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How come you don't see western animation that treat religions like anime does?
Where is my cartoon about nuns battling demons, or secret church organizations that hunt vampires?
>>83301309
Is that a rhetorical question?
>>83301309
Oh, hello there!!
>>83301309
Hellboy motherfuckers.
Catholic symbology and myth (specifically related to demons, saints and relics) factors pretty heavily into it.
>>83301309
Because those ideas are fucking stupid.
>>83301309
Why isn't there an anime where the Reformation period was when the different sects of Christianity broke apart in order to combat vampires in different ways?
I actually got a random DVD of Chrono Crusade about two years back with like three middle episodes for fifty cents. Never watched it; is it any good?
But more relevantly, the project I'm working on right now has some pretty solid Catholic undertones (very big on Dark Ages mysticism in a semi-modern setting). I think I'm doing a good job keeping it existent yet non-overbearing.
>>83304523
I really hate to be that guy, but read the manga instead.
>>83301875
Those ideas are awesome. You're fucking stupid.
>>83301309
Fuck you for reminding me this exists. Fuck that ending.
>get into a lighthearted fun show with some cool action in it
>that fucking ending
I expected a replacement for Slayers at the time, not getting metaphorically hit in the balls by a clawhammer.
Combination of christfags and ultra urbanites.
Can you imagine the calarts crowd doing anything with religion like that?
>>83301309
Anime treats religions as cool-looking foreign, exotic stuff to shamelessly exploit for cool visual and story ideas. It's different when it's actually a part of your own culture and is even considered sacred or holy by many.
It's easier to mangle stuff when it's not related to your own identity or culture in any way and you don't know how it's supposed to be treated, when it's just an exotic-looking think those foreigners do and you have a very vague idea of how everything ties together.
In the west, a similar thing might be to have some sort of samurai-themed cape hero or whatever, but that's considered cultural appropriation and disrespectful etc. Meanwhile the Japanese do not give any shits about appropriating stuff from the west in a possibly disrespectful way, so you get these interesting mixes
Less than 1% of Japs are Christian, so they just do whatever the fuck they want with it to look cool.
America is full of batshit insane evangelicals that will burn down the damn studio if anyone so much as depicts a cute nun as a background character.
That answer your question?
>>83304704
>Anime treats religions as cool-looking foreign, exotic stuff to shamelessly exploit for cool visual and story ideas. It's different when it's actually a part of your own culture and is even considered sacred or holy by many.
Fucking this.
>>83304704
>>83304806
Anime doesn't exactly treat Japanese religion with much more reverence than Christianity, honestly. They just did their homework on it slightly better.
>>83301309
Comics, we have those.
Cartoons though are going to be iffy because they're often aimed at children and modern parents, whether Christian or nonsecular don't like religion being depicted on TV. Except maybe for the obligatory guy who is surprisingly jewish with no references to it until it's time to celebrate Hanukkah.
Anything else with religious ties is going to be legit a religious cartoon.
>>83304779
A Loud House episode a few weeks ago had a nun in it and nobody gave a shit.
>>83304891
>tfw no cartoon adaptation of Battle Pope ever
I don't give a fuck how many fedoras you people tip at me, I love that comic.
>>83304891
>They just did their homework on it slightly better.
>>83304891
Yes because it's their own culture so they know how it's "supposed" to be, and mangling stuff too badly would feel silly or off-putting.
But the difference is quite large; elements of Japanese culture, including religion, can be mildly made fun of but will always be at least a little accurate, whereas western stuff is just happily totally separated from it's function or significance or cultural role or whatever, and just used solely for visual coolness and combined with other elements. Like western religion can have some cool cross iconography and some latin and maybe angel wings somewhere and maybe a prayer-themed magic attack or some nuns or priests or whatever etc, but they do not give a shit about the actual significance or history or anything, and will also very heavily mangle and change the actual outfits. Whereas if you have temple mikos or such, they can be amusing characters - but you don't slap a heavily modified miko's outfit on a hardened mercenary neo-tokyo noir cyborg assassin also moonlighting as a prostitute and claim it's a traditional geisha escort outfit for the special more spiritual sexual services they spent some time in a monastery training for, for comparison. If they put a miko outfit on a character, it's always treated at least slightly accurately
Or maybe they do in porn anime, but porn is a bit different by nature
>>83304806
you've made too many shitty vampire moving to pretend Christianity is sacred in the west
>>83304891
>Anime doesn't exactly treat Japanese religion with much more reverence than Christianity, honestly. They just did their homework on it slightly better.
Thats because the Japanese don't have massive hangups when it comes to religion. Unlike in the US, where even saying "Goddammit" in the wrong place in the country means a quick lynching.
>>83304779
>muh evangelicals
no one in the America has given a serious shit about religion like they did back then
>>83305136
it's a religion, a lot of people hold parts related to it at least moderately sacred, even if they don't make a lot of noise about it
>>83304558
I don't think you do hate being that guy
you love being that guy
>>83301309
Come back after you've actually acquired taste in this subject.
