CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

This may or may not have been discussed a long time ago, so please bear with me... I've seen Manga Messiah in stores, and what it looks to me, it looks to be very Scripture-based, and apparently made by Japanese people, thus a true Christian manga. But my question is about the names of Jesus and Joseph... both of them start with "Y", I can't remember them exactly. Are these how Jesus and Joseph's names are spelled and pronounced in Japanese, or is it something else?

Actually, Jesus's name started with a Y in the original Hebrew, I think. I could be mistaken.

Yeah, they use Yeshua and Yosef because they're sticking close to the Hebrew. I highly recommend Manga Messiah, by the way. The people who are doing it are trying to make a series out the entire bible, which is good because other attempts at this sort of thing try to squeeze the whole thing in one volume.

I was going to dig up the old Manga Messiah thread, but I'll post in this one instead. I recently bought it at the Christian bookstore where I work. I haven't read that far yet, but I'm enjoying it so far. It is great in bringing the story to life a bit. For example, the fact that Mary was only a young girl is clearer than when I just read the text in a Bible. I'm not nuts about Gabriel's purple hair, but for all I know that's his real hair colour. XD I was wondering about the names too, but I figured it has something to do with the Hebrew.

Okay, now it makes sense. I had been worried because I had seen some crazy site which used that name for Jesus, while making all sorts of unbiblical and heretic claims, and also claiming that Japan is on a 100-year quest to take over the world. As for the manga itself, it does look really good, and I love how it includes Bible verse references on every page.

I also recently bought the Manga Messiah (from the same shop as GeneD, I work there too!) and am loving it to bits... it makes reading so much more fun... and Gene, I dig Gabriel's purple hair!

crazypackersfan (post: 1259172) wrote:also claiming that Japan is on a 100-year quest to take over the world.

These people have been watching too much anime.

Actually, they shouldn't. The Bible doesn't take place in Japan and therefore wouldn't use Japanese grammar. Even if the artists decided to use suffixes "-kun" would be way too informal and disrespectful for Jesus. If anything, "sensei" would be the most appropriate.

Anyway, I wonder when/if the next volume is coming out?