Talk:Mazoku

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[edit] Major Rewrite

This page should be completely rewritten--at least, the Slayers portion. The text is copied word-for-word from inverse.org (http://inverse.org/e/bkg/races/mazoku.shtml), a site whose information predates this wiki article by almost ten years. Heck, the site even predates Wikipedia itself. --Sapphire, Sun April 23, 2006 @ 8:02PM CST

Rewritten, major overhaul. Took away fancruff and no where near official, twisted and wrongly written story in the Yu Yu Hakusho part. MythSearcher^talk 06:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

This page still looks in need of a major rewrite. The introductory lines clearly claim that Mazoku are a common race in Japanese fantasy, perhaps along the line of halflings (which I believe is another made up, constantly appearing race) in modern fantasy. However, we have two sections: Slayers, and Yu Yu Hakusho. Ideally this should treat Mazoku throughout ALL of Japanese fantasy, and there should be a seperate section for Slayers and the like. However, first this page should be expanded to exposite the role of Mazoku throughout fantasy at length (which I doubt will ever really happen), then the Slayers and Yu Yu Hakusho section can be moved (not undone). Jaydubayubee 00:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree it still needs a rewrite for wikipedia, I only did a rewrite to make sure the information is correct, instead of a bunch of fan made up stuff. Halflings, well, is a word coming from Lord of the Rings hobbits, then used in Dungeons & Dragons to prevent copyright problems or something, I guess. I can translate the Japanese wiki page over here for better info. I have translated the Japanese wiki article over here, as well as merging some of the maou stuff over. Someone can shorten the Slayers and Yuyu Haskusho parts, and a horrifying long list is in the Japanese wiki article I am not going to move here. MythSearcher^talk 03:57, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More references

Ja-Dou has mazoku, ranging from the Xelgaddas-like blue-elves covered in tattoos to flesh devowering vines. 2 of the 5 manga & likely many of the Light Novels explain about mazoku in contrast to YuYu & Slayers.

Kyo Kara Maoh is about the Maou or Mazoku King. these mazoku types also heavily contrast the other 3 references.

Ergo, if someone can gather the info on these 4 series & find anything in common, it would be more useful.

Well, the term is simply too common in Japan, I'd say we should add in some other sources and change the intro to reflect that this term is actually very common in talking about "a clan of beings different from human". In fact, Chrono Trigger, Chrno Crusade, and I'd say about 15~20% of anime, manga got a clan called Mazoku... MythSearcher^talk 07:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)