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Main Anime Catholicism Discussion
Is there a similar topic about how Eastern religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, etc.—are depicted in Western media?
About this:
Played for Laughs
- The whole series may be a comedy, with a large percentage of the clergy portrayed as incompetent, ditzy or air-headed, especially if they are in-training junior nuns or priests. Even if the story is a drama, there will usually be a hand full of idiot acolytes who act as Comic Relief. This is very uncharacteristic, if not nonexistent in the west.
Nuns aren't clergy/clerics in Catholicism... in fact, they are by definition, laypersons... (prior to Vatican II, they were, like most brothers in orders, in a third category, called Religious, which is, post V II, folded back into the laity.) There are several references in the trope page to nuns as clerics, and it's bad form.
Does Justin from Soul Eater really count? It's not even clear whether Christianity exists in the Soul Eater universe.
Is it just me, or is this part unnecessary?
Blue Bishōnen Ghetto and Pink Bishoujo Ghetto
- Everyone is especially good-looking and sporting Anime Hair. No homely people here.