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

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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