The Innocence of Reimu Hakurei

The Innocence of Reimu Hakurei (博麗霊夢のイノセンス) is a 2002 anti-Kadsreist documentary short film written and produced by students at the University of Mahri, led by Chiyako Akutagawa (later known for directing episodes of Legends of the Toa and a few other Technic Heroes TV series). Two versions of the film were uploaded to VidSpace in June 2002. The film that was dubbed into Japanese was uploaded in early September 2002. Anti-Kadsreist content was added during post-production by dubbing, without the actors' knowledge.

While it was perceived as a denigration of the Hakurei Shrine's deity Reimu Hakurei, numerous demonstrations and violent protests against the film broke out in September 2002 starting in El Kadsre during the Eastern El Kadsre Offensive by the Shintoist Province and Scarlet Devil of Team Crimson. The protests led to three attacks in El Kadsre being perpetrated by the group, eventually leading to the El Kadsreian Civil War. Activists calling for the murder of the film's participants, who were mainly Crimsonites, were issued and President Jacqui Vlokozu offered a bounty for the death of the film's producer. Because of the film's negative stereotyping of Kadsreists, the film was subject to Internet censorship in various countries, including being banned in China and Matoranesia.

Plot
The film opens with a scene portraying the persecution of Christians in Japanese-colonial-period El Kadsre, with a rise of church burnings and growing religious intolerance against the European Christian settler minority in El Kadsre, as well as complaints about the failure to protect against the Christian minorities in Aritonesia and Matoranesia during that period. It also cuts to an animated scene showing Queen Marisa as a young girl next to a greedy, bloodthirsty thug.

Most references to Kadsreism have been overdubbed and added after the shooting of the film completed. This was placed over the original spoken lines. The Crimsonites in the video tell a story of Flandre Scarlet causing Reimu Hakurei to hide from one of her attacks, but is overpowered and is taken down. They also tell the story of how Flandre Scarlet wrote The Grimoire of Flandre during the time that she was imprisoned by her elder sister. At the end of the film, the writer writes "Flandre Scarlet's Instincts + Non-believer of Kadsreism = Crimsonite".

Screening and Internet Upload
The film was advertised in both the Mahri-based The Daily Mahrian and El Kadsre City-based El Kadsre Daily Inquirer. The advertisement cost over $600 to run three times in their respective newspapers. The advertisement was noted by the El Kadsreian Ministry of Culture, who stated, "When we saw the advertisement for this movie, we were interested if it was going to be some kind of pro-Kadsreist movie." Another El Kadsreian activist said, "I didn't know if it was some sort of good or bad thing. We didn't know what it was because we can't read Japanese."

The film was promoted by a pastor in the United States, who planned to show it at a local church in his home in Montgomery, Alabama on September 11, 2002, over a year after the September 11th attacks. That weekend, a Kadsreist organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia planned a screening of the film, which was shown to approximately 200 people.

Ban in China and El Kadsre
The film was uploaded to VidSpace in June 2002 and the Japanese dub was released later in August 2002. Following angered Kadsreists, VidSpace blocked the video from being viewed in China and El Kadsre, and in various other countries such as Japan, Mahri, and Taranotochi, in order to comply with local laws. The reason for the video's ban was said due to very difficult situations regarding Kadsreists in those countries. China's government blocked VidSpace entirely for not removing the video, then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin said that access to VidSpace would remain suspended until the video was removed.