Not to be confused with Cult of the Lamb. That one is satanic and appropriate
Yeah, my mother was weird like that. When I was 13, she banned the only decent channel on broadcast TV for Saturday morning cartoons because Digimon season 1 was “satanic”.
Digimon season 1 RULED I loved that show. I’m surprised she focused on Digimon since I remember parents thinking Pokemon was the satanic cartoon lol
Yeah, maybe they were just more “sneaky” about keeping me from getting into Pokemon. I didn’t have cable, and nobody broadcast the Pokemon anime in my area. I was dissuaded from the card game because it was a money sink. (After Pogs, they didn’t want me participating in any other collectable stuff. They liked to pretend I had a “problem” or something with Pogs.) I don’t really know why I never had any of the video games. It’s likely my parents engineered that behind the scenes or something.
Of course, my whole peer group was obsessed with Pokemon. And I was unable to participate in that. Really made me an outsider. So when my local Fox affiliate started carrying Digimon from episode 1, it was kindof my opportunity to have something over which to actually finally connect with my peer group in a way I couldn’t before.
But my mother, who had a habit of not showing her face until at least noon most days, happened to get up that one Saturday morning for some reason and found me in the middle of an episode of Digimon. She never made a “thing” about Pokemon. I had no way to know before right then that watching the Digimon anime was something “against the rules.” But she flipped her shit about Digimon that day. I guess she didn’t realize I was watching it until that day, or maybe it was seeing the art style that tipped her off or something. Who knows.
I should also mention that was far from the first thing that was banned for similarly bad and fundamentalist Christian reasons. Just a few others that I remember:
- The Mighty Max animated series
- He-Man (“there’s only one ‘master of the universe’”)
- A great Sega Genesis dungeon crawler game called “Shining in the Darkness”
- All anime. (Digimon was kindof the first time she realized that “satanic Japanese brainwashing shit” was getting into our house, I guess)
- Popular secular music
I had one of those too. The weirdest (in hindsight) has to be The Little Mermaid… because of the octopus witch thing
I’d love to know what this persons definition of “Satanic” is.
Also, if Animal Crossing looks inappropriate, I’d love to know what they think is appropriate.
I tried to convince my mom Diablo 2 was good because the goal is to defeat the devil.
Can’t argue with that logic
Almost guaranteed they looked up Animal Crossing and saw that the old villager had horns and noped out based on just that.
How the hell does Animal Crossing look satanic? Because it’s got a lot of fashion and interior design, which is gay, and being gay is a sin, thus the work of Satan? 🤔
I just don’t believe comments like that aren’t trolls anymore.
I mean, is Tom Nook still signing you up for home renovations and mortgages without consent nor telling you what your payment will be untill after he’s done it?
… Is Mr Ressetti still screaming at you in text for 15 minutes, fake deleting your save file and shit, if you fuck with the game/system clock?
Are the fucking gyroids still a thing?
You… can’t seriously tell me those things are not cursed souls trapped in weird as fuck, semi-animate statues.
Genuienly asking, I haven’t played AC since the original.
I mean, is Tom Nook still signing you up for home renovations and mortgages without consent nor telling you what your payment will be untill after he’s done it?
Nope, he asks first now
… Is Mr Ressetti still screaming at you in text for 15 minutes, fake deleting your save file and shit, if you fuck with the game/system clock?
No, but that can’t be satanic. My mom used to scream at me for much longer.
Are the fucking gyroids still a thing?
Yep.
You… can’t seriously tell me those things are not cursed souls trapped in weird as fuck, semi-animate statues.
They’re based on Haniwa which is some old, Japanese funerary thing. So maybe? I didn’t read the whole Wikipedia article.
My cursory understanding of Shinto would lead me to believe that… basically, the idea here is that a haniwa is an effigy, meant to both honor and protect the dead.
And… given than many kinds of ‘spirits’ in Shinto essentially… manifest themselves in, or possess certain objects, things, even people, that match with their particular demeanor…
Yeah, basically a gyroid is fairly similar to a golem spell, its a spirit or demon or minor demi god possessing a fashioned form.
But I am not by any means an expert.
Either way, thanks for actually answering my questions, hehe!
Coincidentally this morning I found an island with pentagrams on the beach. DA-6582-4645-5353
That was me. I now have enough bells to buy everything after sacrificing my island to the devil
