Christian Anime Podcast Exposed

"Fiction doesn't condone sin." - Kenyon Bowers

There is a YouTuber with a couple thousand subscribers known as "Christian Anime Podcast." He claims he is "The leading Christian voice on AniTube"¹ and promotes what he calls "Christian anime." However, there are some things we can learn and reasons to avoid him. This is not meant to just attack him personally, but rather to inform and to show the results of his stance.

First, he labels wicked things "Christian." There are so many examples of this. I would like to reference a specific one, however.

"That Time My Wife Reincarnated as an Elementary Schooler is a Christian anime."²

What does he mean that such an anime is a Christian anime? Neither reincarnation/possession nor borderline pedophilia are Christian. This just shows he will label wicked things as "Christian" because "it has a good lesson you can get from it." If that's merely all it takes, then fornication could be labeled "Christian" because it teaches you that choices have consequences. That is a bad way to look at things. Instead, we should examine the content of a show before labeling it Christian.

I recently posted a comment on his channel relating to this, but he posted that comment on X instead of responding to me.

Posted my comment on X.

On February 11th, 2025 EST, Christian Anime Podcast published this YouTube post⁴:

This anime, Eromanga Sensei, is about a guy whose sister who, despite being only thirteen years old, draws provocative things. This teaches Christian theology? A show about a perverted thirteen-year-old?

Second, there is the topic of "Christian waifus."³ Once again, he uses bad anime and labels a female from them as a waifu. That's not where this ends though. Most of the Christian waifus he lists are 1) not Christians and 2) don't even fit the whole criteria he himself has set.

"But what if I was to tell you that there was a way to judge if a waifu was actually, objectively good compared to another? And what if I was to tell you that that exact criteria was actually found in the Bible? A reading from the Book of Proverbs chapter 31 (NIV)."³

We see here he is using Proverbs 31 to define a "Christian waifu." Ironically, however, he doesn't take the whole passage and apply it to each of the "waifus"—instead he takes a verse or two and applies only that to the said character.

The word "waifu" is from the Japanese "ワイフ" (waifu) which comes from the English "wife." A Christian ought to know better than to view a virtual woman as a "wife"—especially when they're not married to that character and that character is not their "wife." It is a mockery of the holy institution called marriage.

On February 2nd, 2025 EST, Christian Anime Podcast began a livestream titled "Ranking Every Anime Waifu According to the Bible".⁵ In this stream, he goes through and makes a list of how they'd do as a wife in his opinion. Despite the name, not a single Bible verse was mentioned during the whole stream—so much for "According to the Bible".

In this stream, he is rather degenerate. He puts a loli in the "Make Wife Immediately" tier, and there are many other lolis throughout the list. He actually has a child on the list. And while the child was put in the "Disqualified" tier, the fact that he even thought of a child as a good candidate to put on such a tier list at all is disgusting!

He ranks a twelve-year-old girl on his list. One character on the list is a robot. He speaks of his maid kink on stream. How little shame must you have to talk about a kink of yours during a stream? He also said that he would bark for one anime character. This guy is a degenerate.

"Chat, unironically, Makima- if in another world- in another world where the dating pool was just her and me, I would love to bark for Makima. I’d- I’d be Denji all day, barking for Makima."⁵

Third, he is drawing people towards this wicked media format. He is propagating wicked shows as something for Christians to enjoy. Satan did something similar in the garden. He promised something seemingly desirable (i.e. "ye shall be as gods" (Genesis 3:5)) with the price being to disobey God. This is the same sort of tactic being used here (also, I am not questioning Christian Anime Podcast's salvation). This man is promoting wicked enjoyments, but the price is to disobey God's clear Word.

"¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20)

God pronounces a woe upon those, like Christian Anime Podcast, who call evil good and that put darkness for light. May we be awake and alert to this deception amongst the youth of Christendom!

Let us watch! Let us be sober! The Bible says:

"But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation." (1 Thessalonians 5:8)

We must not forget that the battle we fight is a spiritual one. We are in a war against the spiritual wickedness of today (Ephesians 6:12). Christian Anime Podcast is not a channel that we ought to support or to promote. For more information, see my post Against Anime.

(This post has been modified since its release.)

Sources:

1. "Christian Anime Podcast." YouTube, youtube.com/@ChristianAnimePodcast. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

2. "Tsumasho (That Time My Wife Was Reincarnated As an Elementary Schooler) Is a Christian Anime." YouTube, uploaded by Christian Anime Podcast, 29 Dec. 2024, youtube.com/shorts/rbLhMF15Wx8.

3. "Christian WAIFUS in Anime | Proverbs 31 | A Waifu of Noble Character." YouTube, uploaded by Christian Anime Podcast, 26 Nov. 2024, youtu.be/_9cq5t0BBiI.

4. Christian Anime Podcast. YouTube, 11 Feb. 2025, youtube.com/channel/UCcyjzeBeM6k5nEuzLlV78Hg/community?lb=Ugkx55Puzro56QPmSpu8nsq2Nl1wqOgqWL3K. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

5. "Ranking Every Anime Waifu According to the Bible." YouTube, uploaded by Christian Anime Podcast, 2 Feb. 2025, youtube.com/live/Dd0LQa5TJ9g.