First of all this post is going to spoil some of the central twists of the Anime Occultic-Nine, if you haven't seen it already I suggest you do so quickly, it's very underrated and is only 12 episodes and it's both subbed and dubbed on Crunchyroll, and it's a fitting show for Halloween month in my opinion.
Flat Earth Atheist is the TVtrope term for when a character is written like a strict hyper rationalist materialists even when in a setting where denying the Supernatural is a lot less rational then it is in our world. Occultic;Nine is a show that at first one might think is going to feature that trope but actually doesn't.
In the opening episodes both Gamon and Sarai are skeptical of the supernatural, the rest of the main cast are all pretty ready to believe in the paranormal so those two are the Skeptics' representation. While both are skeptics it's only Sarai who gives off that smug Reddit Atheist energy, he's the character who a genre savy viewer will expect to act like Fred in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Gamon's skepticism is a lot less central to his identity.
So that's why it's interesting how in episode 7 following the reveal that they've all been Ghosts for 3 episodes it's Sarai who's mostly accepted that the evidence as pointing to that being the case even before it's made truly indisputable. While it's Gamon who's in denial, but his denial is framed as Emotional coping not a product of whatever his ideology was.
So it's an Anime where the true Rationalist accepts the facts even when they go agaisnt his prior world view and the "Flat Earth Atheist" was never actually that much of an Atheist.
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