This event was tedious. [emoji] Thanks go to taka gg for making that video with a nice mapped out route to every single chest. You can find a link to that in my video above if you haven't finished it yet.
Anyway as soon as I heard that the "vishap" realm was really the Light Realm it all clicked. Also if there are any Inuyasha fans you might already guess where I'm about to go with this because Movie 3.
But for the rest of you guys the concept of a Light Realm or Heaven, a Void Realm or underworld and finally the Human Realm in between is a real world religious belief. Just like most of the Japanese stuff that plays out in Inazuma it's based on Shintoism which took a great deal of ideas from Taoism.
In this case it's the three realms or 界 of 天 tian, 人 ren and 地 di. Or in Japanese 天界 tenkai, 人界 jinkai and 地界 jikai. In the Inuyasha movie this plays out with the major swords Tenseiga of tenkai, Tessaiga of jinkai and finally the hell sword Sou'unga of jikai.
Why is this important? Well in the game the three realms are kept in balance in Enkanomiya as equal and necessary parts right? But that's not really what we play. Instead of keeping things in balance it's more like we're just opposed to the Abyss or jikai just like in the movie. In the movie Sou'unga threatens to send the entire world to hell and turn all living beings into its undead army. Similarly in the event the Abyss is poisoning Enkanomiya and the flood of Abyssal Energy has stopped all progress from either of the two other realms.
So just like in the movie it takes the cooperation of both the Light Realm and Human Realm to defeat the Void Realm and set things straight again. That was the whole point of the pendant and what Tsumi eventually figured out. (also I totally call sus on Kokomi I think she knew Tsumi was down there all along) I think with how the event ends we'll be seeing Tsumi again and maybe at some point in the future even rebuild relationships with the "vishaps."
There is actually a specific ritual in Shintoism that matches this event. In fact the Japanese name of this event is point for point the name of that ritual. Three Realms Gateway Offering in Japanese is 三界道饗祭 where you can see the familiar 界 and the 三 means 3 so Three Realms. The rest of it is the important part and is pronounced Michiae no Matsuri. In this ritual Shinto priests pray to the gods to prevent jikai from rising up and causing harm to the people.
Of course there's no Bokuso Box or finding 125 chests in this ritual. Or riding super slow Ghostfish for 45 seconds EACH up to a warp that takes another 10 seconds to travel through. [emoji]
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