After watching Episode 1 of this, If I have to describe this anime in one word it will be 'Mindblowing'. The Visuals, Music, Story, Camera movements and Lighting everything was Perfect.
In your opinion how much does it have similar vibes to PC Game- 'Last Of Us'? If we talk about similiar animes, It is like mixture of 'Promised Neverland', 'Darling In Franxx' and 'High school Of The Dead' BUT BETTER!
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Thorf said: Shut up. You watched 23 minutes of a new show.
Bruh nobody is forcing you to reply. If you can't answer something Politely then please refrain from replying in first place.
Also 23 minutes + trailer is enough to get first impression and predict how the series will be like for most of the parts other than story.
Thorf said: Shut up. You watched 23 minutes of a new show.
Bruh nobody is forcing you to reply. If you can't answer something Politely then please refrain from replying in first place.
Also 23 minutes + trailer is enough to get first impression and predict how the series will be like for most of the parts other than story.
Oivampal said: After watching Episode 1 of this, If I have to describe this anime in one word it will be 'Mindblowing'. The Visuals, Music, Story, Camera movements and Lighting everything was Perfect.
In your opinion how much does it have similar vibes to PC Game- 'Last Of Us'? If we talk about similiar animes, It is like mixture of 'Promised Neverland', 'Darling In Franxx' and 'High school Of The Dead' BUT BETTER!
Thorf said: Shut up. You watched 23 minutes of a new show.
Bruh nobody is forcing you to reply. If you can't answer something Politely then please refrain from replying in first place.
Also 23 minutes + trailer is enough to get first impression and predict how the series will be like for most of the parts other than story.
If you bait, don't complain if someone bites.
Who is baiting? I am totally serious and I have watched 427 animes, 900+ seasons and 12000-15000 Episodes.
The first eps was good but not something mindblowing.
In my opinion it was. Reasons- •It had amazing movie level quality with animation,visuals and camera work. •Soundtrack and Sfx both were really good. •Story was engaging and insanely good. The way they mixed action, comedy, romance, ecchi, drama, sci fi, mystery, etc in a single Episode without making it feel even a little over-packed and just perfect makes it really amazing. •Lighting was great, Background detailing and other Physics based movements were Outstanding aswell.
It might seem like me being 'Overexcited' in your opinion but personally what I said was based on a total logical reasoning based on my opinion and ya I am in no way new to animes my total watch count of series is 427+
nah i don't think so. it's just a new thing, and you're overhyped. Until now the story is just questions after questions without any answers. Anime looks nice tho.
Oivampal said: After watching Episode 1 of this, If I have to describe this anime in one word it will be 'Mindblowing'. The Visuals, Music, Story, Camera movements and Lighting everything was Perfect.
In your opinion how much does it have similar vibes to PC Game- 'Last Of Us'? If we talk about similiar animes, It is like mixture of 'Promised Neverland', 'Darling In Franxx' and 'High school Of The Dead' BUT BETTER!
naaaah, 1 last of us wasnt on pc till recently and 2 hot take but this is better than the last of us
The first eps was good but not something mindblowing.
In my opinion it was. Reasons- •It had amazing movie level quality with animation,visuals and camera work. •Soundtrack and Sfx both were really good. •Story was engaging and insanely good. The way they mixed action, comedy, romance, ecchi, drama, sci fi, mystery, etc in a single Episode without making it feel even a little over-packed and just perfect makes it really amazing. •Lighting was great, Background detailing and other Physics based movements were Outstanding aswell.
It might seem like me being 'Overexcited' in your opinion but personally what I said was based on a total logical reasoning based on my opinion and ya I am in no way new to animes my total watch count of series is 427+
I am not talking about whether you are new or not in anime since its doesnt matter much and about production quality then yeah it surely great in that aspect but various shows can be great in production quality but in terms of content they aren't always that great and so far this show takes one of the turns where show don't tell and remains mystery and so far this show gives the impression that it will be that vibing type show. I cannot just simply agree with its peak fiction or goated from its first episode or even the first ep being mindblowing.
The "outside world" in this series does give a similar feel to the post-apocalyptic setting for TLOU (minus the Clickers). Definitely looking forward to seeing more!
MadVandal said: Please don't compare this to LOU which is highly overrated and rips off too much from Walking Dead.
Are you referring to Telltale's The Walking Dead games?
If so, I'd prefer those games over TLOU despite their dated graphics.
I dont doubt that this will be better than TLoU because lol the 2nd game, but...it has almost nothing in common dude. Like...they both post-apocolyptic. Oh wowzers.
Not really, no – it's more like a really good japanese reimagination of OG Fallout (or at least some of the outside world-building + post-apocalyptic societal elements in the original fallout games). You can def compare it to TLOU but the overall vibe, themes, and general attitudes towards humanity in a post-apocalypse are totally different.
Horrible things happen and the world is super screwed up but if anything Heavenly Delusion is in a certain sense very optimistic (or at least very thoroughly rooted in japanese society + culture) compared to TLOU. (though given the nature of TLOU that's not exactly a high bar)
It's a much more positive / uplifting story than TLOU, honestly.
At the risk of spoilers for the next episode or two (or, well, maybe a bit further than that):
The survivors have currency 'cuz they all mutually agreed that it was better to be able to trade with each other than just murder everyone they meet for resources – which aren't super rare at this point because there aren't that many people left. There are organic settlements everywhere because many / most of the remaining survivors are sick and tired of living in an apocalypse and want to have some kind of civilized normalcy in their lives. People form + join gangs for mutual protection, food / shelter, and to have friends. The logic behind all of this is basically the same as in the core worldbuilding fallout 1 / 2, and nothing is particularly stable because there's supernatural monsters roaming about, again like in fallout 1 / 2. Like in fallout they use old paper currency as money b/c it's somewhat rare, and basically impossible to reproduce – exactly the same reason why bottlecaps are used as currency in fallout 1. There's good, fairly intuitive explanations for how just about everything in Tengoku's universe works, and when I said it's similar to fallout I mean that, like the original fallout games (and rather unlike the Bethesda games), everything in the setting is fundamentally based in the worldbuilding, and the worldbuilding is based on how people would / could react and form societies in the wake of a post-apocalypse.
Obviously this is still a universe where you could still get jumped and killed for a can of beans – but unlike TLOU you wouldn't be practically guaranteed to get ruthlessly murdered for some food / resources, and if anything could fairly reliably expect to trade with survivors for information and mutually beneficial economic activity (literally: why they have a currency, without any form of govt, laws, or law enforcement – because scavengers like Kiroko + Maru often find things that other people might want, and can trade them for food / etc)
The biggest difference in a nutshell is that Tengoku (again like fallout) exists in a world where there generally speaking is no state, just gangs and other kinds of small agglomerative communities, and near-complete political / state anarchy is the default. And humanity isn't in a state of likely / inevitable extinction, though it is in a state of likely technological / civilizational collapse. Particularly if kids like Maru + Kiruko keep burning the useful books they find after reading them because "knowledge that's rare is more valuable than sharing it", lol.
Why / how Tengoku ended up with the world it did should be a very good, open question, and is in fact the primary mystery (with so far very satisfying, well thought out answers) of the story!
Overall:
In terms of being post-apocalyptic, having post-apocalyptic things happen, kinda / mostly being a road story, and hitting you with serious emotional trauma, then yea Tengoku is pretty similar to TLOU in that sense. And the settings aren't actually that different, although the perspective + framing towards them absolutely is, more often that not.
The differences are... fairly significant, and honestly I think this question is a really great one if you want to really dive into Tengoku's worldbuilding, and exactly how (and why) it differs from TLOU.
I have more than a few thoughts, obviously, and without too many spoilers I think that in a nutshell I think that Tengoku
is (despite initial impressions) is really fundamentally built around a Lockean (and thoroughly Japanese) understanding and attitude towards human nature and how human societies develop. Whereas TLOU basically is (or might as well be) pure Hobbes. And that's not to say that bad things don't happen in Tengoku, they absolutely do, but humanity as a whole is much, much more resilient and empathetic in this setting – even while doing horrendously bad things – than it is in TLOU.
In terms of how this affects the story, Tengoku is if anything far more impactful than TLOU the HBO show (if not necessarily TLOU the game) – because it frankly speaking has better, long-form writing (at a macro scale, anyways), isn't generally speaking grimdark (or at least isn't until when / if it is), is not anywhere near as repetitive / predictable, and can hit you with some very dark realizations well after an event happened, that was originally perceived in X way but actually had a whole other meaning to it.
If for whatever reason you do want more hype behind this, saying that Tengoku is kinda like if you threw anime TLOU / fallout and Nier Automata in a blender, would be... accurate. In a certain sense anyways, haha.
That said, you will unfortunately not be able to see many of S1's plot threads and tantalizing secrets unwrapped / unraveled until what would probably be S2, or later. The big question obviously is how / why this world came to be the way it is, and Tengoku has some really great, well thought out answers to all of that. This is above all a mystery anime, and everything is oriented around that, the world / worldbuilding, and the cast of characters.
The source material is excellent, and again this can fully stand toe to toe with (and heck arguably surpass) something like TLOU. In terms of its genre + setting this is flat out the best, or at least one of the best post-apocalyptic manga in this medium, full stop.
Comparing it to TLOU is not at all a bad idea as a conversation starter, or heck even to recommend it to someone, with the caveat that this obviously is not the same story or core themes as TLOU, and if anything you're probably better off watching this blind. And yes, TLOU is obviously about zombies, sort of (and this show is obviously not), but the fungal zombies are often so incidental to the core story, characters, and thematic elements, that yes you can and should be able to compare this with that (and also to TWD et al) based purely on their post-apocalyptic settings, people, and generally having something (good or ill) to say about the nature of humanity + society.
And I suppose it's worth noting that TLOU the HBO show is often (in a good way) a kinda boring / semi-inactive zombie apocalypse, that happened ~20 years ago. The game obviously has more zombies (and combat in general), because gameplay. Anyways Tengoku is in general also a fairly boring, fairly realistic, drawn out (and ongoing) apocalypse that happened a few decades ago. So to say that you're likely to see a lot of parallels between those two would probably be an understatement – and heck see eg. the direct parallel between the dead couple in Tengoku ep 1, and the fate of Bill + Frank in HBO's TLOU ep 3.
(note: if for whatever reason I need to set this straight there, that scene is from the manga, and was written a good bit before the HBO script treatment of ep 3, which was original to the TV show and wasn't in the game. Don't be surprised if you see more parallels like that (though I don't think I can think of any of the top of my head), given that these are both post-apocalyptic stories, are survival post-apocalyptic stories, and take place, again, at a very similar amount of time after the apocalypse. Joel + Ellie collect very similar kinds of things from their environment that Kiriko + Maru do: nonperishables, drugs, and even medicine are considerably more common than canned food; cars on the road still sometimes have useable gas in them because neither series writer(s) apparently were aware that gas goes bad rather quickly; etc etc)
W/r the PS3 game, yes, it is actually entirely possible that Tengoku was at least somewhat inspired by it. That could go for just about anything else in the post-apocalyptic genre, though it'd certainly be high praise if it were. Whatever the case though, Tengoku has a completely different vibe, characters, and plot structure than TLOU does, and is generally speaking much more interested in the nature of the apocalypse itself, how it happened, and how people reacted to it, than TLOU is (and yes, even given all the stuff added in the HBO TLOU, and in the game's audio logs et al)
And there's the whole other fairly important school plot (and sci-fi elements), which ofc I've entirely glossed over since I just wanted to talk about some of the post-apocalyptic "outside" world building bits that Tengoku has in common with TLOU, haha – and since I can at least talk about some of that without (hopefully) major spoilers.
The first eps was good but not something mindblowing.
That's why so many people get annoyed with zoomer anime fans, especially those who have signed up here in recent years. They declare a revolutionary masterpiece any good show that they just liked.
While the OP title is hyperbolic nonsense, the comments in here are weird, because this show definitely has similar plot points to TLOU based off the first two episodes. Obviously, there are differences, but it’s not completely far fetched that the author may have been inspired.
This anime reminds me more of Fallout rather than TLOU. Specially that walled-in place where all the kids are in which gave me Fallout 4 Institute vibes.
Oivampal said: After watching Episode 1 of this, If I have to describe this anime in one word it will be 'Mindblowing'. The Visuals, Music, Story, Camera movements and Lighting everything was Perfect.
In your opinion how much does it have similar vibes to PC Game- 'Last Of Us'? If we talk about similiar animes, It is like mixture of 'Promised Neverland', 'Darling In Franxx' and 'High school Of The Dead' BUT BETTER!
please don't compare this to that absolute dogshit game.
Flair_Noble said: This anime reminds me more of Fallout rather than TLOU. Specially that walled-in place where all the kids are in which gave me Fallout 4 Institute vibes.
I mean not that similar but if anything, its alot more similar to warframe or death stranding or lobotomy corporation if anything. not that there are much similarities at all, it just pisses me off when people can only think of retarded zombie games or post nuclear games like fallout or metro 2033 there are other types of apocalypse games etc.
people should stop taking the most mainstream garbage and comparing it with anything.
i swear if I have to hear another "THE DARK SOULS OF ______" again...........
mertsi said: The genre with its tropes has been around far, far longer than TLOU or other post-apocalyptic shows.
I mean I wouldn't be shocked if TLOU just ripped off the Road. Granted don't know much about the history of the Post Apoc genre so who knows where the writer of that got his ideas.
BilboBaggins365 said: I mean I wouldn't be shocked if TLOU just ripped off the Road. Granted don't know much about the history of the Post Apoc genre so who knows where the writer of that got his ideas.
And you're talking about recent stuff. Old fellows like me can remember an American sci-fi TV show called Logan's Run, released in the end of 70s, that already described a post-apocalyptic world that the heroes would roam, meeting various communities with their own laws. It was less dark than the Road, but the ingredients were there. And there's Mad Max of course.
It doesn't really matter what inspired an author in general. What's important is that he delivers something with personality.
After 8 very good to great episodes, no, Tengoku Daimakyou cannot be considered an adaptation of The Last of Us into anime. It is an adaptation of the Tengoku Daimakyou manga, which has a personality of itself.
BilboBaggins365 said: I mean I wouldn't be shocked if TLOU just ripped off the Road. Granted don't know much about the history of the Post Apoc genre so who knows where the writer of that got his ideas.
And you're talking about recent stuff. Old fellows like me can remember an American sci-fi TV show called Logan's Run, released in the end of 70s, that already described a post-apocalyptic world that the heroes would roam, meeting various communities with their own laws. It was less dark than the Road, but the ingredients were there. And there's Mad Max of course.
It doesn't really matter what inspired an author in general. What's important is that he delivers something with personality.
Didn't know about Logan's run but yeah I know the original Mad Max (which also inspired other Post Apoc fiction like Fallout). Also no I agree the concept of originality in fiction is rare if ever present in most works. Execution is what matters. Still to me what got people to check out TLOU was how the gameplay was interactive but still felt like a TV show/film. Storywise it was hardly anything that hadn't been done before in zombie fiction.