. Which was a religious and cultural term referring to a noble social class, not racial, but it got misunderstood by a bunch of racist nutters who wanted to associate the white race with this "noble people" and latched on their own ideas as to what the word means, without ever realizing (or refusing to admit) that Aryans in real life were brown people. So, it's not the rest of the world's fault that Nazis adopted a bunch of Hindu symbols and later tainted them by association, or got them muddled up in their crazy anthropological fanfiction. But the only westerners who use it do it because of the Nazi connection, or to evoke the Nazi connection while also being terribly pedantic about how it predates the Nazis, which is lovely on two levels.
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Jan 14, 2017 03:08
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"manji" is just the japanese word for the swastika. the nazis happened to use the right-facing version. china and india both still use it a lot too, not just japan
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Xarbala posted:So, it's not the rest of the world's fault that Nazis adopted a bunch of Hindu symbols and later tainted them by association, or got them muddled up in their crazy anthropological fanfiction. But the only westerners who use it do it because of the Nazi connection, or to evoke the Nazi connection while also being terribly pedantic about how it predates the Nazis, which is lovely on two levels. While all this is true, it is important to recognize that One is not a westerner and that Atomic Samurai's usage of this symbol as a traditional Japanese swordsmen legitimately does predate the Nazis. Given this context, I feel it is misleading to refer the symbol on his hand-guard as a swastika.
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Xarbala posted:Some people like to make a verbal distinction between manji and swastika but there isn't, manji is literally just the japanese word, "whirlwind," for the symbol known in India as the svastika, which itself is a sanskrit word. I had always thought the Indian svastika was oriented the other way, and the Nazis had taken a traditional symbol of fortune it and flipped it to show how their party had flipped Germany's fortune and it was all going to be peaches and cream going forward once we got rid of all those jews and also basically everyone else. Am I just wrong? Wouldn't be the first time.
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Jan 14, 2017 04:32
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both orientations are used commonly, with different meanings depending on the particular religious or cultural tradition
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Jan 14, 2017 04:36
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King would have been instantly killed if he had tried tricking them with a conversation about swastikas. Something to keep in mind.
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Jan 14, 2017 11:22
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I was pretty sure everyone had said their piece anyway.
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Fellis posted:Has Atomic Samurai's sword hand-guard always been a swastika? Why do you think the jews fear the samurai?
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drilldo squirt posted:Why do you think the jews fear the samurai? They love Chiune Sugihara and while he is not a samurai he is a good man.
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Jan 16, 2017 04:30
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Wow that guy was born January 1st, 1900. That's pretty cool.
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Also he appears to have been a legit hero. Thanks for the knowledge on a cool person, CannonFodder! 
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Jan 16, 2017 20:11
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ONE is on a goddamn role cause 2 more pages have been added.
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Jan 17, 2017 03:10
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Hate-Senpai posted:ONE is on a goddamn role cause 2 more pages have been added. Linked for your convenience - http://bato.to/reader#64994eb38fe33a48
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Jan 17, 2017 05:54
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JosephWongKS posted:Linked for your convenience - http://bato.to/reader#64994eb38fe33a48  this is wonderful, i can't stop smiling
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Jan 17, 2017 06:19
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atomic samurai is going to find out that king is very afraid and just assume thats because he has so much responsibility
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Jan 17, 2017 18:56
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He's gonna see that King is very dextrous with his hands due to all the competitive gaming and assuming it's because of his combat skills. He's also gonna see that King is deeply humble and be moved by how humble someone so powerful can be.
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Jan 17, 2017 20:57
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King is going to very carefully and slowly cut the apple and AS is going to be emotionally moved by King going to such lengths to hold back his enormous strength
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Jan 18, 2017 00:09
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King is going to miss the apple completely and Atomic Samurai will be impressed that he doesn't use his power for needless destruction
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Jan 18, 2017 00:13
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King is going to peel the apple and Atomic Samurai will think that King is so bloodthirsty and sadistic that he wants to skin his enemies.
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Jan 18, 2017 02:05
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King is gonna fail to cut the apple and Atomic Samurai is gonna be like 'he can hold back his power even with my amazing blade, he is a truly powerful man'
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Jan 18, 2017 03:21
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Comics been updated. Pretty shocking response from King if you ask me.
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Jan 18, 2017 03:24
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Kegslayer posted:Comics been updated. Pretty shocking response from King if you ask me. http://imgur.com/a/3BlD9
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Jan 18, 2017 03:31
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This is so loving tense
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Jan 18, 2017 03:50
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Haha, King is going to be all "look at the apple. It is cut."
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Jan 18, 2017 03:50
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He probably just can't get the sword out of the scabbard.
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Jan 18, 2017 05:04
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A truly honorable man who does not unsheathe a sword frivolously, truly a great warrior
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Jan 18, 2017 06:17
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I'm on the edge of my seat here, King is the best
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Jan 18, 2017 06:22
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I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT APPLE!
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Jan 18, 2017 06:38
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I like what happened to that apple!
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messagemode1 posted:He probably just can't get the sword out of the scabbard. bacon flaps posted:A truly honorable man who does not unsheathe a sword frivolously, truly a great warrior It's both of these.
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Jan 18, 2017 08:31
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King is such a consummate warrior that when he draws his weapons they must be sated by blood
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Jan 18, 2017 14:51
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messagemode1 posted:He probably just can't get the sword out of the scabbard. Good call! http://imgur.com/a/3BlD9 This was probably one of my favourite chapters.
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Jan 19, 2017 03:48
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Fantastic chapter. gently caress whoever translated it for how they translated Okamaitachi's name though.
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You've got a long road ahead, Atomic Samurai
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