Before their sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo cult released a series of bizarre anime recruitment videos starring their bearded leader Shoko Asahara levitating, phasing, and using other ridiculous supernatural powers.
It's pretty jarring to see a fringe group that would eventually commit senseless mass murder depicting itself as a gang of cuddly anime characters. Here's another (possibly NSFW) video, which features a bunch of naked Biblical figures running around or something (unfortunately, neither video is subtitled).
