Today's Dr Stone Tarot Card analysis is going to be on one of my favorite characters in the series, Asagiri Gen. As mentioned in previous posts, this card is associated with The Moon a lot and sometimes with The Devil card. I came to a different conclusion and think that this card is actually The Hanged Man. I give my reasons and here is The Hanged Man for reference.
The Hanged Man Meaning:
Upright: Pause, Surrender, Letting Go, New Perspectives
Reversed: Delays, Resistance, Stalling, Indecision
On The Hanged Man card we see a young man suspended form a T-shaped cross made of living wood, as indicated by the leaves and branches growing off the cross. The young man is suspended by his right leg with his left leg crossed in front forming an inverted triangle. The Hanged Man is viewing the world from a very different presepective then everyone else from his current position with a serene and calm look on his face. The calmness of his demeanor suggests that he is hanging upside-down on his own terms and that he is there by choice. He has a halo above his head suggesting his insight, awareness, and enlightenment about his situation and meditations. The Hanged Man, in tarot, is the card of ultimate surrender, of being suspended in time and is a reminder of self-sacrifice needed to be made for the greater good.
On the Gen card we see Gen siting cross-legged looking up at a glowing rochelle salt (the crystal made from the wine crystals to create the microphone for the cell phone) with a calm and serene look on his face. Gen's hair and lavender robe are billowing up slightly as if air is under them (or this card is reversed *wink wink*).
But darling, Gen isn't upside-down and that is kind of a prominent feature of this card! How can you possible say that Gen is representing The Hanged Man when he isn't upside-down and you have used the position of other figures on cards to justify your reasoning for other card assignments? I would like to reference this clip from the same ending credits scene in Season 4 for my reasoning:
Yeah, Gen is not upside-down on the card itself, but he was upside-down in the credits. Is it a stretch? Maybe. But the fact that his jacket and hair are billowing up and he is the only thing on the card with a glowing object above his head also makes me think Gen is representing The Hanged Man here. But does his character development fit The Hanged Man's meaning? Absolutely. Let's explore that a bit.
When The Hanged Man card shows up in a tarot reading it is a strong indicator that you need to take a pause in your life to mull over the current situation otherwise the Universe will do it for you, voluntarily or involuntarily. What is Gen constantly doing in the anime and manga? He is constantly asking people to "hold on a minute" and to see things from a different perspective. Sometimes Gen does slight-of-hand and illusions, but ultimately Gen is a Mentalist. He is a master of human psychology and getting people to see things from a different point of view. That is literally the basis of who he is as an entertainer is to get you to see things from a perspective of his choosing.
The Rochelle salt is a wonderful touch to this card, imo, because it alludes one of the most prominent examples of Gen's abilities as a Mentalist in the first season. He used his voice mimicking skills, powers of persuasion, and ingenuity to come up with a way to get Tsukasa's followers to have doubt in their minds about the validity of Tsukasa's vision and goals. By mimicking the famous diva, Lilian Weinberg, along with the use of Senku's cell phone and the glass record recording Gen was able to weaken Tsukasa's Empire before Tsukasa realized he was engaged in battle.
Other times that Gen really pulled out the Mentalist tricks was with Moz and the American's, Dr. Xeno and Stanley Snyder. With Moz, Gen convinced Moz to delay his decision to kill everyone and got Moz to even join The Kingdom of Science in their plot on Treasure Island to get the Medusa device back. With the American's, Gen stalled Stanley and Dr. Xeno's attack on the Perseus by giving the perception that The Kingdom of Science had the ability to defend themselves more then they actually could. There are numerous other examples that can be listed as well, but I think these three examples are great justification for my opinion that Gen is really good at getting folks to pause and see things from a different point of view. He is one of my favorite characters and I could talk about him all day, but I will spare you from that with this post.
So this concludes my Dr. Stone Tarot Card analysis series from the season 4 credits. If more tarot cards show up in the upcoming season credits I will take the time to analyze those if I can find good pictures of the cards to work off of. I would like to thank @ChifuyuEmma on Pintrest for making nice visuals of these tarot cards so I could actually get a good look at them. If anyone wants to see where I got the Raider Waite images you can go to biddytarot.com and look at the Major Arcana section of their website.
As always, if you have any questions and would like to comment why you agree of disagree with my analysis on this card or any of the other cards feel free to do so. I don't claim to be 100% correct on what these card represent and I love a good back and forth if you have good reasons for your thoughts. This was fun and I look forward to more Dr. Stone episodes coming out on Crunchyroll on July 10th. I'm super excited about that and I look forward to any comments or questions that may come up. Ciao!
Sources: biddytarot.com & @ChifuyuEmma on Pintrest
To look at other analysis look under #drstonetarot on my Tumblr page.
