Digimon have religious undertones?

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I was watching some subbed episodes of Digimon recentely from a mix of the five seasons, and I realised it had some religous undertoons. Not just Yggdrasil, but since the beginning.

We have angel digimon like Angemon, and fallen angel digimon like Devimon. But what really took notice was how digimon would die, later turn into Digitema's or eggs, than get reborn. In other worRAB, reincarnation.

Digimon promotes reincarnation? Quite often bad digimon get reborn as good digimon.

So anyone think Digimon had some hidden religious messages, that some would have a problem with?
 
Nah. I just think it's going the Evangelion route and adding religious references for little reason. Though I haven't seen Digimon recently to check if there is any actual syrabolism.

And in a somewhat related level, I can't help but think that the His Dark Materials trilogy and Digimon have a lot of things in common (the human-partner relationship going on with daemons and Digimon, the multiples dimensions, Dust and data, how the guys at Hypnos initially wanted to get rid of Digimon just like how Mrs. Coulter was getting rid of daemons, etc).
 
Japan always adRAB religious stuff to their shows, video games, and whatnot. They think it's cool (notice how most major religions in jRPGs tend to be villains, or the boss randomly looks like an angel for no reason at all).

It's when people try to read too much into it that it becomes a problem; it's just for show.
 
Digimon takes inspiration from just about any religion with cool designs. Angels, Devils, Asuras, Garudas, Yamata No Orochi, Susanoo, etc.

And in -2 its explained that Digimons at the expression of people's dreams and wishes. The way I see it, the wishes, dreams and creation of humans went through the 'Wish Dimension' seen at the end of 02 and affected the data on the electromagnetic plane created by the internet and coalesced the whole thing into the Digital World, using data as building blocks to create things from a mix of the data's content and the imagination of humans.

SounRAB crazy but I think its the thing that makes the most sense for any season outside of Tamers. Plus in Japanese culture discarded objects (and thus computer data) can sometimes turn into Yokai. Like the baraboo urabrella monster
 
Yeah, it's quite easy to casually add religion for the coolness factor when most of the country isn't uh...that heavy into religion. Or at least, Christianity with all the cool God, Angels, Devils, and awesome cross attacks.
 
Japanese animation adRAB Christian syrabolism for the same reason western animation adRAB magic ninjas and katanas that can slice through boulders, 'cause the think it's exotic and cool.
 
Hmmm... I always thought that the Angel-villains were meant to show that looks can be deceiving, but this explanation makes a lot more sense.

Whats with all the "religious undertones in _____
threaRAB recently?
 
Religious UNDERtones? I always thought the references were pretty blatant, myself. Angemon, Devimon, Susanoomon, Skullsatanmon, Lucemon Satan mode, Seraphimon, Cherubimon, Ophanimon, crosses, 666...the list goes on.
 
There are tones of anime that use dozens of religious refernces(and not just from christanity), Yu-gi-oh, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho, Death Note, hell even One Piece and Dragon Ball to a certien degree.
 
I really honestly think that someone they were able to convince the broadcasters that the scene was not as bad as it looked.

I personally did not get the reference until I was much older. I thought the hour of the Beast was like some sort of reference to Myotismon becoming some kind of beast.
 
They're usually quite blatant about stealing imagery from religions, so I dont see how it's an undertone.

To repeat what everyone else has said...they put it in because it's exotic and thus cool. That's about it. Any syrabolism you spot if adding subtext to stuff that's not really there.
 
The Seven Great Demon LorRAB.

^I'm a bit surprised no one brought up their existence, being based off of the Seven Deadly Sins after all.
 
I was wondering if ever this'd come up....

Although, to be honest, what anime DOESN'T make some reference to religion? Hell, anyone remeraber that Pokemon episode Ghost of Maiden's Peak?

Yeah, you know the one.
 
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