The Happy Science Filmography Ranked
4. The Mystical Laws (2012)
Taking place in AD 202X, this film follows the journey of El Cantare as he fights against the evil Godom Empire, which appears to be China mixed with Nazis. The Emperor, a genetic creation by scientists, has commissioned a super weapon that can launch six-trillion-degree fireballs. He got this weapon from his scientist that happens to be an alien from the planet Vega, posing as an Asian woman. It turns out that aliens are capable of inhabiting human bodies, so keep a lookout.
The Godom Empire invades Japan, and imposes strict rules. They ban the use of the term “Japan”, make schools teach about the bad things in Japan’s past (Heaven forbid people know about the Nanjing Massacre), and they can’t have religions. Meanwhile, our protagonist meditates to summon an alien from Venus who can take him to the Vegan scientist, and she teaches him about aliens and compares him to Rient Arl Croud.
There’s tons of bad CGI in the final standoff between El Cantare and the Godom Empire, which also happens in a stadium. El Cantare ends this movie with another long sermon, mentioning that we don’t need military or economic power, just belief in invisible magic beings (which isn’t in the Happy Science political platform). If we all just believe in El Cantare, everything will be cool because love and tolerance… and stuff. They’re basically asking you to not pay attention to any of the casual racism where they turn the Vegans from Asians to white, blonde people, or the overt jabs at China. Focus on the dragon fights and extraterrestrials, and the magic that is definitely real because you can see the proof in this movie. Watch out for the rise of the Godom Empire, or the aversion of such a fate because maybe we all prayed hard enough.
3. The Laws of the Universe Part 0 (2015)
Just when you think these movies are running out of steam, you get a whole film about how aliens actually exist and are all around us.
As a project for creation class, five students at the Nazca Academy decide to expose the truth behind UFOs after the abduction of a student by greys.
Don’t be too quick to laugh at the premise (it’s too late for me), because the people who mock the characters in the film turn out to be wrong.
When the principal of the school expresses skepticism, he’s swept aboard the ship of a goat alien that tells him and a protagonist about the Galactic Federation. He shows them their base on the moon, and tells them of the evil reptilians that have infiltrated the American, Russian and Chinese militaries, as well as the academy with the aim of taking over the world. But why haven’t they done it yet? Well, there are technicalities of intergalactic law that they have to work around in order to enslave and eat the human race, you see. Who doesn’t love getting into those sorts of details?
The film shows how humans can communicate with aliens through the laws of attraction; brains that think on the same “wavelength” can communicate, and “good” thoughts attract other “good” thoughts. The reason people go to hell is because they are thinking on the hell wavelength. Eventually, there’s a big showdown with the reptilians, but not the ones working with the American and Russian militaries, they are very clear that this faction works with the Chinese.
The protagonists travel to the dark side universe, and escape on their teacher who is a converted reptilian dragon. The animation quality is the best of all the films, and it’s pretty entertaining all the way through outside of a boring relationship melodrama.
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