#idaten deities

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If the bios are accurate then Ysley is slightly taller than Zel

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Song: Seija no Koushin

Artist: Tatsuya Kitani

Anime: The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace

Type: Opening

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The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace Review

What if God was one of us? Its something you wouldn't really think about, would you? Ever since Joan Osborne's hit 'One of Us' in 1995, though, society has been plagued by it. After all, what would it look like if a god lived among us? Would they be just a slob like us, a stranger on the bus? Or perhaps a powerful hero, a real-life Superman in the flesh?

Most shows and games, it seems, take the latter route, preferring their undercover gods to do extraordinary things, rather than hide in plain sight. Series like Noragami (which I've previously reviewed here) turn the concept of gods into immortal superheroes, ones who look human but possess astonishing abilities. These characters find their purpose in doing good for others, protecting the powerless and ensuring the safety of those they care about. But what if the almighty heroes just didn't give a shit?

Enter: The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, an action seinen series originally published starting in 2019, which got an anime adaptation in 2021. The series takes place in a world plagued by generic demons, which are fought by powerful gods known as Idaten. 800 years before the plot, three strong Idaten sealed the demons away, leaving their protégé to keep the peace in their stead. With the obvious demon threat gone, the next generation of Idaten question their purpose, and face a more cunning, hidden demonic enemy.

Right off the bat, TIDKOP resembles your typical action shonen series. The main character is a short tempered boy who likes fighting, who is friends with a book-smart nerd and a soft girly girl. He is trained by a wise old warrior who teaches him to fight, and protects him from more powerful threats. Together, they face an organization of monstrous evil-doers, each with their own signature abilities and fighting styles. Add a handful of references to real-world religions, a dash of big fight scenes, and a tablespoon of misogyny, and you're on your way to generic stardom!

Much of TIDKOP is centered around its formulaic plot cycle. The secret team of demons will reveal a new part of their world domination plan, which the Idaten learn of somehow. A demon or two is sent to take out the Idaten in secret, but they're easily defeated and dismembered. The Idaten team gain some information about the demons' plans, and the demons struggle to formulate a new plan. Its Saturday morning cartoon stuff, really.

Even when the plot tries to switch things up (when the Idaten lose an advantage), they're quick to return to normalcy, because they rarely ever lose. The Idaten themselves are so ridiculously overpowered, that most situations are dealt with handily before the audience can fully register what is happening. For instance, this show will introduce a cool new enemy with an interesting power, only for them to be decapitated in under five minutes, and rarely ever mentioned again. Any reasonable series would give it's audience more time to get to know an antagonist before throwing them to the wolves, but TIDKOP, it seems, is anything but reasonable.

While overpowered characters are to be expected from a series about deities, TIDKOP's poor pacing show that it cares more about it's characters punching their enemies into craters than it does about telling a worthwhile story. Action shows like these use fights as important benchmarks, to show character growth or introduce new concepts to the audience. Here, though, most fights exist just to remind the audience of the Idaten's superhuman strength, or to remove a minor character from existence.

The fights, admittedly, are pretty neat, though they serve little beyond spectacle, or miniscule plot development. When the main trio of Idaten aren't getting their bones re-arranged by their mentor, they're re-arranging the bones of demons, who, as mentioned before, were irrelevant up until the fight and become irrelevant again after their defeat. Characters exchange blows, take turns trying to outwit each other, and than one gets slammed into a mountain, or decapitated if the show is feeling daring that day. After a while, it all blends together, to the point where as I write this, I'm struggling to distinguish major fights from one another.

With it's fights being some commonplace yet unimportant, TIDKOP has less to distract from its disturbing moments, making them stain the anime as a whole a lot darker. This series is a 'seinen', a show marketed towards an older teen to young adult audience, so you would expect that the contents of this series would be a bit more mature than your typical action shonen. You also probably wouldn't expect the first episode to end with a rape scene, which smash cuts to a bright and peppy ending theme, and yet here we are.

TIDKOP is what would happen if a typical action shonen went full 'mask off', and made it's subtle fanservice and misogyny front and center. For example, one of the main antagonists in the series is a demon named Miku, a nymphomaniac who wears the bare minimum of what could be considered 'clothes', and makes lewd comments to just about everyone she meets. Her purpose in the series obvious: to bait straight guys into watching this mediocre-at-best anime instead of the dozens of other ones out there.

Miku, though, is the most despicable character in this entire series, bar none. She might even be one of the most despicable characters I've ever seen in an anime. Her role in the demons' plans is to round up (read: 'kidnap') innocent women and impregnate them, to create a steady supply of demon babies. She shows no sympathy to those women, because in her eyes, all sex is good, so they should be enjoying it. When she discovers a fellow demon is carrying twin boys, she gleefully tells her assistant that she'll be the mother of their children, and then tricks the young boys into sleeping with them. Whatever guys (or gals) were lured into watching this show because they thought Miku was hot, they have my sympathies.

Nearly every women in this series is sexualized, in one way or another, in demeaning ways. Paula, one of the main team of Idaten, has her long skirt blown up by wind dozens of times, and is groped by a demon despite being heavily wounded. Piscalat, one of the demons' leading tacticians, is subdued by having her top ripped off then gassed with aphrodisiacs. A little bit of fanservice is common in series like these, but after watching this, I want to stay as far away from women as possible.

What sucks is that beneath all the gross sexualization and horrible pacing, TIDKOP has the potential to be really great. The dynamic between Hayato and his mentor Rin was what kept me watching this series, and I wish it was more focused on throughout the 11 episodes. Its not often that you see a female mentor in an action series, and especially one who is taken just as seriously as any man. Rin's coldness hiding her inner fears and abandonment issues clashing with Hayato's hunger for strength makes them a duo that could honestly sustain a series by themselves.

The characters are also wonderfully voiced, with a star-studded cast that most Japanese dub regulars would recognize. Plus, even though the show has a fifty fifty split of male and female characters, nearly 2/3 of the voice cast is female, making it quite the interesting experience to listen to the dubbing. Its a rare treat to see women getting top billing for such a big name series like this one, and the added bonus of gender feels I got from hearing a woman voice a teen boy believably kept me from hating this series fully.

TIDKOP is a colorful, scatterbrained ride of a show. Between the psychedelic intro and pink poppy outro lies a by-the-books action series that wastes no time in breaking faces, but struggles to build suspense. It had cool fights, and neat character designs, but also made me never want to see another breast again. Its clear that the original author was trying to build an epic world or gods and monsters, and I commend him for that (wherever he is). In the end, though, making this show anything more than passable would truly be an almighty effort, one only a true god could do.

But hey, at least I know I'm still aromantic (and possibly asexual). Thanks, MAPPA!

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Was there any rationale as to who got what master in FSYY? Guangchengzi and Chijingzi teaching the two princes of the Shang Dynasty makes sense, as they have a reputation for being teachers of kings. Assigning Nezha to Taiyi also makes a certain amount of sense as Taiyi's main responsibility is saving souls from perdition. Nezha's two brothers train under two immortals with connections to Buddhism because of their syncretic origins. Wen Zhong, the chief Thunder God, learns from Doumu, the Daoist adaptation of Marishiten and the goddess of starlight. But then Qingxu-Daode Tianzun trains Yang Ren and Huang Tianhua, two powerful gods, but ones that have ambiguous reputations (all 60 Taisui and their lord Yin Jiao are perceived as very fierce, while Prince Bingling, in his role as a mountain god, has myths and folk legends of being lustful). And Yuding trains Yang Jian while Daoheng trains Wei Tuo/Skanda/Idaten, and Kakusandha trains the earth-affliated deity Tuxing Sun. Some matchups seem to be meaningful, others look more random.

In Yuding's case, I think it might be because he was mentioned as a sage of Western Shu aka Sichuan, the heart of Erlang worship, and thus they were made masters and disciples based on proximity.

Outside of Taiyi's relation to Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, there's also a bunch of Song paintings of the sage, and the most famous one by Li Boshi featured him lying atop a lotus leaf, reading a book.

The painting itself did not survive, and we only know its content bc the poet Han Ju had written a poem about it, but this might be what eventually inspired the Lotus Resurrection Thing.

Aside from Wei Tuo, Daoheng has 2 other deified disciples, Han Dulong and Xue E'hu, who became the gods in charge of the addition and subtraction of fortunes, traditionally depicted as two young acolytes.

You are right that the matchup is pretty random, and I attribute that to the fact that the immortals themselves are pretty much OCs, whose only relation to any IRL deities/sages is their names.

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feel a bit curious about idate's name.. it derives from name "Idaten" one of the meanings being "swift footed guardian deity" or "fast runner"

Usually funamusea gives names with subtle meaning and is it some sort of a hint on his personality? It's confirmed he doesnt have a "tragic" past. Or maybe it's just a name . I don't know japanese so i could have a very surface level understanding.

Is it because he always strolls around and ventures, never having settled anywhere? (Swift footed) Is it somehow connected to his somewhat solid bond with his brothers family? (Guardian)

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Here is the list of all the participating anime you proposed so far:

Komodo no Omocha

One Piece

A Centaur's Life

OreImo

Sword Art Online

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

Dr. Rin ni Kiitemite!

Babylon

Mirai Nikki - Future Diary

Ouran High School Host Club

Hetalia

One Punch Man

Assassin's Pride

Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

Eiken

Samurai Jam Bakumatsu Rock

Akame ga Kill!

Clannad

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - Rhyme Anima

Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai deshou!

The Seven Deadly Sins

Redo of Healer

Skelter Heaven

In Another World With My Smartphone

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

Kämpfer

Diabolik Lovers

Handyman Saitou in Another World

Bakuon!!

Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid

Hajimete no Gal

Masamune-kun no Revenge

K

Handa-kun

A Sister's All You Need

Uncle from Another World

Kakegurui

Black Butler II

Puraore! Pride of Orange

The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest

Record of Ragnarok

Shuffle!

Working!!

7 Seeds

Gosick

School Days

Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!

So I'm a Spider, So What?

The Lost Village

Death Note

Berserk (2016)

The God of High School

The Promised Neverland 2nd Season

Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru

My Life as Inukai-san's Dog

Ex-Arm

Goblin Slayer

Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Hand Shakers

Agent AIKa

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Joker Game

Attack on Titan

Dangaronpa: The Animation

My Hero Academia

Naruto

The Marginal Service

Bungou Stray Dogs

Happy Sugar Life

Conception

Naruto Shippuden

Vampire Knight

Yuri!!! on Ice

Eromanga-sensei

Blood-C

Elfen Lied

Toradora!

Demon Slayer

Dragon Ball Super

Fire Force

Fairy Tail

Darling in the FranXX

Highschool of the Dead

Gakuen Handsome

BNA: Brand New Animal

Assassination Classroom

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Wonder Egg Priority

The Wallflower

The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace

The Legendary Hero Is Dead!

Blood Lad

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Seisen Cerberus: Ryuukoku no Fatalités

Gantz

The submissions are still open, keep sending proposals!

Every time there are new requests, I will update the list.

I wanted to remind you that if you don't include in submissions the reason why you think the anime is bad, the request will be rejected. Don't write as a reason that you hate the anime, because I won't accept the submission.

To the user who submitted Boku no Pico, the request was not accepted. As I wrote a few days ago, hentai anime cannot participate.

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Thy-Evo ♰ 2024.10.31.Thu ♰ 15.00.25

The ninth and final volume of the manga "The Idaten Deities of the Peaceful Generation," which was adapted into a TV anime in 2021, was released on October 29th. To commemorate the publication, comments were received from the cast of the anime version, including Romi Park, Megumi Ogata, and Yui Horie. Souce Link: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/5121bc1449a2b0b0c54cc9a0948b46ec8ae3155a?source=rss Date: October 31, 2024 at 03:00PM

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Final Volume Spotlight: ‘The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace’ Manga By Cool Kyoushinja http://dlvr.it/TFW5GV

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My interests are wonderfully varied, with a deep passion for immersing myself in Manga and Manhwa, alongside a love for watching Anime.

MANGA: Tougen Anki, Jigokuraku, Kaijuu No.8, Moriarty The Patriot, JJK, Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective, Brutal: Satsujin Kansatsukan No Kokuhaku, From the Red Fog, MADK, Innocent Rouge, Vagabond, Tsui no Taimashi ―Ender Geisterー, Gachiakuta, Soloist of the Prison, Midnight Rain, The Summer Hikaru Died, Dorohedoro and Sakamoto Days.

ANIME: Mushishi, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace, Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū, Kemono Jihen, Occultic;Nine, House of Five Leaves, Paranoia Agent, Banana Fish, Joker Game, Dou Kyu Sei, Durarara!!!, World Trigger, Dungeon Meshi, Run with the Wind, Welcome to the Ballroom, Salaryman's Club, Death Parade, Psycho-Pass, 91 Days, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade.

MANWHA: Return of the Mad Demon, Killer Peter, Hero Killer, Lumine, To The Stars and Back, How to Become Dragon, Eleceed, Distant Sky, My S-Class Hunters, Terror Man, Devil Shot, Prince of Prince, Trauma Center, Castle, The Evil Ring, The World as Seen By The Pizza Delivery Man, Semantic Error, Dear Door, King's Maker, Wet Sand, Shutline, Roses and Champagne, Love in Orbit, High Clear, Stranger, Smyrna & Capri, Nerd Project.

I frequently find myself delving into a wide array of films that pique my curiosity, fueled by my profound admiration for the cinematic arts. While I appreciate many genres, I am particularly captivated by Psychological Thrillers, Horror, Fantasy, War, and Historical films.

In music, my tastes lean towards the dynamic energy of Nu Metal, the emotive depth of Alternative Rock, the intensity of Metalcore, the raw power of Post-Hardcore, and the eclectic charm of Indie Pop/Folk.

BMTH, Deftones, Pierce The Veil, I Prevail, Korn, MCR, Sleeping With Sirens, Slipknot, Architects, Sum 41, Get Scared, The Cure, Slowdive, Loathe, Metallica, Bad Omens.

Fiona Apple, Mitski, Radiohead, Laufey, Lorde, Ethel Cain, Clairo, Tame Impala, The Crane Wives, The Amazing Devil, Daughter, Novo Amor and The Neighbourhood.

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Just learned volume eight released last month.Meanwhile we're due for the sixth volume in English around May.No estimates for seven's printing and definitely not this.Pretty sure we're also far past where the anime cliffhanged on also should more come to that eventually.

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Watch List- Anime and Foreign Language Animation (Latest Update Nov. 6, 2024)

Non-English Animation watch list. I keep this one separate from general shows because I vary in whether i want to watch subs or dubs, not to mention the fact that some don't have a dub at all so I can't watch some of these as casually as I can a show in English.

Because of the sheer number of things I want to watch I’m separating my watch list posts into four categories. I keep them separate primarily for organization so I can decide what to watch based different variables (mood, time, language, etc)

I’m pretty much constantly adding things to all of my lists- hence why I’m amending when this was last updated to the title itself- and will update this post anytime I update the wheel I use to randomize my next choice, which usually happens after I’ve added or subtracted a significant number of options.

30,000 Miles From Chang’an

5 Centimeters Per Second

Afro Samurai

Akanuke Ichiban

All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku

All Saints' Street

Animal Arithmetic

Another

Asobi Asobase

Azumanga Daioh

Baccano!

Bakemonogatari

Belladonna of Sadness

Blackfox

Black Dynamite

Black Rock Shooter

Blood: The Last Vampire

Blue Submarine No. 6

Bocchi the Rock

Boku no Marie

Boogiepop Phantom

Boys Over Flowers

Brand New Animal

Bubblegum Crisis

Bungou Stray Dogs

Catnapped!

Cencoroll

Code Geass

Corpse Princess

Cowboy Bebop

Creamy Mami Long Goodbye

Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!

Cyborg Neko Chan

Darker Than Black

Darling in the Franxx

Dead Leaves

Death Parade

Dennou Coil

Devilman Crybaby

Diabolik Lovers

Dirty Pair

DRAMAtical Murder

Eccentric Family

Eden of the East

El Hazard

Elfen Lied

Ergo Proxy

Escaflowne

Eureka Seven

FLCL

Force of Will

Franken’s Gears

From Up On Poppy Hill

Ghost Hound

Ghost in the Shell

Golden Boy

Gravity Daze The Animation: Ouverture

Gunbuster

Gunsmith Cats

Gurren Lagann

Haibane Renmei

Hamatora The Animation

Hataage! Kemono Michi

Hataraku Maou-sama

Hell Girl

Housing Complex C

Hyouka

I Can Hear the Sea

Jin-roh the Wolf Brigade

Kabeneri of the Iron Fortress

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran

Kill la Kill

King of Prism by Pretty Rhythm

Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu

Kite

Kite Liberator

Kizumonogatari part 1: Tekketsu

Koneko no Studio

Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni

Koutetsujou no kabaneri

Legacy of Al Caral

Little Witch Academia

Magnetic Rose

Megalo Box

Megami Paradise

Memories: Magnetic Rose

Metropolis

Mezzo Forte

Michiko to Hatchin

Millenium Actress

Mob Psycho 100

Mobile Police Patlabor

Monogatari

Mononoke

Moon, Laika, and the Bloodsucking Princess

Mousou Dairinin

My My Mai

Neo Rengo

Neo Tokyo

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Nichijou

Night On The Galactic Railroad

Obsolete

Ocean Waves

OddTaxi

Ojamajo Doremi

Only Yesterday

Ookiku Furikabutte

Osomatsu-san

Otaku no Video

Overlord

Panty and Stocking

Paprika

Paranoia Agent

Patlabor

Perfect Blue

Please Save My Earth

Pom Poko

Pretty Cure

Princess Tutu

Project Ako

Read or Die

Redline

Robot Carnival

Romeo no Aoi Sora

Rust Eater Bisco

Samurai Champloo

Serial Experiments Lain

Sherlock Hound

Shinrei Tantei Yakumo

Shirokuma Cafe

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

Sirius the Jaeger

Slayers

Speed Grapher

Steamboy

Summer Ghost

Superflat Monogram

Suzume no Tojimari

Sword of the Stranger

Taiho Shichauzo

Tales From Earthsea

Tenchi Muyo

Tenrou: Sirius the Jaeger

The Big O

The Boy and the Heron

The Deer King

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

The Gymnastics Samurai

The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

The Ocean Waves

The Place Promised In Our Early Days

The Secret World of Arrietty

The Tatami Galaxy

The Wind Rises

Tokyo Babylon

Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru

Trigun

Typhoon Noruda

Uchuu Patrol Luluco

Uta no Prince Sama

Vampire Hunter D

Vampire in the Garden

Violet Evergarden

Watashi ga Motete Dousunda

Weathering With You

Witch Hunter Robin

Wolf Children

Wolf's Rain

Yasuke

Yatterman

Yoru Wa Mikikashi Arukeyo Otome

Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru

Zankyou no Terror

[stupidpuppything]

Something about the ending song for the anime The Idaten Deities Only Know Peace makes me wish I could be at the mercy of a group of pretty women so they could doll me up, make me look femme as all hell and then tease me until I’m a whining mess before taking me into public to show off their handiwork and to get really good food

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Every Anime I've Ever Watched: The gold, the trash, and everything in-between

So for funsies, I decided to compile an alphabetized list of every anime series I've ever watched, excluding films and shows that I've only seen a handful of episodes for. This list is as exhaustive as my faulty memory (and combing through various other lists of anime) allows me to be. I'll be updating with new entries and anything I might have forgotten. Current Total: 84

And feel free to make recommendations if you don't see your favourite here!

86

Aharan-san wa Hakarenai

Another

Assassination Classroom

Attack on Titan

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Beastars

Blue Lock

Bocchi the Rock

Call of the Night

Cells at Work! Code Black

Chainsaw Man

Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School

Dead Mount Death Play

Death Note

Death Parade

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

The Devil is a Part-Timer!

Dororo

Do It Yourself!!

Dr. Stone

Erased

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Fate/stay night

Fate/Zero

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Fruits Basket

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Given

Gurren Lagann

Happy Sugar Life

Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto

Heavenly Delusion

Hell's Paradise

Higurashi When They Cry: Gou/Sotsu

Horimiya

Hunter x Hunter

The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Jujutsu Kaisen

Kaguya-sama: Love is War!

Kill la Kill

Komi Can't Communicate

KonoSuba

The Legend of Korra

Link Click

Lycoris Recoil

Mashle: Magic and Muscles

Mob Psycho 100

My Dress-Up Darling

My Hero Academia

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Noragami

One Punch Man

Orange

Oshi no Ko

Platinum End

Pokemon: Indigo League

The Promised Neverland

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny-girl Senpai

Recovery of an MMO Junkie

Re:Creators

Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World

Sasaki and Miyano

Serial Experiments Lain

Shangri-La Frontier

Skip and Loafer

Sonic X

Sonny Boy

Spice and Wolf

Spy x Family

Summertime Rendering

Tower of God

Uncle From Another World

Undead Murder Farce

Violet Evergarden

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

When They Cry

Wonder Egg Priority

Your Lie in April

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Zombie Land Saga