Yeah, that one now gets upgraded from "weird and creepy in a perplexing way" to "truly disturbing." Although... none of the fanfic writers took "God" to be the addressee rather than an intensifier, but in that universe and with his backstory, I wouldn't be so sure of that.
Have you noticed how Hakkai gets all the really strange pin-ups? I looked up the bad translation of the one captioned, "My despised skin told me with these fingers that soon will be the day we kill the gods" and concluded that the Tokyopop one was probably as accurate as any. I understand the part about killing the gods, I think, but as a whole the sentence... will probably make perfect sense at some later point in the story.
On a tangentially related note, have you read Mark Salzman's novel The Soloist? The "kill the Buddha" koan gets discussed at some length, but with a different interpretation. I highly recommend the novel, by the way.
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Have you noticed how Hakkai gets all the really strange pin-ups? I looked up the bad translation of the one captioned, "My despised skin told me with these fingers that soon will be the day we kill the gods" and concluded that the Tokyopop one was probably as accurate as any. I understand the part about killing the gods, I think, but as a whole the sentence... will probably make perfect sense at some later point in the story.
On a tangentially related note, have you read Mark Salzman's novel The Soloist? The "kill the Buddha" koan gets discussed at some length, but with a different interpretation. I highly recommend the novel, by the way.