Absent translation, I cannot say for sure, but based on the usual lore around blue and red oni, I'd have to say blue. I doubt I could survive either for long, but I think I'd last longer with a blue oni.
Absent translation, I cannot say for sure, but based on the usual lore around blue and red oni, I'd have to say blue. I doubt I could survive either for long, but I think I'd last longer with a blue oni.
I honestly want both, but that's asking for trouble.
@Mithiwithi - As of the latest strip, it looks like the folk tales have their roles reversed.
What reversal? Red Oni was the one who cried in the modern fairy tale, and Red is the sanguine/choleric to Blue's melancholic/phlegmatic in folk tales and most fiction.
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Overflowing ConfidenceAnd this here is where the transcendental beautiful genius, blessed in both body and mind,And thus, the blue oni set off to consult with the human-loving red oni...But if the white oni were to be discovered by the humans, they would exterminate her...and had her fill of human-watching.No matter how many times she was cautioned about doing so, she descended upon the human village,she came to have a bottomless fascination with humans. And once the white oni grew enough to understand the world around her,She's laying it on thick there!Akane-chan, makes her appearance!You went to the human village again?Today, see!
There was person in a pretty kimono!Pretty...