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The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot
(nichegamer.com)
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?
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_%28vatican%29
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)_/¯
Guys are always ready to work. r63 next?
wtf is r63?
"for every character there is a gender swapped version of that character"
If a male version of a character exists, there's a female version that someone has made.
Idk what it has to do with the Catholic Waifu though.
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.
So whoever carries that anime figure is literally Luciferian.
I thought they spoke Latin in the Vatican, aren't they Latino? Otherwise how do we get such classical Christian idioms like "Romanes eunt domus"?
Italian is a direct descendant of Latin (along with nearly every other Western language)
There's Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese...there are more Germanic-derived ones than Latin-derived, aren't there?
Romanian, Catalan, Sicilian, Galician, Venetian, probably a number of other dialects, are also Latin descendants.
I'd have to get a list of every country considered "western" and then figure out how many have predominantly Latin-derived and Germanic-derived languages. Too much work. "Nearly every" one of them would most certainly not be Latin-derived, though.
Thankfully there’s an entire field of linguistics that’s already done the work. Quick Google search shows 22 Latin descendant languages, and 24 Germanic descendant languages. So slightly more, yeah.
Thanks, my google-fu wasn't up to the task. That's about what I was expecting.
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.
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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???
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