Tanabata: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Bridge of Birds]]'': The actions of Master Li and Number Ten Ox become interwoven with the Qi Xi story, although the heroes don't realize this when they first set out.

* Nona celebrates this in the British children's book ''Miss Happiness and Miss Flower.'' Nona's actually Anglo-Indian, but became interested in Japanese culture through her Japanese dolls.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Katamari Damacy|We Love Katamari]]'' includes a stage where players roll up all the planets and stars they've created, with the rolling up of the sun as the ultimate objective. This stage includes numerous [[Easter Egg]]s, such as the stars Vega and Altair, on which ride small human forms that shout "Hikoboshi-sama!" and "Orihime!" as you collect them.

* Referenced in ''[[Persona 3]]'': after SEES figures out how to predict when certain bosses will appear, Akihiko comments that one upcoming battle will be "a Tanabata special bout". Humorously it's the battle against the Hierophant and Lovers Arcana, [[Tarot Motifs|which represent tradition and choice or the misuse of tradition and lack of choice]], and also is the [[Aliens Made Them Do It|infamous]] [[Love Hotel]] battle.

* The plotline of the story is involved intimately in the background of ''[[Mega Man Star Force]] 2'', and the involved characters have their names maintained appropriately across localizations. {{spoiler|Orihime is the [[Love Hurts|Main Villain]] of the game, and in English is named [[Shown Their Work|Vega]] for the star.}}

* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', Yamaku High School has a festival organized around Tanabata. You only get to see it in Shizune's route, though.

** {{spoiler|Tanabata is heavily discussed in Lilly's route as Hiseo promises to take her to the festival. Appropriately, that does not happen because Lilly and Hiseo have their own [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] situation. Whether this is permanent depends on the player's actions.}}

* In ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', the heroine gets to see the wishes of the [[Interspecies Romance|birds]] she's the closest to at Tanabata and make a wish herself to [[Take Over the World|conquer the world by force]], [[The Man Behind the Man|rule the world from the shadows]], gain the [[Mad Love]] of a [[Fallen Angel]], or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|become a famous artist]].

* In ''[[Gaia Online|zOMG!]]'', [[Shrine Maiden]] Katsumi asks you to deliver an off-season wish to a Wish Tree in Zen Gardens (she is wishing for the safety of others in the Animated attacks). {{spoiler|The wishes in the Wish Tree turn out to be Animated themselves-- but they were created almost completely in goodwill, so [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|they're mostly neutral/benevolent towards humans]].}}

[[Category:Useful Notes/China]]

[[Category:Tanabata]]