Religious anime film opens October 12 in Japan

The official website for Uchū no Hō: Reimei-hen ( The Laws of the Universe: Part 1 ), the new anime film sequel to the The Laws of the Universe Part 0 ( UFO Gakuen no Himitsu ) religious anime film, unveiled a trailer, poster visual, and October 12 premiere date on Wednesday.

The film will be the first part of a trilogy.

The cast includes:

Ryota Ohsaka as Ray

Asami Seto as Anna

Tetsuya Kakihara as Tyler

Hisako Kanemoto as Halle

Wataru Hatano as Eisuke

Fumika Shimizu as Zamuza



All of the cast members above except for Fumika Shimizu are reprising their roles from the previous film. Religious group Happy Science had announced in 2017 that Shimizu retired from acting to join the group. She now works under Happy Science's ARI Production with the new stage name Yoshiko Sengen.

Other cast members include:

Yuichiro Umehara as Alpha

Sayaka Ohara as Gaia

Ayumu Murase as Dahar

Shinnosuke Tachibana as Eros

Hiroki Yasumoto as Geopard

Miki Itou as Inkar

Daisuke Namikawa as Professor Yoake

As before, Isamu Imakake is directing the film at HS Pictures Studio, and is also the character designer and chief animation director. Yūichi Mizusawa is once again composing the music. Nikkatsu Corporation is distributing the film, with distribution assistance from Tokyo Theatres.

Happy Science published an English digital booklet introducing the main characters and highlights of the previous film, and the official English website for the first film describes its story:

Ray, Anna, Tyler, Halle, and Eisuke are five high school students who are suddenly wrapped up in a mysterious incident. An alien species called Grey abducts Halle's sister and embeds her with a special chip inside her brain. The five stand up to save Halle's sister and try to reveal the existence of aliens, but continue to be met with mysterious events. The high school students' story progresses into a shocking development! What truths hide on the dark side of the moon? What are the true intentions of the aliens that are infiltrating America, Russia and China? What is the true crisis that is closing in on Earth and what hope can we have towards the future!? Going beyond the last movie, The Mystical Laws, The Laws of the Universe – Part 0 reveals stunning truth from beyond the star in animation form! People of Earth, you cannot afford to miss this movie!

Ryuho Okawa, the founder of the controversial religious organization Happy Science (Kōfuku no Kagaku), is credited with the original work and as the chief production supervisor for the first film.

The first film premiered in Los Angeles in September 2016. Eleven Arts then screened the film in selected theaters in the U.S. and Canada in October of that year, and the film opened in Japan in the same month. The film screened in North America with an English dub.

Happy Science has sponsored a number of animated films in the past, including The Mystical Laws, which opened simultaneously in the U.S. in October 2012. The film received an English dub for its Japanese home video release, and it received a video-on-demand release in the U.S.

Sources: Laws of the Universe website, Anime! Anime!