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                                             November 30, 2013

  In the third season of
  "The World God Only Knows"             KUSHI_DANGO
  an ancient diety is confused
  by the phrase "loose souls".
  She thinks for a minute and says
  "In my day, we called them Vices."

     A minor spirit escaped from
     Hell that infects the weak:
     "Vice" is not a bad name.
     
  Somewhat later, someone else is describing    
  the Old Guard in Hell, a particularly nasty    
  group of demons (much like the ones from            And that's all a hybrid
  Christian folklore), that were sealed up by         from at least three
  a variation of the Greek Gods to create             sources, with Lovecraft
  New Hell.                                           thrown in.
           
  The old demons are called "The Weiss"--
  German for "white", the color of death              That may take
  for the Japanese, as I understand it.               it up to four.
  It also has associations like "Die Weiss
  Angel".
  
    Sometime later, I got it:
    "Vice" = "Weiss".
                                             (Later they start calling the
    You have to like light humor in          bad guys "the Vintage", which
    Japanese pop culture: multilingual       is okay, but not as interesting.)
    puns, a fusion of folklore from
    multiple sources... 




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