The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot
The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot
The Vatican has unveiled a new cute anime girl mascot, hoping to create characters that "can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations". The new character named…
The Catholic Church has a new mascot.
It's a small child.
If there is an internet rule for every character there is a religion swapped version of that character, I'd like to see Pagan/Wicca versions of them like they have moved out of the bible belt (especially Texas) and into a mostly blue state where they can preserve their freedom of religion from certain religious nutjobs.
Really surprising it isn't a teenage boy.
Looks kinda like that Chickpea comic.
it looks like if raincoats were hijabs...
Who are they trying to appeal to with this, are they launching a vatican sponsored cocomelon clone?
Maybe they are trying to expaind theor Japanese market
The dog shit on their boots is a nice touch.
yeah thats gonna clean up their image
Think it took 15 seconds before we had this Obvious NSFW https://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=luce_(vatican)
Already trained image LORAs https://civitai.com/models/899944/luce-vatican-mascot
I can't be sure this was the primary use-case that the AI inventors envisioned, but it's hard to argue that it's not successful at this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Numbers are down, release the waifu! Common business strategy with ancient roots.
I'd say the mascot is clearly a child, but the Catholic Church...
Something something "the power of god and anime on my side"
Luce? Like Lucifer? Lol.
Yes; "Luce" is Italian for "Light' and "Lucifer" is Latin for "light bearer". They are cognates.
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. It's so onion flavored I can't believe it.
Finally the Catholics have discovered religion!
Luce will also represent the Holy See at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan.
I love this sentence so much.
This is the onion-ness we all deserve
Ahh now I get all the R34 jokes on reddit or/memes today
Yeah, pedos do what pedos usually do
That priest looks stoked
Missed the chance to call her Vati-chan.
Oh damn, in German, "Vati" is an affectionate form like "daddy", except it's the word stem of "father" ("Vater").
And wouldn't you know it, Christians also use "Vater" to refer to priests, the pope and their god.
Yes, the US largely figured that out with The Empire Strikes Back. 😜
So they choose Luce, so close to Lucifer, and they expect the Internet to NOT bring it up? There's Lucy, Daughter of the Devil on Cartoon Network for shit's sake.
Nevermind the connections to Death Note, a far more popular anime about Light Yagami, and the subtle connections between his name and Lucifer the Lightbringer.
This seems so much worse on it's face, even if you leave out the undertones of children's abuse by the church and Rule 34 that will come out (which are worse, but the church keeps trying to bury it)
I know nothing about anime, but I guess it is not that bad? Luce is straight up "light" in Italian, and Lucifer just means "the one who brings light" because it's the Angel's name, before the fall according to the fairytale. So from their POV it should all make sense.
I dunno, he's a serial killer trying to remake the world by looking everyone he doesn't like and it's pretty mainstream.
Even without that, drawing attention to Light seems weird. Could've been "Peace", "Faith", or "Love" or whatever.
This is just 12 years of Catholic school talking, but it's a strange name to pick that ties to a lot of less than desirable stuff.
Lmfao anyone see the movie Dogma, this is modern day Buddy Christ! 😂
First thing I thought of also, but I rewatch Dogma regularly.
buddy christ wasn't fucking adorable though? I didn't want to pre-order buddy christ???
Buddy Christ was better
Better than Bloody Christ, for sure.
The Buddy and Bloody of Christ, though… Now, you’ve got a sacrament going.
Because an official anime boy mascot would be too apropos?
There's more than the one who are (I assume*) boys, also I don't understand what you mean by 'would be too apropos', could you explain?
* I assume because I couldn't find much information about the side characters other than their names Fe, Xin, and Sky. All the references on the Wikipedia page just say their names and include the photo at most or don't even acknowledge them at the least.
Young boys especially, but young girls too are probably a little touchy for them to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases
All I hear is, the Vatican is after the young crowd. Imagine that....
🌍🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
Are they running so low on young people to molest they've resulted to youthful dolls?
How is this NOT the onion...
Child Rape, Incorporated really shouldn't, they really really shouldn't, they really really really just should not
but she's ackchyually 2,000 years old
Her name is Light? Like the guy from Death Note?
What’s Luce for?
For seeing, duh.
No way they're going to regret that decision....
Don’t worry, the R34 artists are already on it.
Target demographic: lolicons
I would say the target demographic is Catholics. That's an important distinction, because it includes shotacons too.
And actual pedophiles.
that's adorable. I like the frog looking one, as my name implies.
Oh god, I can’t help but see the reflection in their eyes as a hand with way too many fingers
I didn't notice this before reading your comment, but now I can't unsee this
Thank god they didn't go furry with any of their characters.
CS Lewis did it for them with Jesus' lionsona
2034: The Vatican unveils official furry mascot
Aslan from the Narnia series is basically a feral fan-made fursona for Jesus
To learn more google "Rule 34 Vatican mascot"
That's when they finally get me.
Hmmm.
Are they ignorant to the "art" that will be created inspired by this, or was that their intention?
They're using childish cartoon characters to attract young children to the church. I don't think they care who does what with the characters as long as they get more kiddies to diddle.
So is it blessed anime, or holy anime?
Holey*
"Ara Ara! Popu-Sensei is so kawaii!" /s Too bad there are so many cases where Catholic anime turns into the darkest type of hentai.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that the Pope still doesn't have a moe moe
I hope this goes the same way as the Tony T Tiger VTuber career
Yuru-kyara but for the pope?
Coraline?
For young people? What? That doggo there has me rediscovering my faith
I mean, look, it's wearing a hat