1) *Congratulations!* I like the anime a lot. (There's more Asura, for one thing.) To celebrate, I'll finally get around to writing about Black*Star!
2) The "shinigami are Lovecraftian madness gods" thing is later in the manga. (I always thought the Kishin was, what with the being asleep for 800 years and spreading madness and hanging out in the background while all these other villains tried to use his power). At one point someone says "the Great Old Ones" (Lord Death is one of these--there were Eight Powerful Warriors altogether, Asura included, but Asura killed a couple of them) are beings whose existence drives men to madness.
Kid gets trapped in the Book of Eibon (which is a book in the Cthulhu mythos), so the other kids go in after him. And the Index of the book, which is an entity (and the Madness of Knowledge) who likes books and chats up Maka because she likes books, too, says (read right to left):
(I like to think "fragment of the Great Old Ones" is literal and Kid is, like, a piece of his dad that broke off. But then I like weird things.)
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Date: 2012-12-03 01:06 am (UTC)2) The "shinigami are Lovecraftian madness gods" thing is later in the manga. (I always thought the Kishin was, what with the being asleep for 800 years and spreading madness and hanging out in the background while all these other villains tried to use his power). At one point someone says "the Great Old Ones" (Lord Death is one of these--there were Eight Powerful Warriors altogether, Asura included, but Asura killed a couple of them) are beings whose existence drives men to madness.
Kid gets trapped in the Book of Eibon (which is a book in the Cthulhu mythos), so the other kids go in after him. And the Index of the book, which is an entity (and the Madness of Knowledge) who likes books and chats up Maka because she likes books, too, says (read right to left):
(I like to think "fragment of the Great Old Ones" is literal and Kid is, like, a piece of his dad that broke off. But then I like weird things.)