An Actual Cult Made These Anime | Happy Science Vol. 1

With new-age cults, it's always 3 things: 1. Aliens 2. Reptilians 3. fucking atlantis

I didn't realize that the happy smile cult in Mob Psycho 100 was based on a real Japanese cult. That just makes it even funnier.

since this is about a cult, I want to point out that the idea "you need to always be happy and if you aren't then that's bad and you'll be attacked by monsters" isn't just a another weird idea from a cult. Its actually a thing that cults specifically do. There's a model of cult behavior called the BITE model which is used to help determine if a group exhibits cult-like behavior or not. The E stands for emotional control, and telling your people that you must always be happy is a form of it. The other letters stand for Behavioral control, information control, and thought control btw.

The leader of happy science has passed away. The battle against cat boy satan continues in another dimension

What if Fate/ lore was dumber

My mom is a psychologist who used to work with cult survivors. I'm a nerd. Rarely do our interests cross on a Venn diagram, but this is definitely something I can share with her. So, uh, thanks, Geoff?

Don’t you love how the cult leader made himself the reincarnation of the god of thieves. That probably isn’t intentional but like why not Apollo the god of the sun.

"Eros... which is NOT what Hermes and Aphrodite's child was called, but I guess a right wing cult didn't want to have to deal with the implications of Hermaphroditus" 💀

"Because... Religious propaganda or not, anime's gonna anime." Too true.

"Hmm, yes, I will lock up this child for being a bull man because he is too disgusting and horrible to be in my line of sight. Also, my entire aesthetic identity and that of my entire kingdom will now be exclusively bull-themed."

You know? The mermaids are right. People don’t think about how pretty the ocean is enough

And my friends mocked me when I insisted one night that if you combined all the great men and prophets in history into one man… He would look just like a mousy, frail, used car salesmen.

"So anyway guys I'm god" "Which one?" "Yes" Not gonna lie that's a pretty bold basis for a cult

I like how this religion is basically a crossover fanfic of every other religion

RO: "What if we held reincarnated hands across Time, the river of God's love?" His first wife: Begone Thoth

That time-traveling girl Alisa in "The Golden Laws" was probably stolen from a popular Russian children sci-fi book series running since 1965, where Alisa Selezneva is the main character. She and her friends get into all sorts of sci-fi adventures and shenanigans, including some time travel. PS. Even her hairdo is the same as in Alisa's most well-known movie adaptation, holy cow.

“The Devil Is An Alien Catboy” actually sounds like an extremely plausible anime title.

You know you're on the wrong side when you make Prometheus, a mythological figure known for loving humanity so much that he accepted eternal torture in exchange for helping us, as the bad guy.

Okay so I have actually read the authentic works of jataka tales(tales of Buddha's previous births) and a fuckload of works on Buddha as part of my Indian philosophy semester, and I must say that part of devadatta where he acts like a looney toons villain is the most accurate part of this entire garbage. If you look up the word "dedicated hater" on the dictionary, devadatta would be up there next to reverse flash.

I like how convoluted and detail this is but didn't give enough of a damn to name the space police as anything other than "Space Police."