Crossfire (post: 1513403) wrote:I've always thought a serious anime about angelic warfare could be pretty sweet. Chronicling all the stuff that we never see and all.
Jingo Jaden (post: 1513407) wrote:I'd fundamentally stand against combining magical girl animes and Christianity. Reducing prayer to some kind of spell kind of muddles a lot of the concept itself. Whereas it would be equally folly to stereotype demons and evil, who present very real and dangerous threats to the soul whereas your average magical girl demon at best presents a physical menace.
Shortly put, once you make Christianity become a fuel for a fairly light heated movie/series that centers around only abusing the wast doctrines that it Christianity has to offer, only to muddle it down into such a basic format as magical girl anime. Then it fails in spreading the word, and succeeds in turning the house of the lord into a market.
Not that you got bad intentions with all this. And I am happy you want to center your interests around God, but this would simply not work. Portraying Christianity in such a format is, for the most part, most effectively done with great subtly. Or occasional great purity as there have been good portrayals of it in some anime. Mixing two things together, just because one likes it, is not always wise.
rocklobster (post: 1513411) wrote:I've always thought you could just go with something that presents the faith in a positive, unforcing light. Let the viewer make up his own mind. The key to conversion is to let God do all the work. Don't force it. An anime won't do the job.
aliveinHim (post: 1513413) wrote:Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has a great underlying Christian theme (it sucks to have fanservice).
Atria35 (post: 1513432) wrote:I don't really care for *overtly* Christian themes because 99% of the time it feels forced and pushes me away (I feel I am more intelligent than most Christian mediums tend to treat their readers/viewers/whatever and to make them blatant is like someone telling me that I'm to stupid to understand them otherwise)- and making overt themes are going to push away certain viewers.
If you're looking to reach out to non-Christians, well, they aren't going to voluntarily pick up a Christian show, which would make overt Christian themes pointless and redundant.
I'm with Rocky. You can't force conversion. If you're Christian, then your beliefs are going to come out in your story anyway, and quite frankly, I don't watch a show for it's themes, I watch it because it's a good story. That's how it is with most people.
Haibane Renmei is a good show with Christian themes. And for one that has strong Christian themes that is a Magical Girl, check out Madoka Magica.
Juliannesan (post: 1513475) wrote:I think a show could have a Christian theme and make it well out there, but it really would have to be tactful and interesting. The problem with a lot of "Christian" literature (at least fiction-wise) is that it comes off very fake and unrealistic and unrelated to real life.
So I think it's possible to draw in a lot of Non-believers to a strong Christian themed manga/show if the story itself is interesting and relates to real life things or feelings.
No matter what type or genre of show or manga, there's always going to be someone that doesn't like it, but at least if it's interesting and well-thought out it could potentially a good arouse of interest.
Like Trigun or Rurouni Kenshin, there are some strong-felt themes in those shows and they are still super popular, despite some labeling them as being "too preachy."
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