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Heavenly Delusion isn't afraid to pull some serious punches. Prominent characters will die as the story progresses. Often in the most depressing way possible...
- Just everything from Episode 8 was devastating. Watching a nice and plucky girl like Mimihime decay in agony whilst Shiro could do nothing but delay the inevitable is heartbreaking, especially when you consider that they were deeply in love with one another.
- For one, Mimihime had the powers of foresight and everything she dreamt or feared about was a foreshadowing to her own death.
- Mimihime's final wish before passing away? Seeing the naked blue sky. What was Mimihime's first sense of wonder after emerging from the nursery? Seeing a naked blue sky.
- Mimihime's final words to Shiro was thanking him for being her most important thing in the world, and that she truly loved him.
- Mimihime's death can be seen as a Mercy Kill as she lived years of her life in absolute agony and pain. The last thing we see of her was her final emotional tear.
- Watching the emotionally mute Shiro breakdown crying after reading Mimihime's final words feels like he is releasing decades of pent-up emotional stress. Heartbreaking doesn't even begin to describe it.
- Shiro being forced to dismember his wife piece by piece to delay her transformation is something no husband should be forced to bare.
- Shiro committing suicide with his now deceased wife is one thing. But watching him see his last sunset on top of a building before giving his final kiss to Mimihime is beyond bittersweet.
- Shiro before commiting suicide, showed to the audience a button of the same logo as Kiruko's death beam indicating a connection. Fast forward to Episode 13 and it turns out that the button came from Mimihime's shirt as a sign of her engagement. Get the tissues.
- Top it off with the music and it is not uncommon to see viewers cry their eyes out. The life of Mimihime and Shiro's love story is truly a post-apocalyptic Romeo and Juliet. Together in death indeed.
- As horrific as it was, Robin's betrayal and rape of Kiruko in Episode 12 was equally as tragic as, throughout the entire first season, Kiruko was determine to meet her old idol. So to see her being treated like this was a massive gutpunch to the chest.
- Kiruko for the first time, crying out for Maru after being repeatedly raped is hard to watch, given how strong-willed she was beforehand.
- Generally speaking, every Man-Eater killed and/or encountered is heartbreaking as they used to be one of the children in the nursery. Taka was the bird hiruko. Ohma was the hallucination-causing hiruko in Episode 7. Kuku was the fish hiruko. Nanaki was the spider hiruko. Mako likely became the blobby hiruko featured across chapters 38-40 that had the the ability to warp space and reflect the Kiru-Beam. Anzu is later revealed to have become a giant tentacled hiruko called Anjulous. You can say that each hiruko the duo were able to kill could be considered a Mercy Kill. Finally putting them at rest.
- Totori, despite only appearing briefly is equally as tragic once you realise that she was the surviving daughter of both Anzu and Taka, but has no recollection of her parents and is not interested in finding out what happened to them.
- Speaking of Anzu and Taka. Their deaths were equally heartbreaking as Taka died defending the mutated transformation of his wife from Michika was bad enough. The fact that it was only a few years after being married tells us that they didn't had a happily ever after.
