Holy anime! : Japan's view of Christianity / Patrick Drazen.
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TextPublisher: Lanham : Hamilton Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (vii, 195 pages)Content type: - 9780761869085
- 0761869085
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
- Animated films -- Japan -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Popular culture -- Japan -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Culture populaire -- Japon -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme
- ART -- Techniques -- Drawing
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Japan
- 741.5/38230952 23
- PN6712 .D73 2017eb
- online - EBSCO
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183), filmography (pages 183-184) , and index.
Print version record.
Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 History of Christianity in Japan; 3 Christianity in Japanese Popular Culture through the Lens of Said's Orientalism; 4 Christian References in the Manga of Tezuka Osamu; 5 Crucifixion in Manga and Anime; 6 The Exorcists; 7 Jinguru Beh! Christmas in Manga and Anime; 8 Christian Weddings in Japan; 9 Clergy; 10 Nuns in Anime/Manga; 11 Witch Hunter Robin; 12 Japan's Most Famous Christian Martyr; 13 Angels and Other Metaphors; 14 The "Not Safe" Chapter; Atogaki (Afterword); References; Index
Drazen samples depictions of Christianity in the popular Japanese media of comics and cartoons. The book begins with the work of postwar comics master Tezuka Osamu, with results that range from the comic to the revisionist to the blasphemous and obscene.