Cancer Deathmask
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Cancer Deathmask is a male anime and manga character who features in Saint Seiya.
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Biography
Cancer Deathmask (Japanese: 蟹座のデスマスク, Hepburn: Kyansā no Desumasuku)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Cancer Deathmask was created by Masami Kurumada where he featured in the setting of the Saint Seiya universe.
- Masami Kurumada derived Deathmask's abilities from the Japanese and Chinese folklore related to the Cancer constellation. The Cancer Constellation contains the Beehive Cluster, also known as Praesepe, which is considered in those folklores as the entrance to the realm of the dead. Hence Deathmask's abilities to freely traverse that realm.
- Also, Kurumada derived the motif of Deathmask's abilities of traversing the realm of the dead from Japanese superstition. The Kyokaikyū Temple, which Deathmask guarded, was the fourth temple. In Japanese language, the word for four, Shi, is homophonic to the word for death, also Shi. Thus, the Japanese have long considered the number four as a bad omen and relate it to death.
In other media
Television
Films
Video games
Appearances
- Saint Seiya:
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