Poliglocia

As said, I've been taking a seminar on Evil this semester and, a few minutes ago, I've finished watching Kuroshitsuji (the first series, at least). In this anime the play on christian religious symbols as are angels and demons, and the attempt to use them in a creative way, non the less seems to fit into a tendency which is already very common these days. From Evangelion to the movie of Constatine, comics like Hellboy or falling down to trash-TV like Supernatural. These days it just seems cooler to be on the devil's side rather than trying to be an angel. But what does it mean to be on the devil's side, and what's cool about it? In many cases, it would seem to be a simple reversal. A reversal which in the cases of Evangelion and Constantine, however, does still follow most of the premises of the original christian discourse and only points out rather twisted conclusions of it. In the case of Kuroshitsuji, I'd say the reversal is not symmetric because the logic i...