Serenity: A Christian Manga

Heh, it's so crappy. The thoughts that writing and drawing that horrible can turn people to christ while there's stuff like Bleach, Kare Kano, and Video Girl Ai is hilarious.

Y'know, a bookstore should carry this comic, and The Devil Does Exist side-by-side. See which one sells more.
 
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Ugggggh, the artwork is AWFUL!

This is going to appeal to teeny Xians, not Manga fans, so I don't really see the point. All they're doing is promoting Manga to a new audience (whose parents are gonna freak when they start reading Battle Royale or Akira).

Idiots.
 
I'm sure there are lots of teeny Christian Manga fans. Don't know about England tkingdoll, but here in the U.S. there's a whole industry of Christianized-pop culture. We have Christian youth novels, Christian pop, Christian Rock, Christian Heavy Metal, Christian comics, Christian Candy, Christian action-adventure movies, Christian Superheros, Christian Aerobics, Christian Cooking--it goes on and on. Maybe later I'll figure out how to summarize the essense, point, and purpose of the phenomenon in 20 words or less, but in the meantime, you'll have to find enlightenment on your own.
 
ChristineR said:
I'm sure there are lots of teeny Christian Manga fans. Don't know about England tkingdoll, but here in the U.S. there's a whole industry of Christianized-pop culture. We have Christian youth novels, Christian pop, Christian Rock, Christian Heavy Metal, Christian comics, Christian Candy, Christian action-adventure movies, Christian Superheros, Christian Aerobics, Christian Cooking--it goes on and on. Maybe later I'll figure out how to summarize the essense, point, and purpose of the phenomenon in 20 words or less, but in the meantime, you'll have to find enlightenment on your own.
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Yes, that's my point. They're only talking to their own audience.

I would assume that the point of making Christian manga is to bring the message of Christianity to the existing manga fanbase. However, the drawing is so poor, it is unlikely to appeal to non-Christian manga fans at all, just to existing teeny Christians.

It's a recruiting pamphlet, and a poor one. It might work on a handful of under 12s, maybe, but they're gonna grow out of Jesus when they grow into puberty.
 
I'd say the point of Christian manga is to reinforce the whole "Christ will fix everything" message to Christian kids and to help Christian kids feel less isolated. "See, we've got manga too!" That message has certainly been explicitly delivered by the Christian rockers/rappers/metalheads. Their target audience is kids who aren't allowed to listen to the other stuff.

If you read the first issue, Serentity got dragged to Bible study by her friends and eventually Jesus solves all her problems. That's the standard procedure for these things, although they miss the "nothing really happened and Jesus let me down when things got really bad so I just forgot about it" part.
 
ChristineR said:
I'd say the point of Christian manga is to reinforce the whole "Christ will fix everything" message to Christian kids and to help Christian kids feel less isolated. "See, we've got manga too!" That message has certainly been explicitly delivered by the Christian rockers/rappers/metalheads. Their target audience is kids who aren't allowed to listen to the other stuff.

If you read the first issue, Serentity got dragged to Bible study by her friends and eventually Jesus solves all her problems. That's the standard procedure for these things, although they miss the "nothing really happened and Jesus let me down when things got really bad so I just forgot about it" part.
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Well, if they want to have manga in their special little group, all power to them. What I object to is it being used as a recruiting tool.

I did read the first issue, I was so overwhelmed by the poor artwork, I nearly missed the moving story about not wearing any shoes being cool, and how hot guys love Jesus too.
 
tkingdoll said:
Well, if they want to have manga in their special little group, all power to them. What I object to is it being used as a recruiting tool.

I did read the first issue, I was so overwhelmed by the poor artwork, I nearly missed the moving story about not wearing any shoes being cool, and how hot guys love Jesus too.
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I'm surpressing my giggles.

Anyhow if this were the most effective recruiting tool Christians had, there wouldn't be many of them left. What I most noticed was how different Serenity's experience of youth Bible study was than my own.

The hot guys are probably the best recruiting tools. I could go into a long dialog about how Christian youth are manipulated into trying to convert their friends and family, but that would be way off topic.
 
ChristineR said:
The hot guys are probably the best recruiting tools. I could go into a long dialog about how Christian youth are manipulated into trying to convert their friends and family, but that would be way off topic.
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No need, I'm former Christian youth myself :) I don't recall any hot guys, although I did kind of fancy our bible study leader. I think that was more out of desperation than any hotness on his part though.

One particularly annoying theme of the first Serenity issue is how they basically blame the girl's tearaway, criminal personality on the divorce of her parents.:mad:
 
Yeah, the divorce bit angered me too. Every study ever done on this shows that while divorce is no fun for kids, it pales in comparison to the damage done by parents who are staying together "for the sake of the children." My parents aren't divorced, but my cousin and uncle (and a childless uncle as well) had to listen to the "Jesus will save your marriage and make you happy to be married to each other" bit.
 
I find it ironic how Serenity is the least crazy out of all of them. But then again she falls for it at the end of every story. For a supposed "bad girl" she is rather boring.
 
ChristineR said:
"Jesus will save your marriage and make you happy to be married to each other" bit.
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Yeah, but what if the problem is sexual? There's nothing guaranteed to put the zing back into your bedroom more than a good pray together and perhaps a picture of Jesus on the ceiling.

I mean, I've shouted "oh god!" a few times, but I didn't mean it.
 
tkingdoll said:
Yeah, but what if the problem is sexual? There's nothing guaranteed to put the zing back into your bedroom more than a good pray together and perhaps a picture of Jesus on the ceiling.

I mean, I've shouted "oh god!" a few times, but I didn't mean it.
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Well maybe a little pron can help, I'm sure there's some Christian councelor somewhere recomending Song of Solomon to help troubled marraiges.

;)
 
tkingdoll said:
Yeah, but what if the problem is sexual? There's nothing guaranteed to put the zing back into your bedroom more than a good pray together and perhaps a picture of Jesus on the ceiling.

I mean, I've shouted "oh god!" a few times, but I didn't mean it.
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Well, I don't want to spill too much about my relatives but one of the wives and one of the husbands are now gay....
 
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