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Yes, it’s me again. This article is so dense I am going to give you two opportunities to back out, and I recommend you take them.

One of the first popular Vocaloid videos, c. 2007, was a poorly drawn anime OP, as featured in the Chibu Miku-san comics. The reason it was popular was not for the artwork or the music but because it was full of esoteric Buddhist references which no Westerner has ever successfully explained. The title was Gohou Shoujo Sowaka-chan (護法少女ソワカちゃん), which is a humorous reference to “mahou shoujo” but literally means Apologia Girl Svāhā, svāhā being Sanskrit for “Hail!”, which I will tone down a little to Apologist Girl Sowaka-chan.

This is your first chance to stop reading this article.
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This is the last post about obscure Japanese religions, I promise. And look! It’s an anime!

This is Thomas Edison. He used a spirit phone to call four Japanese teenagers to Heaven. This is all I’m going to say about this anime, because it is something you must see for yourself. Download it. You will thank me for it later.
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