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Not to be confused with a similar named [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath game]], or [[LightNovel/AsuraCryin a different anime]], [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5671298/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5 a China-made epic movie]] or, god forbid, a classy shoujo love manga.

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Not to be confused with a similar named [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath game]], or [[LightNovel/AsuraCryin [[Literature/AsuraCryin a different anime]], [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5671298/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5 a China-made epic movie]] or, god forbid, a classy shoujo love manga.
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[[caption-width-right:350:An eight-year-old axe-wielding kid.]]

-> ''"There are still occasionally throwbacks like "Asura", though, where animation doesn't just allow it to be amazing to look at, but means you don't have to put a child actor in the title role. Because, man, who would want to subject a kid to being a part of this?"''

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[[caption-width-right:350:An [[caption-width-right:350:[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior An eight-year-old axe-wielding kid.]]

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->''"There
are still occasionally throwbacks like "Asura", though, where animation doesn't just allow it to be amazing to look at, but means you don't have to put a child actor in the title role. Because, man, who would want to subject a kid to being a part of this?"''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Eight years old axe-wielding kid]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Eight years old [[caption-width-right:350:An eight-year-old axe-wielding kid]]
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* ConspicuousCGI: All characters and objects are CGI in the movie. Not really conspicuous for most part.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Wakasa and the monk were the first people to show Asura patience and kindness, something Asura was never given even from his own mother.
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1460. Japan. The Kanshō famine and drought have turned the place into a wasteland, and with it, its people into animals. During this period, a infant was born to a hungry woman. Hunger and desperation have turned the woman to [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty cannibalism]]. Initially, she nurtured the little boy under harsh conditions. But finally, hunger won out and she decides to eat the infant, barbecued. Through a miracle, the boy survived with the image of his mother trying to eat him.

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1460. Japan. The Kanshō famine and drought have turned the place into a wasteland, and with it, its people into animals. During this period, a an infant was born to a hungry woman. Hunger and desperation have turned the woman to [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty cannibalism]]. Initially, she nurtured the little boy under harsh conditions. But finally, hunger won out and she decides to eat the infant, barbecued. Through a miracle, the boy survived with the image of his mother trying to eat him.



* CrapsackWorld: The setting of Japan the film takes place in. The land is plagued with droughts and famine and people are shown selling and eating their own children to be able to survive. The poor tear themselves apart for scraps while rich landowners hoard food and resources for themselves. Asura himself acknowledges this and hates the fact the world he lives in is so full of suffering to the point he believes it would have been better for him not be born.

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* CrapsackWorld: The setting of Japan the film takes place in. The land is plagued with droughts and famine and people are shown selling and eating their own children to be able to survive. The poor tear themselves apart for scraps while rich landowners hoard food and resources for themselves. Asura himself acknowledges this and hates the fact the world he lives in is so full of suffering to the point he believes it would have been better for him not to be born.



* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura_%28Buddhism%29 Asura]], a race of demigods in Hindu/Buddhism myths, represents violence and force.

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* MeaningfulName: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura_%28Buddhism%29 Asura]], a race of demigods in Hindu/Buddhism Hindu/Buddhist myths, represents violence and force.
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Not to be confused with a similar named [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath game]], or [[LightNovel/AsuraCryin a different anime]], or, god forbid, a classy shoujo love manga.

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Not to be confused with a similar named [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath game]], or [[LightNovel/AsuraCryin a different anime]], [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5671298/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_5 a China-made epic movie]] or, god forbid, a classy shoujo love manga.

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