History Main / ThousandOrigamiCranes

** Sadako's story inspired the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Peace_Monument Children's Peace Monument]]; to this day people send folded paper cranes in honor of those who died of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to heal the world of wars. Several temples in Japan also have eternal flames burning with Senbadsuru displayed nearby for the same reason.

* As alluded to in the title, this is a major part of ''Literature/SadakoAndTheThousandPaperCranes''. Based on a true story, the titular character, born in Hiroshima two years before the atom bombs fell, contracts leukemia and attempts to fold 1000 paper cranes because of the legend that doing so will grant her one wish. [[spoiler: She dies with only 644 completed, but her classmates finish the rest and she is buried with them.]]

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* Folder from the WhateleyUniverse has folded several sets of a thousand paper cranes (his power is folding anything). He finds it relaxing.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* The most famous attempt and (sad) subversion: Hiroshima bombing victim [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki Sadako Sasaki]], who reached one thousand and continued to fold more up 'til her death. (Which is only one version of the story -- another states that she completed 644 before she could not continue, and her friends finished the thousand.)
** PerplexCity had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this.
** Don't forget the band Hiroshima's touching song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=mUtXPq9HGSU&playnext_from=TL&videos=z1sCb8Wm3QE Thousand Cranes,]] dedicated to Sadako. The song even urges people to 'send her your thousand cranes' to 'show her we do care.'
** Sadako's story inspired the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Peace_Monument Children's Peace Monument]]; to this day people send folded paper cranes in honor of those who died of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to heal the world of wars. Several temples in Japan also have eternal flames burning with Senbadsuru displayed nearby for the same reason.

* One level in ''[[KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]'' requires you to roll up a thousand cranes to help a boy whose sick friend is in the hospital.
* In ''FlameOfRecca'', Saicho, who has [[PaperMaster the ability to control paper]], is given a thousand paper cranes that he uses for his ultimate attack against Recca.
* In ''MegamanBattleNetwork 3'', there are 1000 (unseen) origami cranes in a room of the hospital. You need to take one in order to advance the plot.
* After [[DeusAngstMachina the latest in a long line of traumatic experiences]], ''{{Narutaru}}'''s ShrinkingViolet Akira Sakura cut school for weeks and holed herself up in her room. When her friend Shiina (and... acquaintance Sudo) came to see her, they find she's (apparently) been spending her time trying to make a thousand paper cranes. It's not mentioned after that, and what she would want to wish for is unspecified (though, given her attitude, she [[DrivenToSuicide probably wants to die]].)
** Actually, she specifically states that she's folding one paper crane for each of the soldiers Satomi previously killed.
* In ''OokikuFurikabutte'', the cheer team for the protagonist's teams opponents in the baseball tournament made them 1000 Origami cranes to wish them good luck in the tournament. [[spoiler:After they lose, they give the cranes to the Nishiura team]].

* Folding paper cranes shows up as a somewhat fitting renumeration in the second season of ''DarkerThanBlack''.
* In ''HannaIsNotABoysName'', a paper crane appears before [[FanNickname [...] ]] as a sort of spiritual guide. According to Hanna, the guide takes on the form of something with emotional significance for each individual, but since [...] [[LossOfIdentity doesn't remember anything about his life]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent before he died]], whatever meaning it had for him is more or less gone. Hanna decides that's too depressing, so he starts folding 1,000 cranes to grant a wish, "so it can mean something again." (Touchingly enough, fans of the series have started folding their own cranes to help out. You can find their progress on their DeviantArt [[http://hinabn-1000-cranes.deviantart.com group page]].)
* Another variation: In the manga ''BarefootGen'', Gen and his brother Shinji decide to make "a thousand-stitches belt" and go to town to ask people to contribute stitches. The belt is meant to be a gift to their oldest brother, who's going off to fight in the war soon.
* The title of an episode of ''{{Lime-iro Senkitan}}''. When Sophia is in the nurse's office with her mental state regressed, Momen and the girls offer to do something for her, and come to this conclusion. Sarasa has the most trouble with it.
* The opening of a case in ''LANoire'' shows a man in a dark room folding origami cranes amongst many others. Later on, Phelps makes reference to this particular legend when he sees the room.

* The most famous RealLife attempt and (sad) subversion: Hiroshima bombing victim [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki Sadako Sasaki]], who reached one thousand and continued to fold more up 'til her death. (Which is only one version of the story -- another states that she completed 644 before she could not continue, and her friends finished the thousand.)
** PerplexCity had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this.
** Don't forget the band Hiroshima's touching song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=mUtXPq9HGSU&playnext_from=TL&videos=z1sCb8Wm3QE Thousand Cranes,]] dedicated to Sadako. The song even urges people to 'send her your thousand cranes' to 'show her we do care.'
** Sadako's story inspired the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Peace_Monument Children's Peace Monument]]; to this day people send folded paper cranes in honor of those who died of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to heal the world of wars. Several temples in Japan also have eternal flames burning with Senbadsuru displayed nearby for the same reason.

* One level in ''[[KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]'' requires you to roll up a thousand cranes to help a boy whose sick friend is in the hospital.
* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Hiro proves to Charlie he has the power to [[TimeStandsStill freeze time]] by filling a room with 1000 Origami Cranes - and it's also a way of saying his intentions, because he's working against time to prevent her death.

* In ''FlameOfRecca'', Saicho, who has [[PaperMaster the ability to control paper]], is given a thousand paper cranes that he uses for his ultimate attack against Recca.
* In ''MegamanBattleNetwork 3'', there are 1000 (unseen) origami cranes in a room of the hospital. You need to take one in order to advance the plot.
* After [[DeusAngstMachina the latest in a long line of traumatic experiences]], ''{{Narutaru}}'''s ShrinkingViolet Akira Sakura cut school for weeks and holed herself up in her room. When her friend Shiina (and... acquaintance Sudo) came to see her, they find she's (apparently) been spending her time trying to make a thousand paper cranes. It's not mentioned after that, and what she would want to wish for is unspecified (though, given her attitude, she [[DrivenToSuicide probably wants to die]].)
** Actually, she specifically states that she's folding one paper crane for each of the soldiers Satomi previously killed.
* In ''OokikuFurikabutte'', the cheer team for the protagonist's teams opponents in the baseball tournament made them 1000 Origami cranes to wish them good luck in the tournament. [[spoiler:After they lose, they give the cranes to the Nishiura team]].
* A touching variation in ''AzumangaDaioh'': The girls are taking their college entrance exams, and Osaka, [[CloudCuckoolander being Osaka]], suggests they try to perfectly break apart a pair of chopsticks for good luck. Chiyo--who doesn't have to worry about exams herself because she's going to the US--later buys several hundred chopsticks and splits them one by one while the others take their exams in order to wish them luck.
* Sadly, not everyone agrees with the legend of a thousand cranes. TheBookOfRatings has [[http://www.bookofratings.com/origami.html this]] to say about them.
* Folding paper cranes shows up as a somewhat fitting renumeration in the second season of ''DarkerThanBlack''.
* In ''HannaIsNotABoysName'', a paper crane appears before [[FanNickname [...] ]] as a sort of spiritual guide. According to Hanna, the guide takes on the form of something with emotional significance for each individual, but since [...] [[LossOfIdentity doesn't remember anything about his life]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent before he died]], whatever meaning it had for him is more or less gone. Hanna decides that's too depressing, so he starts folding 1,000 cranes to grant a wish, "so it can mean something again." (Touchingly enough, fans of the series have started folding their own cranes to help out. You can find their progress on their DeviantArt [[http://hinabn-1000-cranes.deviantart.com group page]].)
* Another variation: In the manga BarefootGen, Gen and his brother Shinji decide to make "a thousand-stitches belt" and go to town to ask people to contribute stitches. The belt is meant to be a gift to their oldest brother, who's going off to fight in the war soon.

%% Kodomo no Jikan, the source for the image, was removed from here, and it's not coming back due to admin fiat.

%% KodomoNoJikan is currently pulled for violating the site's new policies on prurient content.
%% It may be restored; in the meantime, please do not restore the pothole here or in the example.

* Pictured above: in ''KodomoNoJikan'', after Rin's IllGirl mother Aki began to falter in health, Rin started making cranes day after day in an attempt to keep her alive, and Aki was covered in them when she finally died. [[spoiler: Worse still, in Chapter 70 she states that she felt that the reason Aki died is that she couldn't complete all thousand.]]

* In ''[[HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name]]'', a paper crane appears before [[FanNickname [...] ]] as a sort of spiritual guide. According to Hanna, the guide takes on the form of something with emotional significance for each individual, but since [...] [[LossOfIdentity doesn't remember anything about his life]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent before he died]], whatever meaning it had for him is more or less gone. Hanna decides that's too depressing, so he starts folding 1,000 cranes to grant a wish, "so it can mean something again." (Touchingly enough, fans of the series have started folding their own cranes to help out. You can find their progress on their DeviantArt [[http://hinabn-1000-cranes.deviantart.com group page]].)

* The opening of a case in ''[[LANoire L.A. Noire]]'' shows a man in a dark room folding origami cranes amongst many others. Later on, Phelps makes reference to this particular legend when he sees the room.
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[-[[caption-width:280:[[TearJerker Rin believed that if she folded 1000 paper cranes, Aki-san's sickness would go away...]]]]-]

* In ''[[HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name]]'', a paper crane appears before [[FanNickname [...]]] as a sort of spiritual guide. According to Hanna, the guide takes on the form of something with emotional significance for each individual, but since [...] [[LossOfIdentity doesn't remember anything about his life]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent before he died]], whatever meaning it had for him is more or less gone. Hanna decides that's too depressing, so he starts folding 1,000 cranes to grant a wish, "so it can mean something again." (Touchingly enough, fans of the series have started folding their own cranes to help out. You can find their progress on their DeviantArt [[http://hinabn-1000-cranes.deviantart.com group page]].)

There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a Senbadsuru -- an arrangement of a thousand origami cranes tied together -- a crane will come to them and grant them a single wish, such as long life or recovery from serious illness or injury. They are also a popular wedding gift (symbolizing a wish for a long and happy marriage), due to the immense time involved.

* In ''[[KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]'', a fan and his schoolmates folded a thousand cranes for an IllGirl friend of theirs. However, the cranes got scattered around the school, and so they call upon the KingOfAllCosmos to gather them via katamari-rolling and place it into the sky so that she can see it.

* Pictured above: in ''KodomoNoJikan'', after Rin's IllGirl mother Aki began to falter in health, Rin started making cranes day after day in an attempt to keep her alive, and Aki was covered in them when she finally died.

There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a thousand origami cranes, a crane will come to them and grant them a single wish, such as long life or recovery from serious illness or injury. It's been used as a symbol for world peace, spawning from the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who died of leukemia from the Hiroshima bombing in WorldWarII. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_origami_cranes More information from The Other Wiki]].

* An early example: From all over the world, at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Peace_Monument Children's Peace Monument]], people send folded paper cranes, in honor of those who died of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to heal the world of wars.

* The most famous RealLife attempt and (sad) subversion: Hiroshima bombing victim [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki Sadako Sasaki]], who reached one thousand and continued to fold more up 'til her death.
** PerplexCity had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this.
** Don't forget the band Hiroshima's touching song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=mUtXPq9HGSU&playnext_from=TL&videos=z1sCb8Wm3QE Thousand Cranes,]] dedicated to Sadako. The song even urges people to 'send her your thousand cranes' to 'show her we do care.'

* The UrExample: From all over the world, at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Peace_Monument Children's Peace Monument]], people send folded paper cranes, in honor of those who died of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to heal the world of wars.

There's an ancient Japanese legend that states if someone folds a thousand origami cranes, a crane will come to them and grant them a single wish, such as long life or recovery from serious illness or injury. It's been used as a symbol for world peace, spawning from the story of Sasaki Sadako, a girl who died of leukemia from the Hiroshima bombing in WorldWarII. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_origami_cranes More information from The Other Wiki]].

* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Hiro proves he has the power to [[TimeStandsStill freeze time]] by filling a room with 1000 Origami Cranes.

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