hahahaha are you retarded, Kattury?

Good grief. Racism is not a reason to flag an image for deletion. Furthermore swastikas don't automatically equal Nazism.

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There was no comment, the image was flagged for racism.

Her clothing tint obviously betrays her red [ribbon] army sympathies.

The buddhist sign was standardised as a Chinese character 卍 (pinyin wan), and as such entered Japanese 卍字 (Manji)

meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote good luck.

I think the nazi swastika had the pinwheels going the other direction. 卐 <--- like so

If I remember my socio lessons correctly, it actually dates way back to the golden age of Hindu-Buddhism, perhaps earlier. Both the right-facing sauwastika (卐) and the left-facing swastika (卍) were, and still are, considered auspicious symbols, neither of them denoting any evil concepts.

It wasn't until Nazi Germany misappropriated the swastika that anyone saw it as an evil sign. To this day, its more legitimate use is still related to Buddhism and other religious practices.

Yeah, wondered about which they were facing since I remembered reading something on teh Wiki 'bout a difference, but couldn't glean what I was thinking of.

Didn't Hinata's brother on Naruto have one o' these in the comics?

T5J8F8 said:
Didn't Hinata's brother on Naruto have one o' these in the comics?

Yes. They changed it into something else for the anime, I think since they knew the anime would air in America where a big deal would've been made out of the swastika.

Magus. That doesn't make much sense.
Why would Japan be concerned about America misinterpreting a symbol? Why not Germany, or Sweden?

A lot of Manga turning into Anime is toned down for a wider audience. I doubt it is other countries that influence companies in Japan to do it.

America is the second biggest market for anime, after Japan.

Compared to Italy, France, and Germany.
I don't think America gets that much anime for mainstream.

Well, that's because we suck.

If it faces left it's not a swastika, when it faces left it is either the manji, which in Buddhism uses it as a symbol for fortune and luck, or it is the ancient Carthaginian symbol for ascension to the heavens. Along with the aforementioned Naruto it also appears in Bleach in the form of the handgaurd of Ichigo's bankai and I read it was the shape of a dungeon in an old Zelda game. Were that dungeon going clockwise though it would shed some light on why Link and Zelda are Aryan...

Yuffie got bankai?

unicogirl said:
Compared to Italy, France, and Germany.
I don't think America gets that much anime for mainstream.

Well, thank [locally recognized deity] for Usenet and torrents, and most importantly for fansubbers. *Raises a glass of pomegranate juice* 乾杯!