My roomate watches Anime all hours of the night. I think I'm learning Japanese subliminally
. Anyway, some of it is very high creativity and artistry. One thing I've noticed, though, is that the Japanese see Christianity a lot like we see Greek mythology: fascinating and good material for stories. There are tons of movies and series' about vampires with tons of Christian references in them. In one series, one vampire slayer has knives blessed by The Pope, another has a gun that shoots bullets which were melted down from silver crosses, and my favorite, the pages of scripture, if thrown at a vampire, will bind him to the ground. It just seems so odd to me, since I take this sort of thing seriously.