![]() ![]() Students Teaching against Racism in Society (STARS) attracted both national and inter-national headlines in October 2011 with their anti-racism campaign entitled “We’re a culture, not a costume.” At the time of the campaign, STARS was composed of ten undergraduate student members at Ohio University (OU). The thesis also gives many opportunities for further study, such as with the depictions (illustrations and narrative) of women's bodies both in the religious context and modern popular (boys') manga context the use of religious epics as a means to success in "Shonen Jump's" most popular boys' manga in the US and Japan from 2001 - 2005 and a possible shift away from "necessary" tragic endings (that signal and uphold values of cultural uniformity) towards "happy endings" (that signal cultural acceptance of personal identity singularity) in Japanese manga, among younger creators and consumers. It shows that, in "Bleach," seeking spiritual transcendence drives character development, plot, and setting that the Buddhist Wheel of Life best explains “powering-up” of characters to higher spiritual and physical planes of being and that the story’s action and resolution depend on a wish-fulfilling jewel, with several characters rooted in such Buddhist archetypes as nagas (dragon deities), the Wisdom King Aizen Myô-ô, and the Sâkyamuni Buddha. As such, this paper sets out to show that Buddhist imagery is in "Bleach" and is inherent to literary assessment of the story's value as a whole. However, I posit that much of this is due to cultural barriers, as the latter two arcs rely heavily on esoteric Buddhist symbology such as Aizen Myo-o and wish-fulfilling jewels, which were set up in the first arc.
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