The number 10 is commonly associated with a classical numerical metric for perfection, whether it be subjective as the top grade for perceptible quality, or any number of objective uses as an integer. But in some cultures, the number and those closest to it take on additional meanings, such as in East Asia, in which it's not only a "perfect" number, but also God's number, and the mark of a cycle completing. This same arithmomania, or compulsive fixation on numbers, is present in one of South Korea's seminal masterpieces of the past decade, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, or as is most commonly known, Goblin.


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