Manga Bible?! February 13, 2008
Posted by The Velcromancer in Comics, Culture, Manga, Random, Religion, Useless Crap.Tags: Bible, Christianity, Comics, Manga, Manga Bible, Random, Weird
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I honestly don’t even know what to say about this one. Heard about it the other day.
Far as I can tell, it’s a one volume manga depicting Jesus Christ as a… “drifting samurai” who fights for justice. Or… something like that. I don’t know too much about it, but it certainly sounds different. Very… very different.
Covering the New Testament from Genesis to Revelation, this promises to be quite the read, if a little blasphemous–if one considers holy figures depicted in modern day terms blasphemous.
I quote from The New York Times:
“In the Manga Bible, whose heroes look and sound like skateboarders in Bedouin gear, Noah gets tripped up counting the animals in the Ark: ‘That’s 11,344 animals? Arggh! I’ve lost count again. I’m going to have to start from scratch!’
“Abraham rides a horse out of an explosion to save Lot. Og, king of Bashan, looms like an early Darth Vader.”
Anyway, point is, The Manga Bible should be, if nothing else, an interesting read. Probably worth looking into.
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wow. that’s weird indeed.
i hope people aren’t trying to make a quick buck off of this…
Apparently the writer wants to be a priest. So I doubt that. I think he was aiming at educating the masses in the ways of Christianity, but in a more interesting way than has been tried before.
But it isn’t like he’s not making a quick buck.
oh, well that’s good to hear. they seem to be using manga to getting a lot of different things across, like SAT vocab study manga (ugh), manga that teaches Japanese, and there was a manga version of the 9/11 commission report (i thinkz…)