A Japanese Cult Made This Manga...and it's terrifying

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  @bad733 · 3 years ago

  It's crazy the amount of reach they had to bring in animators and artists to work on it, because I refuse to believe that they just had enough people who did those jobs who already were part of the cult.

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  @314rft · 3 years ago

  You know what's scary? My dad was on at least 1, if not 2, of the affected subway lines on the day of the Sarin Gas attack. If he didn't sleep in that day due to having a day off but instead went during rush hour, he could've actually died. And since I was born after the attack, then I could've never existed.

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  @LoliLover36669 · 3 years ago

  It amazes me how Japan is either super peaceful where you can just leave your stuff and no Japanese would steal them, or they would have so extreme criminals like these. There's no in between

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  @IriaChannel · 3 years ago

  To be clear, it's not a "banned" manga. It's simply not sold or distributed. If it were "banned', purchasing it would be a crime.

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• UR

  @urarakaochaco3848 · 3 years ago

  this is quite literally a cult classic

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• DA

  @DarkFrozenDepths · 3 years ago

  &quot;this feels like a collectors item, and not in a good way&quot;<br><br>Well I mean, it is a piece of history. Bad or good, it&apos;s still history and people should know.

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  @vasto8013 · 3 years ago

  Always a good day when detective aki is on the case

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  @PhillyCh3zSt3ak · 3 years ago

  One fun fact is that in both Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 6 the cult is parodied. Knowing about the cult for a while before playing these games made for a surreal experience when doing those substories.

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  @Imaginationink1862 · 3 years ago

  It is scary to think that someone believed this.

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• TY

  @Tyrconnell · 3 years ago

  As best i know the current situation with Aum is this:<br>They split into two groups. The main one is called &apos;Aleph&apos;. They have about 1600 members and 13 facilities in Japan. They appear on internet talks and events, but there have been arrests for incidents involving trying to sell cult lectures as &apos;yoga classes&apos; and attempting to make out the sarin gas attack as a government conspiracy.<br>The second group is called &apos;Hikari no wa&apos; (Circle of Light). It claims around 60 members and seems to be mainly concerned with trying to keep the compensation payments to gas attack victims going (which Aleph has defaulted on) and deprogramming members of Aleph. <br>Both organisations are under close surveillance, though the US took Hikari off its terrorist list last year.<br>I highly recommend a pair of documentaries, &apos;A&apos; and &apos;A2&apos; made by Tatsuya Mori in 1998 &amp; 2001 showing the events around Aum following the attack.

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• C.

  @c.s9614 · 3 years ago

  I’m Highschool in America we got visited by a Japanese class 2 times while I was there, one year I was the only one given a book that was very cultish, science of happiness was the name I think, and the next year everyone else got books from these students when they visited, and since I had already gotten this book I knew that in it it tells about a cultish leader who was the reincarnation of Christ and they had anime stuff too, and I felt bad but I brought the book to the main office and snitched and everyone got their books taken away, I never knew if what I did was bad or good, but it is so odd and the fact this cult Aki is talking about also has anime / Manga to promote it.

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  @YoBen100 · 3 years ago

  Japanese cult: &quot;We have manga.&quot;<br>Scientology: &quot;We have South Park.&quot;

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