Rasputin as a character in anime/manga

[pianocello]

I've seen Rasputin featured as a character in at least 3 anime/manga - Raimuiro Senkitan, Blood+, Dance in the Vampire Bund.
Are there any others I've missed. He's depicted as an antagonist with mysterious/supernatural powers usually - is this how Japanese usually view Rasputin?

[SeijiSensei]

He's also an antagonist in the excellent PS2 video game, Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Your description fits his characterization in this game as well.

[Yuriko]

He was involved in Master of Mosquiton, quite memorably. It's a silly comedy though, so although he fits the rough description there are also quite a few liberties taken.

~Y

[kijakusai]

I've seen Rasputin featured as a character in at least 3 anime/manga - Raimuiro Senkitan, Blood+, Dance in the Vampire Bund.
Are there any others I've missed.
Rasputin appears also in Orpheus no Mado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_no_Mado).
　
He's depicted as an antagonist with mysterious/supernatural powers usually - is this how Japanese usually view Rasputin?
In The Diary of Nicholas II, Professor Yasuda Kōichi, who studied the history of Russia, wrote:
帝政末期のロシアにグリゴリー・ラスプーチンという怪僧がいて、皇帝夫妻にとり入って宮廷内を牛耳り、ロマ ノフ朝の崩壊に一役かったことは歴史的にもよく知られている。

…ロシア正教の異端、鞭身教徒（フルイスティ派）に接近した。やがて予言をしたり、催眠術をかけ、農民たち の病気を治療するなど不思議な力を持つ者として評判になった。

ユスポーフらの証言によると、そこでラスプーチンに青酸カリ入りのケーキを食べさせ、毒入りワインも飲ませ た。
　だが、平然として死ぬ様子もなかったので、ピストルで撃った。それでも、この怪物はもがき、ほえたてて死 なないため、近くの運河に運んで行って、沈めて殺したということだ。

This article (http://x51.org/x/04/02/2307.php) says:
地下室から中庭へと逃げたラスプーチンはその時、青酸カリの猛毒ワインを飲まされ、更にその身体には弾丸1 1発が打ち込まれていたという。しかし、怪僧ラスプーチンはそれでも逃げ続けた。「黒い悪魔」と呼ばれたそ の男は、その程度では決して死ななかったのである。
　
So things like 'Rumours circulated that Rasputin was a great prophet and healer,' 'The suspicious monk curried favour with the the Emperor and Empress consort of Russia,' 'Poisoned wine could not kill him,' and so on are read also in Japan. Therefore when writers of anime and manga use Rasputin as a character in their works, it is probable that they increase the vector arrow size a bit and depict him as a person (especially, a bad guy) with mysterious/supernatural powers.
　

[One Vorlon]

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So things like 'Rumours circulated that Rasputin was a great prophet and healer,' 'The suspicious monk curried favour with the the Emperor and Empress consort of Russia,' 'Poisoned wine could not kill him,' and so on are read also in Japan. Therefore when writers of anime and manga use Rasputin as a character in their works, it is probable that they increase the vector arrow size a bit and depict him as a person (especially, a bad guy) with mysterious/supernatural powers.
　
I could be wrong (its been ages since I got into Russian history), but wasn't Rasputin one of those people (like Blackbeard) who just refused to die? If memory serves, his assassination involved stabbing, shooting and poison, then the assassins threw his "corpse" into the river - but the autopsy showed he actually died from drowning, not from the poison or injuries. So he was still alive when they threw him in the river . . .

In light of that, some rumors of supernatural powers can be forgiven. And if he really was into hypnotism . . . well, there are just some people in history who raise red flags simply by existing

[Raiho]

He is a dark devil summoner and time traveling android in both of the SMT: Raidou Kuzunoha games. That's about the only thing I've seen him.

[kijakusai]

...stabbing, shooting....
　
Ah, I just left them out. As you can see, the book and the article say, '青酸カリ入りのケーキを食べさせ、毒入りワインも飲ませた。だが、平然として死ぬ様子もなかったので、ピ ストルで撃った。それでも、この怪物はもがき、ほえたてて死なないため、近くの運河に運んで行って、沈めて 殺したということだ' and 'ラスプーチンはその時、青酸カリの猛毒ワインを飲まされ、更にその身体には弾丸11発が打ち込まれていた という。しかし、怪僧ラスプーチンはそれでも逃げ続けた。'
So please think that stuff like Prince Yusupov's having shot Rasputin is included in the 'and so on' part.