The Justice Day Festival is a yearly festival held in Sternbild City. The festival takes place in spring and celebrates the legend of Sternbild's Goddess of Justice.
The Legend of the Goddess of Justice[]
In Tiger & Bunny: The Rising, the legend is told in three parts. First at the orphanage Barnaby Brooks Jr. grew up in, a nun reads the legend to the children from a pop-up picture book:
"Long ago, in a time when mankind knew nothing of true justice... A Goddess built a small village on the island of Sternbild. Driven by greed, the villagers quarreled and looted for their own personal gain. Unable to tolerate such misdeeds, the Goddess sent a messenger, a crab, to warn the people. The crab spoke 'Repent of your sins or be punished.' But its word fell on deaf ears, and the poor crab was consumed. Saddened, the Goddess appeared from the heavens to bring judgment upon the villagers. What followed was utter chaos. Rays of light, sharper and stronger than steel blades, began raining from the sky. Cattle and horses dove into the ocean in fear. Countless people fell into a deep sleep, trapped in a maze of nightmares."
While investigating an accident on the bridge, the heroes note that witness accounts of the strange incidents that have been occurring around the city sound similar to the legend and Barnaby recalls that:
“The Goddess howled thunderously and sent rays of light down. Buildings were destroyed, and livestock fell into the sea.”
Later Barnaby explains the end of the legend to Ryan Goldsmith, who is unfamiliar with it due to being a foreigner:
“Despite suffering the Goddess's wrath, the people still did not learn to change their ways. Finally, the Goddess decided to return everything to nothingness by opening a cavernous abyss, deep and dark enough to engulf the entire village. Buried beneath the eternal darkness, the villagers finally learned the error of their ways, and began to carry a heart of justice."