Wow, even Buddhists are fucked up!

Actually, in a way, I think that stands to reason. For a start, almost all of those statuettes that people think are meant to be Buddha… Here’s a fat happy guy with the huge droopy ears. Ok, I dig, he’s found inner happiness by giving up worldly desires. So how’d he get so rotund? Looks like someone still desires sugary treats, if you know what I’m saying.

But I digress… you just want your Sabbath morning cartoons, and I totally understand that. It’s just that this week’s is a Buddhist one… kinda. It’s called Birth, although in the early 90s was released by Harmony Gold as Planet Busters or World of the Talisman, depending which market you were in. It also had a dub that made it entirely suitable for kids, which was kind of not the point.

In the early 00s, ADV re-released it with a different dub, with some of the very fucked up original Japanese dialogue (including the rant by the now homosexual emo teen terracidal robot), but dropped a lot of the religious references… Go figure.

Either way, the clip you’re seeing here is the very last few moments, which are actually radically different from the rest of this pointless, yet entertaining romp, through many of the central tenants of Buddhism… with sexy arses an giant robots that shoot lasers from their face.

Hey, if you think this is disrespectful or something, you should see Legend of the Overfiend… also based on the central tenants of Buddhism… somehow…

You might also like to read:

1. Watch ye more cartoons on ye Sabbath!
2. Saturday morning cartoons for the adult
3. There aren’t any good cartoons on Saturday mornings now
4. Ye Oldé Sabbath Morning Cartoons

1 Comment »

1. 

   I am now feeling nostalgic for all the christian animations I used to watch growing up…

   Comment by Arriahne — April 3, 2010 @ 9:25 am

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