Is it generally considered strange for the head of a Buddhist temple to be best friends with the head of the local yakuza?

I thought I'd ask, given Father's Day and all.

Let's never go through that again. For one thing, I would rather not put all of you who rescued me to the trouble of fetching me. (Except for Greed. I don't care about Greed.) For another, I really don't think I like being paraded before a group of magi ( Read more... )

[At first, there's no picture. All that can be seen is a blank screen. However, Issei starts to speak.]Do you know the festival Ryuujin Matsuri? The dragon god of Fuyuki's river Miongawa rampaged many, many years ago. A traveling monk prayed for three days and three nights. At the end of that, the dragon was converted to Buddhism. The monk ( Read more... )