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What was the “216 years” thing for the Eclipse about?

Miura: Ah, that’s just when solar eclipses happen at the same place.

–Oh, so that’s what it means.

Miura: Yeah, and if you divide it by a thousand years you get exactly five people. Just happened to work out.

–Interesting.

Editor: This guy at the astronomy observatory told us. And then, 216 is also 6 times 6 times 6.

–So it happens to be 6 x 6 x 6, *and* it’s a solar eclipse year? It’s got an almost numerological mystique to it.

Miura: Maybe that’s where the whole 666 thing comes from.

–Ah, true, like in The Omen. Oh, I get it now, so that’s why it’s the number of the Devil. Pretty well thought-out, really. Cool.

Miura: This is something a fan told me, but in a peasants’ rebellion or revolutionary war or something in Germany a long time ago there was this knight who used to fight with a metal prosthetic arm because he’d lost his right arm to cannon fire, and apparently his name was Gotz. But I only found out after.

–So Guts wasn’t based on him or anything.

Miura: Total synchronicity. ♦

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He's based off descriptions of Biblical angels as both stunningly beautiful and offputtingly alien and androgenous. More specifically Lucifer who was the most beautiful.

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