Talk:Church/@comment-23825768-20130928020330

You are certainly correct about the small percent of practicing Christians in Japan. It therefore surprises me how often Christian imagery turns up in anime and Manga. Keiichi and Beldandy from Ah My Goddess, although living in a Buddhist Temple, have a major moment of understanding of their relationship within a church, and I just saw a moving episode of Ghost Hunt called "Silent Christmas" which takes place in a Church and its children's center. In both shows the other beliefs of Japan are also represented. So while a minority in their culture, many Japanese writers seem comfortable presenting Christianity as a possible answer for the big questions.

Getting back to Spice and Wolf I noticed in at least the final episodes of the first season, that we the viewers never see the top of the church's tower. . .In other words, no cross on the roof. I sense that the church in this world is not the exact as ours just as the Pagon rites are not the same either.