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MarthaC
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"But if this is to be used as a recruiting tool, you might as well take any piece of 1950s era pulp fiction . . . "
Interesting! I think E.L. Hubbard had a similar plan with his novels. |
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Snomaster1
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Ooookayyy!!!! This anime is probably one of the weirdest productions I've ever heard of. Compared to this,the sci-fi movies from the 1950's seem less strange. One question though,does Happy Science have a presence in the U.S.? I read somewhere once where Aum had a presence in America. Does Happy Science have any American adherents?
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faintsmile1992
 Posts: 295 Location: England |
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I've thought of starting a new religion. Anyone draw for me?
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walw6pK4Alo
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mitebcool to check out, with a few drinks. It sounds like one of those anime you play just to laugh at the absurd moments.
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Gilles Poitras
Posts: 478 Location: Oakland California |
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Justin: Is the Japanese release of the DVD region 2 or region free?
As for Happy Science in the US they have a web site: http://happyscience-usa.org/ About 15 years ago I was in charge of the New Religious Movement collection at the Graduate Theological Union Library in Berkeley. There I tracked down info on many such groups as part of my duties. They also now have a (cool) web page: http://www.gtu.edu/library/special-collections/archives/nrm |
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Kikaioh
 Posts: 1205 Location: Antarctica |
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I LOL'd so hard at this.  Badum tish!
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mdo7
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Well this article is interesting. Yeah and I read about Happy Science on Wikipedia, I take it this so-called "religious group" is Japan's equivalent of Scientology. I think I recalled Zebraman 2 had a anatgonist that sort of make analogies to Happy Science.
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invalidname
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Everything I read about Happy Science just gets more and more crazy. For instance, the bassist for The Blue Hearts (the "Linda Linda" band that inspired that movie a few years back) is now a PR flack for Happy Science's political party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junnosuke_Kawaguchi
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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Howdy Gilles! CDJapan lists it as R2, which is very silly, given all of the language tracks on there. It could be an incorrect listing -- I don't have the disc itself handy or I'd test it myself. |
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vanfanel
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This in itself looks like rather hilarious wishful thinking. If we're going to compare this group to Scientology, one question remains: how does this stack up against "Battlefield Earth"?
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Lord Geo
Posts: 2672 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
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Let's be honest here... Even if Happy Science is the Japanese equivalent to Scientology, at least L. Ron Hubbard's religion actually utilizes science-fiction as a base. Happy Science just sounds off-the-chain kooky.
But I'll take Space Hitler, turning UFOs into flowers, Buddha reincarnated as Thomas Edison, & other wacky things over Battlefield Earth any day! Considering how HS seems to love dubbing & subbing their productions into tons of different languages, I'm amazed that none of these movies (there are six in total, one every three years) have ever been released on DVD outside of Japan. I'd love to buy this kind of psycho-religious stuff as long as it's entertaining as hell. |
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TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5935 Location: Virginia, United States |
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Battlefield Earth wasn't bad as a work of science fiction, nor was his Mission Earth series either. I quite enjoyed the reads.
Can't speak for L Ron Hubbards novels prior to the Eighties, but his science fiction novels in the Eighties were free of Scientology. |
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kamui85
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can someone tell me the name of a anime movie that was released recently along the lines of new age religion and a goddess of some kind?
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Myaow
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"Seeing a Happy Science movie" is definitely on my Bucket List. They sound so weird and straight-faced! I can see how rounding up a bunch of buddies and some drinks and basking in the wackyness together would be a ton of fun.
The Mystical Laws! (Another Happy Science production!) |
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Lord Geo
Posts: 2672 Location: North Brunswick, New Jersey |
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Just to correct Justin on something small, which I didn't find out until just now:
We actually did get one of Happy Science's animes in North America. Back in 2001 Image Entertainment released Hermes - Winds of Love, HS's first anime, on dual-audio DVD. It goes for dirt cheap over at Amazon right now! Ah, back when we didn't know better... |
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