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No matter how she tried she just couldn't. He said he'd do it if she could prove to him that such a body could fold paper cranes just as well as he could now. He was later visited by a girl with a cyber-body who suggested that he should have his own body replaced.

The boy later known as Hideo Kuze was injured in a plane crash and mostly paralyzed except for his left hand, which he would use to endlessly fold paper cranes in hopes that the girl next to him would recover from her injuries, but she took a turn for the worse and was taken away.

In an episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Second Gig, Major Kusanagi hears a curious story.

Michi eventually recovers, only for the next day to whine to Shin-Chan and Hiroshi that Yoshirin had caught her cold. Yoshirin as usual drags Shin-Chan and Hiroshi into his antics, including asking them to fold a thousand cranes for Michi to recover else he hangs himself.

Parodied in one Crayon Shin-chan comic strip where the Nohara's neighbor, Michi - one half of the Sickeningly Sweethearts duo alongside her husband Yoshirin - gets a bad cold, which, while a terrible disease, is an inconvenience at worse and by no means fatal.

This actually created the Epileptic Tree that the emblem of the Black Knights, Lelouch's La Résistance, is meant to be a paper crane viewed from the front - representing his promise to make the world a better place for Nunnally. carries an origami crane with her as she starts Walking the Earth after Zero Requiem.

#GUM PAPER ORIGAMI CODE#

In Code Geass, Nunnally gets taught Origami by Sayoko and tells Lelouch about the Thousand Origami Cranes.

Worse still, in Chapter 70 she states that she felt that the reason Aki died is that she couldn't complete all thousand.

In Kodomo no Jikan, after Rin's Delicate and Sickly mother Aki began to falter in health, Rin started making cranes day after day in an attempt to keep her alive, and Aki was covered in them when she finally died.

This is not to be confused with the Yasunari Kawabata novel 'Thousand Cranes', the title of which refers to a certain handkerchief pattern. See this entry in The Other Wiki for more, though really the fact that today the Kaiju Defense Force uses kevlar ballistic armor like everybody else (not to mention the fact that it's a defense force and not an actual army anymore) should tell you just about everything you really need to know. The belts were believed to confer courage, good luck and immunity from injury (especially bullets) upon their wearers. Senninbari was a strip of white cloth, approximately one meter in length, decorated with 1000 stitches in red thread from 1000 women, used as an amulet given to soldiers on their way to war as a part of the Shinto culture of Imperial Japan. There is something similar called Senninbari. In modern times it has grown to be been used as a symbol for world peace, spawning from the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who died of leukemia from the Hiroshima bombing in World War II. They are also a popular wedding gift (symbolizing a wish for a long and happy marriage), due to the immense time involved. There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a senbazuru - an arrangement of a thousand origami cranes tied together - a crane will come to them and grant them a single wish, such as long life or recovery from serious illness or injury.

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