In 2008 there was a pair of Huffington Post articles condemning the adaptation of the New Testament into manga.
a “Training Manual” For “The Next Pogrom Against Jews”
the portrayal of Jews found in a Manga comic now sold in Barnes and Noble depicts “A colorful comic training manual for motivating young leaders of the next pogrom against Jews. Not just offensive — ghastly and horrific in content with a clear enemy scapegoat identified for venting apocalyptic religious bigotry.”
any readers of the Bible’s New Testament will recognize the jibes from the jeering crowd as coming from Jewish chief priests, elders, scribes, and Pharisees. If readers don’t know the references, the Bible verses cited below the images can be consulted to make clear the Jewish identity of the bloodthirsty crowd taunting Jesus.
These images of Jews as the Christ killers make Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” hideous snuff movie seem tame in comparison.”
Christian leaders such as John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Tim Lahaye and others have injected anti-Jewish ideas so effectively into American culture, that one can now buy comic books, such as Manga Messiah, published by Tyndale House, at leading national bookseller chains.*
It's coming on 10 years and I took a look and this manga looks pretty neat. I'm loving how angry they're getting about the Pharisees (ie rabbis) being the bad guys. I'm wondering if anyone has some ideas for memeing this. It appears someone added this all to Facebook albums in 2011 facebook.com
Can we get Jews mad about this again? If they attempt to bury it it will just give publicity to a hip pro-Japanese outlet to show their villainous role. Perhaps we could pair it with Saint Young Men or My Last Day or Superbook?