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*You may notice this spooky scary issue is a bit early for Halloween. That's because it's actually for the ''{{w|Obon}}'' (お盆) festival, a Buddhist holiday in August centered around celebrating departed loved ones via bonfires, dances, and various other festivities. | *You may notice this spooky scary issue is a bit early for Halloween. That's because it's actually for the ''{{w|Obon}}'' (お盆) festival, a Buddhist holiday in August centered around celebrating departed loved ones via bonfires, dances, and various other festivities. | ||
*After he exhausts the traditional sheet ghost, Starscream swaps to a scary wig riffing on more Japan-specific depictions of ''{{w|onryō}}'' (怨霊, "vengeful | *After he exhausts the traditional sheet ghost, Starscream swaps to a scary wig riffing on more Japan-specific depictions of ''{{w|onryō}}'' (怨霊, "vengeful spirit") probably best known to global audiences via {{w|Sadako Yamamura}}, the antagonist of popular horror franchise ''{{w|The Ring (franchise)|The Ring}}''. | ||
*The paper lanterns with googly eyes and tongues that Soundwave deploys are ''{{w| | *The paper lanterns with googly eyes and tongues that Soundwave deploys are ''{{w|chōchin'obake}}'' (提灯お化け, "paper lantern ghost"), not-so-folkloric Japanese ghoulies seen pretty much exclusively as decoration in children's books and haunted houses. Appropriate! | ||
*The triangle headband thing wrapped over the [[Autobot Ghost]]'s helmet is a funerary vestment dating to around the {{w|Heian period}} that, while out of fashion for centuries, is strongly lodged in Japanese cultural shorthand for ghosts.<ref>[https://hyakumonogatari.com/2011/09/22/what-is-the-triangle-headband-japanese-ghosts-wear/ "What is the Triangle Headband Japanese Ghosts Wear?"] at the website of translator/folklorist {{w|Zack Davisson}}</ref> | *The triangle headband thing wrapped over the [[Autobot Ghost]]'s helmet is a funerary vestment dating to around the {{w|Heian period}} that, while out of fashion for centuries, is strongly lodged in Japanese cultural shorthand for ghosts.<ref>[https://hyakumonogatari.com/2011/09/22/what-is-the-triangle-headband-japanese-ghosts-wear/ "What is the Triangle Headband Japanese Ghosts Wear?"] at the website of translator/folklorist {{w|Zack Davisson}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:06, 16 August 2024
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 15, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Haruka Oda | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Minoko | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Notes
- This story was published as the August 2024 issue of the web comic and advertised Earthrise Prowl, Studio Series Rise of the Beasts Bumblebee, and The Transformers: The Movie Hot Rod, the Transformers Fan Book 2024, and the first collected edition of Go! Go!.
- In the opposite of a Transformers reference, series author Haruka Oda has explicitly confirmed that the Autobot Ghost with a very specific-feeling helmet is in fact a wholly original design.[1]
Transformers references
- Odds are good that Starscream calling dibs on the ghost costume is a riff on his very, very storied history of playing the spooky ghost in Transformers stories dating all the way back to his posthumous reprisal in the Generation 1 cartoon after his memorable death scene in 1986's The Transformers: The Movie.
Real-world references
- You may notice this spooky scary issue is a bit early for Halloween. That's because it's actually for the Obon (お盆) festival, a Buddhist holiday in August centered around celebrating departed loved ones via bonfires, dances, and various other festivities.
- After he exhausts the traditional sheet ghost, Starscream swaps to a scary wig riffing on more Japan-specific depictions of onryō (怨霊, "vengeful spirit") probably best known to global audiences via Sadako Yamamura, the antagonist of popular horror franchise The Ring.
- The paper lanterns with googly eyes and tongues that Soundwave deploys are chōchin'obake (提灯お化け, "paper lantern ghost"), not-so-folkloric Japanese ghoulies seen pretty much exclusively as decoration in children's books and haunted houses. Appropriate!
- The triangle headband thing wrapped over the Autobot Ghost's helmet is a funerary vestment dating to around the Heian period that, while out of fashion for centuries, is strongly lodged in Japanese cultural shorthand for ghosts.[2]
External links
- Issue 41 at TV Magazine
References
- ↑ "誰でもないです！オリジナルのオートボットゴーストです👻"—Haruka Oda, Twitter, 2024/8/15
- ↑ "What is the Triangle Headband Japanese Ghosts Wear?" at the website of translator/folklorist Zack Davisson
