AAA 419: Myths and Legends
The Anime Addicts discuss myths and legends we would love to see made into anime (Suggested by Icyrose).
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–Golden Kamui
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-News Break 1: 32:00
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May 11, 2018 @ 3:05 pm
Hey Mandy, I suggest one of the Celtic myths that involves the Morrigan and druids that would lend itself well to anime would be that of Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster. It’s could adapt as an amazing shonen tale. You’d have his boyhood deeds, including slaying Culain the smith’s ferocious hound and taking the role of defending his steading as penance, Cuchulainn’s wilful decision to take arms after overhearing a prophecy by Cathbad the druid, his training (yes, there’s epic training) with the awesome Scathach, the warrior woman of Alban, where he meets Ferdiad, a young Irish warrior from another kingdom and they become rivals and forge a passionate friendship. When he returns is where I’d put the story of his first meeting with the Morrigan- the one where he spurns her love. She’d have been a presence in the story all along, often as a crow. The last four episodes of the first 13 would be the Cattle Raid of Cooley. When rest of the men of Ulster are magically incapacitated and it falls to Cuchulainn to single-handedly stop the armies of Maeve and Ailell, conducting a ruthless guerrilla war until they agree to send a champion to fight Cuchulainn each day. While the fight continues their armies can advance, but they stop when Cuchulainn kills his opponent. The third champion they send is Ferdiad, which leads to the emotional climax of the season, when Cuchulainn kills him.
You could easily do another 13 telling the story of Deidre of the Sorrows and the death of the sons of Usnach (other chums from Scathach’s warrior school) and the death of Cuchulainn, in which the Morrigan plays a direct part. As the Morrigan is goddess of birth, death and war, she could frame the whole story, act in the story, but sometimes function like a chorus. Visually, it easy to imagine celtic art, providing visual novelty and things like Cuchulainn’s hero-light that shines in battle and the grotesque transformations he undergoes at the height of his battle-fury all being great to animate.
Thanks for the fun topic and the spark to this flame.