An article at Overcoming Bias by Eliezer Yudkowsky happens to include an interesting little note on anime: “I suspect this is one reason Eastern philosophy seems deep to Westerners – it has [a] nonstandard but coherent cache for Deep Wisdom. Symmetrically, in works of Japanese fiction, one sometimes finds Christians depicted as repositories of deep wisdom and/or mystical secrets. (And sometimes not.)” For the “not” category, I think a better example would be Wolfwood’s Cross from Trigun, but the links are still pretty cool, and it’s a reasonable explanation of just why so much Christian symbolism shows up in anime.
[10/20/2007 - fixed link to Overcoming Bias article. Oops. 
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