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Old 2012-04-23, 18:44   Link #288
SeijiSensei
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
I went back and watched the scene again, and he is wearing a rosary. As Ritsuko says that's not common; I wondered if it was hers Sentaro was wearing.

We all carried our rosaries in little plastic pouches in our pockets. Nuns sometimes wear them hanging from their waists, but I don't recall any parish priests who did that. I was an altar boy and attended Catholic school for a good chunk of my childhood, so I think I would have noticed. It wasn't uncommon to wear a crucifix hanging from a chain or string around one's neck, a common symbol of Christian belief in anime, but never a rosary.

Spoiler for rosaries:

Now that I watched it again, I can see how, from his reaction to Ritsuko's comments about their priest, Sentaro might be considering a vocation in the priesthood. Maybe wearing a rosary about the neck is a Japanese Catholic practice, or maybe just an invention by the writers. (The script for episode two is by Kakihara Yuuko; I can't find any biographical information about her via Google.)

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