Heavenly Delusion (2023)
- Original title
- 天国大魔境
- Directed by
- Hirotaka Mori
- Genre
- animation, mystery, action & adventure, sci-fi & fantasy
- Country
- Japan
- Length
- 1 season, 13 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 276 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In a ruined Japan, a boy named Maru and a girl named Kiruko travel looking for a special person. Meanwhile, children live in a sealed school called Heaven, unaware of the outside world. Their two stories slowly connect.
post-apocalypticmysteriousbittersweetdeliberateintrospectivehopefultensebroodingcerebral
What happens
Heavenly Delusion (Japanese: 天国大魔境, Hepburn: Tengoku Daimakyō; lit. 'Heaven Grand Makyō') is a Japanese anime television series based on the manga series of the same name by Masakazu Ishiguro. The series was produced by Production I.G and directed by Hirotaka Mori. It was broadcast for 13 episodes on Tokyo MX and other networks from April to June 2023. The story is divided in two storylines with one involving the characters Maru and Kiruko as they travel across a post-apocalyptic world, while another story focuses on a group of children who live in a school. Mori and the production side had to think about the overall structure, so Ishiguro had to tell them the story to the end. Because of this, he asked the editorial department to appoint a separate editor, specifically for the anime. The series adapts the first six volumes of the manga. Mori and his colleagues worked to properly convey the setting seen in the manga, while balancing the screen time between Maru and Kiruko, and the students from Heaven. The anime adaptation has been positively received for its animation, and its focus on relationships and gender issues. It has been regarded as one of the best anime of 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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