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The idol group's name is "anjewel," which is... just incorrect English.
For the uninitiated, Happy Science/Kōfuku no Kagaku (幸福の科学 is a Japanese religious cult. I believe we have a quote on them from one of our very own.
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Back to the idol group. I did a little digging through the official twitter.
Here they are promoting a grand ol' time with the cult leader... and here they are promoting... Trump?
As one could expect, they are quite bad. Listen, if you're into that kinda thing.
サクライロ、転生 (literally Cherry Blossom Colored Reincarnation)
An even weirder video is one in which you embark on a first person view "secret date" with one of the members of the group, where she invites you to eat lunch on the roof with her. She even feeds you a sandwich. Then, she puts her hand on yours... and BAM! It was all a trap so that she could invite you to Tokyo Dome to see the cult leader. Gotcha.
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Send me to Hell to battle Hitler, Friedrich Nietzsche, and an elephant monster, if this is old news.
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One thing to add is that Ookawa has the consciousness of El Cantare, so he is essentially their Jesus. Oh, one more thing to add is that they have anime propaganda to spread their religion, and it's absolutely far more batshit insane than anything you could ever imagine.Happy Science, [is] a crazy Japanese cult formed and run by Ookawa Ryuhou, some dude who, fresh out of business school in the 80s, realized that a quick way to make cash would be to start a religion by claiming to be the reincarnation of Buddha. He now has followers in several countries, his own political party in Japan, and has authored hundreds of book-length tracts elaborating on the teachings of Happy Science and the insanely convoluted alternate history of the universe central to the religion. He's basically the Japanese L. Ron Hubbard.
Basically, according to Happy Science, the universe is overseen by the god El Cantare, who experimented with life on different planets for billions of years before settling for the humans on Earth. The teachings of Happy Science are conveniently universal among most major world religions, and so it teaches that all major religious figures in history were simply emissaries spreading El Cantare's enlightenment. The religion has a ridiculously complex afterlife and reincarnation system whereby people are judged on how much of their potential they achieved in life, and so prosperity, innovation, and a mishmash of pro-democratic/anti-communist ideology are emphasized alongside the mysticism. The various purported incarnations of Buddha's soul receive the utmost reverence because well, that's how Ookawa gussies up his divine credentials and rakes in the yenz.
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Back to the idol group. I did a little digging through the official twitter.
Here they are promoting a grand ol' time with the cult leader... and here they are promoting... Trump?
Code:
[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCCqd_RUQAAztyk.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_C8BrGVwAAOxHC.jpg[/IMG]
サクライロ、転生 (literally Cherry Blossom Colored Reincarnation)
An even weirder video is one in which you embark on a first person view "secret date" with one of the members of the group, where she invites you to eat lunch on the roof with her. She even feeds you a sandwich. Then, she puts her hand on yours... and BAM! It was all a trap so that she could invite you to Tokyo Dome to see the cult leader. Gotcha.
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Send me to Hell to battle Hitler, Friedrich Nietzsche, and an elephant monster, if this is old news.