An Actual Cult Made Bootleg Avengers Anime

[@BaseballJubeh]

the asian reptilians being against the american ones is actually kind of interesting world building lmao

[@CalvinKalisto]

Never thought I would type the words, "racist reptilians" but here we are.

[@timothymclean]

I would say "could be" rather than "is," because nothing gets done with them. But yeah. So many alien species are treated as political and ideological monoliths, it's nice to see one with some genuine infighting. I guess when you throw enough crazy at a wall, some of it is gonna be crazy good.

[@chrisossu2070]

Even aliens can't escape Earth racism.

[@yeah2956]

Alien infighting

[@ninjawiz7932]

Yea I like the idea that multiple alien factions are covertly invading Earth at once while simultaneously being at each other's throats.

[@enlongjones2394]

“I’m Hellen Keller” never gets old. What an insane line to put in your anime.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Those three words cause more psychological damage than anything Lovecraft has ever written

[@timothymclean]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real I feel like that says more about Lovecraft than Happy Science. Dude wrote a horror story about air conditioners. Not even a haunted air conditioner, just the horrors of science gone too far.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@timothymclean tbf he was incredibly racist even for the time so it was less of a "oh no spooky air-conditioners are coming for your children" and more of a "oh no spooky progressives are going to use this new technology to go against nature"

[@SuddenlyUpsidedown]

I know it's coming at this point but it still completely haymakers me every time

[@tarvoc746]

​@@timothymclean Yeah, Lovecraft wrote that, and it's not even bad. That's real talent when it comes to horror writing: to make even the mundane seem scary. Junji Ito has a similar talent for that. Or also David Lynch.

[@pipedreamer9781]

A "sailor moon" style transformation from magical girl into a big panda is the most spectacular parody ever to be accidentally used in a "serious" anime

[@fen8321]

I know, right? I'm so confused as to the pandaness

[@BurningAzure]

To Okawa Rest in pieces ass-wipe. Hopefully the deprogramming isn't too long after.

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

Maybe Okawa just read/watched Ranma ½?

[@alanthieris4447]

I supposed you've never heard of Tonde Burin, then?

[@Marvin.626]

@@alanthieris4447 i mean, Super Pig is supposed to be a comedy thru and thru, hence the whole pig thing. this is supposed to be a serious story about alien guys (including the ancient ancestors of God, Lucifer, Jesus Christ and Stan Lee) fighting other aliens for the fate of the universe. and yet they thought having 2 warrior girls who transform into a unicorn panda and a beyblade octopus was gonna fly for this 'gripping' 'drama'.

[@jessiec668]

Zamza sounds like Best Girl material to me. Who doesn't love a violent, tsundere dragon-lady with an adorable gravelly voice and a redemption arc? She told her minions not to eat OR kill him--a true sign of a hidden heart of gold--and knows the quickest way to clear a part is to punch anyone in front of you.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I like this kink but at the same time its kinda tiring hearing peoples dream relationship is "i hope its abusive"

[@jessiec668]

I would not say this is a dream relationship... I just find her very amusing (based solely on this video). What we find entertaining in media does not always have to match what we would enjoy in real life though.

[@illford]

​@JakeSpacePirate E it was a joke

[@lrgogo1517]

I can't believe no one else has added her to their fave characters on MAL!

[@averythegamer4949]

The surprising thing to me is that's she's all of those things AND, despite being a character in an anime, her more human form ISN'T that of a 10 year old child. Like, can the industry normalize having their ancient dragons human form be adults instead of children anytime soon? "Ohh that's a cute dragon character!" *sentai transformation into a 10 year old human child to blend in with the party even though that form is the WORST to blend in with because you can't even legally drink in it without EVERYONE trying to take your ale away and saying "Oh you're too young for this" even though the character has lived 100 of their lifetimes and can crush their skull like a grape* "I've lost all interest in this show."

[@velazquezarmouries]

"Criticism is a New York cheesecake to me" is now my favourite phrase

[@TryinaD]

Unironically stealing that

[@casperchristiansen2458]

It is my appetizing, because I am strong.

[@dawey8897]

This goes hard

[@marcvallieres2453]

Would make a great neck tatoo

[@UlshaRS]

That's not just a phrase it's a life goal!

[@sushiroll3795]

Seeing the entire chat erupt with "mommy" and "step on me" and "🥺" whenever Zamza showed up was hilarious.

[@charlx8979]

Kobayashis dragon maid needs to learn that all we really wanted was a dragon mommy

[@flamesoul3778]

Honestly fair

[@CatsRul85]

I'm sad i missed the premier but oh boy i'll never forget ehen i did manage to make to the premier of one of the 2 previous ones

[@leviadragon99]

Listen, she's a redheaded dragon lady that kicks ass, my little gay heart can only take so many of my boxes being ticked at once.

[@charlx8979]

@@leviadragon99 to quote spike lee "I want a woman that will just kill me"

[@ThornheartCat]

Clearly this director took one thing from Cowboy Bebop: He loves the kind of woman who can kick his ass.

[@trystero1729]

he loves the kind of woman that will actually just kill him

[@suezuccati304]

The kind of woman who will actually just kill him

[@HeilRay]

If there was one thing he took from Bebop, at least it was that.

[@JackgarPrime]

​@@HeilRay It would have been nice if they also took "Being Actually Good" from Bebop.

[@wadespencer3623]

He also took a voice actor, so that's something.

[@masterplusmargarita]

"I - I - I - Depression!" might be the greatest lyric ever written by any human, reptilian, intergalactic space Buddha, or 8th dimensional angel billionaire.

[@iamjustkiwi]

2023 mood fr

[@RyllenKriel]

I can only picture the ghost of Shakespeare shedding a tear and slowly clapping to show his deep respect at this clever Engrish wordplay within the anime song.

[@sophie6413]

Catboy demons wrote the words "Hisler"

[@nack287]

The thing with cults is that it’s usually their second leader that really informs their trajectory

[@mooseclappin11]

Well, that's definitely true for Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

[@ferretyluv]

I take it that’s a reference to David Miscavige?

[@Michael-bn1oi]

If they outlast the first leader, sure.

[@nightskyj7579]

This is so true, especially for jehovah's witnesses 😂

[@nack287]

@@ferretyluv it definitely applies to Scientology but I meant in in reference to cult like groups of all stripes

[@dejaxnab6473]

Sorry to say this, Anime Pope, but I actually watched "Laws of the Universe: Episode 0" years ago in an actual movie theater, where I was greeted by a duo of nice elderly ladies who gave me a VERY descriptive pamphlet on their faith, which matched a movie that I walked away from feeling VERY preached to. Still, the ticket was only two dollars and the popcorn was free, so at least I got... something out of the experience.

[@Never_heart]

I still think you got scammed despite the free popcorn

[@dejaxnab6473]

@@Never_heart Yeah, I won't disagree with you there 😂! But I will say this... The movie isn't nearly so bad if you have liquor 🤫. I mean, it's still pretty bad, but at least it gets to the end faster 😉.

[@blablablubb7623]

I think two dollars and a bad movie is a pretty good price for popcorn

[@timothymclean]

Was the popcorn worth $2?

[@dejaxnab6473]

@@timothymclean Well, it WAS pretty good popcorn 🍿 AND it came with free refills, so... Yeah 😋!

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

That second movie is totally "The writer's barely disguised fetish" with the "I can fix her" storyline

[@tailedgates9]

Dude, you freaking nailed it. XD

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

which is fine, because that is my fetish too

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

Ryu-HOE Okawa hides his fetishes?

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

​@@gabrielandradeferraz386 You, face the wall.

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

@@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 MAKE ME

[@oneinathousand2156]

Even after seeing all the shoehorned yet completely incorrect usage of historical figures throughout these movies, blonde anime Stan Lee still managed to catch me off guard.

[@10tailedbijuu]

how? it was clear whoever had it drawn in that fashion, has never had any contact with a actual white guy, let alone know that not all white people are blonde/blue eyed.

[@fatemehhajizadehsaffar6882]

Oh noooo I read your comment before watching the vidrk and accidentally spoiled myself

[@alchemicpink2392]

@@fatemehhajizadehsaffar6882 Where he comes in still is a shock to the system

[@OverloadedDragon]

blonde, blue eyed

[@nodansland303]

I saw this comment first and thought I was expecting it. I was not ready and it was glorious.

[@jonasquinn7977]

I’ll be honest I wasn’t expecting Spider Satan’s secret motivation to be “God killed my entire universe”

[@tailedgates9]

I kinda felt bad for him at the end. Lol

[@bthsr7113]

Yeah, and the retribution is, if anything, restrained. His entire universe was wiped out, and he's only killed one planet out of 2 targets.

[@canary0981]

Persona has taught me that, as someone trying to kill God, he's probably in the right.

[@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666]

It's kinda scary that Elder daemon spider decided to just give God a slap on the wrist.

[@runeanonymous9760]

@@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 I’d assume, in context, based on what of the theology I know from the other videos, the logic is that Earth’s the Most Important Planet, so he wants to cause emotional pain without forcing anyone to go through (that very specific part of) what he did.

[@MasaokaKun]

Justice for Zamza. She deserves a better movie than what she got. This shit was wild.

[@GatesOfAvalon1]

I actually love Zamza

[@Draqer]

So did the Sailor Panda Unicorn and Sailor Beyblade Octopus.

[@paulbobenhausen8031]

That NiHao was so utterly westernised it is actually comedy gold. Like, native Chinese speakers can often speak in what wouldn't be considered perfect mandarin because it's often a second language, but by the space Buddha, THAT is how some British dude pronounces 你好！

[@Sofia_Sif]

"Evil for evil" "Wait huh is that acceptable?" Fuckin killed me lmao

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

it feels like an abridged series

[@timothymclean]

In a funnier movie, that would have been the moment our blandly paragon heroine realized she could be something other than Boring Good and starts committing evil acts with the same thoughtless certitude with which she committed good ones.

[@juliogomez2534]

A kung fu panda with a horn and a flaming spinning octopus? This people had the recipe for greatness and squander it in pursuit of money for their cult.

[@shadowclaw7210]

Even after reading this. I still didn’t saw it coming.

[@HeilRay]

If the movie was 98% that and furry aliens dancing. 10 out of 10

[@ADAMNATOR]

It’s honestly embarassing how often I was thinking “Pleiadies nuts” while editing the segment for Part 0

[@LadyoftheDreamless14]

In all honesty, anything less would be wrong.

[@Adelei42069]

I have similar reactions every time I read “Euripides”

[@typacsk]

@@Adelei42069 (crosses legs nervously)

[@dajosh42069]

Ok... That made me LOL very loudly. Thanks for the smile!

[@UnrealMisterD]

Fun fact you didn't mention: in a move that surprises ABSOLUTELY NOONE, the "Three Treasures of Vega" are bootleg knockoffs of the Three Sacred Treasures of the Japanese royal family.

[@AeonKnigh432]

You know, I really am entirely unsurprised

[@brodyslatten]

Haruhi's english VA talking about aliens not existing in the background is kinda fucking hilarious

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

Evil Mirror Universe Haruhi Suzumiya be like; "I'm fully aware that I'm a reality warper!", but she isn't.

[@4Re_]

​@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225Haruhi Suzumiya, is Japanese, Wanda Maxifmoff.

[@ferretyluv]

Wendee Lee is a legend.

[@Stormthorn67]

I'll give Dahar's VA props for working so hard at being an unhinged evil pretty boy.

[@marocat4749]

Best part with dragonmommy. Also how happy el cantare is to restore literally anything, yeah why didnt he. Pretty sure there is a culty explaination, but he got a point.

[@LaineMann]

Yeah, he’s fun. The rest? Not so much.

[@anonymouslucario285]

​@The Nerd Room what about the panda unicorn?

[@anonymouslucario285]

Who's his voice actor anyway, I feel like I heard him before

[@LaineMann]

@@anonymouslucario285 nah. Alex Le was the highlight.

[@MyPisceanNature]

Soooo, if Stan Lee is credited as a coauthor, can his family demand royalties? Not that I expect that hot garbage made money, but it would be HILARIOUS.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

The real Stan Lee's ghost would have definitely demanded compensation

[@Road_to_Dawn]

Please for the love of God I hope that they do demand royalties and I can read about it in the news.

[@fishcakeman803]

Man I hope not, cause you know about stan lee being abused

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

@@fishcakeman803 ???

[@fishcakeman803]

@@judeconnor-macintyre9874 just search up stan lee and daughter abuse allegations. Simply, the man in his later years was abused by his own daughter into doing stuff he didnt want

[@otherprisma7354]

That Dragon Mommy design should have been in a better anime. This is just criminal in many ways.

[@barbaros99]

She had more personality than all the other HS protags combined.

[@andrewcapra7153]

Same for the Space Nato Tentacle Blonde

[@default9314]

And the bee. Idk why, i just liked the bee. I just like bees.

[@vwin9112]

In another anime she could be more or less a deconstruction of overlords like Lord freiza who has to become an ally under harsh circumstances but then again not everything goes right

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@default9314 Not any bee, a huge invisibee. What's not to love, really?

[@RedXlV]

So is the blonde alien woman a tentacle monster disguised as a human, or is she an octopus-mermaid, or are those just spirit-tentacles? That's the question that really needed to be answered. Also, I was figuring tsundere dragon queen would turn out to be MC-kun's girlfriend all along via reincarnation, but I guess not.

[@joshuagraham2843]

cthulhu?

[@gloriousbastard3319]

I've thought she was Ellen Keller

[@chbend8220]

I mean I'm cool either way.

[@severalcakes3267]

My interpretation was that she was a tentacle monster with a glamour up for the humans’ benefit.

[@mr.goblin6039]

I’m glad we all agree that Spider Twink and Dragon Mommy are the best things about these trash fires.

[@Mugruncher]

Someone make it a ship just to fuck with the creators

[@ExpandDong420]

I require more *D R A G O N*

[@weregarurumon3202]

Dragon lady needs her own show without the propaganda

[@appelofdoom8211]

spongebob bee is pretty good to

[@PrimRooks]

Really what spins my gears is that they apparently had the budget to hire a stacked list of Japanese and English VA's, but not enough for a decent lyricist

[@ayajade6683]

Most the Japanese VA cast is in the cult

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Probably because El Cantare think he's totally able to write good lyrics

[@Getwright-]

El Cantare is the New York Cheesecake of lyricist

[@JMammograms]

…a dub for THIS anime, in THIS region, in THIS language, all with THIS cast of recognizable established VAs?! …can I see it?

[@azoth6641]

I'm guessing a sizable fraction of the budget was spent on the voice talents.

[@Jay_T62]

i can't believe their audacity to actually write down Stan Lee as a writer for this

[@fortis7881]

I'd almost say it's worse than the fucks at Disney who puppeted his dame twitter account to advertise their products. You know what no, it IS worse because at the very least he had a major role in creating the comics those movies were based on and he already made multiple cameos. He does not disserve to be used as a glorified propaganda tool by anyone, especially by these delusional and mentally deranged bastards that he had nothing to do with.

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

To be fair he made Ravage 2099.

[@fortis7881]

@@bearerofbadnews1375 to be honest I’m more so mad that their taking advantage of a dead man’s name because he was remembered fondly, more so than about the his legacy or the stories he worked on specifically. Hell he could have written Velma of all shows (just the first universally eviscerated story that came to mind) and I would still consider this morally bankrupt as fuck.

[@Religion0]

Surprised they haven't been sued to hell and back for that.

[@McBehrer]

@@Religion0 unfortunately, in order to sue (successfully), you usually need to be able to prove financial damages, so I don't know if they would have much of a ground for a lawsuit.

[@Crystre]

The spider guy is the one character I kinda like. I too would be pissed off if god decided to destroy my whole entire universe, because of essentially “needed to reincarnate”.

[@timothymclean]

If only he got any development at all that wasn't intended as happy cosmology exposition...

[@severalcakes3267]

I like Dahar because he’s got that comic book villain thing going on where he’s essentially a one-man empire. Like, Evol has soldiers and a fleet, but Dahar can match that with just his own powers. The guy is on another level.

[@ravenpotter3]

I was at a Q&A by Tom Kenny and I almost asked about his time voice acting in this. But I decided to ask about what was his thoughts about the world of voice acting in anime. And he didn’t mention this anime or anything. I didn’t want to make anything awkward since it was in a college auditorium being like “hey what was it like voice acting for a anime made by the cult happy science”. But he instead talked about how he knows a lot of the people in the world of anime voice acting from Comic-Con and how it pays less. But he sounded so enthusiastic the entire time. And he was saying how hard it is to match to lip flaps. Sad that I didn’t ask him about this anime but I think it was for the best to keep the atmosphere light and happy. He gave a good response on my question about what his thoughts were on the anime voice acting world. And he said that it pays a lot less and that he has met many people from it from comic cons. And that he loved Astro boy. Also he mentioned since another person asked about him being in 3 Pinocchio’s. He talked about that room He said a bit more. But yeah the person after me asked a great question about what it’s like working as a voice acting director. But everyone asked such great questions.

[@noahbossier1131]

Intresting

[@ravenpotter3]

Also I bet he wouldn’t have remebered it since he said something about not remembering some roles or something. Such a minor role anyway

[@Nonabelle]

Falun Gong (which is also called Falun Dafa) also has connections to the Chinese dance company Shen Yun. It's really a horrible shame, because so many people attend those shows to broaden their horizons and experience another culture, but alongside scenes of Chinese mythology and dance they're being fed cult propaganda. I actually went to these shows as a teenager and thought it was so sad that these people were being persecuted for their (relatively innocent-seeming on the surface) religious beliefs, only to find out later that my family's money was going towards a right-wing homophobic cult. Scary stuff.

[@chyennewhisman7166]

Holy shit I had no idea that they were a cult! There was a event yesterday in Prague and these people were playing music and handed out pamflets I got one and now I've decided to stay away!!!

[@ferretyluv]

Yeah, I always thought that Shen Yun was Chinese government propaganda, but now I know that the CCP actually hates Shen Yun. It almost makes me want to go see it just to give the CCP the finger.

[@marocat4749]

And the epoch times. Actually scary. Andnot saying china doesntpersecuteminorities,butthis time itd a real cult sayibg they are so persecuted and innocent uwu

[@BJGvideos]

They're also incredibly anti-vax

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

​@@chyennewhisman7166 They also run The Epoch Times and NTD. They push some rrally unhinged stuff.

[@SilvarusLupus]

I like that they went "yeah the lizards are okay now, but fuck spiders"

[@ManaAdvent]

Probably after El Cantare watched Stephen King's It.

[@marocat4749]

Spidertaxuhas a very good argumnt, whydidnt el cantare magically restore his planet.

[@azoth6641]

@@marocat4749 Didn't love enough and/or give him enough money... I guess.

[@casperchristiansen2458]

Wait till they find out about Hot Shelob.

[@kingsleycy3450]

Happy Science's morality has always been as long as they can turn into hot anime girls they have some redeeming qualities

[@jayarnie2052]

You can tell that the Helen Keller moment broke Jeff a little bit with often that clip comes up

[@mothersbasement]

I have never laughed harder at anything in my life

[@MrFoolsDays]

​@@mothersbasement My wife understandably had to ask if I was ok after I watched that.

[@donutchan8114]

That one always catches me off guard

[@fdajax5107]

I choose to believe in Happy Science not because of its teachings but to believe in the existence of Dragon Queen Mommy 🐉

[@typacsk]

Personally I'm curious about the blond tentacle alien

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

That dude lost his shot at dragon cheeks Id be an atheist just over that a lone

[@parkeryancey7512]

Hallelujah amen

[@Stormthorn67]

​@@typacsk if I was a good artist...Ushanka Tentacle UN Ambassador would be my choice of subject.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Giant Goatman may have some surprises in store, though.

[@StarLine317]

I'm happy to inform that the latest movie they made technically qualified for an Academy Award, and I did have to watch it for voting purposes.

[@johnquiett1085]

This feels like one of those projects where they didn't let one person see the whole project during production so people had no idea what they were doing.

[@wilsonsauls2899]

This is a saga I’ve been heavily invested in since the first video and while I’m sad it’s now officially over, I’m legitimately glad the cult can’t exploit any more vulnerable people for money

[@MrGksarathy]

They might find a way to keep it up, just like Scientology did, just like the Unification Church did, and just like a distressing number of other cults.

[@wilsonsauls2899]

@@MrGksarathy Idk. I can’t see anything saying whether or not Okawa was replaced yet, so it’s still possible, but it also seems like with how his family treats him, no one was really close enough to him to take over. Happy Science never seemed to me like it was built for longevity

[@timothymclean]

@@wilsonsauls2899 The cult boasts a membership in the millions. Even considering that they've probably inflated that number by a few orders of magnitude, there's no shortage of non-relatives who could take the reins if they find the right spin and have enough charisma. I consider it basically certain that at least _some_ Happy Science adherents will continue the cult one way or another. Whether they can maintain OVA-funding levels of membership is down to talent and chutzpah.

[@kingace6186]

Same.

[@TheNzFox]

@@wilsonsauls2899 he will be 'reincarnated' or 'give messages' to another 'prophet', hell maybe even throw in a 'he was assassinated by 'THEM'' to just reinforce the fear all cults use. There is absolutely no way another scam artist is not going to take over a pre-brainwashed group like this.

[@SakiMcGee]

Nothing beats Haruhi Suzumiya herself yelling out that she's "pretty sure aliens don't exist" at 4:47

[@thatguyinthecorner4648]

They un-Haruhi'd her! D:

[@SpyrosKoronis]

They are more powerful than we previously thought!!

[@michaelconnell1010]

Mirror Universe Haruhi!

[@FieryRedmond]

Dammit Wendee Lee

[@nightfall3605]

Thank you for catching that!

[@demontigress24]

"Suspiciously animated sphincter" is a string of words I never thought I'd hear in the same sentence

[@0uttaS1TE]

None of these words are in the bible

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@0uttaS1TE In the Happy Science Bible, they apparently are.

[@PredictableEnigma]

P sure it was used in the Chainsaw Man WIAOP

[@noonenowhere4494]

If you squint your eyes and tell yourself that it's a ghost stories style dub, these movies aren't half bad

[@AeonKnigh432]

Someone needs to make an actual Ghost Stories style dub for this

[@ssfbob456]

"Why did our universe have to be destroyed?!" "Bro, it was full of giant CGI spiders, something had to be done."

[@jackofdiamonds7303]

Never have I felt so excited for a KZbin video before. The combination of Happy Science’s insanity and Geoff’s creative roasting abilities make an unforgettable combination.

[@chloesantos8637]

SAME

[@andrewgammon3278]

Me to

[@eddieford9373]

Well said

[@Snzn_7]

I actually watched the first movie on the video without knowing who made the movie. It was so forgettable that I experience Dejavu when the movie was being summarized in this video until I realized that I actually did watch the damn movie.

[@AkaiNeko4]

fuckin same

[@GorillerViller]

"Happy science is about Love and forgiveness, unless your chinese" cracked me up

[@AeonKnigh432]

There's also the whole thing with black people from the movie where they met Albert Einstein and then went to heaven to see all the billionaires. Which is a real plot that I still can't believe a human wrote. Or, I'm sorry, an eternal space buddha.

[@gooeyshears4721]

That voice actor was having way too much fun getting to play "vaguely horny evil spider guy"

[@TupocalypseShakur]

He voices Zenitsu and Thorfinn now, so remember SpiderNux whenever you hear their voices

[@F1areon]

@@TupocalypseShakur Wait, that's Aleks Le doing SpiderNux???

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

His performance is unironically amazing

[@LaineMann]

@@TupocalypseShakur ohhhhhhh. I thought that was Lucien Dodge!

[@Strix182]

Maybe I've just been playing too much Persona 5, but I coulda sworn that was Robbie Daymond.

[@FYCY]

Stephanie Sheh saying "I'm just a puppet for the reptilians now!" Had me laughing pretty hard.

[@ИринаМ-ю1е]

The animation studio: "So, how ridiculous do you want it to be?" Happy Science: YES

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

The animation studio: "One unipanda coming up"

[@sillybillybear50]

Wish Mommy Dragon wasn’t in a Happy Science movie, I unironically adore that design and archetype

[@MABfan11]

check out I'm Quitting Heroing for a similar character

[@DarkHunter047]

They grasped at greatness and yet were so folish to let it go, wasted.

[@alicethemad1613]

Hey, there’s always time to plagiarize her and slap a legally distinct outfit change and haircut on it

[@goranisacson2502]

@@alicethemad1613 This may be the best idea to ever come from a Happy Science film... although if we do that I think we should ALSO lift the Kung Fu Panda-corn. Not like, sex it up like we did with dragon mommy. Exactly as it is here. The world needs more Kung Fu Panda-Corn.

[@caros.6072]

The emo flying montage was so fucking funny

[@Champiness]

I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around the storytelling logic of spending an entire 2-hour “Part 0” getting your leads to the point of “maybe they’ll have superpowers someday”, then opening “Part 1” with them having unlocked their powers, formed a superhero team, and met their villain all during an offscreen timeskip, _then_ transplanting one and only one of those leads to an entirely different setting half an hour in, *_then_* also dropping the remaining lead for the next one, and the closest real-life example I can anchor any of it to is “crowdfunding project that badly misallocated its resources”.

[@pills-]

Or "VAs canceled their contract after first movie"

[@EmethMatthew]

See, all their focus groups said they'd rather watch a sermon than see an actual superhero movie, so they just went with that! How could that not be relatable to the masses?

[@wadespencer3623]

Well the cult leader was a stockbroker. Business majors are kinda known for absolute creative bankruptcy.

[@Champiness]

@@wadespencer3623 They should at least understand what a franchise roadmap looks like!

[@Lamb.lamb.]

To be fair, the Greys being robots owned by the Nordics/Tall Whites is very common in the ufologist sphere

[@mothersbasement]

Huh, TIL

[@ejedwards988]

What?

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Made by OBH Nordica?

[@SiRenfield]

I also can’t help but recall that in a lot of conspiracy circles Reptilians tend to be code for “The Jews”

[@RothAnim]

So, not only is it batshit; it's _unoriginal_ batshit.

[@brainfood8971]

This is what happens when I wish on a Monkey Paw that Tom Kenny would voice act in an Anime.

[@trashotaku]

Well if it's any solace, other anime he voiced in was Rave Master as Griffon Kato, IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix as Benjamin, Batman Ninja as Samurai Captain and The Penguin, Porco Russo as additional voices, and Tekkonkinkreet as Sawada

[@ShadowRoadX]

What terrifies me the most is that there are just the smallest glimpses of actually good ideas buried inside all that madness. Proof that some things truly should never see the light of day, no matter how brightly they glitter.

[@FrankiKaye]

The bad guys chanting ENEMA made me laugh so hard I gave myself an asthma attack

[@suburbanbanshee]

Are you okay?

[@agusganji]

I'm still laughing

[@DolusVulpes]

​@@EpslionBear sounds like a shortcut to getting reincarnated faster

[@isapu1948]

Isn't that spanish for rectal exam I read that in a YT comment once and I'd love a confirmation 😅😂

[@agusganji]

@@isapu1948 it is

[@TheTygre]

Y’know, I’m glad they showed some good guy reptoids in these last few movies. It really goes to show that you can’t paint an entire group in one way, and that no one is beyond saving. Unless they’re Chinese. Or a spider.

[@blakequake2351]

I’ve made a habit of hearing an animated character talking and going “wait is that Josh Keaton?” but this was the last place i expected to do it

[@Goodlordwhatshappeninginthere]

You know the idea of a hammy world conquering alien supervillain getting roped against their will into saving the world and being none too happy about it the whole time actually sorta sounds like a really fun idea for a movie. Just imagine it with Rita Repulsa or someone.

[@JetZV]

The second movie is passable, if only because Zamza is its sole redeeming quality. With how interesting she is when compared to everything else in the movie, it feels like someone on the production team smuggled her in from a better project. When you said that Ray was never going to see his girlfriend again, I honestly thought it was going to be because he stayed behind with Zamza Atlantis/Stargate-style.

[@greenapple9477]

Late, but if he and his girlfriend were just friends or broke up or something, I wouldn't blame him for wanting to stay just to be with Zamsa, especially considering how much more (MUCH MORE) interesting she is.

[@WraithMagus]

Wait, wait, the space UN needs a random brain wave thing to interfere? But then the bad aliens ATTACK THE UN?! And THAT isn't a reason for the space UN to, you know, defend itself?

[@the_last_ballad]

Obviously Space Section 9 means that they, uh, can't do anything to defend themselves and they shouldn't have taken peace for granted.

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

Thanks Space Obama.

[@ejedwards988]

Sounds like they're as useful as the Earth UN.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@ejedwards988 Honestly, they're more like UN's ancestor, the SdN. You know, the one that was absolutely useless stopping WWII

[@timothymclean]

@@ejedwards988 That's not fair. The Space UN _tries_ to stop superpowers from violently exploiting weaker planets.

[@thatpedanticcommenter5847]

I had to exercise every ounce of self control to not burst out laughing in the coffee shop when Jeff said “… yes, that is SpongeBob, and yes, he’s been watching him masturbate.”

[@andrewowens4421]

To be fair... Spongebob probably _would_ watch someone masturbate, but totally in a platonic way.

[@AeonKnigh432]

There's probably a fanfiction that follows roughly that plot. And I will not look for it, because I don't hate myself that much

[@pippin8541]

Through a long series of coincidences -- starting with seeing your first video about Happy Science -- my husband and I actually went and saw Age of Elohim *in theaters. Bizarrely, our local theater was one of just a handful in the U.S. showing it, and there are always Happy Science pamphlets at our local H-mart, so I was excited to potentially meet some local believers. Instead, it was us and exactly one other audience member. Husband and I were helpless with laughter for most of the movie (thanks in part to some wildly overpriced theater wine), while the other audience member was absolutely dead silent. 10/10 moviegoing experience. thank you Geoff for sending us on that journey

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I want this dynamic. Able to drunkenly roast anime in theatres with my spouse. Something to aspire to.

[@pippin8541]

@@jakespacepiratee3740 Aw -- I hope you do find this someday, or it finds you. Rooting for ya!

[@shinyanakagawa8241]

The fact that they got high profile VAs for both the Japanese and English dub is blowing my mind. Holy shit.

[@SimplySwayze]

Nothing in this world could’ve adequately prepared me for the phrase ‘Spider-Nux’s suspiciously well-animated sphincter’, what the fuck Geoff

[@jaylinbuchanan5886]

Why is Zamza actually the realest character in any of these movies? Willing to throw hands with actual gods twice

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

She's unironically amazing.

[@timothymclean]

If she was either toned down and put in a serious story, or remained exactly as she is and put in a fun story, she could be a great character. But, well, reality is cruel.

[@abreathofairABOA]

I genuinely started hyperventilating at blonde woman-turned unicorn kung fu panda.

[@jacobwilliams1223]

That dragon girl is honestly a genuinely good character with a quality design and some decent development. This character deserves to be in a better piece of media.

[@kingsleycy3450]

Between her and the evil Chinese alien baddy from the last video, it's obvious the writer has a thing for villainesses

[@krimsonkatt]

I'll add her as an NPC for my next game don't worry.

[@josephgarfield3363]

Also she's hot

[@asherking159]

@@krimsonkatt hero

[@tarvoc746]

​@@krimsonkatt What game?

[@cosmoflanker]

Hearing Haruhi Suzumiya blurt out "I'm pretty sure aliens don't exist" @ 4:47 was pretty meta, and pretty hilarious.

[@CakeoftheMews]

"And of course, like he always does in people's darkest moments, Nagito appears-" Idk why but that line gets to me so hard.

[@heromedley]

man they must’ve localized this during a recession cause theres no way in hell they got all those A-list voice actors to work for a cult anime

[@MtnNerd]

Even then, they must have paid an insane amount

[@kaboombox1581]

“Beau Billingslea, Yuri Lowenthal, and top tier voice artists gotta eat.” - their agents.

[@PipimiOden]

They have too much money consitering they have schools...

[@frankwest5388]

Someone on twitter should ask them about it Might be hilarious

[@BubblegumPatty]

I wonder if they or their agents even realized it was a cult anime, and not just terrible incomprehensible trash that paid rent for a couple months.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

So,we had an entire movie made to introduce characters which (for the most part) ended up being entirely irrelevant next time they appeared. That's fantastic.

[@varenoftatooine2393]

I was just thinking about this. God that's some good shit right there...

[@timothymclean]

I don't know why they wanted to make a superhero trilogy without putting in even the bare minimum effort to tie the three movies together.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@timothymclean I mean, if the Ghost of Stan Lee tells you to drop everything, what else can you do? (It's so tasteless, damn it.)

[@PushoverMediaCritic]

When Okawa died, I predicted that you would do a bit where you get "possessed" by his ghost for something stupid like a G-Fuel sponsor, and I'm glad to see I almost called it.

[@BlueScarabGuy]

Okay so before we get any further into this...Josh Keaton, Yuri Lowenthal, and Roger Craig Smith being in the dub of this would imply that this dub was a union production. How? Crunchyroll can't afford to use union talent, but the cult can?

[@tomshraderd4915]

Often these cults have a surprisingly large amount of money and connections with rich people.

[@ShadowSlayer1441]

I like how Micheal just casually holds his sword by the edge instead of the hilt.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Hey, he's talking an attractive lady (OF GREAT JUSTICE!). Gotta show off and try to impress her a bit even if you should also be modest about it.

[@Vividaze]

Given the sheer insanity of so many anime plots and dialogue it’s not hard for me to believe the VAs in the dub wouldn’t have suspected it was made by a cult 😅 it would probably just be a random cheese fest to them

[@firepuppies4086]

"... This is suspicious but, hey I voiced a guy who basically punched a god at least once. So not the craziest shit I've done" -Yuri Lowenthal probably

[@Sylocat]

Tom Kenny was in both Brickleberry and Paradise P.D. After that, the Boku No Happy Science Academia Saga must have felt like a breath of fresh air.

[@chrisdaughen5257]

@@firepuppies4086 I'm surprised whatever studio dubbed this was passionate enough to make YL the fallen hero he's known for being in half the things he's in.

[@Minihood31770]

"The hardest part of it all, lies within us" It certainly lies within me after seeing the blonde lady is actually a tentacle monster.

[@AeonKnigh432]

I mean some part of something with you is hard I'm sure

[@viktormon]

Imagine the kids growing up on these movies actually seeing other anime for the first time. Like... any other anime. With like... story structure, payoffs and stakes.

[@pleasekillyoursef]

They'd be like: wow! This is exactly the same but with boobs!!

[@GrumpySylveon]

As a Jew, I get whiplash every time you say Elokim with the context being so hilarious that the name really doesn’t belong here.

[@drpibisback7680]

Zamza bitchslapping her minions for absolutely no reason was hilarious. That right there is how you establish a villain.

[@michaelbuell7032]

The cult leader dying wasn’t the plot twist I expected.

[@bthsr7113]

But wee are so lucky it happened.

[@SpoopySquid]

Can't wait for multiple grifters to step up and all claim that they're the "real" reincarnation.

[@GoodSirReginald]

Hearing the Happy Science-themed songs in these movies, I can’t help but feel like we as a society came heartbreakingly close to getting a full-on Happy Science musical, and I will now forever be devastated by the fact that I can’t experience the Hissler/Niches villain song duet that we all deserve.

[@MrGksarathy]

GOD IS DEAD!!

[@spi231]

You even used the Happy Science names for them. That shows commitment to the series.

[@lohjutsulegend]

​@@spi231 bro, you can't just insult them like that.

[@bc175]

Be the batshitery you want to see in the world! Write that musical! Become a legend!

[@EtterWolf15]

(*In an operatic singing voice*) Goooood.... Is DEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

[@leomorris7573]

embarrassing how genuinely overjoyed i got hearing them called pterosaurs instead of pteradactyls..

[@mothersbasement]

Look I may get a lot of anime names slightly wrong but once a dinosaur kid always a dinosaur kid

[@Gorpfield]

@@mothersbasement drumheller enjoyer?

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@Gorpfield is there such thing as a Drumheller hater?

[@Prizzlesticks]

Holy shit, the group chanting of "Enema, enema, enema," frickin killed me. I fell off a ladder a few days ago and bruised my ribs, and it was the most painful laughter I've ever enjoyed. Oh, man, I'm cryin' a little. Whooooo.

[@erufailon4723]

My biggest regret is now that I never used "reptilians ate my homework" as an excuse

[@yourcollegedebt8384]

The only reason I can think of that they have such a huge cast of stars is that they don't know this is a cult, and are just voice acting another anime with crazy lore.

[@zafool4997]

Likely.

[@charlx8979]

Or they joined the cult Tom cruise does promo videos for scientology after all

[@JukeboxTheGhoul]

Or money

[@ayajade6683]

For the Japanese dub they have a lot of voice actors who quit regular work and only do hs cult projects because they joined

[@TheDoomBlueShell]

@@charlx8979 I don't think this cult works with western sensibilities to get followers because we in general has more the approach of religious shouldn't mix, like it can happen (Love Has Won) but these cults are quite small for a reason, like even for people with little religious background if you said that a cult believes that Jesus and Buddha were the same person they think it is crazy and makes no sense

[@aaronhunt1925]

Worth mentioning that Nazca Academy is presumably named for the Nazca lines, giant geoglyphs in Peru that some crazies think must have been made by aliens

[@timothymclean]

Because as we all know, the best possible shape for a space runway is a giant bird made from soft dirt. That's seriously what many ancient aliens weirdos think the Nazca lines were made to do.

[@AeonKnigh432]

Yeah, I mean everyone knows that art doesn't exist.

[@marocat4749]

Or that people can do really impressive engeniering, and did do in the past too.

[@timothymclean]

​@@marocat4749 The engineering isn't the impressive part of the Nazca lines (or the Pyramids, for that matter). Both are impressive because of the sheer quantity of labor that had to be coordinated; the Pyramids had a more impressive scale of labor, the Nazca lines had more impressive coordination. That said, ancient societies could also produce impressive engineering.

[@mahiru20ten]

Not so fun fact: The third movie has one of the girls from Kamen Rider Fourze as the voice actress of Yaizael in the Japanese dub. She pretty much only works in Happy Science films after joining the cult in the late 2010s.

[@azoth6641]

Yoshiko Sengen, the actress formerly known as Fumika Shimizu (Yuki Jojima in KR Fourze).

[@KRDiStort]

I remember hearing about that. Damn shame.

[@whiteraven562]

Is she the one that had to be replaced in Yu-gi-Oh! 5Ds? I know one of the female characters had to get a new voice actress after the original joined a cult

[@kingace6186]

:(

[@mahiru20ten]

@@whiteraven562 No, that's Toyohama Satomi, she's related to a different cult called Roma Sophie.

[@Worstedfish]

The funny part is that this is in reverse. Goat and Tentacles are actually the bad guys trying to get everyone to be in bliss so they can control you and do what they will. This makes me believe even more in to all that just based on the fact if you know any of it before going in to it just feels like them being like "no guys, were actually good! Trust us!" lmao

[@greenapple9477]

Goat and Tentacles sounds like a gnarly indie band or a monstergirls hentai .

[@bucket9144]

SpongeBob spying on a highschool student without his knowledge or consent. It's upsetting that I've heard crazier concepts in my life.

[@martinratagris]

Man, I need to be more careful. I was very proud of myself when I didn't even chuckle at the bad guys chanting Enema but the panda lady made me spit a cookie all over the back of the head of the lady seated in front of me in the bus. I feel really bad that they are using Stan Lee's name for this. Not that everything he made was perfect but there is no reason to drag his name like this. When you look at the heroes Stan Lee co-created you notice a pattern, you have the Avengers like Iron Man who depending on the version needs different tech to keep his heart running, Captain America who fits with Stan Lee s creations since he was a weak and sickly boy before the super soldier serum, Hulk who with a bit of anger turns from the weak and meek Bruce Banner to the Hero most associated with super strength with the possible exception of Superman or Spider-Man who was the needy and bullied Peter Parker before the spider bite. Weak people given power and using it for good because ultimately, no matter how many bad guys there are in the world, there is good in people. But this cult decides that... No, I will only make myself angry and that way is only a ticket to hifl after all.

[@frostfire6579]

"I am just a freedom loving rock and roller" Ah yes perfectly normal dialogue 10/10

[@trystero1729]

no this unironically is perfectly normal dialogue. american conservatives really talk like that

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Very human

[@sweetchilli3069]

The fact so many A Tier English VA’s signed onto this makes my head spin, but many anime have had weirder plots so I hope to El Cantare this was just a paycheck.

[@jasonkeith2832]

Does Happy Science have any tangential connections to Scientology?

[@sweetchilli3069]

@@jasonkeith2832 You’re asking the wrong guy brother.

[@jasonkeith2832]

@@sweetchilli3069 I'm mostly making a joke about the American cult that has a bunch of celebrities in it.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

@@jasonkeith2832 beyond a pending lawsuit, i don't think so

[@kevinhuen1380]

Hope that paycheck was worth it. Also, apparently the Japanese VA side also has some equally shocking familiar faces.

[@Le_Dom]

There are so many respectable animators and voice actors trapped in those movies, gonna assume they were all tricked into working on it

[@Brasswatchman]

Paycheck's a paycheck. And so long as the morals you're pushing are suitably generic and non-threatening, why not?

[@AeonKnigh432]

"Tricked" is a strong word. They probably didn't know the whole thing about how cult this cult is, but a paycheck is as a paycheck does

[@AeonKnigh432]

I love that you refuse to call Natsume anything other than "his little sister once they get married"

[@ThePageofRage]

Honestly, the image of a black knight with a spear on a kick ass future surfboard triangle? Pretty awesome.

[@SilverDragonJay]

He should have stayed evil, way cooler

[@dominondsdsd]

I can't believe Nux is actually a giant enemy spider.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

But it makes perfect sense, in hindsight

[@kingace6186]

"I'm fighting toxicity with toxicity!" --Nux

[@Getwright-]

Geoff you videos are really a new york cheesecake to me. From the bottom of my heart!

[@Galactic_Skeleton]

29:38 bro literally eating his own words was probably one of the greatest dad jokes of all time.

[@dungeonpastor]

"God turns on his spider delete beam." I was wondering when he was gonna do that. 😂

[@karlgrimm3027]

This actually does seem like what Stan Lee’s ghost would write, like in the seventies.

[@BrenTenkage]

well not everything he wrote was perfect...like Stripperella...though to be honest that show was more grounded then this batshit insane movie

[@10tailedbijuu]

@@BrenTenkage dude got far too much credit for stuff people only think he had a part in making.

[@VisoredKuzu]

@@BrenTenkage I keep forgetting that Stan Lee made that show. The jokes and humor were dumb but enjoyed it nonetheless.

[@ShadowEclipex]

@@10tailedbijuu I guess him getting credit for these movies is just fitting the trend then.

[@drixg555]

Note that Stan Lee was credited with writing that episode of the 1970's Fantastic 4 cartoon where Magneto is beaten with a wooden gun.

[@miliocito2293]

I can’t believe El Cantare is fucking dead. Gonna watch this with my parents, we’ve been cleaning out HS pamphlets from our mail for years, we’ll have a blast.

[@nadirku]

Glad to see Nuxtaku's career as an anime character expanding, I really liked his performance when I recently watched him as a "bunny-boy" in "Juni Taisen" for Nuxtaku's debut appearance in a Nisioisin based anime.

[@radaro.9682]

"I will feed on your criticism" is badass. "It will be my appetizing" is....less so.

[@kirbyinhalesjotaro4471]

Please give a warning next time. My parents were really confused when I suddenly started choking and dying of laughter due to anime Hellen Keller greeting me in a magic kingdom