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>church bad
literally the opposite
it's cult bad church good.

I don't watch many of them, but none of the ones I have seen feature that.
Konosuba has the Axis cult be annoying and Aqua is a retard, but not at all evil.
Youjo Senki has the whole thing with Being X, but doesn't really feature an organised religion.
Hamefura didn't feature religion.
Goblin Slayer isn't isekai but just has a couple of priestess characters.
Yeah, I'm having trouble thinking of things where a church is actually relevant.

Name 10 examples

>Why it is always like this?
As others have previously said, it isn't.

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What annoys me most is how so many stories have the same vaguely European and vaguely feudal society. Why does every fantasy need to be set in a settled society? Why always some kind of kingdom with nobility, currency, markets, standing armies, etc.?

Because that's what the author and audience both want from the genre.

I mean they are japanese, I guess they find it "exotic", what I can't deal is when in that world their katana is viewed as superior sword because its curved or whatever

It doesn't need to be but babby's first novel from syosetsu isn't gonna be creative enough to make a custom setting and he doesn't have to considering all the generic fantasy that gets a publishing deal. Everyone in the process just has low expectations.

FMA is the only manga with an obnoxious anti-religion caricature I can remember.

Religion in general just isn't a part of the daily lives of japanese people so the writers lack proper reference of the good things religion and religious people have to offer, in general they're really material people and find religion to be a dispensable aspect of society often not realizing how much it actually shapes the culture and even the law of many countries including their own.

Since it's dispensable whenever they have to feature it in their medium it's there to fullfil a specific role which is either a generic good institution and building to heal parties members or to portray a lawful evil corrupt institution so they can remind us for the #213214125 time that they believe moral is subjective and yadda yadda. Because of that whenever it's portrayed as good it usually ends up as a background minor thing while when they want religion to be evil it usually plays a major role and a main antagonistic force, this gives the illusion that pretty much everytime it gets brought up in mangas/animes/gaems they're the evil guys/are infested with evil guys.

You would like Legend of Heroes.
>church is good
>their inquisitors kill people across the world, but it's to get to those who the proper law enforcement can't reach
>they hoard all artifacts, but its ultimately preferential to letting scientists study them and cause another end of the world.
>the First Dominion is picrelated. Second-best waifu, topped only by Aidios

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>always
read and watch more

It's a position of power, enough said. I gurantee a lot of priests don't actually believe what they preach and are in it for selfish reasons. Like any position of power there well be corrupt or lying individuals.

Well yeah, this was basically the answer I was looking for and you reminded me the film Silence when you said "material people", when the kirishins thought that the Sun was God. But I feel like this kind of "material thoughts" are more sons of these contemporary age then Japanese people in general through history. But hey I don't know much about History of Faiths in Japan.

P. S. Historically speaking even in Europe there was the misconception that the Sun was God when Sol Invictus and Christianity were almost syncreticists.

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based on reality

Nature Good, Shinto Good
Heaven Good, Church has Gone Mad

>Why always some kind of kingdom with nobility, currency, markets, standing armies, etc.?
This doesn't annoy me. What annoys me is they are bland from a visual, geographical and lore perspective. The worldbuilding is always the most dull shit.

I wasn't really looking for the opposite, I already found some mangas where ArchBishops or the whole organisation is viewed in a good light, I was just thinking about why it was usually like this. At least in the ones I read.
But hey I'll check it out.

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Which ones did you read where they were like that? I'm looking for some anti-organised religion goodness.

Japanese distrust organized religion

+ common theme in teen's stories is challenging the authority, so not only the church but the Government and the polititions too

because your religion is very silly and the only enticing part of it are the goofy garbs

why it shouldn't show the truth