Are there any anime about or that reference the Aum Shinrikyo?
>>155830678
Yes. Lurk the fuck more.
Mawaru PenguindrumI migh be spoiling the whole series for you but who cares your loss
Penguindrum.
>>155830709
>>155830711
I already saw it so its okay.
>>155830706
Don't talk back to your elders.
Is that it, just Penguindrum and the original?
That's okay, I'll just remake the thread with a different description and picture so you stop thinking its a rec thread made by /pol/.
stupid autists
My backlog is 250+
>>155830678
Evangelion was heavily inspired by it according to Anno.
>>155832201
>1994 was 10 years after 1995
Mawaru Penguindrum
Utena
evangelion
Serial experiments lain
>>155830678
>In December 1994 police found a pamphlet at the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo which included a song called "Sarin the Magician," a parody of the theme song of Sally the Witch. Lifton said that Sally "was undoubtedly a prominent figure in the childhoods of leading Aum members."
>>155832301
>>155832201
I guess you weren't joking.
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg00101.html
Although the theory suggests that the story was changed once news of the attacks was revealed.
Also the Evageeks admin seems to disagree.
>Locked. Because I'm tired of hearing Matt Greenfield purporting this moronic theory that Anno and Evangelion are even remotely connected to this. The same sort of idea has been in dozens of other stories over the past several decades, and Evangelion exhibits no profound similarities to the cult in question.
>>155832591
Everyone on Evageeks is retarded so I'm not surprised, but I remember some other interviews on Anno himself personally talking about it and its connection to Eva.
>>155832578
>Magical Girls caused the Kobe earthquake
>Magical Girls caused the 2011 earthquake
>Magical Girls caused the Sarin attack
When will Japan wake up to the frilly menace?