Tengoku Daimakyou (Heavenly Delusion)

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Japanese: 天国大魔境

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 1, 2023 to Jun 24, 2023

Premiered: Spring 2023

Broadcast: Saturdays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: Mainichi Broadcasting System, Kodansha, NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, Avex Pictures, NetEase

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Manga

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.22¹ (scored by 215,002 users)

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Ranked: #344²

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Popularity: #480

Members: 471,757

Favorites: 5,484

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Synopsis

Fifteen years ago, disaster struck human civilization, and now dangerous man-eating monsters roam the ravaged lands, posing an existential threat to the remaining survivors. Amid this turmoil, an isolated facility shelters children and nurtures them in peace. However, as a few among them find out about the world beyond the narrow periphery of their nursery's walls, their curiosity about it slowly grows.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, young survivors Maru and Kiruko band together to search for a special place called Heaven, each for their own reasons. Carrying past burdens and tragic secrets, the two hope to find answers to the cruelty they have experienced in their lives and in the world, which still remains in tatters.

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Tengoku Daimakyou was released on Blu-ray in two volumes from August 30, 2023, to September 27, 2023.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kiruko

Main

Senbongi, Sayaka
Japanese

Maru

Main

Satou, Gen
Japanese

Mimihime

Supporting

Fukuen, Misato
Japanese

Usami

Supporting

Takeuchi, Shunsuke
Japanese

Shiro

Supporting

Takeuchi, Shunsuke
Japanese

Kona

Supporting

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Totori

Supporting

Matsuoka, Misato
Japanese

Takezuka, Ooma

Supporting

Kino, Hina
Japanese

Kuku

Supporting

Kurosawa, Tomoyo
Japanese

Juuichi

Supporting

Sakuya, Shunsuke
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Morihiro, Fumi

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Kamei, Hiroshi

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Cao, Cong

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Yonezawa, Akira

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Opening Theme

"innocent arrogance" by BiSH

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Ending Theme

	"innocent arrogance" by BiSH (eps 1)
	"誰も彼も何処も何も知らない" by ASOBI同盟 (eps 2-7)
	"誰も彼も何処も何も知らない (#08 Special Arrange" by ASOBI同盟 (eps 8)

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May 6, 2024

MarBaws

Recommended

This was more of a mixed bag the more it neared the end. Mostly I would absolutely recommend it: very good animation (... there was one wonky episode), interesting and memorable soundtrack, but mostly solid in the story/worldbuilding department. This is pretty much the reference anime for the genre of "Mystery": the story starts in medias res and the audience spends a lot of the time pondering how the accumulating information fits into the bigger picture, slowly piecing together the nature of the world Tengoku Daimakyou drops our characters in. This kind of clue-evaluation is made fun and engaging, the only minus I would mention ...

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Apr 10, 2024

stonepillar

Mixed Feelings

This show start out okay by being mystery but at the same time try to be weird like the main MC kiruko who has questionable identity crisis or the world that the setting is dystopia but the reason behind it doesn't make sense. Maru the other MC who knew kiruko identity but still go hard on her. The plot divide into 2 that is flash back (the facility where scientist want to create immortality by experiment on children with special power) and the current timeline where we got maru and kiruko go on adventure to find someone can be confusing at first but afterwhile you ...

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Jan 28, 2024

Sonwig

Not Recommended

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Trigger warning: sexual assault

It is a testament to how stale anime has become if Tengoku Daimakyou is considered great. It is not quite awful, with strong production values throughout and clear artistic effort put into it. The major issues with the pacing, coupled with the poor story and characters that we are shown, land it as a high 3 out of 10.

The short TV anime squanders so much of its limited runtime on boring and pointless scenes. Not the side stories; such diversions are welcome in this kind of show. However, the scenes showing the children in 'heaven' were excessively long and dull. None ... of it mattered whatsoever until the final few episodes, and still it didn't tie back to the main characters. These parts took up a large portion of the show and were unecessary.

This might only be a problem because the show is unfinished. The entire pacing is built towards a climax that is being saved for some future second season. It can't stand on its own as a single season without that second part. The entire show is unwatchable because of how it was structured. Unless you're watching it for the above average art and animation, there's no point in seeing this until they release the rest because the only interesting part of the show is the mystery, which is built up through the whole season and never resolved.

Of course, if it had good characters and individual stories it would still hold up. Unfortunately neither are quite the case. The creators were good at writing a mystery, not so much interesting characters. None had complex personalities. The only real character trait an important character had was the main boy who's trait is that he is horny. Main girl, heaven girl etc., are all completely forgetable but for their designs (the designs clearly came before the characters). The side quests are really forgettable as well, all just exploring very basic and surface level themes. They were all just incredibly mediocre and poorly written.

The climax of this season is about the main girl's character. Her character arc is the real point of this season. But this main pillar crumbles only a few episodes after we hear her backstory (which does look to be interesting at first). The whole thing is handled so poorly and the writers clearly can't make anything complex or believable. This character's story is just such an insane planewreck that crashes into heathrow, leveling several terminals and killing thousands. The quasi-normal anime sexual assault that the main boy does to her is just even less forgivable because in the last two episodes the show actually brings up sexual assault and its just so awful. And its like mainly about gender but only the wierdest conception of it. There's nothing wrong with touching these subjects as long as you treat it with respect (the show doesn't). It's also fine to have boobs and fanservice, and the show isn't bad because it has those things. It's bad because of how the fanservice is presented and how it ties to the character themes. It could have still been a good show despite this depiction...

Tengoku Daimakyou would have been less talked about than Aico: Incarnation if this had come out in 2018 (not the highest point in anime). But today it is somehow praised to the moon and given an ultra-high ranking when it is fundementally, detatched from its poor handling of the main character and themes related to her, a 4 out of 10 show, or 5 out of 10 at a stretch. Don't watch until the second season comes out. Even when it does, only watch it if you like the character and monster designs.

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