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* ''VideoGame/FlowerKnightGirl'': Yearly, the Tanabata festival is celebrated in Spring Garden around the time of "the night of sevens", with corresponding seasonal lines for the Flower Knights, plus updates which add story events taking place during the festival. One Tanabata themed event debuted two Flower Knights, Tree of a Thousand Stars and Lesser Celandine, who [[MythicalMotifs thematically represent Hikoboshi and Orihime respectively.]]
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Tanabata (七夕) is the UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese version of the [[UsefulNotes/{{China}} Chinese]] Qīxì (七夕) festival, a.k.a. "the Night of Sevens". It was exported to Japan about a millennium ago during the time of the ('Northern' as we posthumously call them) Song Dynasty, or what is known in Japan as the 'Heian' period. Some people called it ''Tanabata'' and not ''Qixi'' for political reasons; [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Japan was a NATO-ally throughout the Cold War whereas Communist China did not align with NATO until the 1970s]], meaning that the Anglosphere's first mass-exposure to the festival was through the Japanese, although it is still much more deeply rooted in Chinese mythology.
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Tanabata (七夕) is the UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese version of the [[UsefulNotes/{{China}} Chinese]] Qīxì (七夕) festival, a.k.a. "the Night of Sevens". It was exported to Japan about a millennium ago during the time of the ('Northern' as we posthumously call them) Song Dynasty, or what is known in Japan as the 'Heian' period. Some people in the west called it ''Tanabata'' and not ''Qixi'' for political reasons; [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Japan was a NATO-ally throughout the Cold War whereas Communist China did not align with NATO until the 1970s]], meaning that the Anglosphere's first mass-exposure to the festival was through the Japanese, although it is still much more deeply rooted in Chinese mythology.
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* Nona celebrates this in the British children's book ''Miss Happiness and Miss Flower''. Nona's actually Anglo-Indian, but became interested in Japanese culture through her Japanese dolls.
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* Nona celebrates this in the British children's book ''Miss Happiness and Miss Flower''. ''Literature/MissHappinessAndMissFlower''. Nona's actually Anglo-Indian, but became interested in Japanese culture through her Japanese dolls.dolls.
-->'''Nona:''' S-something to do with the stars, t-two stars. I think they are the spirits of two people who loved each other long, long ago, a thousand years ago, and were separated. Now they are up in two stars each side of the M-milky Way, and one night each year they can cross and meet.\\
'''Anne:''' Across the Milky Way? How pretty.\\
'''Nona:''' Yes. And on earth that night children -- grown-up people as well, but mostly children -- write wishes on pieces of coloured paper and tie them outside on the bamboos, all over Japan.
-->'''Nona:''' S-something to do with the stars, t-two stars. I think they are the spirits of two people who loved each other long, long ago, a thousand years ago, and were separated. Now they are up in two stars each side of the M-milky Way, and one night each year they can cross and meet.\\
'''Anne:''' Across the Milky Way? How pretty.\\
'''Nona:''' Yes. And on earth that night children -- grown-up people as well, but mostly children -- write wishes on pieces of coloured paper and tie them outside on the bamboos, all over Japan.
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* ''Webcomic/BailinAndLiYun'' [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/bailin-and-li-yun/qixi-festival-illustration-update/viewer?title_no=781556&episode_no=64 once did a one-off special episode for Qixi]], with an illustration of Li Yun as Niulang and Bailin as Zhinü.
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* ''Webcomic/BailinAndLiYun'' [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/bailin-and-li-yun/qixi-festival-illustration-update/viewer?title_no=781556&episode_no=64 once did a one-off special episode for Qixi]], with an illustration of Li Yun as Niulang and Bailin as Zhinü.
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* ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor'': The archangel Lauriel is noted to be born on July 7th, the same as Tanabata. However, she plays a different aspect than the typical StarCrossedLover scenario (because she's [[CelibateHero celibate]]): Lauriel manages the Hall of Prayers of Veda. Meanwhile, during such festivals, certain nation (usually Japan) has a tradition of writing their wishes and putting it on a bamboo, hoping that their prayers and wishes are granted (praying and making wishes also exist in Qixi festivals, but not as emphasized as in Tanabata). In other words, Lauriel takes the aspect of people praying for wishes during Tanabata/Qixi and she's managing their prayers.
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* While this hasn't been played into plot, yet, ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s [[ChineseGirl Litchi Faye-Ling]] had her birthday exactly at the Tanabata day (July 7th). She's also the resident LoveMartyr.
** Or perhaps it has, in a rather dark way. To sum it up, she's trying to save a good friend of hers, Lotte Carmine, from the fate of being a BlobMonster (he's Arakune), except that the road for that has WAY too many problems: nearly ''everyone'' in the world that is good either does not know this or persuade her to just forget about the long-dead Lotte and move on already because it's scientifically impossible (or tell her she's just an egotistical idiot to push on her beliefs), leaving her with nothing but her own self to help him, and then she found out that she is dying with the same corruption so she has limited time, and [[spoiler:the only help available is to help the bad guys, act like she'll reset the world and see many innocents dead thanks to the bad guys' plot just for his sake and destroy her 'kind and good' reputation. She does all that, [[ForcedIntoEvil albeit with a heavy heart]], and we still do not know if it will eventually bear fruit or not up until [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma the second last game of the series]].]]
** Or perhaps it has, in a rather dark way. To sum it up, she's trying to save a good friend of hers, Lotte Carmine, from the fate of being a BlobMonster (he's Arakune), except that the road for that has WAY too many problems: nearly ''everyone'' in the world that is good either does not know this or persuade her to just forget about the long-dead Lotte and move on already because it's scientifically impossible (or tell her she's just an egotistical idiot to push on her beliefs), leaving her with nothing but her own self to help him, and then she found out that she is dying with the same corruption so she has limited time, and [[spoiler:the only help available is to help the bad guys, act like she'll reset the world and see many innocents dead thanks to the bad guys' plot just for his sake and destroy her 'kind and good' reputation. She does all that, [[ForcedIntoEvil albeit with a heavy heart]], and we still do not know if it will eventually bear fruit or not up until [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma the second last game of the series]].]]
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* While this hasn't been played into plot, yet, ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s [[ChineseGirl ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Litchi Faye-Ling]] had Faye-Ling is born on July 7th (Tanabata) and her birthday exactly at the Tanabata day (July 7th). She's also the resident LoveMartyr.
** Or perhaps it has, in a rather dark way. To sum it up, she's trying to save a good friend of hers, Lotte Carmine, from the fate ofstory revolve around being a BlobMonster (he's Arakune), except LoveMartyr who wants to initiate one final meeting with her [[StarCrossedLovers love interest]] Lotte Carmine and curing him from his wretched existence as Arakune. After a ''lot'' of unwilling ForcedIntoEvil antics, she gets her wish to meet with a lucid Lotte... [[spoiler:and gets told that the road for that has WAY too many problems: nearly ''everyone'' in the world that is good either he does not know this or persuade want to get cured, he's fine hanging around in the other place near the Boundary and Litchi should get back to the living being to live her to just forget about the long-dead Lotte own life. Therefore, they're now completely separated and having to move on already because it's scientifically impossible (or tell her she's just an egotistical idiot to push on her beliefs), leaving her with nothing but her own self to help him, their lives, and then she found out that she is dying with unlike the same corruption so she has limited time, and [[spoiler:the legends, that's the only help available is to help the bad guys, act like she'll reset the world and see many innocents dead thanks to the bad guys' plot just for his sake and destroy her 'kind and good' reputation. She does all that, [[ForcedIntoEvil albeit with a heavy heart]], and we still do not know if it will eventually bear fruit or not up until [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma the second last game of the series]].chance they got, they don't get yearly reunions.]]
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* In the ''Series/IronChef'' Tofu battle between Morimoto and Takaji Yoshida, Yoshida, a traditionalist who dislikes the modernization of Japanese cuisine, made some of his dishes themed after Tanabata.
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* In the ''Series/IronChef'' Tofu battle between Morimoto and Takaji Yoshida, Yoshida, a traditionalist who dislikes the modernization of Japanese cuisine, made some of his dishes dessert dish themed after Tanabata.
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Tanabata (七夕) is the UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese version of the [[UsefulNotes/{{China}} Chinese]] Qīxì (七夕) festival, aka a.k.a. "the Night of Sevens". It was exported to Japan about a millennium ago during the time of the ('Northern' as we posthumously call them) Song Dynasty, or what is known in Japan as the 'Heian' period. Some people called it ''Tanabata'' and not ''Qixi'' for political reasons; [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Japan was a NATO-ally throughout the Cold War whereas Communist China did not align with NATO until the 1970s]], meaning that the Anglosphere's first mass-exposure to the festival was through the Japanese, although it is still much more deeply rooted in Chinese mythology.
