Use in Culture
Today, the use of shinigami for psychopomps and other supernatural beings associated with death in Japanese manga and anime is common. For example, the series Ballad of a Shinigami, Bleach, Death Note, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Kuroshitsuji, Touhou Project, Yu Yu Hakusho,"Yami No Matsuei" and Soul Eater use or have used shinigami as a major plot device.
The term appears twice in the play The Love Suicides at Amijima by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1721).
A song named "Shinigami" appears on the Machinae Supremacy album A View from the End of the World.
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