Christian Symbolism In Anime

[CAAOutkast]

I will support the thought of the majority of christianity in anime being for show which in my opinion is kinda sad. Though I do believe shows like Haibane (though I've never seen it) seem to support christians morals wheather they planned to or not. The biggest anime that I believe really puts our religion to show is probably Sailor Moon Super. The show has lots of Catholic references. Such as the Holy Grail. It also has references to messiahs. Because I'm pentacost I'm greatly uncomfortable watching this season. I also didn't like the way the director (or someone stated that worked on that season.) said that one of the reasons why they put stuff like that in there was because it looks good. He didn't say that exactly but I think someone else said Neptune looked good on a cross. (I"m not sure though.) There is also an episode in SuperS where a nun is targeted for her dreams. They made a scene of her praying that america greatly cut down by several seconds. However in the Super manga the messiah thing is more or less a side plot and the real intent is killing Saturn to prevent world destruction. Whereas in the anime the main intent was finding the messiah along with killing the evil messiah (and or saturn). Thats another thing that bothered me is the Messiah of Silence business. The Messiah is pure and should never be betrayed as something evil. (though they had the good one to balance it out but that didn't help because it still wasn't Jesus.) Anyway I hope I didn't offend anybody with this. And I'm not striking down Catholics at all.

Haruka wore a crucifix from time to time. Plus, I Think I saw Rei wear one in SuperS.

[Ichigo_89]

I have a pretty good idea of what some "good" themes and such are in titles below, but I want to know what you guys think are good in them:

Naruto (manga)
Eva
Trigun

[Kkun]

I'm glad someone brought up Final Fantasy Tactics. I pretty much agree with what Professor Hojo said, except I think it was modeled after the Catholic church. o_o What with all of the talk of Saints and whatnot. But that's just my opinion.

They needed a good plot device and making up a fake religion and having it be corrupt and branding people heretical was the name of its game. I don't know that there's much more to it than that.

[Heart of Sword]

I'd say that Digimon has very strong Christian themes that are, for once, not offensive.

In shows like Digimon, it's interesting because some of the monsters represent many kinds of religions. There are angels, but it's more in the Judism belief of the three great angels or whatever

Actually there are many more angels than three, and it's not really like Judism at all if you've seen the whole series.

There's Angemon, an angel, who sacrifices his life to defeat Devimon, a demon, but is later resurrected. Then there's MagnaAngemon, Seraphimon (the seraphim), Angewomon (female angel), and Magnadramon (who is a multi-winged serpentine creature that looks like one of those holy animals in Revelation).

In the second season, an evil character becomes good after seeing the love that a Digimon has for him, even after he's been cruel to the Digimon. The Digimon died to protect his friend, even though the character was evil at the time. Later, the Digimon is resurrected. (what a sweet reunion!)

In the third and fourth seasons, there's not enough Christian themes to mention.