Comments on: Shikabane Hime: Aka 13

By: Shounen A

Shounen A — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:25:00 +0000

At least Kuro has Umehara and his otaku shikabane hime, although it’s not enough since they’re too absorbed in their own squabbles that neither of them are trying to convert Ouri. :D

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:13:10 +0000

I wish they would have kept Keisei. He was great comic relief with his little figurines and dirty mags.

By: Shounen A

Shounen A — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:01:48 +0000

The show does offer a non-answer in Kuro episode 5 as being limitations in the rituals for creating a shikabane hime. I wish I knew why your comments keep getting cut off. :(

By: name

name — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:12:35 +0000

O…kay. So it doesn’t accept quotation marks. Retarded. Let me try this ONE LAST TIME.

Claymore actually has men that are Claymores, they’re just awakened; that’s the explanation behind not using men. The manga makes no explanation about men being predisposed to gravitate towards greater strength or power, and even on that assumption, that provides no direct reasoning as to how that makes them harder to control.

The fact that Shikabane Hime hasn’t even attempted to answer the question of

By: name

name — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:11:35 +0000

Wow, why did it cut off my message. Let me try that again.

Claymore actually has men that are

By: name

name — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:10:16 +0000

Claymore actually has men that are

By: Shounen A

Shounen A — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:28:12 +0000

The real reason is of course that there are few things cooler to draw than young girls kicking violent ass. :P But I suspect there’s eventually going to be some spiritual mumbo-jumbo in the anime itself explaining it.

By: RedMaigo

RedMaigo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:52:00 +0000

I think that there are no Shikabane Ouji is maybe due to the fact that these women are easier to control. Especially the poor tragic girls that make up the ranks of the Shikabane Hime of the Kougan sect.

We can use, for example, another anime series such as Claymore with its women warriors. The Organization that produced Claymores had tried using males in the past but were soon found to be uncontrollable. This was because if males are given the ability to gain great strength and power, even at the cost of their own soul, they will quickly do so without a second thought.

So taking orphaned girls with traumatic pasts and making them into trained killers seems like a sure bet. Their alone, needy, used to harsh treatment and will work hard for you. They can also then can be discarded when they outlast there usefulness because the world is full of them.

Or take another older anime series such as Gunslinger Girl with it’s loli-cyborg assassins and male handlers. Same MO as I outlined above.

Pimps, gigolos and other bottom feeders the world over can’t be wrong. This formula seems to work for them.