Holy Anime!

Born in Chicago, Patrick Drazen was taught to read before going to kindergarten. Writing took longer to master; his first book, Anime Explosion!, was published in 2002 when he was fifty; A Gathering of Spirits: Japan’s Ghost Story Tradition followed in 2011. In between he was, among other careers, a chauffeur, a legal secretary, and an announcer at Public Radio station WSIU in Carbondale, Illinois.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction; Why this book
Chapter 2: History of Christianity in Japan: It’s Complicated
Chapter 3: Christianity in Japanese Popular Culture through the Lens of Said’s Orientalism
Chapter 4: Christian References in the Manga of Tezuka Osamu
Chapter 5: Crucifixion in Manga and Anime: The Good, The Bad and the Unreal
Chapter 6: The Exorcists
Chapter 7: Jinguru Beh! Christmas in Manga and Anime
Chapter 8: Christian Weddings in Japan: Just Like In the Movies
Chapter 9: Clergy
Chapter 10: Nuns in Anime/Manga: Sisterhood Is Not So Powerful
Chapter 11: Witch Hunter Robin: Love and Fear and a Side-Trip to Barack Obama
Chapter 12: Japan’s Most Famous Christian Martyr: Amakusa Shirō
Chapter 13: Angels and Other Metaphors
Chapter 14: The “Not Safe” Chapter
Atogaki (Afterword)
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