The Japanese Cult Behind These Obscure Anime
Happy Science is an organized spiritual religious group formerly known as The Institute for Research in Human Happiness. They are a cult, plain and simple. But what makes this religious group push the boundary into a cult? It's not the odd beliefs, or the amount of followers; what makes the Happy Science group a cult is their manipulation tactics both outside and among the group's members themselves. Their most infamous manipulation tactic? Anime.
As of 2021, they have nine full-length anime movies promoting their beliefs. The cult's history isn't fairly long, as the group started only a few decades ago, however their beliefs are incredibly complex and a mixture of other world religions and mythologies. When it comes to their anime, however, there are multiple studios who have been contracted to make anime for them, including the slice-of-life royalty themselves Kyoto Animations.
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Ryuho Okawa was a Wall Street trader affiliated with Toyota Tsusho, a financing branch of the Toyota car company. He claims his parents believed in both God and the Buddha, however, he wasn't active in religious activities. What was active, however, was the beliefs he was forming apart from his parent's beliefs; Okawa's beliefs from a young age involved unique views of spirits, souls, and the afterlife. On the 23rd of March in 1981, Okawa believes he was contacted by a divine spirit for the first time.
Later that year, Shinji Takahashi, the religious leader of the God Light Association, told Okawa that his destiny was to find a new religion for people to follow. Later that month, Okawa claims to have been contacted by Kūkai, Shinran, Confucius, Jesus Christ, Moses, and Nostradamus.
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