Forum - View topicThe Mike Toole Show - The Anime Cult
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Hellsoldier
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Man, religious anime is automatically low-quality. And if it comes from bizzaro right-wing or apocalyptic cults, than moreso. I liked the animation of the more recent Happy Science anime films, but I refuse to watch it.
On a sidenote, let's agree to disagree on ''She Sells Sanctuary'' not being the best The Cult song, tied with ''Firewoman''. Much love for ''Love Removal Machine'', though. 
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rheiders
 Posts: 1137 Location: Colorful Colorado :) |
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Oh god, there's a meme image I can never use again.
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Zin5ki
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Happy Science seem to have quite an outreach program. During the intermission of an expo over here recently, their ever-cheerful adherents were keen to distribute flyers for their latest film beyond the confines of the venue and its regulations.
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relyat08
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I just spent waayyy too much time laughing after seeing that. 
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Gina Szanboti
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So...headbanging? Kind of reminds me of the obsession with "low frequency vibrations" throughout Peeping Life. |
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mrsatan
Encyclopedia Editor
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I hope ANN approves my submission for The Human Revolution, the 20-part OVA epic about the foundation of SGI. They somehow got Toei Animation plus some top level seiyu of the time. I could only manage to sit through one episode though.
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Usagi-kun
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Me too. I don't know why it is so funny. Maybe because of the abrupt tone, but it makes me grin like an idiot and think to myself: "Man, grandpa is an a$$hole." Nice article. Awesome. 
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koinosuke
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Happy Science is a strange one. They come knocking on doors like Mormons or JWs, and somehow each of the places I work at here in Japan seem to have a copy of one of their books laying around the staff room.
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Mune
Posts: 383 Location: Minnesota |
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I remember a few years ago, I took a class on Japanese culture and this actually came up.
In particular, the cult associated with the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in 1995 was brought up. We discussed how it was to further used to discriminate against anime otaku in Japan. This was just another factor for people not to want to become part of the anime/manga fandom. It is also important to note that innocent people died because of their actions. I do not believe that your fandom should ever get that far- ever. If you wanted to make a statement, there were far better ways to do it than that way. Aum Shinrikyo, the cult was responsible for the attack, still exists. Probably not like it did in 1995, but it is considered a terrorist group by a few countries. |
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enurtsol
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And the reason Tokyo no longer provides outdoor trash bins, since that's where Aum put the sarin gas. |
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BabySealClubber
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Happy Science are stepping up their game. Getting Sponge Bob and Dylan McDermott to voice characters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2KYyw1wePI |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Blanchimont
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A certain resource lists 17 titles as original works by Daisaku Ikeda, ranging from 1983 to 2004. 16 of them are short OVAs, as the ones mentioned in the article, except Ningen Kakumei (The Human Revolution)(no ANN entry) which is listed as having 20 half-hour episodes, based on the life & and teachings of Toda Josei, one of central figures of Soka Gakkai. |
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Levitz9
 Posts: 1022 Location: Puerto Rico |
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Cults will say all kinds of dumb stuff that people will buy into because a) someone wrote a book on it, ergo it must be true and b) it kinda makes sense. And that's why new-agers belive that Odin was an Atlantean who was also Hermes and Merlin and Anubis. I'm not kidding, my mother has books on that crap. |
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Herald Of JOJO
 Posts: 144 Location: Malaysia |
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I got shown clips of the Aum Shinrikyo anime through Maximum the Hormone's "Freiza" music video.
The band screaming "Phowa" is what got me interested in learning about Shoko Asahara and his cult. Surprised no one brought that up yet.
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