April 7 is a birthday of
Gautama Buddha, the initiator of the Buddhism. This topic is just good for this day.
Japan personifies everything, and they usually become handsome men, cute boy and girl. Japanese personification movement targeted Buddhism at last. This is not April Fool. Because it was released in March 15.
This "
Namuamidabutsu!(なみあみだ仏っ！)" - this title comes from one of the
Nianfo. It's a term commonly seen in Pure Land Buddhism - is a browser game for smartphones offered in Japanese mobile game platform Ameba. Players meet 13 Buddhahoods, fight against worldly desires spread over the world with them, and aim at purifying the world. Anyway, a important point of this is that all Buddhahoods are handsome guys.
For example...
He is
Acala, the dharmapala primarily revered in Vajrayana Buddhism, particularly in Tangmi in Japan, China and other Asia. In Japan, Acala is revered in the Shingon Buddhism, Tendai, Zen, Nichiren Buddhism and in Shugendō.
Acala in Japanese general statues.
He is
Guanyin, the East Asian spiritual figure of mercy, and a bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by Mahayana Buddhists.
Western people think him to be a goddess. However the first place, Buddhahoods are asexual condition.
He is
Bhaisajyaguru, the buddha of healing and medicine in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Commonly referred to as the "Medicine Buddha", he is described as a doctor who cures dukkha (suffering) using the medicine of his teachings.
He is
Kshitigarbha, the bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk. His name may be translated as "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb".
You can see his figure everywhere in Japan. He is in not only temples but also graves, sides of the way, towns, villages, mountains and forests.
He is
Manjushri, the bodhisattva associated with prajñā (transcendent wisdom) in Mahayana Buddhism.
The temples dedicated to him are popular among students because he manage wisdom.
He is
Vairocana, the celestial buddha who is often interpreted, in texts like the Flower Garland Sutra, as the Dharma Body of the historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Buddhism, Vairocana is also seen as the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of Emptiness.
All characters can check it
here(All texts are only Japanese).
The rule of the game is a simple card battle game. Profiles of original Buddhahoods are placed in cards, and we can study Buddhism through a game.
How do we get cards of new characters? Of course it is Gacha!
Illustrations of the normal cards which are not rare are chibi(The design which was deformed small)-style. Cute!
The beginning of the story, Gautama Buddha came up suddenly. Of course he is also handsome.
The bird which there is next to him is
Karura. Originally he was
Garuda which was one of Indian mythical Gods, but he came to Japan, and became a member of the Buddhism world. n this game, he is a mascot character. He eats too much worldly desires and suffers.
Boss enemies in this game are various worldly desires. The new stories are shown by overcoming these.
You may think this to be J-style dating sim for women, but backgrounds of original Buddhahoods are reflected for characteres and lines of 13 Buddhahoods. The motif of this is
Thirteen Buddhas faith born in Japan in the Edo era.
It has not yet passed one month from released, but the sale of various goods was decided(Of course they are not Buddhist altar fittings).
Key rings...
Button badges...
Tapestries...
and more!
If this becomes popular among women, worshipers to temples may increase.
