Talk:Roman Catholic Church/@comment-108.77.78.161-20141205220342/@comment-201.43.137.233-20200520123811

I agree with the original commenter that the portrayal is too ridiculous. I'm all for making your own rules for your world and using real world as a theme or "skin", but you need to have a grasp of the themes, concepts and ideas you're borrowing in order for it to work. I liked other aspects of the anime and its concepts but truth be told, even in the japanese context of having its own priorities knowledge wise, the author's knowledge on history and geography is way too low for someone who wants to use such concepts in his story, it feels like it was written by someone from the United States with how empty the knowledge of history used when "translating" the themes to his story were. If someone spent one day in wikipedia they would grasp religion history better than this guy who spent his whole life making a LN with it as a theme, even the most basic mainstream stuff like how Pope's names works he didnt knew. He should just have created his own imaginary sects and religions because it would be way less cringey. I have a hard time finihing the second season with how badly he stereotypes super-evil villains and super noble heroes out of real things without even giving proper logic or context as to why.

And for the Kamina user who tried to disagree with this, the whole thing about being unable to make them the main antagonists would be a good thing because as it was portrayed it was too maniqueistic, specially with the anti-science obsession since they are not the religions against evolution nowadays: it would work if the medieval angle was developed instead, like a faction that wants to bring back the inquisition, but as he did it, feels like the author saw Hellsing once, didnt knew what those things were, and just copied the names and imagery without understanding why Hellsing was so good and worked so well in the first place. The whole "they couldnt be magic" would be good too since the whole magic side is a bizarre mix of pagan and eastern concepts of magic but used by saints and priests with just a few "engRish" names slapped in. Sorry to brake it to you but you are only defending it due to fanboyism, you can like the series while still admitting to its flaws.