History Main / ThousandOrigamiCranes

* In ''Manga/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]].

* In ''Webcomic/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]].)

* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'', the apply named Asuka Cranekick is known to enjoy folding paper cranes. She even once promised to [[spoiler:Almaz, who is covering the fact that he is slowly dying by pretending to be sick]] that she will fold thousand paper cranes to them so that they can rest in peace. It is even told that she suffered from demon leukemia, and would have suffered from it even today if Raspberyl wasn't a donor for her.

* In ''Film/IAmSam'', the titular hero is a mentally challenged single father who has lost custody of his 7 year old daughter Lucy. He builds a wall of origami figures in his apartment, supposedly hoping for the legend to come true and the crane granting him his wish of getting his daughter back. [[spoiler: It seems to come true, at least partially, as the ending suggests that custody for Lucy is shared between him and the foster family.

[-[[caption-width-right:280:Rin believed that if she folded 1000 paper cranes, Aki-san's sickness would go away...]]-]

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* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'', the apply named Asuka Cranekick is known to enjoy folding paper cranes. She even once promised to [[spoiler:Almaz, who is covering that he is slowly dying by pretending to be sick]] that she will fold thousand paper cranes to them so that they can rest in peace.

* In ''CodeGeass'', Nunnally gets taught Origami by Sayoko and tells Lelouch about the Thousand Origami Cranes. [[spoiler: In the GrandFinale, C.C. carries an origami crane with her as she starts WalkingTheEarth after Zero Requiem.]]

* In an episode of ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Second Gig'', Major Kusanagi hears a curious story. The boy [[spoiler:later known as Hideo Kuze]] was injured in a plane crash and mostly paralyzed except for his left hand, which he would use to endlessly fold paper cranes in hopes that the girl next to him would recover from her injuries, but she took a turn for the worse and was taken away. He was later visited by a girl with a cyber-body who suggested that he should have his own body replaced. He said he'd do it if she could prove to him that such a body could fold paper cranes just as well as he could now. No matter how she tried she just couldn't. In spite of this, he did later get a mechanical body. The Major seems to find the story familiar, and at the end we see that she has folded a paper crane with one hand...

* {{Haruhi|Suzumiya}} combines this with IfIHadANickel in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'':

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* Shows up in a certain anime that shall not be named because its blatantly paedophilic premise makes the site's advertisers nervous.

* As mentioned in the trope description, 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.]]

There is something similar called Senninbari. Senninbari was a strip of white cloth, approximately one meter in length, decorated with 1000 stitches in red thread from 1000 women, used as an amulet given to soldiers on their way to war as a part of the Shinto culture of Imperial Japan. The belts were believed to confer courage, good luck and immunity from injury (especially bullets) upon their wearers. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senninbari this]] entry in TheOtherWiki for more.

* Sadly, not everyone agrees with the legend of a thousand cranes. TheBookOfRatings has [[http://www.bookofratings.com/origami.html this]] to say about them.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/Solatorobo'', the kids at Red's old orphanage decide to try folding a thousand paper cranes, and Red agrees to get some help. He then revisits every major location in the game and convinces everyone, including the new leader of the Kurvaz, to make as many cranes as they can and send them to the orphanage.

* At the end of "VideoGame/Solatorobo", the kids at Red's old orphanage decide to try folding a thousand paper cranes, and Red agrees to get some help. He then revisits every major location in the game and convinces everyone, including the new leader of the Kurvaz, to make as many cranes as they can and send them to the orphanage.

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* Pictured above: in ''Kodomo no Jikan'', 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.]]

[-[[caption-width-right:280:[[TearJerker Rin believed that if she folded 1000 paper cranes, Aki-san's sickness would go away...]]]]-]

** Also note that Lelouch's sigil when he uses his geass has a flying crane shape and his goal of creating a peaceful world for Nunally. This is reinforced by the later metaphor of geass = wishes.