ABSTRACT
This chapter returns to some of the questions in regards to comics, and in the light of several diverging opinions from philosophy and political writing in the course it might be helpful to suspend "multiculturalism" as a paradigm for dealing with cultures in plural, and to retreat to a notion of culture. In post-modernism, cultural appropriation can never be inappropriate; rather it would be inappropriate to hinder appropriation. While ultimate aim is to tackle the elusive prefix of culture in the context of specific graphic narratives, chapter have chosen a subject that is not only "foreign" as a Central European scholar, but it concerned with creating an image of the "other": contemporary shonen manga that incorporates images and narratives from European culture, and particularly Christianity. Blue Exorcist is set in contemporary Japan, but replicates the militant "Christian" Exorcist order from D. Gray-Man while simultaneously integrating it in an even more eclectic world of coexisting mythologies.
