Being a religious propaganda movie from the likes of Happy Science, it's pretty much expected that The Mystical Laws will have plenty of moments that will chill your bones.
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- The "Ultimate Destruction Weapon" generates a tiny fireball that is 400,000 times as hot as the Sun's core and throws it behind enemy lines as a scene showcases it destroying a city.
- Now imagine going through your day only to see a little ball of light falling from the sky and suddenly unleashing a catastrophic explosion that rivals that of traditional nukes.
- Moreover, Leika Chan explained that using this weapon will affect both the Earth's crust and core so severely that it will become uninhabitable. So if you even survive such an attack, it will be for naught as the Earth's climate will progressively become hostile to life afterward.
- Shou's visions of the future after taking over as General of Hermes' Wings. While the first ones are of a pleasant cherry blossom forest and Konohana-no-Sakuya-bime's apparition, the next ones become nightmarish, such as Godom Empire soldiers marching through flames, cities razed and taken over by the Empire, the activation of the Ultimate Destruction Weapon, and demons lurking through the ruins of Japan.
- Another set shows Godom soldiers landing in Inasa Beach, invading a nearby town, and then shooting at a toolshed where a boy ran for cover, killing him. Then the final vision shows a Godom soldier aiming at the camera and shooting, which is meant to be from Shou's perspective.
- As Shou meditates for a second time, he sees visions of India and neighboring countries taken over by the Godom Empire, followed by Reptilians plotting to invade Earth when the UDW is activated. Why, you ask? Because they're bound by a Galactic Treaty, which stipulates that intervention in another planet is only allowed when the host planet's inhabitants are destroying their own civilization.
- Rient Arle Croud explains to him that all planets are living beings with advanced consciousness. Therefore, Earth will cleanse itself via natural disasters and sinking entire continents if humankind disdains it as a place for soul training, like what happened to the civilizations of Atlantis and Mu. The concept of the Earth itself causing massive cataclysms in response to humans' disavowing religion and refusing to believe in God and spirits is very unsettling.
- As Konohana-no-Sakuya-bime explains the existence of demons and Hell, we're treated along with Shou to a series of creepy visuals:
- Like in other Happy Science movies, Hell is depicted as a horrid place where shadows lurk before fading to a scene of a salaryman being possessed by a demon and angrily pursuing the other who passed by, implying the former's going to kill the latter. Then, a supercar crashes into Shou, disintegrating into banknotes and credit cards at the last minute. Then he is taken above what seems to be a decadent city with signs taken from a Red Light District shining around him.
- When Sakuya explains that they also invoke anger and hatred amongst countries and ethnicities, Shou is treated to visuals of war set to the sound of screaming people.
- Tathagata Killer. Being a tyrannical despot who seeks to destroy all religion and unite the world under his iron-fisted rule is scary enough, but he becomes even scarier after becoming possessed.
- One of his first scenes has him bind the hands of a member of his board of directors with his whip and yank him into the table. Tathagata ignores the man's pleas for his life before charging his whip, cooking the poor bastard to death as he lets out painful screams to the horror of Leika Chan and the other directors. All because he doubted the usefulness of Leika's technology.
- After becoming possessed and starting up his research for the "Ultimate Destruction Weapon," Leika Chan begs him to stop as it will destroy Earth. When she notes he has changed and implies he's possessed, Tathagata's eyes shrink and emit a red shine as the torches in the chambers flash brighter, startling her.
- When Leika went to the door, Tathagata telekinetically lifted the furniture to barricade it. She gasps in horror as the man walks menacingly and projects an energy claw from his hand to strangle her. While she escapes and uses her bracelet to stun him before rearranging the furniture and leaving, it's a pretty chilling scene.
- The demonic Chinese dragon he summons in response to Yamata-no-Orochi devouring his fleets. Not helping matters is that the poor CGI can increase the scare factor; it sports a wrathful expression and its scales have a purple and dark green metallic sheen.
- The demon possessing Tathagata. Unlike its vessel, it seeks to destroy the world and "bring tears to God's eyes." Knowing how demons work, this also means foiling the Savior's plan and drag all humans to Hell as the world is destroyed.
- Moreover, Shou's visions imply that had the demon achieved its goal and activated the UDW, its kind would have taken advantage of the survivors' mental state to wreak merry havoc on Earth before its consciousness cleaned it up.
- The moment it reveals itself after Tathagata's electrocution. Its "face" looks like a black skull with eyes and white hair. Moreover, when the movie makes a dramatic zoom to its eyes, they have black sclera with bulging yellow irises surrounded by red rings, making it look like Death, or something even worse is staring at you.
