Sadly, the group was sabotaged by chemicals (what is the sky made of, that in which you breathe?) Japan, in the name of repopulation, fancied to taint industrial smog with a touching of hormone replacement; and lo, the Tokyoites (as evidenced by their standard accent) were none the wiser. Why the mass urbanization, you may wonder?
In the first chapter, we see the effects of the drunken world on the sober Roneurist. "This world has too much sex in it." Truer words have seldom been spoken. The knowledgeable are scorned by the ignorant, as could be seen in the affliction of the Roneurist preacher. And behold, the imp of Satan, who had been sent by Evil so as to poison her with a deceitful "romance" (and no, not of the Schumannic variety).
The chemicals took over the Roneurist monks and preachers, no doubt. Hongo, Spanish for Fungus, was at previous a pure rationalist, composing a sexual psy-op in order to infiltrate the minds of the profligate fornicators (or, indeed, more likely the mere fornicators-in-spirit). In the second chapter we see the grievance of a Roneurist monk who develops an accursed libido, and she weeps as all would in such a circumstance.
The only surviving Roneurist: Momoko. Tainted by the touch of the reprobate sex, she could only seek the purification of the Anti-Poedipus Nina (so they called her to shield her true title).
The "plant." Izumi they called him, no doubt the Liberal Democratic Party was behind his schemes: to dissolve the declining Roneurist Church at its heart. He loves "trains" so they say. Just as they "train" a dog to bark when told, he unleashes his monologue on "trains." The grand opus of the Japanese politicians, as they ignore the decadence of the train-station environs. Public transport, the greatest diversion in political history: COME TO THE CAPITAL, WHERE THINGS ARE SO CLOSE YET SO FAR AWAY. The brilliant crowded trains, no room to evade the chemicals.
As is expected from the Roneurist faction, the final episode demonstrates a classic example of political dissidence. For the Freedom of the Roneurist ring-leader, the preacher, the PRINCIPAL PROPHET OF TRUTH; RELEASE HER (and her satanic sidekick) OR THE SCHOOL WILL BURN.
