Buddhist Statues in Anime Are Interesting

Taking a look at Buddhist statues, the legend of the Dragon Kings, and how they relate to popular Japanese works like Asura’s Wrath and Tokyo Revengers.

Buddhist statues and the Shinto religion are often entrenched in Japanese media such as anime and video games. Here we take a look at the iconography of The Dragon Kings and Daibutsu, or giant buddha statues.

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