Heh, I was mostly kidding about those. :D Evangelion and Hellsing are notorious as being anime that (are very good anime, but) take Christian symbolism and mythology and use them in a way that ... is very clearly someone who is looking at Christianity as something that is strange and exotic and "outside" that you can play with as set dressing however you want, rather than being this huge monolithic cultural underlier that Western people are used to - the way Buddhism and Shinto get used in some Western media. Hellsing is vampires and vampire slayers and has characters like ninja berserker nuns with split personality syndrome. Evangelion ... is eschatological and kabbalistic and the Christian elements make no sense to anyone, whether they have a Christian background or not.
Haruhi might actually be interesting, depending on what you want to talk about, though it's also deeply silly - I can't describe the Christian connection without spoilers for at least a few episodes, but it's basically "What if the-Great-I-Am-omnipotent-and-omniscient was born onto Earth as an ordinary Japanese High School girl?" It's very much a comedy, and it doesn't ever get explicitly Christian, but at least in terms of what fascinates *me* about the Christ story, I loved the way it addresses what it means to be fully human with human failings but also fully God, and what it means for the free will of the ordinary people around her, and the ethics of using that sort of power if you have it (and the ethics of not using it, too), and it's basically just an extended meditation on the relationship between God and Her Creation. But all done by way of a light-hearted high school comedy that also deals with things like bullying and relationships and making friends and families.
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Haruhi might actually be interesting, depending on what you want to talk about, though it's also deeply silly - I can't describe the Christian connection without spoilers for at least a few episodes, but it's basically "What if the-Great-I-Am-omnipotent-and-omniscient was born onto Earth as an ordinary Japanese High School girl?" It's very much a comedy, and it doesn't ever get explicitly Christian, but at least in terms of what fascinates *me* about the Christ story, I loved the way it addresses what it means to be fully human with human failings but also fully God, and what it means for the free will of the ordinary people around her, and the ethics of using that sort of power if you have it (and the ethics of not using it, too), and it's basically just an extended meditation on the relationship between God and Her Creation. But all done by way of a light-hearted high school comedy that also deals with things like bullying and relationships and making friends and families.