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Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence

For this anime, it was hard to pin anything down. Not because there aren't things in it, but because neither IMDb nor Common Sense Media have anything written about its contents. I had watched this show soon after it was released (yes, I used to watch anime) so most of what I say is based upon my memory, but I tried to find sources for accuracy. Ecumenical Christianity This show has many crosses throughout. Lawrence (the pastor) and Cecilia (the saint) run the church right outside their town. Due to the usage of "pastor" and "saint," the crosses, and the church looking like the average old-time Baptist church, many have claimed the anime as a "Christian anime." The term "pastor" is mostly associated with non-denominational and Baptist groups while calling someone a "saint" (in an unbiblical sense) tends to be Catholic and Orthodox. Additionally, the way the "church" in this world is, it is somewhat of an ecclesiastical hi...
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The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter

Noir Stalgia is a nobleman who is oppressed by others in nobility. He has a special ability, to communicate with the Great Sage, who tells him about anything he wants to know. Unable to become a librarian, Noir decides to join the Hero Academy. To do so, he must get stronger. The Great Sage tells him to go to a dungeon in the mountains.¹ Whilst there, Noir finds a chained-up woman, Olivia Servant. She gives Noir powerful abilities, making him strong. However, when he uses his abilities, he loses life points. To replenish his life points, he has to "give in to worldly pleasures such as kissing his childhood friend".¹ Sexual Content This anime has a lot of sexual content. People kiss sensually, women's breasts are exposed, and undergarments are seen.² Women touch Noir inappropriately.² Crunchyroll says that this anime contains nakedness.³ Women wear shorts and short skirts. According to the Bible, this sort of content is immodest. " In like manner also, that women a...

Food for the Soul

Mako Kawai, an introverted college student, loves to watch cooking videos and creating the dishes she learns. Due to her introverted nature, Mako fears trying new things or making friends. Shinon Ogawa, a childhood friend of Mako's reunites with her in college, bringing Mako into her friend group.¹ Shinon, along with her friends Tsutsuji Higa and Kurea Furutachi, plan to start the  Food Culture Research Club . They invite Mako to join. Though she declines initially, she realizes this may be a way for her to better her life, get friends, and eat food with them.¹ Immodesty Though, in comparison with other anime, this anime seems clean, nonetheless, there is immodesty. In this show, characters wear short skirts.² This is not biblical. In Isaiah 47:1-3, the Bible defines the thigh as part of a person's nakedness. "[1]  Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shal...

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Bell Cranel, a naïve young man, wants to become the greatest adventurer. After meeting the goddess Hestia, his hope might just come true. He goes into the Dungeon in the city of Orario, where dangers await him. How will he traverse a world where man and gods work together, and where the Dungeon threatens his very life?¹ False Gods and Demonic Creatures, and Magic Bell meets the goddess named Hestia. This is the Greek goddess of the home. What is Bell doing, working with a false deity? The scriptures straightly command us to have nothing to do with false gods. "[20]  But I say , that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. [21]  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. " (1 Corinthians 10:20-21) False gods are none other than devils. It is very dangero...

Record of Ragnarok

Every thousand years, the gods convene to decide whether to destroy mankind. This time, the gods decide it is time to destroy all humans. However, one of the Valkyries of Valhalla, Brunhilde, proposes enacting Ragnarök. Ragnarök is a series of one-on-one battles in which thirteen humans and thirteen deities battle each other. Due to the gods' pride, they accept, and Brunhilde must gather humanity's strongest for Ragnarök.¹ False Deities The first thing you likely noticed is the so-called "gods" from other world religions. This anime presents these deities to us and conveniently ignores the God of the scriptures. This is blasphemy! Essentially, they say, "All these gods are real... but Jehovah God is not." They take several things from the Bible (which we will get into), but then they ignore the Lord altogether. This is not an atheistic show, but it is an anti-Jehovah one. As Christians, we know, however, that the Lord  He  is God! Listen to what t...