History Manga / HeavenlyDelusion

* AnAesop: Choosing to believe and trust in someone -- or an idea -- can give people the strength to persevere through the harshest of times. However, blind trust as well as ignoring any potential negative attributes to avoid self-doubting can lead to disaster, as many characters find out the hard way in ''[[MeaningfulName Heavenly Delusion]]''.

''Heavenly Delusion'' (天国大魔境 / ''Tengoku-Daimakyou'')[[note]]"Makyou" literally means "realm of demons" and is a Buddhist term referring to delusions caused by attachment to experiences in meditation or everyday life[[/note]] is an ongoing 2018 sci-fi post-apocalyptic {{Seinen}} manga written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro (best known for ''Manga/AndYetTheTownMoves'') and published by DENPA. There was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D25K5O0CMCc an anime PV]] made to celebrate the first volume's publication, and on October 18, 2022, [[https://twitter.com/tdm_anime/status/1582295443429814272?s=46 it was announced]] that the manga would be receiving a full-fledged TV anime from Creator/ProductionIG in 2023.

* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Robin [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] Kuriko for almost two days straight until [[BigDamnHeroes Maru showed up]] and bashed Robin’s face in. It’s made more dramatic by the fact she had spent over five years looking for him, only to be betrayed by her former BigBrotherMentor in one of the worst ways possible]].

* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Robin [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] Kuriko for almost two days straight until [[BigDamnHeroes Maru showed up]] and [[KickTheSonOfABitch bashed Robin’s face in]]. It’s made more dramatic by the fact she had spent over five years looking for him, only to be betrayed by her former BigBrotherMentor in one of the worst ways possible]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Maru and Kiruko.]]

* AgeGapRomance: 15-years old Maru has a major crush on 20-years old Kiruko [[spoiler: though only physically that age - mentally, she's 18]].Though it's initially very one-sided, signs that Kiruko starts developing mutual feelings appear as teh story goes on.

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoilers: The Man-Eaters are revealed to have been humans who contracted an unknown disease and were corrupted into their current, monstrous form upon death. However, it turns out that this disease doesn't hit regular humans - only the Hirukos of the Nursery, explaining their surprisingly low number and infrequency.]]

* NighInvulnerable: Man-Eaters are InvulnerableToBullets and even melee weapons like knives are absorbed harmlessly - the only things that are shown to be able to kill them are the Kiru-Beam and Maru's touch, both extremely unique assets.

* TragicKeepsake: The “Kiru-Beam” ray gun’s first owner was a woman named Mikura, who took care of Maru before she passed away a short while after meeting Kiruko. Mikura gave it to Kiruko, telling her to take it in order to protect Maru’s life on their journey.ba

** A picture of Shiro and Mimihime from the Nursery plot is used as the chapter cover of chapter nineteen, [[spoiler:hinting at the true identities of Dr. Usami and Hoshino respectively as now grown up in the Post-Diaster plot]].

* LossOfIdentity:
** In the aftermath of the “Inazaki Robin” arc, [[spoiler:Kiruko told Maru that the part that made her up, “Haruki,” was gone forever as well as stating she was weak; needed to be saved numerous times by Maru despite being his bodyguard; and that everything she believed about herself was lies after she had been [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] and [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslighted]] by [[BrokenPedestal Robin]] two days prior. [[HeroicBSOD As a result, Kiruko no longer knew who she was]]. However, Maru snapped her out of this after declaring that he didn’t care who she was, he loved her regardless and would protect her from then on. Later on, Kiruko resumed believing she is still “Haruki” whose brain is occupying the body of “Kiriko,” but it’s made apparent she is forcing herself to do so [[JerkassHasAPoint despite the fact she has no proof that Robin’s theory is wrong]]]].

* MoralityChain: While Kiruko has no problems with Maru killing the vicious Man-Eaters as well as giving bandits a brutal beatdown, she does her best to talk him down from ending humans’s lives, even if it’s in self-defense. However, she has no problems with both of them assisting someone else who plans to kill another person if the latter committed an egregious crime to the former, such as assisting Helm to assassinate the Glasses Man who raped her when she was a child. The only stipulation is that Maru and Kiruko themselves will not kill the criminal, it must be done by the original victim.

* SuperToughness: Maru. However, he has his limits, such as the Man-Eaters or a [[BearsAreBadNews wild bear]].

* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]:

* CozyCatastrophe: Downplayed. The setting is far from ''cozy'', the government and all infrastructure is gone, there are plenty of bandits and marauders, and monsters roam the countryside. That said, however, civilization is still up and going, pre-collapse currency is still used for barter and trade, the cities (or at least sections of them) are still population centers with their own functioning societies, and there are even orphanages taking care of children who've lost their parents. Surviving settlements trade, people run businesses, eletricity and technology is still available, if rare. Overall, while it's not the ''coziest'' catastrophe, it could be a lot worse.
* CrapsackWorld: The Post-Disaster plot spares no details on how awful people can become after a major disaster occurs. [[spoiler: The Nursery plot isn’t any better; some of the staff working in the nursery that place has “crossed several taboos,” indicating there were horrible experiments being performed in secrecy behind the scenes]].

* DetectEvil: Maru later gains the ability to detect the presence of any nearby Man-Eaters in the Post-Disaster plot; it’s nicknamed the “Maru Sense” by Kiruko later on. [[spoiler:This includes the “Hiruko Humans” introduced in the Nursery plot and their descendants in the Post-Disaster plot who have a Hiruko Core that Maru can see with his power like the Man-Eaters, such as Juiichi’s son]].

* GenreDeconstruction: For all the crap with monsters and AfterTheEnd the world's state is in, society is not as much collapsing, but rather it adapted pretty quickly and is slowly improving. Post-apocalyptic works usually show the world being a hell hole, but Man-Eaters aside, the world is mostly okay, with good and bad people.

Maru is on the hunt for two things: someone who looks just like himself and a place his previous guardian called “Heaven.” On the flip side, Kiruko tags along to protect him as part of her job, but is also searching for several people she knew -- including Robin -- hoping to discover what happened to them after they disappeared five years ago under mysterious circumstances. However, the tasks before them on their journey are easier said than completed, not to mention there are other dangers on the road besides the Man-Eaters...

''Heavenly Delusion'' (天国大魔境 / ''Tengoku-Daimakyou'')[[note]]"Makyou" literally means "realm of demons" and is a Buddhist term referring to delusions caused by attachment to experiences in meditation or everyday life[[/note]] is an ongoing 2018 sci-fi post-apocalyptic {{Seinen}} manga written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro (best known for ''Manga/AndYetTheTownMoves'') and published by DENPA. There is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D25K5O0CMCc an anime PV]] made to celebrate the first volume's publication.

Oh, and remember how this got an anime PV? On October 18, 2022, [[https://twitter.com/tdm_anime/status/1582295443429814272?s=46 it was announced]] that the manga will be receiving a full-fledged TV anime from Creator/ProductionIG in 2023!

** The anime's opening only shows the Post-Disaster part of the story, with a single ForcedPerspective shot involving a decoration representing a child in a school uniform and several large archways arranged to look like a building being the only obvious allusion to the Nursery plot. To make the shot fit with the rest of the opening, both setpieces are [[spoiler:just as weather-damaged as everything else]].

** The anime's opening only shows the Post-Disaster part of the story, with a single ForcedPerspective shot involving a decoration representing a child in a school uniform and serveral large archways arranged to look like a building being the only obvious allusion to the Nursery plot. To make the shot fit with the rest of the opening, both setpieces are shown to [[spoiler:have clearly fallen into disrepair]].

** The anime's opening only shows the Post-Disaster part of the story, with a single ForcedPerspective shot involving a decoration representing a child in a school uniform and background archways being the only obvious allusion to the Nursery plot. To make the shot fit into the rest of the opening, both items are shown to [[spoiler:have clearly fallen into disrepair]].