History Main / ThousandOrigamiCranes

* At the end of ''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.

* ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'': One level in ''We ♥ Katamari'' requires you to roll up a thousand cranes to help a boy whose sick friend is in the hospital.

* One level in ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' requires you to roll up a thousand cranes to help a boy whose sick friend is in the hospital.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* In ''Anime/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.]]
** This actually created the EpilepticTree that the emblem of the Black Knights, Lelouch's LaResistance, is meant to be a paper crane viewed from the front -- representing his promise to make the world a better place for Nunnally.

[[folder:Fan Fiction]]

** Similarly, in an otherwise unrelated fic, titled ''Paper Cranes'', we have an IllGirl Satsuki being mentioned to have done this in letters dated "June 3rd" and "October 15th" that Ryuuko addresses to her.

[[folder:Film]]

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

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* As mentioned in the trope description, this is a major part of ''Literature/{{Sadako and
the Thousand Paper Cranes}}''. {{Based on a true story}}, Sadako, 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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* As mentioned in the trope description, this is a major part of ''Literature/SadakoAndTheThousandPaperCranes''. Based on a true story, Sadako, 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.]]

* Sadly, not everyone agrees with the legend of a thousand cranes. TheBookOfRatings has [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100906050442/http://www.bookofratings.com/origami.html this]] to say about them.

** PerplexCity had a card entitled "Sadako Sasaki" based on this.

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 Wiki/TheOtherWiki for more, though really the fact that today the UsefulNotes/aijuDefenseForce uses kevlar ballistic armor like everybody else (not to mention the fact that it's a ''defense force'' and not an actual army anymore) should tell you just about everything you really need to know.

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 Wiki/TheOtherWiki for more, though really the fact that today the KaijuDefenseForce uses kevlar ballistic armor like everybody else (not to mention the fact that it's a ''defense force'' and not an actual army anymore) should tell you just about everything you really need to know.

In modern times it has grown to be 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]].

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, though really the fact that today the KaijuDefenseForce uses kevlar ballistic armor like everybody else (not to mention the fact that it's a ''defense force'' and not an actual army anymore) should tell you just about everything you really need to know.

* In ''Extras,'' the fourth and final book in Scott Westerfeld's [[{{Uglies}} Uglies]] series, this seems to have become a rite of passage for 15-year-old girls in the futuristic Japanese setting. There's also a trend of mailing one's thousand cranes to a favorite male celebrity; protagonist Aya's famous brother has an apartment full of them.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', you can spend time in your room folding cranes, which increases your Understanding statistic. Unlike other jobs you can do in your spare time, you don't get paid, but once you complete the set, you get an item. How long it takes to do so depends on which choices you make and whether they work out well for you- generally, one choice gives you the standard progress, while another can either make you work faster or slow down.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', you can spend time in your room folding cranes, which increases your Understanding statistic. Unlike other jobs you can do in your spare time, you don't get paid, but once you complete the set, you get an item. How long it takes to do so depends on which choices you make and whether they work out well for you- generally, one choice gives you the standard progress, while another can either make you work faster or slow down.

* Another variation: In ''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 (this is also TruthInTelevision, see the "Real Life" folder below).

** Similarily, in an otherwise unrelated fic, titled ''Paper Cranes'', we have an IllGirl Satsuki being mentioned to have done this in letters dated "June 3rd" and "October 15th" that Ryuuko addresses to her.

* Folding paper cranes shows up as a somewhat fitting renumeration in the second season of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''.
* Another variation: In ''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.