![]() Although an adorable girl, she, too, is genetically engineered like Lovecraft's monsters. Cthulhu's Shoggoths are amorphous, shapeshifting beings, while Ghost Reaper Girl's Shoggoth is anything but. Later on, in chapter 21, she appears as a "divided soul." Although an odd and adorable character, Nyarlathotep's divided soul shares some resemblance with a version of Lovecraft's god that has a head so elongated that it looks like it's wearing some sort of serpentine-like tail.Īnother prominent Lovecraftian character in Ghost Reaper Girl is Shoggoth whom Chloe lovingly refers to as Shoggy. This is crucial since Cthulhu's Nyarlathotep sometimes takes the form of an Egyptian Pharoh. When she possesses the heroic host Chloe Love, Nyarlathotep manifests as an Egyptian-esque symbol. Later chapters, however, introduce more distinct connections. However, Cthulhu's Nyarlathotep usually takes the form of a man while Ghost Reaper Girl's rendition is a woman, though she does enjoy changing her identity through cosplaying, currently having an affinity for nurse costumes. At first, the only other similarity was that Cthulhu's Nyarlathotep walks the Earth disguised as a human just like Ikeda's character. Mangaka Ikeda also teased especially sharp readers by referring to her as The Crawling Chaos, just like Cthulhu's Outer God Nyarlathotep. Originally, the first few chapters create the luckily false impression that her only connection to her Lovecraftian counterpart is her name. Related: My Hero Academia's Real Traitor Reveals How Deku Could Have Turned Evilīefore Cthulhu's grand appearance, the first prominent Lovecraftian reference in Ghost Reaper Girl is Nyarlathotep, a branch director of the ghost organization Arkham Bullet who is immensely powerful and harasses the series' eponymous hero aka Chloe Love. ![]() The wretched monster doesn't do much during his sole appearance in Ghost Reaper Girl besides speak as he ominously presides over the chaos that ensues under his watchful gaze. The most infamous of these ancient rulers is Cthulhu himself who appears three chapters later in the manga and resides in R'lyeh, a sunken city located deep under the Pacific Ocean, according to Lovecraft. The Great Old Ones are referenced throughout the Cthulhu mythos as malignant gods who once ruled over Earth, and many cults were formed in honor of them. The first connection was introduced in chapter 13 with the mention of beings known as the Great Old Ones. ![]() The more concrete correlations to Lovecraft's universe are exciting after Ikeda teased fans with characters who he obviously named after carious Lovecraftian beings that ostensibly shared no similarities. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |