(This is /co/ related, the image is just for demonstration. Calm down, mods and jannies.)

I was thinking about the prevalence of religious ceremonies and practises in even the most unrelated anime and manga for all kinds of audiences (examples are too numerous to name), and a strange thought occurred to me: how natural and normal it all seems.

Then another thought occurred to me: how strange it would be to see played-straight religious (or, more accurately, religiously sourced) practises in cartoons or comics with as little fanfair or attention called to it.

Now, I know this isn't totally absent, because The Simpsons had their church and Reverend Lovejoy as a recurring character, but would you find it to be somewhat unnatural to be watching Gumball and have the Watersons go to Mass with basically no attention paid to it, as easily as if they were at a mall or something equally secular?

Does this say something about the missing "casual spirituality" in western media in general?

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