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Saitama (Japanese: サイタマ) is a fictional character who is the titular protagonist of the Japanese manga and anime series One-Punch Man created by One. Saitama, an unassociated and independently acting superhero who dreams of becoming famous, hails from Z-City and performs heroic deeds as a hobby.
One-Punch Man (Japanese: ワンパンマン, Hepburn: Wanpan Man, stylized OnePunch-Man) is a Japanese superhero manga series created by One.It tells the story of Saitama, an independent superhero who, having trained to the point that he can defeat any opponent with a single punch, grows bored from a lack of challenge.
The Japanese manga series One-Punch Man contains a number of fictional characters created by One and illustrated by Yusuke Murata.The series follows a superhero named Saitama and his disciple Genos who join the Hero Association so they can be recognized as such when they fight various monsters and supervillains.
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Kotodama is a central concept in Japanese mythology, Shinto, and Kokugaku. For example, the Kojiki describes an ukei (or seiyaku) 誓約 "covenant; trial by pledge" between the sibling gods Susanoo and Amaterasu, "Let each of us swear, and produce children".
In Buddhism, there is the Mara that is concerned with death, the Mrtyu-mara. [3] It is a demon that makes humans want to die, and it is said that upon being possessed by it, in a shock, one should suddenly want to die by suicide, so it is sometimes explained to be a "shinigami". [4]
He and his sister-wife Izanami are the last of the seven generations of primordial deities that manifested after the formation of heaven and earth. Izanagi and Izanami are held to be the creators of the Japanese archipelago and the progenitors of many deities, which include the sun goddess Amaterasu, the moon deity Tsukuyomi, and the storm god ...
Early Japanese definitions of the mitama, developed later by many thinkers like Motoori Norinaga, maintain it consists of several "spirits", relatively independent one from the other. [3] The most developed is the ichirei shikon ( 一霊四魂 ) , a Shinto theory according to which the spirit ( 霊魂 , reikon ) of both kami and human beings ...