Happy Science is a controversial Japanese religious movement founded in 1986 by Ryuho Okawa.
Happy Science has produced a few propagandistic anime movies, personally overseen by Ryuho Okawa and some based on his books.
Collectively known as Happy Science Movies.
From The Mystical Laws onward, all films are produced by HS Pictures Studio.
- Shiawasette Naani (1991)
- Hermes: Winds of Love (1997)
- The Laws of the Sun (2000)
- The Golden Laws (2003)
- The Laws of Eternity (2006)
- The Rebirth of Buddha (2009)
- The Mystical Laws (2012)
- The Laws Of The Universe (2015)
- The Laws of the Universe: Part 0
- The Laws of the Universe: Part 1
- The Laws of the Universe: The Age of Elohim
Tropes common among the films:
- Dark Is Evil: Demons are depicted as shadow entities hellbent on possessing humans and have several ways to lead them astray from God and the Eternal Buddha, be it by inflaming their worldly desires (money, sex, creature comforts) or by inciting hatred among several countries, faiths, ethnicities, and families.
- Deity of Human Origin: In Happy Science mythos, all humans are reincarnations of immortal spirits, angels, and demigods throughout history. Therefore, it's implied some of the gods in pantheons around the world, like Hermes and Konohana-no-Sakuya-bime started off as humans who upon dying met the requirements for admission into the highest tiers of Heaven.
- Demon of Human Origin: Conversely, high-level spirits who go astray and decide to go against Buddha's teachings of the mind in their lives as humans and instead teach wrong doctrines or deliberately plunge other humans into worldly pleasures will end up becoming demons upon dying.
- Light Is Good: Angels and Bodhisattvas are depicted as creatures of light and they seek to save humans by speaking about Buddha's teachings of the mind. Some of them in the Spirit World are even willing to descend into Hell itself to rescue any repentant human soul they can find and lead them back to Heaven.
- Self-Inflicted Hell: Since Happy Science doctrine teaches that the Spirit World reflects a person's mind upon death, this is more than evident. Anyone who had "sinful" thoughts and attitudes in their life not only will fall into Hell upon dying, but the place will amplify the soul's thoughts, which will then warp their appearance into a monstrous form that reflects their minds. Moreover, Hell is also divided into tiers tailored for a specific sin under the "Three Poisons" teaching in Buddhism.
