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bcd6e9 No.551242

Post series that use strong Christian symbolism without necessarily being Christian.

Romantically Apocalyptic is a webcomic that basically features a more comical version of Jesus Christ as the main character. The creator is an atheist but was raised Russian Orthodox, so that had a noticeable influence on his story.

5fb54e No.551387

>the creator is an atheist

And a ponyfaggot


a484ab No.551440

>>551242

>Romantically Apocalyptic

This is fairly blasphemous, you know


ebfcf6 No.551452

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Literally has a track chanting agnus dei


b4dea3 No.551456

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>>551242

>a more comical version of Jesus Christ


4e5319 No.551458

dont watch anime, or whatever that gay shit is you're watching


bcd6e9 No.551499

>>551440

How so?


36f901 No.551587

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Neon Genesis Evangelion


ada781 No.551592

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The Netflix version does not count.


f2cdb0 No.551633

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3982f6 No.551636

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ac7292 No.551656

>>551636

I watched this one but no symbolism in it at all.


3982f6 No.551689

>>551656

You just missed it because it's not blindingly obvious like most 'symbolism' in anime.

Black is possessed by Satan (The 'King of Despair'), and is attempting to restart the Great Collapse in an attempt to throw the Earth into chaos. Satan been unable to do much of anything since the Passion of Christ, and when the Collapse begins he sees his chance to use the other dimension to his advantage. In a very real sense, the whole crux of the plot is the protagonists overcoming Satan.

The 13 Kings are demons (a la represented by specific vices), and they lead the vampires, who are just humans corrupted by the influence of sorcery. The only thing that can see their real names are the Eyes of God that Leo was given, i.e. only God can see them for what they are.

The only way to really defeat the vampires is with Klaus's technique, which seals them away, and it's based around the image of the cross.

I mean, I could go on and on. In the final episode, when the the demon Femt tries to make Leo do a deal, he instead chooses to ignore it and leaves to support Libra, which is ultimately the correct choice. I find this an interesting mirror of how we, as Christians, should focus on Christ rather than engaging with evil alone since we always stand to lose that way.

Is it a perfect model of Christian belief and thinking? Of course not. It's a graphic action comedy. But the author, Yasuhiro Nightow, is a known Catholic convert (if not currently practicing), and this influences his writing and the imagery in his work to a large degree.


4965e1 No.551745

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Berserk comes to mind. While it's definitely not Christian, there is a lot of symbolism. The main antagonist is thematically very similar to the antichrist.

He is completely devoted to his ambition and dream, at first it's to have his own kingdom, but he really wants to be the most powerful and influentiel man in the world. No matter what he has, he always wants more.

He did everything to achieve his goal - killed people, ordered assassinations, even whored himself to rich influential nobles. He sacrificed all of his followers, the people who would do everything for him, even his closest friends to be brutally slaughtered, raped and eaten by demonic monsters.

In short, he's literally the worst human being to ever live. The demon "gods" turned him into a demon and their king in return.

**He eventually comes back to the real world. He gathers his demonic army and begins to liberate the kingdom which he fought for before from a foreign invading empire (they brutally murder civillians, rape, and turn people into monstrous soldiers through vile occult rituals).

Everyone sees him as the messiah, an angel of god who has come to save humanity in it's darkest hour. He has the appearance of an angel and great power, which he uses to create a beautiful, huge city which is to be the capital of his new civilization. The church in Berserk is similar to the Catholic church in real life, so people worship one god, but now they also start worshipping this guy as a messiah, second to god.**

That's what everyone believes, but under this deception he's the most horrible human being in existence (not really human anymore) and wants nothing but personal gain and to be the most powerful being in existence.

There are many more themes which I would say agree with Christian philosophy. The manga goes to great lenghts to portray how placing your dreams above everything else in life and giving in to your passions will corrupt you to the core and ruin you. Purpose of life, existence of free will, struggling against your inner evil wants and other such things are also important themes here.

Overall it's a magnificent work and I strongly recommend it. It's entertaining, interesting and also very philosophical. Reading it was a very important part of my life, it made me think about the most important things like meaning of life and nature of the universe and humanity. It motivated me to improve myself in all ways, inspired me to strive to become someone truly exceptional. And most importantly it brought me closer to God, as I realized how vile humanity can get when it abandons God, virtue and morals and how shitty existence would be without God.

It does have a huge amount of extreme gore, brutality and sexuality though, so just be warned




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