- The red spider lily is often linked with sad memories, such as last goodbyes or the death of a loved one.
- White Spider Lily (Lycoris albiflora) represents the positive nature, freshness, and simply living life.
- Golden or Yellow Spider Lily (Lycoris aurea) is associated with wealth and richness.
White spider lilly just like Nika, wonder if it will relate.
This perspective on the spider lily isn't Japanese enough.
The red spider lily might be the single most popular flower in anime and manga, a lot of times because of its place on the Sanzu river, and its general link with death and corpses. Going beyond what was written here, the red spider lily is heavily linked to reincarnation or, in looser variations, transformation into another person/perspective.
In Kimetsu--all over the place in a heavily Buddhist series.
In Tokyo Ghoul--linked to Kaneki's death of self and rebirth as white hair kaneki.
In Gundam IBO, those kids are talking about reincarnation all of the time.
Digimon Survive and all of its Spider Lilies? Oh boy, you knew that was going to be miserable.
I would actually wager that the majority of times a red spider lily appears in anime, there is some kind of undercurrent of reincarnation or transformation going on.
Blackbeard getting this flower, out of all of them, might be pointing to a critical character feature, maybe linked with Rocks.
In a culture where the flower has been used to express so many metaphors, and where it has so much significance in their history, we cannot just settle on the overview of the flower.