CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

What does eveyone have to say on the following titles:
Immortal Rain
Tactics (I know XD)
Saint Marie

Oh I can help you with the first two:

Immortal Rain is about a girl who goes searching for this guy called Methusela [I don't think I spelled it right, >.>; ] and trys to ' Kill ' him. Well he's Immortal, so -- What to do ? I really like this series, my friend got it and I've read up to volume 5. It doesn't really have anything bad in this other than a decapitation in one of the volumes. But, other than that, it's pretty clean.

Tactics is about a boy who can talk to spirits and such and is trying to find the demon-eating goblin, so he can 'name' him and he will be his. In this if you name a Goblin, or creature they are yours. I own this series and it is so hilarious ! Tactics so far is pretty clean too, other than a few curse words and some religious obscurity.

The last one I personally don't know about ^^; Sorry !

-Kami

This thread just has biiiiig neon signs that say "KOKORO BAIT"

Anyways - snowangel kami has Tactics about right. It's very clean, with very little cursing and nudity, etc. The one problem that you may have with it is that most of the characters in the plot are based off of traditional Japanese youkai/oni and since Kantarou studies Japanese foklore, he references Shintoism and Buhddism quite a few times and admits to having built a small shrine to Haruka when he was a child. In the ADV translation, they call Haruka "demon-eating goblin." This is a somewhat shaky translation, since "demon" is translated from "oni" and would be considered more of a troll-like creature or a spirit. Much in the same way "goblin" is translated from tengu (Haruka is specifically a karasu tengu). Neither "demon" nor "goblin" carries any of the same meaning it does here in the West.

a few spoiler-esque points to cover:
[spoiler=volume 2]In volume 2 Kantarou is working as an interpreter in a Catholic church and seemingly gets beaten up by a reverend there. Sugino makes a couple remarks like "what kind of religion is this!?" but they stem from the fact that 1) the reverend is actually a corrupt priest in the church and a Satanist and 2) Sugino really doesn't know much about Christianity to begin with, so I think his judgements are based on the circumstances and are no way a jab at Christianity.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=volume 3]In volume 3 Haruka and Kantarou are in a village assissting a diviner and her daughters with a special good-luck ceremony. The diviner's daughters both develop affections for Haruka and Kantarou. One of the girls tries to kiss Kantarou, and the other sort of slides her kimono down on her shoulders a bit in front of Haruka and tells him she likes him (nothing is shown but her shoulders). This scene is short lived and both Haruka and Kantarou basically go "whoa, I'm too old for you!" and that's the end of that.[/spoiler]

I'd go over books 4-6, too, but who knows how long it'll be until those are out in the US, so I'll wait.

you should read IR it is great i got hooked on it a while ago the story was great i wish all manga had the kinda story that IR had the characters had dark secrets and its had great drawing i highly recommend

I love Immortal Rain as well! It is great. The only other thing you might find wrong with it. In book 1: Strong language. In book 2: a shot of machika in the bath (kinda full view <.<; ) Book 3: Weird twisted religious talk. Book 4: Lots of blood. Book 5: ..... nothin i can think of. <.<;

But it really really really is a good series.

Tactics is good too (though I've only read the first book <.<; ) I dont really know much about Saint Marie though. Sorry. -_-;

Anyone have information about:

"Imadoki" by Yu Watase

or

"Red River" by Shinohara Chie?

Red River is rated OT, is there a good reason for this? I thought it looked kinda interesting.

Just wondering about content questions! thanks