Missed the chance to call her Vati-chan.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
581 points (98.8% liked)
Not The Onion
12111 readers
1831 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Oh damn, in German, "Vati" is an affectionate form like "daddy", except it's the word stem of "father" ("Vater").
And wouldn't you know it, Christians also use "Vater" to refer to priests, the pope and their god.
Yes, the US largely figured that out with The Empire Strikes Back. 😜
Lmfao anyone see the movie Dogma, this is modern day Buddy Christ! 😂
buddy christ wasn't fucking adorable though? I didn't want to pre-order buddy christ???
Buddy Jesus would have been an a better choice. The internet fanfiction might have worked for them. I predict they won't be pleased by the fanfiction they're about to get from under age manga.
not...publicly pleased, at any rate...
but amongst themselves? probably swapping their favorites around.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
So they choose Luce, so close to Lucifer, and they expect the Internet to NOT bring it up? There's Lucy, Daughter of the Devil on Cartoon Network for shit's sake.
Nevermind the connections to Death Note, a far more popular anime about Light Yagami, and the subtle connections between his name and Lucifer the Lightbringer.
This seems so much worse on it's face, even if you leave out the undertones of children's abuse by the church and Rule 34 that will come out (which are worse, but the church keeps trying to bury it)
I know nothing about anime, but I guess it is not that bad? Luce is straight up "light" in Italian, and Lucifer just means "the one who brings light" because it's the Angel's name, before the fall according to the fairytale. So from their POV it should all make sense.
I dunno, he's a serial killer trying to remake the world by looking everyone he doesn't like and it's pretty mainstream.
Even without that, drawing attention to Light seems weird. Could've been "Peace", "Faith", or "Love" or whatever.
This is just 12 years of Catholic school talking, but it's a strange name to pick that ties to a lot of less than desirable stuff.
But Light is like a generic incarnation of god but also knowledge, revelation etc., it's way more absolute than peace or even love. I think Light does make sense from their perspective, and in the catholic symbolism it is identified basically with all positive stuff.
You had a bunch of other references that make sense eh, I am not familiar with them, so I respect that people might have different perceptions.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
Because an official anime boy mascot would be too apropos?
There's more than the one who are (I assume*) boys, also I don't understand what you mean by 'would be too apropos', could you explain?
* I assume because I couldn't find much information about the side characters other than their names Fe, Xin, and Sky. All the references on the Wikipedia page just say their names and include the photo at most or don't even acknowledge them at the least.
Young boys especially, but young girls too are probably a little touchy for them to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
All I hear is, the Vatican is after the young crowd. Imagine that....
load more comments
(1 replies)
Are they running so low on young people to molest they've resulted to youthful dolls?
Pope played Elden Ring and fell head over heels for Ranni
Look, she had 4 arms, a body to kill for, and had a way of getting in your head
She's no Goldmask though. I want to get me a man that can T-pose on reality until he figures out how to prove god wrong
Several ways.
load more comments
(2 replies)
How is this NOT the onion...
Yeah, pedos do what pedos usually do
That priest looks stoked
that's adorable. I like the frog looking one, as my name implies.
Oh god, I can’t help but see the reflection in their eyes as a hand with way too many fingers
I didn't notice this before reading your comment, but now I can't unsee this
Target demographic: lolicons
I would say the target demographic is Catholics. That's an important distinction, because it includes shotacons too.
And actual pedophiles.
No way they're going to regret that decision....
Don’t worry, the R34 artists are already on it.
Thank god they didn't go furry with any of their characters.
CS Lewis did it for them with Jesus' lionsona
2034: The Vatican unveils official furry mascot
Aslan from the Narnia series is basically a feral fan-made fursona for Jesus
load more comments
(4 replies)
Child Rape, Incorporated really shouldn't, they really really shouldn't, they really really really just should not
but she's ackchyually 2,000 years old
Hmmm.
Are they ignorant to the "art" that will be created inspired by this, or was that their intention?
They're using childish cartoon characters to attract young children to the church. I don't think they care who does what with the characters as long as they get more kiddies to diddle.
"Ara Ara! Popu-Sensei is so kawaii!" /s Too bad there are so many cases where Catholic anime turns into the darkest type of hentai.