The Greatest Story Ever Told...in a Manga
Posted at 3:01 PM Jan 31, 2008
Jesus is coming, kids...and he's going to have really big eyes.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has launched the Bible Anime program, a line of "manga" comic book-inspired religious passages and Bible-based characters aimed at winning over youth in the predominately Roman Catholic country."It's our way of reaching out to young people, especially the children, who do not read the Bible. We want to encourage them to read the word of God," Oscar Alunday, a CBCP priest, said.
Instead of just Pokemon or Naruto, he said young Filipinos can now download the Gospel or any of the Bible-based anime characters, which they can pass on to their friends.
Things I would pay to see:
• David using the Fist of the North Star technique on Goliath
• A harem-show starring Moses
• Mary Magdalene as a Sailor Moon-esque magical girl
• Jesus powering up to Super Saiyan
(Via AsiaMedia; the pic is from the mind-shattering Chibi Jesus Fan Page)
Comments
oh yay, how exciting. Christianity in Manga forum, what will they think of next, Buddha in manga forum? oh wait....
Posted 01/31/2008 at 12:33:34 PMAt least we won't get smote for downloading this manga :P
Posted 02/01/2008 at 11:19:16 AMWell, back when I was a good little Luthran boy, I actually got a 1000+ page comic form of the old testament which I read all the way through. Belivle it or not, there is some pretty awesome action packed shit in the OT. Mosses killing people Solid Snake style, men killing armies with a donkies jawbone, and the one guy who no doubt inspired the whole hair thing with super Sayains smashing an entire city as they were about to execute him. If they are doing the OT, I maybe able to swllow the religous crap and enjoy the mega slaughter.
Posted 03/30/2008 at 07:06:17 AM