Serenity, the "Christian Manga"

Can't show that in a Christian manga

Serenity is a Christian-themed, American-made “““”manga”””” written by Buzz Dixon, an Evangelical. The story follows the teenage troublemaker Serenity Harper as she struggles with her budding faith in Christ and develops relationships with members of the Prayer Club at her school. It ran from 2005 to 2010, and is more or less what you'd expect from a low-budget imitation manga released in the anime boom of the mid 2000s, at least at first.

For those that aren't aware, /co/ historically has a Serenity general on Christmas and Easter where the entire run is posted. First-time readers often mock it at first, but find themselves getting drawn into the story and sincerely attached to the characters as the plot thickens. But I digress. This isn’t exactly Shakespearian drama here.

Reading through this with Zig Forums should be a great time, since I doubt a great number of you are familiar with it, and this may be the first time in history that a group of actual Christians get to read it as a group. Particularly since Buzz’s liberal, hyper-Evangelical theology can get suspect at times.

Without further ado, I present Serenity (along with some fun bonus materials at the end).
It's storytime! Kick back and enjoy the show.

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Since we can post so many images per post here we should be able to get through the whole run in a single thread.

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And, naturally, you read from left to right.
What that? Manga are usually read from right to left? That's silly.

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what the heck is this

I will pray for you

Read the OP

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I did read it, it looks like something off DeviantArt.

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Precisely. Now, would you believe me if I told you that this series was commercially successful?

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And so our dashing hero comes to Youth Group.

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is it a "so bad it's good" situation? (like Sonichu) otherwise I'm not really interested.

Pretty much. And, to its credit, it does genuinely attempt to carry a Christian message.
Whether it succeeds or fails at that is really the question.

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For the record, the art does get better with time. Marginally.

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Money doesn't being happiness, it seems.

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Derek doing good work.

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Thanks for the story time OP

No problem. Given how infamous this comic is, I'm actually shocked how little it gets mentioned here.

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And that's the end of the first volume. I'm gonna take a quick break to eat something.
Let me know if you're interested in me posting the rest, if only to continue watching this slow-motion train crash.

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Is this manga free(as in you don't have to buy it), or are you giving us pirating stuff right here?
If its pirated you can stop posting it now.

Realbuzzstudios no longer exists. The creator is on record supporting Serenity threads and discussion because it keeps up interest in his work even though it's no longer in print.

In which case.

working as intended.

I'm interested, can you please post the rest?

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Alright, apologies for the delay. We're continuing on with Volume 2.

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You can see here in this 12 Step plot one of the main complaints this series gets – even when the subject matter is really serious, the art never seems to show it.

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This is sad

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Our intrepid heroine is making progress.

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Haven't seen this in ages! Nice call back.

And Serenity manages to somehow deepen Kimberly's grudge against her.

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And so Serenity does the right thing.

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And so ends Volume 2.

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Volume three!

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I hope you're all enjoying Buzz's attempts to use the hip new lingo that's all the rage with the kids.

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I'm enjoying this for some reason. Oddly entertaining.

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Right?

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And so everyone's doing the purity test.

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Sometimes during Serenity threads, people will post purity tests like the one in the story. Given that the message here is that they're only negative, I'm not going to bother.

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And so now we're taking care of egg babies.

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Hank Hill baby makes his dramatic entrance.

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The baby is saved and Serenity doesn't drop out of school.

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And here's the last few pages from 3.


I know that feel.

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Volume 4!

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I'm genuinely not sure if we're going to hit an image limit since I've never seen that happen on this board. If there is one, I'll make another thread.

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As we all know, this is definitely how all teenagers talk in chatrooms.

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No one actually ends up dying from scouring powder, fortunately.

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Volume 4 over.

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Who's excited for snowboarding?

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