{"id":25957,"date":"2011-06-29T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=25957"},"modified":"2011-06-29T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:15:29","slug":"ask-john-whats-the-significance-of-jupiter-in-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-whats-the-significance-of-jupiter-in-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: What&#8217;s the Significance of Jupiter in Anime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat it up with anime and Jupiter? Gunbuster, GaoGaiGar and Heroic Age all featured important events that somehow revolved around that planet, two of the shows resulting in Jupiter&#8217;s destruction. Are there other anime where the Roman God of Thunder&#8217;s world gets a prominent role and, if so, why is that particular planet such a hot-spot in our solar system?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nHonestly, if Japanese culture imbues the planet Jupiter with any particular unique cultural attributes, I&#8217;m unaware. A number of planets in our solar system feature prominently in anime. The Aria TV series &#038; Cowboy Bebop movie are set on Mars. SPT Layzner and Hoshi no Koe are partially set on Mars. The setting of Venus Wars is self-evident. Part of the Macross movie memorably occurs in Saturn&#8217;s rings. My best guess is that Jupiter is occasionally referenced in anime because it&#8217;s the largest planet in our solar system. The destruction of Jupiter would certainly signify a colossal galactic event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What it up with anime and Jupiter? Gunbuster, GaoGaiGar and Heroic Age all featured important events that somehow revolved around that planet, two of the shows resulting in Jupiter&#8217;s destruction. Are there other anime where the Roman God of Thunder&#8217;s world gets a prominent role and, if so, why is that particular planet such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25958,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25957\/revisions\/25958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}