KANEKO’S CRIB NOTES LIX: NOW WE HAVE DEVIL SUMMONER WORLD GUIDANCE, HO-HO-HO
It’s the 2018 holiday season, which means Tumblr is about to become a smoldering crater. Until then, we’ve got some amazing new cribs for you courtesy of Devil Summoner World Guidance.DSWGis a solid demon art book with Kaneko comments for each of DS’s demons (a total of 275). Our gifts to you are the best five out of those mostly easily translated:
Cu Chulainn: Finally on KCN! Kaneko’s is inspired by the Cu Chulainn in the obscure manga/anime Fairy King / Yousei-ou(妖精王). Technically the comments are about the Devil Summoner version but the SMT1 Cu Chulainn above makes for a better comparison to the manga art.
Thor: DS’s “boring” Thor cribs mightily from Schwarzenegger’s Conan from Conan the Barbarian. Compare the beefy body, the fur-lined clothing, and especially the totally cribbed helmet. Just do it quickly, before Kratos savagely butchers him in God of War 2!
Thanatos: This diseased dwarf is as unusual as they come, but Kaneko claims inspiration from two distinct sources: Okuyasu’s deformed father in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Baron Harkonnen of Dune, presumably Kenneth McMillan’s pustulating portrayal from the 1984 film.
Virtue: Virtue’s translucent body, while striking, has always been difficult to pin down but at last we know that it was intended as an homage to Claire, the glass/machine waitress of Galaxy Express 999:an odd but strangely appropriate visual for the angelic archetype.
Rahu: Not merely an allusion to the idiomatic expression, Rahu’s craneal wang can apparently be traced back to the phallic pineal gland sported by Dr. Pretorius in Stuart Gordon’s cult classic From Beyond.
