Heavenly Delusion – A Mystery that Keeps Going On.

Even with the changed format, I’ll still release a few posts that were already written in the old format. Now as for Heavenly Delusion, I’ll clear it out that I enjoyed it each and every single week and it has but one flaw, a flaw that can be easily fixed.

The story runs parallel with 2 sets of characters. One is Mimihime living in a facility with a bunch of other children. One of the girls, Tokio, receives a strange message that says, “Do you want to go outside of the outside?” Outside, 15 years have passed since a great disaster that destroyed civilization. Now a boy who looks like Tokio, Maru along with a girl named, Kiruko travels through Japan looking for Heaven.

The characters and their shared relationships are what majorly drive the story forward in this anime. Tokio, Maru, Kiruko, Mimihime are all characters majorly driven by their relationships and interactions with the people around them. I found Kiruko to be the best character personally and her connection to the people of her past as well as her current connection to Maru makes for some great scenes. I can’t talk about more of the characters without spoiling because Heavenly Delusion is an experience that gradually, one by one peels back layers of the mystery while developing its characters.

The animation is good, it’s smooth and it helps the combat shown in the anime really well. You could say that it fits perfectly like the combat and animation were made for each other. The anime knows how to perfectly keep it funny and keep it serious in balance at all times which only serves to enhance the experience. Heavenly Delusion also excels at showing the emotions, mostly sorrow, of characters through expressions, tone of voice and monologues.

As with every post apocalyptic anime, maintaining humanity while also surviving is thoroughly shown in Maru and Kiruko’s journey multiple times. The struggle to survive and the struggle to remain human clash in Heavenly Delusion as well. Now another thing that Heavenly Delusion does extremely well is identity, you might think that a certain character’s identity is talked about but that certain character goes through more conflict for their identity and I liked that a lot.

With 13 episodes, the only place that Heavenly Delusion falls flat is the ending. The finale feels like a weird stopping point, it leaves everything feeling unresolved and personally I didn’t like it at all. If anything I would describe it as a “that’s it?” kind of ending leaving us with more questions than answers. The final rating considering the one flaw of this anime is 9/10.

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