>that one time Toei distributed an anime by a religious movement that was founded by a former Wall Street trader about some religious fanatic who fights with a giant mecha-angel against Friedrich Nietzsche and Adolf Hitler who is in control of a demonic, fire-breathing elephanthttps://youtu.be/ZFqBt5O73Bs?t=4680
>>23603022Wasn't it like... Nitler? Something that came off as a typo.
All the Happy Science movies are so entertaining. They've got that same sort of batshit energy that 90s Christian media had.
>>23603022Yet, no Arab billionaire has stepped up to commission a two-cour show about a futuristic Mujahideen defending his space colony and their religion in his fast, transformable rocket.I thought the subgenre was huge over there. Where is my halal mecha show?
>>23603053Grendizer U is right there.
>>23603053They did commission a short featuring a Saudi saving the world of a meteor infested with an alien thing.https://x.com/manga_prd/status/1835604724889862508And the Saudis entered a multi-billion dollar agreement with Japan's gaming and anime industry to fund more joint anime and game production over time earlier this year.
>>23603022Director Takaaki Ishiyama(Kishin Corps) is a supporter and has done a bunch of work for them, as well as the creators of Kindaichi Case Files. The big shtick with them is "spirit conversations" where they believe they can talk with dead historical figures, and that's literally what their literature is, 100s of books of conversations with dead people
>>23603053Didn't an arab group paid sunrise or someone to do a historical anime about them? Iirc, Furuya did the main character.
>>23603053Arab billionaires don't even step up to rescue babies from dying under buried rubble. Can't think of a more spineless and self-traitorous ethnicity on Earth. Islam was a mistake
>>23604344That’s really a separate issue entirely and this thread isn’t about that
