Here
we are, right on the cusp of 2014. Another year of watching anime,
reading manga, and wasting lots of time reading and talking about it has
passed us by. Along with the requisite feasting and absurd orgy of
consumerism that signifies the passing of the holidays, many of us are
in the midst of celebrating the birth of the one and only savior who
will come to rescue us all: Space Dandy. Well, Space Dandy is merely
going to save anime, and possibly Saturday nights in general—we hope.
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for every occasion. I think now's a good time as any for this column to
get religion. Lots and lots of anime are about religion, you see.
Plenty of anime is run through with ideas and symbols from Shinto—one of
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styles are timeless classics. the tale of a young girl who suddenly
finds herself manifesting the powers of one of the country's animist
small gods. We've got Tezuka's chronicle of the life of Buddha, which is
fabulous in manga form but less so on the big screen. Heck, there's
even an anime version of the Ramayana. But as we celebrate the ad hoc
birthday of Jesus Christ, let's explore some of the most interesting
anime about Christianity.
I'm
not a particularly religious person, but I was raised Catholic, so I've
got a pretty good handle on Christian scripture, ritual, and history.
I've got enough of an angle on things, for example, that I can look a
bit askance at the otherwise breezy and fun Saint Tail, which features a
young "apprentice nun" named Seira, who looks like a teen girl version
of your typical habit-wearing nun. But the thing is, until you're
ordained, you're not supposed to be wearing that habit! I guess you
can't always count on anime for getting this stuff right—after all,
Ghost Stories features a character who's a teenaged priest, which is
about as likely as an apprentice nun. One of Saint Tail's stock footage
conceits, which involves the title character and Seira praying for
forgiveness (Saint Tail, you see, is a thief—the kind who pilfers stolen
goods and returns them), always makes me giggle.
Saint
Tail's gentle theological trappings are awfully tame compared to
Hellsing. Now, in any story about western vampires, you're gonna run
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things as nakedly absurd and hilarious as Kouta Hirano's depiction of
the frequently violent rivalry between the Church of England and the
Vatican, as fought by their monster-busting paramilitary wings, the
Hellsing Organization and Iscariot. But this rift isn't something that
Hirano just made up – the split between the Anglican Church and the
Papacy thanks to Henry VIII's marital misadventures, and the brief
return under heretic-burning Queen "Bloody Mary," are matters of
historical record. It's fun to watch the vampire Alucard use holy
handguns against the ranting Father Alexander Anderson and his enchanted
Bible Pages, but remember: there's a historical basis for their
rivalry!
I
don't go out of my way to be irreverent—well, not that often,
anyway—but I kind of love depictions like what we see in Hellsing.
Something about Christianity as crazy, exotic sorcery instead of the
mundane realities of going to church and trying to stick to the Ten
Commandments really entertains me. It entertains me enough that I stuck
with Chrono Crusade, the story of roaring ‘20s exorcist Rosette
Christopher, who only dresses kinda like a nun, and her demonic
familiar/boyfriend Chrono. You won't see this one played at Bible Camp,
I'm guessing - something about literally marrying the clergy and the
devil, even in the service of good, seems like it wouldn't go over well.
Still, the show is pretty alright, and full of amusingly churchy
stereotypes, like the One Cool Priest and the really strict nun who's in
charge of Rosette's assignments.
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