An Actual Cult Made Bootleg Avengers Anime 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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！

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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”.

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.”

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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”.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

23:00 _UM, ACHSHOALLY-_ So the Saber Tooth Tigers? They could be absolutely nothing. But more likely they're tied to a popular font of Cult Lore™ that was a popular japanese author who proposed an alternate timeline featuring Saurian-descended species and that they lived on another planet, which wound up being the base for a few manga and games here and there in the same sorta way that Chariots of the Gods keeps giving us Glorious New Content™

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

About two years ago, my city’s anime con had a special screening of Laws of the Universe, part 1 with Q&A with the director. I knew it was made by a cult so I didn’t go (watched a video essay about it) but I have no idea if the organizers knew or not.

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

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.

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

The "eat my words" gag was top-tier.

I came for a roasting of cult anime fake scientologists - but came away with a reminder of why I don't go to Shen Yun. This vid has it all from dire warnings about predators seeking political power to kung fu panda unicorns. 10/10.

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.

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.

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

Fun-fact, according to the astronauts, scientists and engineers who have interacted with Moon rocks, the Moon dust is extremely coarse, extremely rought and gets extremely everywhere, so grabbing a Moon rock with your bare hands is a recepy for days and days of pain

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

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

Dahar(?) was easily the best part of these movies. Evil pretty boy with *justified* motivations, whose VA is giving way more his all than most of the VAs? Yes please. Also, I was just getting attached to Rei and Tyler when Geoff hit us with, "You're never gonna see them again. Also also, perhaps one day I will get around to writing insanely gay fanfic based on these movies. Also also also, I wonder if any of the kids who grew up in this cult ever wrote their own fanfics. (My guess, yes. And then they used them as the basis for new movies)

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

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

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.

Now hear me out, this is actually just the Dark Souls of bad anime cinematic universes. Every character talks like an NPC. There is a never-ending pit of lore that 99% of consumers completely ignore, and yet there is somehow almost no story. During the brief reprise from the unlubed shenanigans forced upon you, there is occasionally a little bit of enjoyment like hearing amazing VA's talent get wasted, or that an area wraps back on it's self and you end up in an ouroboros nightmare trying to find a way out but the cult has finally grasped you and there is no escaping now.

I laughed way too hard at the "Manages to Counter-hump his way out of a hold"

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

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

because of this trilogy "the laws of the universe - the age of elohim" is now the top recommend to me on every single video i watch on youtube. you've infected my algorithm

As an aspiring writer, this bolstered my confidence in my skills after seeing this video