I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class

Saito and Akane are high-school students who absolutely hate each other.¹ They are forced to marry by their grandparents. The couple keeps their marriage hidden from their classmates and must learn to navigate their lives as newlyweds.²

Immodesty

As with many anime about high-school students, this show contains many immodest and inappropriate things. Short skirts are common, along with women's cleavages being exposed. There are bath scenes as well.³ The main male character imagines the main female character in a bikini, resembling a demon.³ Saito is sent scandalous pictures.³ Crunchyroll lists sexualized imagery and suggestive dialogue as content of this show.⁴ We know, from Scripture, that such clothing is not okay.

For example, Paul says that women are to "adorn themselves in modest apparel" (1 Timothy 2:9). If the Lord tells us that immodesty is wrong, why, then, would it be okay to watch it? It is not.

Alcohol Use

According to Crunchyroll, there is alcohol in this anime.⁴ Alcohol is contrary to the Scriptures and should not be in the content we watch. Proverbs 20:1 says:

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." (Ibid.)

We should not be deceived by alcohol. We are not to look upon this sort of wickedness.

Profanity

There is bad language in this show.⁴ Perverse language is a breach in the spirit (Proverbs 15:4). What we say and what we hear matters. We should not fill our minds with terrible language, which this anime has. Lot vexed his soul with what he heard, not just what he saw (2 Peter 2:7-8). We shouldn't vex ourselves with what we hear, and the only way to do that is to avoid shows (and movies/games), such as this one, which have profanity in them.

Cheating, Deception, and Attempts to Cause Divorce

Akane's sister, Maho, tries to break Saito and Akane apart.⁵ Additionally, Himari, Akane's best friend, and Saito pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend,⁶ and they even kiss. This is done to keep Saito and Akane's marriage a secret, which is deceptive (and thus wrong, Proverbs 6:16-17). Himari intends to pursue Saito, despite him being married.

"Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." (Matthew 19:6, emphasis and underline mine)

This verse is about divorce, but it is relevant since Maho and Himari try to break the marriage apart. Cheating, emotionally, or through your actions, is not okay. The husband's body belongs to his wife and vice versa. This means cheating is just not alright.

Mock Quotes of the Bible

When Akane threatens Saito to keep their marriage a secret, he says, "O ye of little faith, huh!"⁷ Faith in what? This is a direct quote of Jesus (Matthew 6:30, 8:26, 16:8, Luke 12:28). Our faith should be in Christ, not in a random anime character. He uses Jesus' words, trying to tell Akane to have faith that he will keep everything a secret. Having faith in him cooperating in deception?

Undead

In this anime, Saito plays a game with zombies in it.⁶ The Bible lists necromancy as a form of witchcraft (and therefore, sin).

"[10] There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, [11] Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. [12] For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee." (Deuteronomy 18:10-12, emphasis and underline mine)

When there are zombies, that's a form of necromancy. It is witchcraft, which is forbidden by several Bible passages, such as in Galatians 5:19-20. It is a work of the flesh; it is carnal. Christians are to have nothing to do with something demonic like this.

Conclusion

From these things, we can conclude that this is not an anime that Christians ought to watch. The sin in it would make it wrong to consume. Only a compromised Christian could see the things this anime has within it, and still think it is fine to watch.

Sources:

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