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The Japanese version of The Grim Reaper. Contrary to popular belief, they aren't part of traditional Japanese mythology, but got imported from Europe in the 19th century. Originally used to refer to a single entity featured in the play "Shinigami" (usually translated as "death god," but the word is "kami of death" with its own set of connotations), the term has since evolved to refer to an entire race of Psychopomps in Japanese culture. Or, evil demonic soul eaters. Or, those assigned to kill evil demonic soul eaters. Each tale tells it differently. Japanese religion and spiritualism being highly syncretic, features of preexisting Taoist, Buddhist, and Shinto death entities appear to varying extents in different depictions of shinigami. For instance, the idea of a highly stratified and bureaucratic society of psychopomps and divine judges seen in series like Bleach, Descendants of Darkness, and YuYu Hakusho originated in Chinese Buddhism, on the model of the massive Han bureaucracy in the living world. Since being with every human who ever dies would require omniscience to a story-breaking degree, it's often explained that shinigami are only related to special cases of death, and hopefully whatever universal mechanism in place applies to non-special cases. For these reasons, opposing the work of a shinigami is harmful to both the dying and the opponent. Shinigami are sometimes depicted as goblin or skeletal creatures who cause death and accidents, but some popular and more recent depictions of shinigami are closer to Western vampires, with them being portrayed as immortal, attractive, hip, young people who wield a variety of superpowers, chief among them Soul Power (dancing skills not included). They will usually either cause death to sustain themselves, peacefully escort souls to the afterlife (see Psychopomp), slay demons and poltergeists who cause unnatural deaths, or be the result of unnatural deaths, themselves (interestingly similar to the first definition of shinigami, though this is almost never brought up). Or, various combinations of the above. In a few instances, their counterparts are "angels". Only superficially the Judeo-Christian variety, as they tend to be ex-humans, too. A mix of Japanese Mythology and Fluffy Cloud Heaven. Compare and contrast Archangel Uriel. Compare The Grim Reaper and Psychopomp. Also, try not to confuse these with shikigami. |
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Terry Sanders Jr. from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team was given the "Shinigami" nickname as an insult, because both of his previous units were wiped out on their third mission, leaving Sanders the Sole Survivor. He actually attempts to get transferred out of the 08th Team after their second mission, but Shiro convinces him that it's all just superstition and to believe in his teammates. It turns out the third time IS the charm for Sanders, at least this time around. | |
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The World Ends with You: Shinigami are trendy, young, dead people resurrected with amazing powers who exist to test human souls to let them live again or become reapers, themselves. Furthermore, they look like what would happen if Bleach and Death Note shinigami ever mated. Likely intentional as those two anime/manga tend to be most closely associated with shinigami. | |
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Bleach is an manga and anime series about a whole society of shinigami who seemingly spend more time fighting The Heartless than actually acting as psychopomps. Ferrying the dead to Soul Society is a job left to low-ranking shinigami whereas the more powerful shinigami focus on protecting the world from dangerous supernatural threats and administrating the low-ranking shinigami duties. The official English translation calls them "soul reapers", a translation that met with Tite Kubo's approval. | |
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Murder Princess features a shinigami which is goblin-like, but still hip and young; the fact that he works for the titular character speaks on how badass she is. At the start of the series when she sees her own body, she assumes that she's dead and tells him to show her the way to Hell. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) introduces an old friend of Karai's from Japan. She is a kunoichi who only goes by her byname, Shinigami, though she takes more after a traditional Western witch than a Japanese god of death. She combines ninjutsu with dancing and uses seductive and hypnotic weapons and magic tricks to keep her enemies off-balance. Despite all this, however, only evildoers have anything to be afraid of. Oddly enough, among the Foot clan, she is now the only non-mook who is (still) 100% human. | |
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Shinigami appear in Odin Sphere as the keepers of the Underworld of Endelphia. They're also known as Halja in the English dub. They're huge, scary, rotting wraiths with deep voices (they're voiced by Norio Wakamoto, naturally) and large, curved sickles as weapons. They're fought as minibosses several times, usually in the Underworld. | |
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Shinigami are a demon classification for deities involved in death (such as Hel, Chernobog, or Mot) in Shin Megami Tensei. They are known as reapers in the West. | |
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In Naruto the Shinigami is a powerful summon spirit that looks a lot like the ones in Death Note: a giant ghost/goblin with long white hair and several arms. It is able to eat the soul of the user and its target, forcing them to fight against each other endlessly in its stomach. That is, until a previously not-even-hinted-at artifact is used to remove all of their souls, allowing them to be resurrected as zombies. | |
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Samurai Warriors 3 seems to suggest that Okuni is a Shinigami, as she leads dead souls to the afterlife. | |
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Y: The Last Man. While in Japan the protagonists are watching a play in which an actor playing Shinigami says he killed off all the men because of their arrogance and indifference to the plight of women. | |
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In Hayate the Combat Butler, several characters have stated that Hayate must be being followed by one on a regular basis. | |
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Sesshoumaru's Tenseiga in Inuyasha actually works by slaying goblin-like shinigami near recently deceased corpses. | |
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Black Butler uses these pretty standardly, as supposed-to-be-neutral beings managed by a bureaucratic regimen (e.g., much grumbling about overtime), who review the lives of people destined to die, deciding whether or not they should live. They hate demons, and part of their role is to protect the souls they review from demons (like the protagonist) who would try to steal and eat them. | |
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In Soul Eater, the Shinigami is a near Physical God-like being who lives in Death City and has apparently made it his life's mission to keep humanity free from the yoke of witches, malign supernatural beings, and corrupted humans. For this purpose, he formed an Extranormal Institute for humans who are sent out into the world to hunt down and eradicate such beings before they can become a threat to humanity. Shinigami-sama (as he is called) also has a son, called Death the Kid; both of them are referred to as Shinigami, implying that they're also a class of supernatural being. In spite of the name, the series' version of the Grim Reaper actually uses Western influences, too, with the most glaringly obvious being Shinigami himself, formerly known simply as Death. Later chapters hint at what class of being Shinigami and Kid are. |
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Even though they're not called by the name per se, the player characters in Geist: The Sin-Eaters in many ways seem to be the shinigami trope re-exported back into the US based on the "cool dead people with ghost superpowers who act as psychopomps" version popularized through modern anime (though the author claims that the shinigami similarities were unintentional). | |
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Pathfinder has both an entire race of True Neutral outsiders called the Psychopomps who are responsible for collecting, guarding, and guiding the souls of the dead, who range in nature from creepy little masked bird-things to festive skeletons in flamboyant garb to huge, feathery raven-dragons, and also a race of Lawful Neutral outsiders called shinigami, who serve much the same purpose. They are implied to be responsible only for the Tian region, which is an expy/mishmash of China, Japan, and Korea, and appear as pale-skinned Asiatic-looking humanoids with large, bird-like wings that are totally naked of flesh, making them nothing but bare bone. | |
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In Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, "shinigami" is the title given to Blood Knight, skull-mask-wearing monster-exterminators. | |
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Full Moon has two cute spiffily dressed shinigami (Meroko and Takuto) giving age-inducing Idol Singer powers to a charge who will die within a year to throat cancer. (It's actually a lot more complicated than it sounds.) According to revelations at the end of the series, shinigami are taken to be humans who had committed suicide, and becoming a shinigami is supposed to be a punishment for "committing the crime of suicide". The apparent shinigami job is to extract the soul from the body when someone dies, fulfilling the perception of the ideal. However, Mitsuki looks into this a bit further and asks the question: "Who decided that you are shinigami"? The answer is that the first shinigami got this label from the first girl whom she extracted a soul from and based everything on that. Mitsuki, however, disagrees with these labels: the shinigami, born out of a soul tormented by life, has the job to guide a soul to the afterlife peacefully after one's death. She then states that she has a name for people like this: angels. As for the reasons that lead humans to kill themselves and become shinigami, they're varied. Meroko mistakenly believed that her best friend and the guy they both loved would desert her and was almost raped by another guy. Takuto was in a promising Boy Band but lost his voice when a cancerous tumor was removed from his throat. Meroko and Takuto's companion Izumi stood in the way of a train after his mother's mistreatment definitely broke him. |
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In Risky☆Safety, Risky is a shinigami in training (basically a mini-Grim Reaper) whose job is talking people into commiting suicide. She's also six inches tall, adorable, and on a body time-share with a cute little angel who tries to undo her work. It's a comedy series, despite the dark-sounding subject matter. | |
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The most famous example is Duo from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, who calls himself "Shinigami" because of his tragic past (namely, his surrogate families dying around him). The US dub renders this directly as "God of Death", with the cable TV edit replacing this with "The Great Destroyer". Censorship aside, this leads to a bit of subtle Fridge Brilliance considering a line from the Bhagavad-Gita once quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." At least one piece of official art shows Duo in a black robe and cloak, a scythe in his hands and a rosary around his neck. His gundam also uses a beam scythe as its main weapon. |
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Pretty Deadly imports the modern Japanese fantasy-style shinigami into a Western context - there is one capital-D Death, served by a team of "reapers", most of whom were originally human beings and who each specialise in deaths related to a particular kind of concept, including Vengeance, Cruelty, War, Courage, Grace, and others. Ginny, the Reaper of Vengeance, is particularly supernatural, as she is the daughter of the original Death with a human woman. | |
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Gundam just loves the shinigami trope. To wit: The most famous example is Duo from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, who calls himself "Shinigami" because of his tragic past (namely, his surrogate families dying around him). The US dub renders this directly as "God of Death", with the cable TV edit replacing this with "The Great Destroyer". Censorship aside, this leads to a bit of subtle Fridge Brilliance considering a line from the Bhagavad-Gita once quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." At least one piece of official art shows Duo in a black robe and cloak, a scythe in his hands and a rosary around his neck. His gundam also uses a beam scythe as its main weapon. In MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front, the Feddie soldiers referred to the Zakus as shinigami. This was before the Federation produced Mobile Suits and the only methods they had of anti-MS combat at the time were tanks and guided missiles, both of which usually failed, so fearing the Zaku was quite understandable. Lieutenant Ben Barberry, the protagonist of the first episode, is also referred to as a shinigami, because the men with him in the Anti-Mobile Suit Unit usually die and because he holds the highest MS kill count at the time. Also, that shinigami with a familiar voice describes herself similarly to a Zaku with an "I have landed on this planet" reference, showing that she may be Lieutenant Barberry's delusions of a shinigami. Mobile Fighter G Gundam has Kyral Mekirel, Nepal's pilot, who is called "Shinigami" because he kills his opponents outside the ring before their scheduled fight. After Domon beats him up, he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and joins the heroes. Terry Sanders Jr. from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team was given the "Shinigami" nickname as an insult, because both of his previous units were wiped out on their third mission, leaving Sanders the Sole Survivor. He actually attempts to get transferred out of the 08th Team after their second mission, but Shiro convinces him that it's all just superstition and to believe in his teammates. It turns out the third time IS the charm for Sanders, at least this time around. |
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Death Note features shinigami who come in a variety of monstrous forms, from Ryuk, who resembles a Monster Clown, to Rem and Sidoh who both look like mummies. They all have retractable wings that can be used for flight, they're immune to any human weapons, and can phase through objects. They're Invisible to Normals, unless said normal touches the death note or a piece of paper from it owned by that particular shinigami. They sustain themselves by writing names down in their death note; which magically kills the person and then gaining the remaining years that person would have lived. Despite their power, they're very lazy as a society, and do little more than play cards. Ryuk only drops a spare death note into the human world because he was incredibly bored and wanted to see something interesting happen. | |
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The shinigami in Descendants of Darkness are of the attractive, angsty, superpower-wielding ex-human kind. They are most often seen fighting crime vampires, demons and evil doctors, but their overall function is to make sure fate is carried out and souls die when they are supposed to. | |
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Touhou Project: Komachi Onozuka is the laziest shinigami on this page. Unfortunately for her, her boss can see ANYWHERE, so there's very little chance for her to slack off. Or at least, little chance to do so without getting caught. Also note that her role is more of a Charon analogue than the Grim Reaper - her job is to ferry the souls of the dead across the Sanzu River and into the afterlife proper. There are other (unseen) shinigami who have the Grim Reaper role. One character, the celestial Tenshi Hinanawi, achieves de facto immortality by beating up the shinigami who come to collect her. Komachi defeats Tenshi, but has to let her go because she's not allowed to reap souls — she's the wrong "type" of shinigami for that. She does, however, warn Tenshi that even celestials are eventually reaped, indicating that she has only managed to temporarily stave off her eventual and inevitable demise. |
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Clamp's manga Wish depicts demons as shinigami, eating human souls for sustenance. They're Punchclock Villains in this regard, though. | |
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In Virgin Ripper, they are souls who committed the sin of suicide but met certain requirements and so were given the opportunity to redeem themselves by taking this job. Their duty is to escort the souls of the deceased to the Gate of Judgement, where it will be decided whether they are to go to Heaven or Hell. | |
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So, I Can't Play H! is full of these. There are actually two opposing factions driving the main conflict. Lisara's side take pity on humans, and regularly allow them to live longer than they're supposed to. On the other hand, Gardarblog's side believe this practice has upset Earth's balance, and the resulting overpopulation is causing unnecessary suffering for humanity via famines and wars. | |
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RIN-NE has the eponymous hero (named after Samsara), Rinne, act as a "sort of shinigami". His grandmother Tamako is a full shinigami who has fallen behind on her quota and he has to help work off her debt. Though, most of the debt on Rinne's shoulders was put there by his Corrupt Corporate Executive, deadbeat, Jerkass father. In this universe, shinigami are really like grim reapers because their main instruments are scythes. | |
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The Dark Artifices: Shinigami are a type of winged demons. In Thule, Livia recounts that one of them was responsible for the death of Tiberius, while another kidnapped Octavian, who was never seen again. | |
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In Shinigami Death Punch, all of the main characters are shinigami of the psychopomp variety. They're also decidedly young and hipster, with a structured bureaucracy dictating most of their actions. | |
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The shinigami of Scion are the most powerful minions of Mikaboshi, prime avatar of the Titan of Darkness. They can kill with a touch, and are a serious threat to gods. | |
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Mobile Fighter G Gundam has Kyral Mekirel, Nepal's pilot, who is called "Shinigami" because he kills his opponents outside the ring before their scheduled fight. After Domon beats him up, he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and joins the heroes. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, the card Shinigami is represented as pretty much the Western conception of the Grim Reaper (though hovering). | |
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In BlazBlue, Ragna The Bloodedge has earned the moniker of The Grim Reaper (or Shinigami in Japanese) due to his Badass Longcoat and Sinister Scythe. However, he has shown that Dark Is Not Evil. | |
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Botan from YuYu Hakusho is a shinigami with character details (such as the oar she rides on and her blue hair) referencing the Japanese Buddhist myth of the Sanzu River, analogous to the Western River Styx. Her primary function is as a psychopomp, although that appears less and less as the series focuses more on Yusuke's battles with demons, and she becomes Yusuke's handler more than anything else. The English dub has her call herself the Grim Reaper and Guardian of the River Styx instead. |
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In Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, the Shinigami play mentioned above is performed by Yurakutei Yakumo, inspiring Kyoji to follow in his footsteps. In the play, a shinigami is also one of the characters. | |
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