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NEWS: Studio 4°C Animates Campus Crusade for Christ's Jesus Short

I thought it was a bit sick, what with the copious amounts of gore. I don't know anything about this religion, but I thought the short itself was really gory and graphic. Animation was good though, too good...

In the Roman Empire, flagellation was often used as a prelude to crucifixion, and in this context is sometimes referred to as scourging. Whips with small pieces of metal or bone at the tips were commonly used. Such a device could easily cause disfigurement and serious trauma, such as ripping pieces of flesh from the body or loss of an eye. In addition to causing severe pain, the victim would approach a state of hypovolemic shock due to loss of blood.

The length of time required to reach death could range from a matter of hours to a number of days, depending on exact methods, the prior health of the condemned, and environmental circumstances. Death could result from any combination of causes, including blood loss, hypovolemic shock, or sepsis following infection, caused by the scourging that sometimes preceded the crucifixion, or by the process of being nailed itself, or eventual dehydration.

I wonder if ANN's Mike Toole wrote any article on religion and Japanese animation.

This looks like desperate and rebellious move by Studio 4°C. They're not really producing TV series like other studios. They don't seemed to involved heavily in subcontract works on some major Japanese production. Also they seem to be more focused on getting foreign contracts than any other studios.

As a Christian, I found this . . . interesting. I've seen a few other versions of the crucifixion and I find it interesting to see what each one focuses on. Still, it's not every day (let alone year or decade) that a premier animation studio takes on something like this. I know that religion and religious history are loaded topics to cover, but I wouldn't mind seeing more of it. Maybe an adaptation of Tezuka's Buddha series?