Saint Young Men Anime Announced
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 27, 2012 02:26 JST
- Tags: A-1 Pictures, Adaptations, Announcements, Buddhism, Christianity, Movies, Religion
Highly popular holy men manga Saint Young Men (“Saint☆Onii-san”), a slice of life comedy which follows the lives of Jesus Christ and the Buddha as they pursue an impoverished bachelor lifestyle in Tokyo’s otherwise gloriously futuristic Tachikawa city, is finally to receive a full anime adaptation.
The anime will take the form of an OAD episode accompanying volume 8 of the manga in December, to be followed by a feature film at an undetermined later date.
The anime is to be produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Noriko Takao, whose previous involvement with Kyoto Animation and such classics as Haruhi, Clannad and K-ON! tends to suggest a quality product is in the offing, although this would apparently be Takao’s first major directorship.
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Wow. I remember this being in the 2012 Summer troll charts.
I had to look this up, and i was surprised this is "Seinen" genre, from first glance it looked like it was about two homoerotic hippies with lots of make up... uh
I won't count on Mohammad making a guest appearance. The shitstorm from that would be too immense for Japan to handle. They got enough problems with the Koreans and Chinese.
although, Mohammad being portrayed as a lolicon would be all too hilarious.
Oh yeah! I remember that "issue" lol. That'd be crazy!
Buddha and Jesus are too cool to hang around with a tight ass like Mohammad anyways.
Him and his followers are just no fucking fun at all.
It's not Mohammad or the original Muslim religion what's problematic, it's the "priests", who altered the religion for their own sake and use it to control the masses who have almost no knowledge of anything.
That sounds an awful lot like the Roman Catholic Church of... well, most of its history, excluding perhaps the last century. :-x
looks interesting and funny enough to give it a try.
if they did the same thing with mohammed... oh boy, the burning embassies
This is actually a pretty fun manga to read. It's both silly and interesting, largely because the premise is for once fairly original.
Looking forward to the movie.
This is great news! I've been reading the manga from the start and it's a pretty funny slice of life.
It's in no way offensive to either religion but I can see the fundamentalist Christians in the US getting all bent out of shape at Jesus being portrayed as a 20 something normal guy palling around with the Buddha.
Can't see this anime ever getting exported to the the West because of all the dimwits.
At least no one will be murdering japanese and rioting against Japan. Our "fundamentalists" are way better than other fundamentalists.
Don't start it, because you know there will be at least 1 priest somewhere, blaming violence on 'cartoons'.
You mean those same fundamentalist who have nothing better to do but to provoke others fundamentalist?
If you're talking about that Mohammed film, I saw it andreally, the people who made that were asking for it. Crap, even I found it offensive and I'm an atheist.
>Thinking ANY fundamentalists are better than other fundamentalists
lol jokes on you
Define "the West" since it's actually licensed in France.
Up to volume 3 of the manga only Jesus and Buddha plus characters of their religion make an appearance. I don't think the manga will ever include any other religious leaders.
Reply was meant for the posting about a possible appearance of Mohammed.
As in "Anglo-Saxon West". France seems to have a completely different state of mind in such matters.
They seem to license many manga and anime that never see the light of day in the US,Canada, Great Britain, Australia, NZ etc. because of sex, religion or perceived lolicon.
Wasn't aware something like this existed...
It's Slice of Life...
Highly... popular? Why did I never hear about it then...
Did you ever hear about Thermae Romae? Uchuu Kyoudai before the anime?
Because THOSE manga are extremely popular.
Popularity doesn't have anything to do with quality, though.
That's true, except that those series he listed ARE high quality.
Because you’re a faggot.
Aww yiss
Mohammad, Buddha, and Jesus Christ now that would be funny.
Except that you'd get killed if you drew Mohammad...
Even though their religion says not to kill anyone for any reason other than to defend themselves at a time of war etc.
People are stupid I guess :/
I think you are the stupid one here. Firstly Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world.
If this religion is realy hatred and killing then why do people come to it.
If you watch to much foxnews and those poluted zioniostou propaganda tv shows it is obvicious that you would make such bulshit commets indeed. I expect no less from a loser as you are.
And for your information there is enough material to do a story about forget Mohamed pbuh.
Besides jesus pbuh is also a profet in islam i dont like this manga. jesus came before mohamed pbuh and Jesus wasnt the son of god but a profet. He did miracles in the name of god and not from his on might like the poluted christians like to believe.
Screw you and your ideologies because not the whole world thinks like you and who says that you are right in your believes?
I dont say that im on the right eather. but dont think i have to do what you do so that i can only life the right way.
because your misserable life is nothing. And besides mohamed pbuh has been praised by great people who have studied and invented things. Your words of insult thoards him are empty and dont hit nothing.
So F... you and this manga with it.
The Muslim faith teaches that while Mohammud was a Messenger of God, he was still just a man. He wouldn't fit since he isn't considered divine/enlightened, but rather was a prophet.
The Buddha never claimed to be divine either. He was a man who reached the perfection of "enlightenment" by following the eight fold path.
Mohammad Funny??
Wait until they come at you with cold iron in the neck
Fuck Mohammad and fuck the sand ni99gers. Come at me bitch muslims.
Another coward troller who only have a courageous behind his desk / computer.
There are so much people like you in this world.
If you dare, write your real complete home address, phone number, and your real name here. And see what will happen to yourself when a horde of moslems search you.
"whose previous involvement with Kyoto Animation and such classics as Haruhi, Clannad and K-ON!"
Um, one of those does not belong.
And on a serious note, I am pleased by this. Everyone needs a little more religious blasphemy in their lives.
What would be really cool is a live action movie with Johnny Depp as Jesus and Keanu Reeves as the Buddha.
Keanu Reeves has some experience playing the "Enlightened One". He played Buddha in the movie "Little Buddha".
And they will both live in the same apartment and the fangirls will rejoice.
I heard this earlier and, while I'm excited, I'm also a little wary of how well this will be turned into a movie.
As one of the few religious people on Sankaku and the internet in general I promise not to raid any embassies and am cautiously optimistic that it will be funny and entertaining without being grossly disrespectful. The way El Shaddai was for the book of Enoch.
Great! It is such a unique and funny series :)
I hope there won't be a part where Muhammed joins them at a Karaoke party.
Controversial for sure.. I find it kinda offensive though.. not really religious or anything but I some journalist would probably turn this to some hate article against mangas and anime xD Not that something like that is anything new I guess.
seems like any other comedy show like "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" with one hipster and one redneck
Yes! Great news.
Will Nabi Muhammad present in this manga? :D Hope this won't lead to murder of Japanese Diplomat all around the world..
Nope, it's only Jesus and Buddha, and the various saints and angels and disciples showing up once in a while.
Don't think he will, any sort of portrayal of him is forbidden, unlike Jesus and Buddha, because they are shown everywhere :P
Hmm... That's odd... Where are all those trolls that bitch about Slice-of-Life?