Forum - View topicNEWS: The Laws of the Universe Part 0 Religious Anime Film's Promotional Video Streamed
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Jajanken
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Why does it say "Religious Anime" wtf. It doesn't look like it's trying to convert people and from the summary it just seems like your average Alien flick. Am I missing something??? EDIT: Upon further research it seems the creator of this film, along with other similar films, is basically a guy who started a movement to create a new religion. His name is Ryuuhou Ookawa and he has published hundreds of books about his new religion and even somehow incorporated them into anime films......wtf. I am for some reason curious in watching this now...
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Tenchi
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Daisuke Namikawa is in this? But he's still a top-tier male seiyuu!
The previous film had some seiyuu I'd heard of but whose careers had peaked some time before (i.e. Miki Itoh, a.k.a. Eiko "A-ko" Magami from Project A-Ko). |
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Mohawk52
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I'm always natually suspicious about any "religion" that has "science" in its title.
 This is cheesey enough to be enjoyable. That AMV; I haven't heard such a cheesey song for an anime since "Talent For Love". 
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Kadmos1
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Outside of the occasional anime about Bible stories or maybe some series emphasizing native Japanese religions, this is among the only time I think we can call a film/series a religious anime.
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Shiroi Hane
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Aum Shinrikyo made some animated propaganda IIRC. |
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halo
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Yes they did! |
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Tenchi
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Checking the cast list for The Mystical Laws, I see another Daisuke, Daisuke Hirakawa, who plays Rei Ryugazaki on Free!, was amongst the cast, so I guess it wasn't all C-list seiyuu or has-beens as I was implying earlier.
I don't know, it may just be a well-paying gig for seiyuu and they might not necessarily endorse what it promotes, but it's like finding out that one my favourite western celebrities is a Scientologist. It shouldn't affect my opinion of them, but, on some level, it does. |
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kamui85
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My thoughts exactly happy science= Japanese scientology |
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