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* The cult revolving around "Friend" in ''[[Twentieth Century Boys]]''. This begins to change as the cult forms the Friendship Party of Japan and initiate a totalitarian takeover of the Japanese political system {{spoiler|and, eventually, that of the rest of the world}}.
* In ''[[King of Thorn]]'', the [[Human Popsicle|Cold Sleep]] project was sponsored by a cult called Venus Gate. They planned to harness the power of [[The Virus|Medusa]] to remake the world, only to discover too late that [[Evil Is Not a Toy]].
* The Lemures of ''[[Baccano!]]!'', who worship the immortal [[Mad Scientist]] Huey Laforet. They believe that if they serve him, they may obtain eternal life for themselves. {{spoiler|Huey is not actually capable of making others immortal, and regards them with amusement and scorn for believing this.}}
* ''[[Ai Kora]]'' has a truly bizarre example, the Church of Bluish-Purple, run by a loony with a fetish for bloomers (as in ''buruma'', super-short girl's gym shorts).
* An example appears in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]: Tokyo,'' but it's hard to tell if it's a straight example or subversion. In one of the stories, a teenage delinquent is accepted into a group led by a woman claiming to be an Angel. None of the girls do anything ''wrong,'' as everyone says: they do community work, farming, visit the sick and elderly...the only law seems to be that the girls must give up their cellphones and never eat a bird. Suddenly, all of the girls drop dead, seemingly at the exact same time, and their leader is nowhere to be found. However, it turns out that {{spoiler|they all died of grief after learning the food they ate was contaminated and accidentally mixed with chicken meat. They were so horrified that they ate bird, they all dropped dead at once. [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|Count D says he firmly believes the leader was an angel who took the girls to Heaven.]]}}
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* In the [[Backstory]] of ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', Arikos's crimes stem from leading a cult of Talmi who believed that he could turn them (back) into humans. In truth, Arikos used the cult as a means to produce his Celeste offspring, and not only killed off any "failed" offspring , but also any members of the cult who had outlived their usefulness (specifically older members who could no longer work / bear children) throughout the process.
* In ''[[Templar, Arizona]]'' there is a cult of people founded by 'Jake', whose core beliefs revolve around theft, polygamy, and breeding, and refer to themselves as 'Jakes' or 'Jakeskin' (Jake's kin).
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