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Old 2015.09.01, 01:45 PM   #1
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Has anyone ever noticed the passing similarity between this:

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The latter is the emblem of the Kudo-kai, a rather notorious Yakuza group. The similarity is slight, probably for very good reason. But, since the Kudo-kai are based in Fukuoka, it also doesn't seem completely coincidental.
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Old 2015.09.01, 02:29 PM   #2
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Whoa. Nice find, zeroryouko. A lot of SR's imagery is taken from mon... Does anyone have any background on the mon she used for ZX?
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Old 2015.09.01, 02:39 PM   #3
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This one?

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ETA: That seems to be a dead-on match for this:

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which is called migi futatsudomoe. I can't seem to find a reliable source indicating exactly what this symbol means, although some web sites suggest that it has a meaning in Buddhism similar to that of the more commonly known "yin and yang" symbol.

This makes sense, given that zazen means "Zen meditation". Plus, it also kind of looks like a stylized letter S. Like many good logos, it's a visual pun.
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Old 2015.09.01, 04:34 PM   #4
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^ That's the one. Thanks for kicking off the search, I found more information on it elsewhere. It is more commonly referred to as the Tomoe (巴 or 鞆絵), and is apparently a highly ubiquitous symbol at Buddhist and Shinto temples...
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Cool, zero! :O How did you find out this information? Just looking at crime organization logos for fun?

This somehow makes the names for her Toutaikai/Recohatsu backing band (893 or "yakuza") and recording unit of Nagoshi, Yamaguchi Hiroo, and Tamada (37564 "minagoroshi" or "wholesale slaughter") even more interesting choices...

Does that make her fans less like an army and more like a gang, I wonder
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It was totally by accident. I was browsing one of those top 10 list websites and they had a list of infamous crimes committed by the yakuza. One entry was on the Kudo-kai. It mentioned that they were from Fukuoka, and that they had a penchant for killing civilians (unlike the majority of yakuza groups), and suddenly something clicked and I thought "minagoroshi!" So I looked it up on Wikipedia, and the logo was right at the top of the page.

Then I started browsing organized crime logos for fun.

Oh, another interesting fact about the Kudo-kai: In 2000, they attacked the home of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (then a member of the House of Representatives) with molotov cocktails, apparently because one of his aides failed to pay a bribe. To me, this is almost inconceivable...obviously these are some BAD m-f'ers.
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Old 2015.09.02, 10:36 AM   #7
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Wooooah I guess I can see now why people always say the gangs from Fukuoka are the scariest guys around... People always say don't go to Kitakyushu if you value your life :p
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They really say that?

According to the latest statistics I could find, in 2011, Kitakyushu had a population of ~973K and a total of 12 murders. For comparison, the rural town I grew up in has a population of only ~44K, and in 2011 there were 16 murders there.

I mean, I get that crime in the US is really high, but still...
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I've been to Kitakyushu once, it's a really weird town. The only town I've been overtly hit on by a gay man in the street and I wasn't even in the sleazy bar area.
Fukuoka on the other hand is a great city!
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crazy mothafucka named ringo
from the gang called incidents tokyo
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