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Heavenly Delusion (Manga)

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Heavenly Delusion (Manga)	comment	In a walled-up nursery, children are taught their fundamentals by robots. During a pop quiz, one of these children, Tokio, finds a weird and unexpected question:"Do you want to go outside of what's outside?"Tokio tries to address this to the teaching robot, but the question disappears on paper as fast as it appeared. Later, Tokio brings this up with the nursery's director as well, who claims that the only thing beyond the walls is hell. Still, several of the children including Tokio wonder what goes on beyond the walls, all the while living mundane lives doing school work and learning how to control their supernatural abilities.Meanwhile, the outside world has gone to hell in more ways than one. In Japan, not only has civilization devolved into ruined cities and desperate people, there are fearsome monsters roaming the ravaged lands: horrific creatures known as "Hiruko" and â€œMan-Eatersâ€� who prey upon what remains of humanity while using supernatural abilities to hunt down even the sturdiest survivors. Despite this, a fifteen year old teenage boy named Maru (who looks a lot like Tokio) travels on a journey with his bodyguard, a young woman named Kiruko.However, neither of them are your average survivors. Maru can kill Man-Eaters using the â€œMaru Touch,â€� an ability that allows him to enter a spiritual-like realm inside the monsterâ€™s very being and kill them by crushing a heart-like core within, so long as he can physically touch the Man-Eater. Combined with his tough durability and martial arts that he honed during his time on the streets of post-apocalyptic Tokyo, he became a self-made survivor in his own right. Meanwhile, Kiruko is armed with her â€œKiru-Beam,â€� a special (if somewhat unreliable) ray gun that can kill most things in one shot and is also capable of inflicting heavy damage on the Man-Eaters themselves. Having spent many years wandering the harsh environment to survive, all the while using the teachings her Big Brother Mentor Inazaki Robin passed onto her in the past, she has survived many grim scenarios in order to find her place in the world.Maru is on the hunt for two things: someone who looks just like himself and a place his previous guardian Mikura called â€œHeaven.â€� 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 (å¤©å›½å¤§é”å¢ƒ / 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 is a sci-fi post-apocalyptic Seinen manga written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro (best known for And Yet the Town Moves), which began serialization in Monthly Afternoon in 2018. The manga is published in English by DENPA. There was an anime PV made to celebrate the first volume's publication, and on October 18, 2022, it was announced that the manga would be receiving a full-fledged TV anime from Production I.G in 2023.There are two Plot Threads that the story follows, both of which are nicknamed here on TV Tropes for ease of understanding the story. The first one, â€œPost-Disaster,â€� features Maruâ€™s and Kurikoâ€™s adventures in a post-apocalyptic setting that ended up this way as the result of an unknown calamity. The second one, â€œNursery,â€� features several children in a nursery surrounded by walls who have special abilities. However, learning more about one plot will spoil details in the other due to several plot twists taking place over the course of the story, so tread lightly. You Have Been Warned.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: A bird emblem that Maru discovered on the handle of Kiruko's â€œKiru-Beamâ€� ray gun serves as a clue for them both to find â€œHeaven,â€� the destination Maru is looking for. The children of the Nursery plot line had a pin on their outfits that has the exact same icon, making it clear the bird emblem has a direct connection to the nursery.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Robin taught Haruki how to fight, passing on lessons like watching your opponentâ€™s body movements by looking at their collar; cowards will try to intimidate their opponent by staring at their face; and the losers are those who only focus on their opponents. These lessons made a huge impression on Haruki when he fought hostile survivors which Kiruko (who has Harukiâ€™s brain and memories) continued following to protect Maru. Later, Robin does everything he preached against in a fight to Maru in chapter thirty three, which happened after Maru discovered that Robin had raped Kiruko. During the entire fight Maru didnâ€™t focus on Robin, nor react to anything he said, choosing instead to stare at the wall and thwart every attempt Robin made to run away by grabbing his jacket and throwing him at the wall, showing that Maru didnâ€™t even need to see Robin to defeat him.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_146e133b	comment	Tamer and Chaster: Very downplayed, but the manga isn't afraid to show nipples and Kiruku's rape is a lot more explicit and cruder. The anime, meanwhile, covers them with convenient censorship.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: In the Nursery plot, Shiro observed Mimihime talking with Tokio and had a menacing look on his face as he watched the two together, making it apparent he had a fixation on Mimihime. Later on this was subverted when it turned out he had terrible social skills and was benevolent towards the other kids, albeit he didnâ€™t talk much to others. Mimihime herself was a kind girl who recognized that Shiro wasnâ€™t a bad person, despite him once trying to explain his feelings towards her in a way that made him look like a deranged stalker. A straight example is Sawatori, a scientist who was passed up as the next Director in line to a woman named Aoshima. He attempted to confront her on this, but reneged when he noticed the facility AI Meena was talking with her, instead doing his best to swallow his rage. That is, until he learned in horror the real reason why she was chosen by the current Director: Aoshima was the chosen body vessel that the Director wanted to remove the formerâ€™s brain out of in order to insert her own brain into due to her own body failing, thus giving her a form of immortality so she could live long enough to possess the body of Tokioâ€™s child.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_1fc85456	type	Hopeless with Tech
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_1fc85456	comment	Hopeless with Tech: Maru, who is a Type Two variant. Justified, as he lived most of his life scavenging while he drifted between different groups of people before meeting Kiruko, thus he didnâ€™t have the same exposure to advanced tech as she did.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Downplayed. The Post-Disaster plot spares no details on how awful people can become after a major disaster occurs, albeit in major cities people tend to be more kind than not. The Nursery plot plays this straight, however. Some of the staff working in the nursery mentioned the nursery as a whole has â€œcrossed several taboos,â€� indicating there were horrible experiments being performed in secrecy, and its clear that many elite groups have been at war with each other that may have played a part in the downfall of mankindâ€™s dominance during the Post-Disaster plot.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Konaâ€™s paintings from the Nursery plot foreshadow a great deal of future events in the storyline. One of the paintings has two babies inside of an egg covered in wings. Tokio gave birth to a child who was mysteriously duplicated, and due to Maruâ€™s similar appearance to Tokio — plus the fact they both have supernatural abilities — itâ€™s possible that Tokio is Maruâ€™s mother. Another painting features four human-like silhouettes that have their heads converging into one. This is a possible reference to Kirukoâ€™s situation. A third painting featured an angry sun with markings on its face. During the Nursery plot, the nursery itself suffered a major disaster that opened up an entrance to â€œoutside of the outside,â€� some of the children went out to investigate. Upon doing so, they discovered that the air outside was warm and hard to breathe in. However, the people living during the Post-Disaster timeline deal with the cold on a regular basis, indicating whatever caused the unusual temperature spikes in the past has ended. The fourth painting had several humanoid-like figures with wings flying together. Itâ€™s eventually revealed the Nursery was developing winged humanoid alien soldiers armed with laser guns. The fifth painting featured a strange fish-like creature that had multiple long humanoid arms stretching from its body. This particular painting was held by a girl named Kuku who had the ability to stick to walls with her hands and feet at will, making her an adept climber. Maru and Kiruko fought a Man-Eater that looked exactly like the creature in the painting, which had the ability to climb on objects using â€œhandsâ€� formed from telekinetic abilities involving water, and itâ€™s later revealed the creature was indeed Kuku transformed after she later died.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: For all the crap with monsters and the world's state is in during the Post-Disater plot society hasnâ€™t collapsed yet, but rather it adapted pretty quickly and is making do with everything left. Post-apocalyptic works usually show the world being a hell hole, but Man-Eaters aside, the world is presented somewhat as a slice of life scenario with good people still running the show in many of the major cities. In fact itâ€™s quite rare to see a city that has fallen to dystopian rule under a brutal tyrant or sinister cult group. Which, ironically, is why the biggest and most horrifying threats tends to be people who initially were portrayed as likable and charismatic like Robin, Kirukoâ€™s Big Brother Mentor who later rapes her and reveals he never really cared about her personally other than â€œshe was interesting.â€�
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: While there wasnâ€™t any animosity between the two, Maru wasnâ€™t an open book for Kiruko starting off, due to his previous history of following strangers out of necessity and not knowing what to make of her at first. He even didnâ€™t mind Kiruko leaving him alone on his journey, but after they defeated the Bird Man-Eater and he saw her sensitive side they developed a true friendship. However, Maru wants to upgrade this if given the opportunity.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Many people in the Post-Disaster storyline do this, but have no choice given the circumstances; Maru and Kiruko are merely two people in a long list of wandering survivors.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: In the aftermath of the â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc, Kiruko told Maru after the former had been gaslighted and raped by her Big Brother Mentor Robin that the â€œHarukiâ€� persona she identified as was gone forever, stating she was also weak since she needed to be saved numerous times by Maru. She then concluded everything she believed about herself was lies, so as a result she no longer knew who she was. However, Maru declared that he didnâ€™t care who she was; he loved her regardless and would protect her from then on, which made her snap at him because it irritated her that he wanted to protect her â€” that was supposed to be her job as his bodyguard. This helped calm her down and led to her ripping apart her photo of Robin before the duo left the town. Later on, Kiruko resumed believing she is still â€œHarukiâ€� whose brain is occupying the body of â€œKiriko,â€� but itâ€™s made apparent Kiruko is forcing herself to do so despite the fact she has no proof that Robinâ€™s theory is wrong.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Maru. If heâ€™s not finding a way to make a romantic move on Kiruko, heâ€™s often replacing this with fantasies about her. However, despite announcing his love towards her several times and sometimes being a bit aggressive about it, he still treats her with respect as a true friend and she reciprocates this throughout their journey. If given the opportunity though heâ€™d prefer to be more than friends with her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The Post-Disaster plot follows this theme in particular, showing how people in Japan are getting by with living fifteen years after an unknown disaster occurred. The Nursery plot is revealed to have taken place about fifteen years before the Post-Disaster plot begins, and in chapter forty-four Mikura said that an unknown source of power called â€œThe Jeweled Spear of Heavenâ€� unleashed massive worldwide destruction via increased natural disasters; Japan itself was targeted by powerful earthquakes and she claimed it would be the only place that would be affected â€œlightlyâ€� by this calamity.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: During their travels Maru and Kiruko discovered a group of people who called themselves â€œLiviuman.â€� They claimed another group they called the â€œImmortalitesâ€� were kidnapping people and performing gruesome surgeries in order to test prosthetic body parts on them, thus the Liviuman group formed to oppose them after their spokeswoman had one of her legs surgically removed by the Immortalities in an apparent â€œtest.â€� It later turns out the Immortalites were innocent people who were being helped by a grown up Shiro from the â€œNurseryâ€� plot, having any limbs that couldnâ€™t be saved via surgery replaced with prosthetics instead. Furthermore, while the spokeswoman wanted to help people she thought were being kidnapped, The Dragon of the Liviuman group instead desired all the advanced technology housed in the Immortalitesâ€™s home base, deciding later to take full control of the Liviuman group after plotting to have the spokeswoman assassinated by one of his followers. The spokeswoman escaped this fate thanks to one of her close aides helping her escape undetected, but the corrupt Liviuman group still managed to force the Immortalites out of their home and steal their technology after Maru and Kiruko eliminated the Man-Eater that lived in the Immortaliteâ€™s basement area and â€œprotectedâ€� them from hostile invaders. Unfortunately for the Liviuman group, Maru and Kiruko missed one of the Man-Eaters in the basementâ€¦
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_366f3185	comment	Book Burning: Kiruko explains that she burns any useful books she's done reading, thinking that information is more valuable if she's the only one who knows it.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_39de664a	type	Mad Doctor
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_39de664a	comment	One of the injuries on Kirukoâ€™s head has its true nature revealed: It was an old bullet wound when Kiriko Takehaya had been shot in the head. The Doctor realized she couldnâ€™t be saved, but her brother Haruki â€” who still had his brain intact even after losing half his body from a Man-Eaterâ€™s attack â€” wasnâ€™t beyond help. Therefore the Doctor performed the surgery of replacing Kirikoâ€™s deceased brain with Harukiâ€™s still intact one, resulting in the birth of â€œKiruko.â€� She was shocked to find out the Doctor had been trying to save Harukiâ€™s life, albeit with unintentional psychological consequences that Kiruko had to live with afterwards.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: Several of the kids from the Nursery plot line make romantic moves on each other over time, some of them even leading to actual couples like Shiro and Mimihime. Maru also wants to upgrade his friendship with Kiruko into a romantic one, but fails due to her being too preoccupied with keeping Maru and herself alive as well as trying to find Robin and the Doctor. It doesnâ€™t help Maruâ€™s case later on that Kiruko secretly believes herself to be trash who is Defiled Forever after being raped by Robin, thus she denies Maru because she considers him to be too kind and pure a person for someone like her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_3c700857	comment	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Maru and Kirukoâ€™s respective combat roles are this. However, Kiruko does have a nasty kick if the situation calls for it.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Kirukoâ€™s past in general is this. Sheâ€™s the result of a surgery that put the brain of a dying boy, Haruki Takehaya, inside the body of his sister (who was believed to be dying for reasons not yet known). Since she believes sheâ€™s Haruki — due to having his brain — she lives life believing sheâ€™s a man trapped in a womanâ€™s body, leading to all kinds of psychological issues when she contemplates who she is as a person. And neither sibling lived a grand life beforehand, instead living in a post-apocalyptic world where people wouldnâ€™t hesitate to murder you for the clothes on your back; itâ€™s no wonder she also became cynical about life.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_3d699462	comment	Maru was harassed by a vigilante gang that drew his full wrath when their leader, Iwata, knocked out one of Maruâ€™s teeth. Afterwards, Iwata swore vengeance and planned on ambushing Maru along with Kiruko, but a wild bear mauled Iwata to near death; he ended up being saved by the duo. Maru later found out that Iwata had been watching over Totori, the young innkeeper of the inn they were staying at that night, which made Maru realize Iwata wasnâ€™t a bad person at heart. Maru had been part of a gang in the past and believed they couldâ€™ve been good friends if he had grown up in that town, thus he became depressed upon learning that Iwata died later that evening.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_3fd51d77	comment	Superhero Speciation: In the "Nursery" storyline all of the children have different supernatural abilities, none are alike. The fact that the Man-Eaters have similiarly wildly different powers that are also awfully familiar of those the children have is a major hint they are one and the same.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4128bc77	comment	Broken Tears: Dr. Usami, aka Shiro, does this after he read the final words on Mimihimeâ€™s tablet, proclaiming her love for him and never holding anything against him for the actions he took to keep her alive — knowing full well she wouldâ€™ve become a Man-Eater had Shiro not acted. In the â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc, after Kiruko had been raped for days by her former Big Brother Mentor Robin and gaslighted by him into realizing she doesnâ€™t know who she is anymore, she cried out in anguish for Maru to save her. Fortunately, he happened to hear this while he was infiltrating Robinâ€™s facility, which led to Maru finding and saving her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4435aa66	comment	Attractive Bent-Gender: Maru once disguised himself with a womenâ€™s wig in order to infiltrate a cult of misandrist women alongside Kiruko; it was convincing enough that even she got turned on a bit by looking at him.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4510b368	comment	Ambiguous Gender: Many of the children within the nursery are rather androgynous in appearance. One major example is Tokio, who is later confirmed in chapter seventeen to be female, which was revealed when she had sexual intercourse with a boy named Kona in secrecy and later gave birth to a child. Later, this turns out to be deliberate by the nurseryâ€™s experiments as it's revealed that about half the population of nursery are intersex, first showcased by the shaggy haired child who is fully grown in the Post-Disaster storyline and was assumed by others to be male, but has defined breasts and apparently a penis as well as a vagina.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Kiruko and Maru have no qualms about using dirty and underhanded tactics to get the edge in a fight.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: In a world with horrible, nigh-invulnerable monsters that randomly appear and leave death in their wake, the most horrible and despicable beings are completely mundane humans who commit mundane crimes like rape. In fact, once you learn what they actually are, the Man-Eaters are more tragic monsters than truly evil beings, and killing them can be considered a mercy kill.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4ba6a037	type	Trans Relationship Troubles
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4ba6a037	comment	Trans Relationship Troubles: Maru and Kiruko's relationship definetly has some shades of this, especially if Kiruko is interpreted as a trans woman rather than a trans man. The scene in which she tries to deter Maru from touching her breasts by holding up a picture of her past self can definetly be read as an allegory of internalized transphobia and not wanting to 'trick' him. Maru, on the other hand, doesn't seem to particularly care one way or the other.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4dce8058	type	All Periods Are PMS
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4dce8058	comment	All Periods Are PMS: Before entering the basement of the â€œImmortaliteâ€� groupâ€™s stronghold Maru noticed Kiruko was acting sluggish and unfocused, but she dismissed his concerns for her. This led to a number of problems, like a psychic Man-Eaterâ€™s hallucination attack driving her mad with ease until Maru calmed her down. As time went on, Kirukoâ€™s condition worsened until she collapsed, forcing Maru to find a safe place for her sake. What made things worse was this took place during a violent confrontation between the Immortalites and the Liviuman groups, but to the duoâ€™s fortune a former member of the Liviuman group found and sheltered them both until Kiruko recovered from her period. Itâ€™s also the first period that Kiruko suffered, which is why she didnâ€™t recognize any of the symptoms.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Kiruko told Maru when he unsuccessfully tried to romantically woo her that her body is female... but her brain is a male's. She has Haruki Takehayaâ€™s brain and memories, who was male, therefore she considers herself a man. Maru has mixed feelings about this, mainly because he doesnâ€™t see Kiruko as either â€œHarukiâ€� or â€œKirikoâ€� and chooses to sees Kiruko as her own individual.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: Kiruko panicked when Maru wasnâ€™t in the room they were staying in until he revealed he was hiding in another room looking at a porn magazine. But when he tried to assure her that he was ok, she started crying, much to his dismay. He remembered that she grew up in an orphanage, which shut down at one point because when Kiriko â€œdiedâ€� the money she brought in from winning electric cart races stopped, therefore the orphanage couldnâ€™t support itself and she sometimes begged out loud for Robin to save her when sheâ€™s in extreme danger. Maru realized at that point she has a fear of being abandoned by people she cares about, thus he decided to stay at a location that Kiruko wanted him to from then on. Which unfortunately meant that he waited two days before he went to check on her at the Water Filtration Center, finding out upon seeing her that she had been raped the entire time by Robin. Helm was terrified when she saw the Glasses Man who raped her years prior, leading her to try and kill a Man-Eater by herself since she believed doing so would make her strong enough to face her former pedophile rapist.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Robin raped Kiriko for almost two days straight until Maru showed up and bashed Robinâ€™s face in. Itâ€™s made more dramatic by the fact she had spent over five years looking for him, only to be betrayed by her former Big Brother Mentor in one of the worst ways possible.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Anyone the Man-Eaters have captured will not have a clean death.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: 15-years old Maru has a major crush on 20-years old Kiruko 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 the story goes on.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5924454b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5924454b	comment	Cerebus Call-Back: Kiruko once made a deal with Maru that if he accomplished a dangerous task he would get to grope her breasts (which he accomplished in haste after initially complaining before she made the deal with him). But when it came time for him to collect she panicked and tried to dissuade him with multiple reasons, including trying to convince him that because she had Haruki Takehayaâ€™s brain, she considered herself a guy, therefore Maru would be feeling up a man instead of a woman. This didnâ€™t work because Harukiâ€™s brain was inside Kiriko Takehayaâ€™s body (Harukiâ€™s sister), a beautiful and well-endowed woman, although she managed to escape because she screamed out loud by accident and caught the innkeeperâ€™s attention of the hotel they were in, who dragged Maru out of the room in order to seduce him instead for valuables in return. Later, Kiruko ends up a similar situation, but this time around itâ€™s not played for comedy. After Robin handcuffed Kiruko in an abandoned room when they were alone, he began to rape her while she was screaming and resisting. She attempted to appeal to Robin by telling him that she was â€œHarukiâ€� like she had done with Maru in the past, but Robin didnâ€™t believe this either. He rebuffed this by telling her that he was going to rape â€œKirikoâ€� and that â€œHarukiâ€� needed to save her. This confused Kiruko because she had believed she was Haruki Takehaya the entire time due to having his memoriesâ€¦ until she started to hallucinate and saw â€œHarukiâ€� in the reflection of a mirror trying to reach her in desperation. This made her realize Robin had a point that Kirukoâ€™s mind may have been â€œKirikoâ€� all along, which led to her gaining the ability to see memories from Kirikoâ€™s point of view later on; this made Kiruko realize she didnâ€™t know who she was.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_59e5940e	comment	Animal Motif: Maru shares similarities to the Japanese Macaque Monkey, a group of which makes an appearance within the story. Besides having white colored hair, he has a curious personality and is acrobatic.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5a23602	type	Big Ol' Eyebrows
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5a23602	comment	Big Ol' Eyebrows: Kiruko and Kiriko from the Post-Disaster plot have these, as do some of the children in the Nursery plot.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5b057eae	comment	Maru and Kiruko were stopped by the innkeeper from dealing the finishing blow on the Bird Man-Eater because she claimed it was her son Yuuto. She told them it protected her from bandits after it ate him, thus it has Yuutoâ€™s memories and should be left alone. When she approached the Man-Eater, yet it refused to harm her, the duo believed there was credence to this theory and that Man-Eaters that wonâ€™t harm humans should be spared until the monster sliced the womanâ€™s head in half and began eating her remains, forcing the duo to destroy the monster before it could fool anyone else.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5b9bc521	type	Kick Chick
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5b9bc521	comment	Kick Chick: Kiruko. Downplayed, as most fights in the manga during the Post-Disaster plot involve either Maru overpowering his opponent(s) or the duo being forced to flee. However, when given the opportunity, she can do an impressive crescent kick.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The Glasses Man, a sinister criminal who raped Helm when she was a child and escaped judgement by not wearing his glasses when the town searched for him. Years later, Helm found him once again with a child prostitute chained to him, thus she asked Maru and Kiruko to help her end the Glasses Manâ€™s perverted crimes towards children once and for all.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4	comment	In the â€œPost-Disasterâ€� plot, Inazaki Robin is this. Heâ€™s the Chief of an important water filtration center in a town run by the Ministry of Reconstruction, using his charisma and smarts to woo everyone — especially women. However, he uses this prestige to lure innocent women into the facility where he can rape and experiment on them. However, this is subverted later after Robin was pummeled unconscious by Maru after he rescued Kiruko, which spooked Robin when he awoke later into running away from the town after stealing equipment from the facility. This earned him the ire of the Ministry of Reconstruction, who assigned a squad of government officials to hunt him down.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: For the anime; the events of the Post-Disaster and Orphanage storylines are generally kept to their own episodes instead of being mixed together like in the manga.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: At one point, Maru and Kiruko come across a large family living alone in the wilderness while being drawn towards a Man-Eater. While staying with them, one night Maru senses the Man-Eater is close to the house, following it's presence towards a well-tended cave along with Kiruko. At the entrance, Maru notices a graph of some kind that he believes is a map of the cave. Itâ€™s later implied that it's the family tree of the family they were staying with, and if so, then the grandmother's husband impregnated their two daughters plus the family tree shows even more inbreeding has happened over time with different family members.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: For the anime, after Maru and Kiruko head off after its events of the â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc. Leavving it on an And the Adventure Continues-style ending due to the manga's incompleteness.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6500e9cc	type	Fighting from the Inside
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6500e9cc	comment	Fighting from the Inside: Maru and Kiruko were stopped by the innkeeper from dealing the finishing blow on the Bird Man-Eater because she claimed it was her son Yuuto. She told them it protected her from bandits after it ate him, thus it has Yuutoâ€™s memories and should be left alone. When she approached the Man-Eater, yet it refused to harm her, the duo believed there was credence to this theory and that Man-Eaters that wonâ€™t harm humans should be spared until the monster sliced the womanâ€™s head in half and began eating her remains, forcing the duo to destroy the monster before it could fool anyone else.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6ac784dc	type	Mistaken for Incest
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6ac784dc	comment	Mistaken for Incest: The hotel lady tells Kiruko and Maru that even in After the End they shouldn't get too close to each other becuase of all sorts of biological issues. Annoyed Kiruko tells her that they are neither siblings nor dating.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While the Chief of the Water Filtration Center was gaslighting Kiruko, he decided to make his victim more submissive by questioning who she really was: â€œHarukiâ€� or â€œKiriko.â€� Terrified, she kept insisting she was â€œHarukiâ€� because she had his memories. However, the Chief (aka Robin) pointed out that even if itâ€™s Harukiâ€™s brain in Kirikoâ€™s body, it doesnâ€™t mean that Kiruko is â€œHarukiâ€� for sure, it was possible that her mind was actually â€œKirikoâ€� who was able to access Harukiâ€™s memories instead. This broke Kiruko because she had no way to rebuff Robinâ€™s theory, so when she started to see memories of â€œKirikoâ€� later on for the first time Kiruko realized she didnâ€™t know who she was anymore. While she does recover later on, she continues to believe she is â€œHarukiâ€� to spite Robin for raping her, even though she hasnâ€™t disproven his theory yet.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Man-Eaters are sometimes called â€œHirukoâ€� by other people like Maru and his original guardian, Mikura. â€œHirukoâ€� was the name given to the children of the Nursery plot, so whenever a character in the Post-Disaster plot calls the Man-Eaters â€œHirukoâ€� instead itâ€™s a good sign that person had some kind of involvement with the nursery. The title name itself is a reference to how some people chase after pleasant dreams, only to become delusional because they either refused to acknowledge the reality of their situation or ignored any potential negative attributes of what they pursued. Kirukoâ€™s name is revealed to be a combination of the two people who makes up her body: Kiriko Takehayaâ€™s body and Haruki Takehayaâ€™s brain. Believing herself to still be Haruki because she has his brain and memories, she combined the two names together to create a cover name for herself. Helmâ€™s name in Japanese characters is written as â€œdream of hell.â€� Which is what she planned on giving the Glasses Man who raped her years ago with a bomb.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6ca2ae39	type	Mercy Rewarded
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6ca2ae39	comment	Mercy Rewarded: When Maru and Kiruko spared the life of a gang leader named Iwata — who had planned on ambushing the duo with an accomplice but fell victim to a hungry bear — and helped him return back to the nearby town, the manager of the hotel that the duo were staying at lied to the local gang by saying the duo had already fled town. This gave Maru and Kiruko a chance to relax after a harrowing experience with the same bear.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: After Tarao dies from a disease, Tokio asks Kona if another kid who died, Asura, had the same disease. Kona says yes, but a brief flashback shows that she hung herself.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_727a65e0	comment	While the Chief of the Water Filtration Center was gaslighting Kiruko, he decided to make his victim more submissive by questioning who she really was: â€œHarukiâ€� or â€œKiriko.â€� Terrified, she kept insisting she was â€œHarukiâ€� because she had his memories. However, the Chief (aka Robin) pointed out that even if itâ€™s Harukiâ€™s brain in Kirikoâ€™s body, it doesnâ€™t mean that Kiruko is â€œHarukiâ€� for sure, it was possible that her mind was actually â€œKirikoâ€� who was able to access Harukiâ€™s memories instead. This broke Kiruko because she had no way to rebuff Robinâ€™s theory, so when she started to see memories of â€œKirikoâ€� later on for the first time Kiruko realized she didnâ€™t know who she was anymore. While she does recover later on, she continues to believe she is â€œHarukiâ€� to spite Robin for raping her, even though she hasnâ€™t disproven his theory yet.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Totori, a thirteen year old girl who also runs an inn within a town inhabited by a vigilante group. Totori helped Maru and Kiruko when she discovered they had saved her boss from a wild bear by telling the vigilantes that the duo had already fled town, ensuring the duo could have a peaceful night in the inn. She also attempted to seduce Maru that same night, which ended comically since he preferred older women like Kiruko and was too freaked out to want to make love when his â€œMaru Touchâ€� ability activated on Totori, which happened since she had a core like the Hiruko, making him realize some humans were fair game for his ability.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7cda47b	comment	Dr. Usami, aka Shiro, does this after he read the final words on Mimihimeâ€™s tablet, proclaiming her love for him and never holding anything against him for the actions he took to keep her alive — knowing full well she wouldâ€™ve become a Man-Eater had Shiro not acted.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7d06fdd6	type	Medical Horror
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7d06fdd6	comment	Kiruko from the Post-Disaster plot line had several odd instances that appeared in the first couple of chapters. Besides forgetting if she was eighteen or twenty years and claiming the mixup was due to being bad at math, there was a scene where she was examining her own body and attempted to kiss her own reflection in a mirror, but bailed when an innkeeper entered the room. Also, Maru later discovered a large stitch wound on her head when he helped dry her hair, which she stated came from a surgery in the past. Then during chapter seven a man from the â€œTomato Heavenâ€� vineyard thought Kiruko was a famous kart-racer named Kiriko Takehaya, who went missing years ago, but she denied the resemblances. Itâ€™s later revealed that â€œKirukoâ€� is an alias for Haruki Takehaya, the younger brother of the aforementioned Kiriko Takehaya, whose body Harukiâ€™s brain is inhabiting due to a medical procedure done by a doctor — one that he knew five years ago. When he tried to kill a Man-Eater who could turn invisible before it attacked his sister during one of her kart races, his experimental crossbow weapon failed to bring it down, thus most of his body was eaten before his sister managed to pull his body out. In the end, Haruki passed out with his sister crying over him, making him believe he was dying. When Haruki awakened, he looked at himself in a mirror and saw Kirikoâ€™s body in the reflection instead, then panicked while screaming he was Haruki — much to the confusion of the people in the room who tried to correct him by saying Haruki had passed away. The people stated that a doctor wasnâ€™t able to save him, but the doctor did save her before he left town, indicating something bad mightâ€™ve happened to Kiriko while Haruki was unconscious. After â€œsheâ€� recovered, having accepted her new strange fatenote albeit referring to herself as a man to whoever knows the truth about her brain surgery, like Maru, she named herself â€œKirukoâ€� and set out on a journey to discover the truth, plus look for Robin who had disappeared. The reason why Kiruko forgets her age is because she has a tendency to think of herself as â€œHarukiâ€� instead of as â€œKiriko,â€� who was about two years older than him. Itâ€™s also revealed that Haruki had a secret one-sided crush on his sister, which is why Kiruko was admiring her body in a lustful manner.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: When asks, Kiruko claims that she's 18 or 20, explaining the 2 year gap as her being not sure herself. She later lets slip that she was 3 during the Disaster, which would make her 18. Since her mind was transplanted from a younger boy to an older girl, she's mentally 18 years old but physically 20.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: The story alternates between Maru and Kiruko's travels through a post apocalyptic Japan with the various people they meet and monsters they kill and a mysterious bunker filled with children being taught by robots, with much time spent fleshing out the various children and the mysterious abilities they seem to possess. Eventually, it becomes clearer and clearer that the bunker side of the story occurred before Maru and Kiruko's side of the story rather than along side it as initially implied. Furthermore, it's implied by that side of the story that many, if not most, of the children have either turned into the monsters that Maru and Kiruko fight or died in one way or another (such as the one eyed scientist and the heavily bandaged girl he was taking care of). But with the structure, said characters die before we realize who they really were.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: In the aftermath of the â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc, Kiruko thinks this way of herself, having put up little resistance against Robin raping her and instead resigning herself to her fate until Maru saved her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: During the â€œImmortaliteâ€� arc, the spy who helped the Liviuman group gain access to the Immortalite groupâ€™s headquarters was murdered by one of the higher ups within Liviuman, who went on to declare the execution was justified because the spy was part of the Immoralites. One of the Liviuman members realized the executed spy had been faithful to them the entire time and never saw this coming, thus the spy had been unfairly executed, but the man decided to do nothing out of fear of being executed as well for speaking up.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: The children in the Nursery plot either have a supernatural power or enhanced athleticism like being able to climb walls with ease. At the same time, none of this seems out of the ordinary to them as well as the adults living/working in the nursery.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Maru is the emotional, fiery and somewhat impulsive red variant, whereas Kiruko has the blueâ€™s analytical, cool-headed and wiser stance on life.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: While many children of the Nursery have benign abilities and/or enhanced physicality, others arenâ€™t as lucky. Some of the children are oblivious to this, others are painfully aware their abilities are dangerous.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Man-Eaters are alien-like beings, most of them appearing as the animalistic variant, but there are some exceptions like the giant armored Man-Eater who could turn invisible and the tarantula armed with freezing abilities.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Zig-zagged. While Maru seemed at first to take the journey to â€œHeavenâ€� in stride, the reality was he didnâ€™t have anything else to do — having lived a life of constant partings from different groups and being taken under the wing of an adult who saw potential in him (like Mikura). This reached a point where he outright told Kiruko that he thought they should abandon the journey; this way he could instead team up with her as a fellow handyman since he fell in love with her (much to her shock, though she was flattered by it regardless). Kiruko, on the flip side, was hoping to find Robin or the Doctor she knew from her childhood during their journey, all so she could find out what happened to them. Since Maru realized she still wanted to travel, he decided to continue the journey, all the while making constant romantic moves on her with comedic results oftentimes.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: In the â€œNurseryâ€� plot, the Director is this. Many people see her as a wise old woman who oversees the entire operation of the nursery and cares about the children, but itâ€™s all an act. In the â€œPost-Disasterâ€� plot, Inazaki Robin is this. Heâ€™s the Chief of an important water filtration center in a town run by the Ministry of Reconstruction, using his charisma and smarts to woo everyone — especially women. However, he uses this prestige to lure innocent women into the facility where he can rape and experiment on them. However, this is subverted later after Robin was pummeled unconscious by Maru after he rescued Kiruko, which spooked Robin when he awoke later into running away from the town after stealing equipment from the facility. This earned him the ire of the Ministry of Reconstruction, who assigned a squad of government officials to hunt him down.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8a817c2a	comment	When Maru learned that the Chief of the Water Filtration had raped Kiruko, Maru realized he couldâ€™ve stopped him earlier if he hadnâ€™t obeyed Kirukoâ€™s wishes to stay put in the apartment they were renting.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8ad2077d	type	The Government
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8ad2077d	comment	The Government: Itâ€™s hinted during the Nursery plot that the Japanese government is involved with the various tests being conducted on the children from the nursery. A benevolent variant appeared in the â€œPost-Disasterâ€� plot known as the Ministry of Reconstruction, whose goal is to revive Japan back to its pre-disaster glory albeit they too have resorted to hiding details from the public, like the existence of a dormant Man-Eater in the water filtration center as well as the horrific human experiments that had taken place by Robin in secrecy.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: During the â€œImmortaliteâ€� arc of the Post-Disaster plot line, Maru and Kiruko come across a facility where a tech savy man is keeping a woman alive. He explains to the duo that she is slowly turning into a Man-Eater, being kept human through a rather brutal method of him cutting off the parts of her body that are beginning to turn. By the time they arrive, she is missing parts of her limbs and is covered in bandages — save for her right eye — and the man admitted that she had finally reached her limits. Having seen Maru kill the Man-Eater in the buildingâ€™s basement using his power, the man believed that Maru could end the womanâ€™s misery without turning her into a Man-Eater. Maru complies after the duo and the man help the woman see the sky one last time. It later becomes clear that the man and woman are an older Shiro and Mimihime from the Nursery plot line. Their first major interaction in the story, aside from Shiro watching Mimihime from a distance and some miscellaneous interactions between them, doesn't occur until about 20+ chapters later, though other breadcrumbs are given like Mimihime having the same fascination with the sky like the woman and a chapter title showcasing the two of them on the picture during the â€œImmortaliteâ€� arc.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8d718b9e	comment	When Maru and Kiruko were being chased by a wild bear, they managed to escape by climbing up a make-shift ladder to wait out the bear on a concrete pillarâ€¦ except the bear had no intention of letting a rare meal escape and remained in the area. Kiruko feared that the concrete would sap their body heat, meaning they would die from hypothermia long before starving or from dehydration, not to mention the cold weather would speed the process up.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Kiruko and Robin are catching up on old times after many years had passed, enjoying each otherâ€™s company and Kiruko believing everything will be alright again since she found her Big Brother Mentor. Then he rapes her, and reveals his true nature to her horror. One of the injuries on Kirukoâ€™s head has its true nature revealed: It was an old bullet wound when Kiriko Takehaya had been shot in the head. The Doctor realized she couldnâ€™t be saved, but her brother Haruki â€” who still had his brain intact even after losing half his body from a Man-Eaterâ€™s attack â€” wasnâ€™t beyond help. Therefore the Doctor performed the surgery of replacing Kirikoâ€™s deceased brain with Harukiâ€™s still intact one, resulting in the birth of â€œKiruko.â€� She was shocked to find out the Doctor had been trying to save Harukiâ€™s life, albeit with unintentional psychological consequences that Kiruko had to live with afterwards.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Thereâ€™s no shortage of them in this story, but even then some cases make you wonder if the victim deserved their fate. Maru was harassed by a vigilante gang that drew his full wrath when their leader, Iwata, knocked out one of Maruâ€™s teeth. Afterwards, Iwata swore vengeance and planned on ambushing Maru along with Kiruko, but a wild bear mauled Iwata to near death; he ended up being saved by the duo. Maru later found out that Iwata had been watching over Totori, the young innkeeper of the inn they were staying at that night, which made Maru realize Iwata wasnâ€™t a bad person at heart. Maru had been part of a gang in the past and believed they couldâ€™ve been good friends if he had grown up in that town, thus he became depressed upon learning that Iwata died later that evening.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: During the â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc of the Post-Disater plot line, there is the Chief of the Water Filtration Center, Inazaki Robin himself. When Maru found out Robin had raped Kiruko, Maru took it upon himself to punish Robin. However, Maru toyed with Robin by throwing him at a wall numerous times, mirroring the humiliation that he had subjected Kiruko to, which ended with Maru deciding to murder Robin after he was knocked out cold. While he was an evil and remorseless rapist, Maruâ€™s actions against Robin steered unnervingly close to turning Maru into a cold-blooded murderer seeking vengeance, but was stopped by Kiruko before he threw the final punch. Yet he still has bad blood, having planned in secrecy to murder Robin if the opportunity arises. In the â€œDream of Hellâ€� arc of the Post-Disaster plot line, the Glasses Man is tricked by a teenage Helm into allowing her to attach her prosthetic left arm unto his crotch, which activated a bomb that blew him up to near death. This was done to ensure he could no longer rape young girls like what he did to Helm when she was a child, though he succumbed to his wounds after Helm mocked him about the â€œdream of hellâ€� she gave him.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_90ed43d4	type	Brain Transplant
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_90ed43d4	comment	Another painting features four human-like silhouettes that have their heads converging into one. This is a possible reference to Kirukoâ€™s situation.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Haruki suffered this, having everything except his head and torso consumed by a Man-Eater. Conveniently, his head was completely untouched, allowing his brain to be transplanted into Kiriko's deceased body since she had been shot in the head at some point before the doctor found them both.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The event that led to the founding of the Post-Disaster plot line is believed to be either â€œContinentalâ€� or â€œPlanetaryâ€� in scope, complete with a Societal Disruption level of severity. Humans are intact, but they must deal with creatures of unfathomable levels of creepy, plus some humans have resorted to desperate measures in order to survive.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_96f6335d	type	Bodyguard Crush
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_96f6335d	comment	Bodyguard Crush: Maru has a crush on Kiruko. While she doesnâ€™t reciprocate his feelings, they end up becoming good friends after having survived many dangerous encounters throughout their travels.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The â€œKiru-Beamâ€� ray gunâ€™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 Maruâ€™s life on their journey.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9a032f08	type	Giver of Lame Names
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9a032f08	comment	Giver of Lame Names: Kiruko. She named Maruâ€™s Man-Eater core destroying ability his â€œMaru Touch,â€� her Ray Gun the â€œKiru-Beam,â€� and Maruâ€™s ability to detect the Man-Eaters as his â€œMaru Sense,â€� all of which he hates. Though it turned out his naming sense wasnâ€™t any better, such as when he named his own ability â€œFatal Diveâ€� for a day until even Kiruko called him out on how cheesy it was.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Nursery plot shows that Kona is an artist with his artwork bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Man-Eaters. This is followed up by the Man-Eaters being shown early on having supernatural abilities that are similar to the children of the nursery. Later on, a grown up Shiro who goes by the name Dr. Usami revealed to Maru and Kiruko that the Man-Eaters were once human, but they died from an illness that eventually warped the corpses into the monsters we see today. Future chapters even showcase humans who have a Hiruko core that Maru can interact with using his â€œMaru Touchâ€� ability. Kiruko from the Post-Disaster plot line had several odd instances that appeared in the first couple of chapters. Besides forgetting if she was eighteen or twenty years and claiming the mixup was due to being bad at math, there was a scene where she was examining her own body and attempted to kiss her own reflection in a mirror, but bailed when an innkeeper entered the room. Also, Maru later discovered a large stitch wound on her head when he helped dry her hair, which she stated came from a surgery in the past. Then during chapter seven a man from the â€œTomato Heavenâ€� vineyard thought Kiruko was a famous kart-racer named Kiriko Takehaya, who went missing years ago, but she denied the resemblances. Itâ€™s later revealed that â€œKirukoâ€� is an alias for Haruki Takehaya, the younger brother of the aforementioned Kiriko Takehaya, whose body Harukiâ€™s brain is inhabiting due to a medical procedure done by a doctor — one that he knew five years ago. When he tried to kill a Man-Eater who could turn invisible before it attacked his sister during one of her kart races, his experimental crossbow weapon failed to bring it down, thus most of his body was eaten before his sister managed to pull his body out. In the end, Haruki passed out with his sister crying over him, making him believe he was dying. When Haruki awakened, he looked at himself in a mirror and saw Kirikoâ€™s body in the reflection instead, then panicked while screaming he was Haruki — much to the confusion of the people in the room who tried to correct him by saying Haruki had passed away. The people stated that a doctor wasnâ€™t able to save him, but the doctor did save her before he left town, indicating something bad mightâ€™ve happened to Kiriko while Haruki was unconscious. After â€œsheâ€� recovered, having accepted her new strange fatenote albeit referring to herself as a man to whoever knows the truth about her brain surgery, like Maru, she named herself â€œKirukoâ€� and set out on a journey to discover the truth, plus look for Robin who had disappeared. The reason why Kiruko forgets her age is because she has a tendency to think of herself as â€œHarukiâ€� instead of as â€œKiriko,â€� who was about two years older than him. Itâ€™s also revealed that Haruki had a secret one-sided crush on his sister, which is why Kiruko was admiring her body in a lustful manner. A picture of Shiro and Mimihime from the Nursery plot is used as the chapter cover of chapter nineteen, hinting at the true identities of Dr. Usami and Hoshino respectively as now grown up in the Post-Disaster plot. The Chief of the Water Filtration Center, Robin, panicked when he saw Maru for the first time and ran away, hinting that the Chief knew Maru was a dangerous threat despite appearing to be a mere teenage boy. This was even before the Chief found out all the guards had been knocked out by Maru. Five years ago Robin had disappeared for several months before the orphanage closed down, making it possible he came into contact with some the people of the nursery where children with supernatural abilities had been — thus he may have known who Maru was. The anime's opening only shows the Post-Disaster part of the story, with a single Forced Perspective shot involving a decoration representing a child in a school uniform and several large archways arranged to look like a windowless building being the only recognizable allusion to the Nursery plot. To make the shot fit with the rest of the opening, both props are just as weather-worn as everything else. Mikura, Maruâ€™s previous guardian before he was passed on to Kiruko, has several mysteries surrounding her. While she took good care of Maru she treated him more like an important tool â€” rather than a person â€” and was the one who set Maru and Kiruko on their quest to find â€œHeaven.â€� Mikura also seemed to be bitter about life, having named the Ray Gun she carried around â€œThe Thankless Weaponâ€� before she gave it to Kiruko. Sheâ€™s later revealed to be the Director of the Nursery herself, having had her brain switched with one of the Nurseryâ€™s children who had fallen into a coma they werenâ€™t waking up from after the Nursery suffered severe damage in an attack. The Director lived on for over fifteen years after the disaster, but had to deal with the fact that several plans she had set up to advance humanity never came to fruition, so she wandered around in post-apocalyptic Japan embittered until she came across Maru.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9e4ed124	comment	Mundanger: In the Post-Disaster storyline Maru and Kiruko occasionally have to deal with violent humans as their opponent(s).
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Kiruko. While sheâ€™s no slouch in the athletics department, sheâ€™s up against horrific monsters and gangs of human bandits who wouldnâ€™t think twice about violating her. Therefore she had to rely on her survival skills, sharp intuition, and her trusty â€œKiru-Beamâ€� in order to deal with anything Maru cannot beat on his own.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9eb71c7c	type	Super-Toughness
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9eb71c7c	comment	Super-Toughness: Downplayed with Maru who can take hits from adults with ease, yet the Man-Eaters or a wild bear can turn the tables on him.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: The "Kiru-Beam". On the one hand, it only has four shots before the battery dies; takes thirty seconds to charge up before it can be used; and misfires often, much to Maru and Kirukoâ€™s chagrin since the gun wonâ€™t regain a misfired shot. On the other hand, when it works, it can be seen as the laser gun equivalent of the Noisy Cricket. And it turns out the weapon was mass-produced for a group of winged humanoid alien soldiers under the control of the Nurseryâ€™s leaders.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a340a474	comment	Cozy Catastrophe: Deconstructed in the Post-Disaster plot line. While cozy is a stretch in a post-apocalyptic setting, civilization is still up and going in the major cities and pre-collapse currency is still used alongside bartering for good and services. Surviving settlements trade, people run businesses, electricity and technology is still available (albeit rare outside the major cities), and there are even orphanages in some of those cities who are taking care of children who've lost their parents. Youâ€™d be forgiven for believing that the series is a slice of life considering people tend to be helpful, even in a devastated world... which is why whenever something horrifying does happen it takes people off guard. In fact the most horrifying events tend to be started by regular people who presented themselves as well-meaning and charismatic, a point not far off from reality in regards to cunning sociopaths, and its this reason why these events are so jarring in a series that otherwise has plenty of heartwarming moments.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a54c2273	type	Dented Iron
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a54c2273	comment	Dented Iron: Kirukoâ€™s body is in this condition due to having spent many years on the road in post-apocalyptic Japan.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: The â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc reveals this is Kirukoâ€™s Fatal Flaw.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: A few of the children from the Nursery plot are hinted to have mental disorders of sorts, none of which prevents them from using their special abilities and/or enhanced physicality to great effect. Also, Tarao has super human strength — able to lift large boulders with ease — but is often bedridden due to his poor health and moves around on a wheelchair. Helm has a prosthetic left arm. If she unhooks it from her upper arm it activates a timed bomb within, which she attaches to her intended victim by using the fishhooks built in to the gloveâ€™s fingertips.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_a8c6a317	comment	A few of the children from the Nursery plot are hinted to have mental disorders of sorts, none of which prevents them from using their special abilities and/or enhanced physicality to great effect. Also, Tarao has super human strength — able to lift large boulders with ease — but is often bedridden due to his poor health and moves around on a wheelchair.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ab17f66	comment	Kiruko and Robin are catching up on old times after many years had passed, enjoying each otherâ€™s company and Kiruko believing everything will be alright again since she found her Big Brother Mentor. Then he rapes her, and reveals his true nature to her horror.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: This happens on occasion when a Man-Eater devours a human being via absorbing them, but what makes it worse is that the process is slow and painful for the victim. Haruki suffered this gruesome fate, who had his limbs and lower portion of his stomach area â€œswallowedâ€� by the Invisibility Man-Eater.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Maruâ€™s â€œMaru Touchâ€� ability doesnâ€™t work on normal wild life and humans until Maru learned the latter wasnâ€™t always true when he was able to reach a Hiruko Core upon touching Totori, a young innkeeper. A Man-Eater shaped like a dome that Kiruko fired her â€œKiru-Beamâ€� at deflected the beam right back at her, though fortunately she was too far away for the beam to hurt her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: No one quite knows what caused the collapse, despite it being just 15 years ago. Maru mentions a theory that it was caused by people pushing their own rules on each other, leading to everyone killing each other (known as the War Collapse Theory in-universe). Kiruko thinks that's stupid.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Kiruko wanted to know the whereabouts of Robin, her Big Brother Mentor who disappeared years ago, and a doctor she knew in the past. She later finds Robin during the â€œInazaki Robinâ€� arc, reunites with him, and finds out when they were alone that he was a twisted sadist the entire time who had no problems raping her. After Helm was raped, she told the people in her town who went on to find a man wearing glasses who she believed was her rapist. Upon condemning him, the man had one of his arms chopped off and was exiled with his family in tow. But she later discovered the true culprit had avoided detection by not wearing his glasses in-town during the hunt, almost raping her again until she threw up on his crotch and got the attention of a nearby woman, forcing the Glasses Man to flee town. Helm had to live with the realization that in her haste to get vengeance, she blamed an innocent man by accident, which broke her to the point that she chopped off her left forearm with an axe in retribution for her mistake.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b1f18adb	type	Ray Gun
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b1f18adb	comment	Mikura, Maruâ€™s previous guardian before he was passed on to Kiruko, has several mysteries surrounding her. While she took good care of Maru she treated him more like an important tool â€” rather than a person â€” and was the one who set Maru and Kiruko on their quest to find â€œHeaven.â€� Mikura also seemed to be bitter about life, having named the Ray Gun she carried around â€œThe Thankless Weaponâ€� before she gave it to Kiruko. Sheâ€™s later revealed to be the Director of the Nursery herself, having had her brain switched with one of the Nurseryâ€™s children who had fallen into a coma they werenâ€™t waking up from after the Nursery suffered severe damage in an attack. The Director lived on for over fifteen years after the disaster, but had to deal with the fact that several plans she had set up to advance humanity never came to fruition, so she wandered around in post-apocalyptic Japan embittered until she came across Maru.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b426973b	comment	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Zig-Zagged. Kiruko believes she is actually Haruki Takehaya because his brain was transplanted into his sister, Kiriko Takehaya, resulting in Kiruko having Harukiâ€™s mind. But while Robin was raping Kiruko, he pointed out that even if she has Harukiâ€™s brain that doesnâ€™t mean his mind is the one in control, and that she might instead be â€œKirikoâ€� who only has Harukiâ€™s memories instead. After seeing a memory from a viewpoint that belonged to â€œKirikoâ€� later on, Kiruko realized that Robin had a point, albeit she continues to believe her own theory to spite him for betraying her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: While Maru would love nothing more than to fondle Kirukoâ€™s boobs, he wonâ€™t stand others doing the same and even manages to restrain himself from letting his perversion get the best of him (most of the time). It doesnâ€™t help matters that Kiruko herself knows this, even tempting him on occasion for fun and to get him to accomplish difficult tasks for her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Zig-Zagged in the Post-Disaster plot. 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 humansâ€™s lives, even if itâ€™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.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: No matter how well you think you know someone, thereâ€™s always a chance they may betray you. While that doesnâ€™t mean you should be paranoid of everyone, it does mean you should remain vigilant around others. Case in point, while discovering the Chief of the Water Filtration Center was abusing their authority and power to take advantage of others isnâ€™t too big a surprise at the end, the knife twister is knowing the Chief is Robin himself, the man who took care of Haruki and Kiriko when they were children. Kirukonote who has Harukiâ€™s brain and considers herself to be him had received guidance by Robin for a long time, thus she believed that she had no reason to think he had a sinister motive for inviting her to stay overnight at the facility and left caution to the wind — something she never wouldâ€™ve done otherwise. This is Truth in Television; many victims of rape were targeted by people that the former trusted, which is the point of a criminal earning the trust of their intended victim in the first place. Robin himself admitted that the reason why he looked after Haruki and Kiriko when they were kids is because â€œhe thought they were interesting,â€� not because he cared about them.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bd80925e	type	Forced Perspective
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bd80925e	comment	The anime's opening only shows the Post-Disaster part of the story, with a single Forced Perspective shot involving a decoration representing a child in a school uniform and several large archways arranged to look like a windowless building being the only recognizable allusion to the Nursery plot. To make the shot fit with the rest of the opening, both props are just as weather-worn as everything else.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bdcf86f3	type	Disaster Scavengers
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bdcf86f3	comment	Disaster Scavengers: In order to survive, Maru and Kuriko loot abandoned cities to obtain useful goods for themselves or for bartering with other survivors. In Maruâ€™s case, he started scavenging as early as age seven out of necessity.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Kiruko does this often to avoid having to kill people in self defense. For instance, she once talked down a group of bandits who intended on robbing both Maru and herself as well as raping her by threatening them at gun point. Despite their threats, she made it clear she was in charge as well as continued to make fun of them. Once they charged the battery for her â€œKiru-Beamâ€�, they found out she was bluffing the entire time — her ray gun was out of shots, yet they had unwittingly recharged it. In the end, the bandits gave up and let Maru and Kiruko go out of frustration rather than put up with any more of her berating.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c145f69b	comment	However, this is subverted later after Robin was pummeled unconscious by Maru after he rescued Kiruko, which spooked Robin when he awoke later into running away from the town after stealing equipment from the facility. This earned him the ire of the Ministry of Reconstruction, who assigned a squad of government officials to hunt him down.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c2299d6e	comment	The Glasses Man raped Helm when she was a young girl and skirted the authorities by not wearing his glasses; he managed to escape after another attempt at raping Helm was botched. During the present time in the Post-Disaster plot, heâ€™s seen walking through a town with another young girl chained to him, making it clear she was a child prostitute the Glasses Man was taking advantage of in exchange for food.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c5fe6c81	comment	One of the paintings has two babies inside of an egg covered in wings. Tokio gave birth to a child who was mysteriously duplicated, and due to Maruâ€™s similar appearance to Tokio — plus the fact they both have supernatural abilities — itâ€™s possible that Tokio is Maruâ€™s mother.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c6671b4e	type	Brain Theft
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_c6671b4e	comment	A straight example is Sawatori, a scientist who was passed up as the next Director in line to a woman named Aoshima. He attempted to confront her on this, but reneged when he noticed the facility AI Meena was talking with her, instead doing his best to swallow his rage. That is, until he learned in horror the real reason why she was chosen by the current Director: Aoshima was the chosen body vessel that the Director wanted to remove the formerâ€™s brain out of in order to insert her own brain into due to her own body failing, thus giving her a form of immortality so she could live long enough to possess the body of Tokioâ€™s child.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_cc8b2fd	type	Ascended Fridge Horror
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_cc8b2fd	comment	Ascended Fridge Horror: One major question that many people in the fan base had when the story of Haruki Takehaya and his sister Kiriko was released had to do with the nature of their â€œsurgery,â€� which led to Harukiâ€™s brain being placed into his sisterâ€™s body via Brain Transplant. While it did â€œsaveâ€� Harukiâ€™s life in a matter of speaking, it led to people wondering how effective a procedure that seemingly wipes out the mind/memories of the original body would be in terms of â€œsaving lives.â€� Thus the fan base came up an idea: what would happen if a Brain Transplant in that universe was instead done to let someone live a theoretical immortal life, having their brain swapped to new bodies when one was getting too old. As it turns out, that is indeed the plan of the Director from the Nursery plot line. She wanted to transplant her brain into Tokioâ€™s child and gain access to their supernatural abilities, but since the child was too young it wouldnâ€™t work before the Director died of old age. She instead decided to have it transplanted into one of her aides named Aoshima and wait until the child was old enough for another procedure, but Sawatori — the scientist who would be responsible performing the surgeries — had little interest in the Directorâ€™s plan, having chosen to instead work with Aoshima behind the Directorâ€™s back.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Zig-zagged with Kiruko, who is resourceful and has survived many years on the road even before she met Maru, yet is up against horrifying monsters with supernatural abilities and bandits who sometimes coordinate with each other. Still, while her strength and durability isnâ€™t up to par with Maru, she is a skilled sharpshooter with her trusty â€œKiru-Beamâ€� and uses the environment to her advantage whenever possible. She has even won some fights due to outsmarting her opponent instead of relying on her firearm e.g. the giant fish Man-Eater). However, she also has to face real life issues in the wilderness and abandoned cities, ones that even an Action Girl would have problems with. For instance, suffering her period in the midst of hostile territory, having to make sure Maru is alright, and keeping a careful watch on their supplies out on the road since they have to eat as well as rest, meaning they could die of mundane reasons like starvation. And no matter how tough an Action Girl she is, being betrayed as well as raped by someone she trusted (Robin) was a harrowing experience. The artwork showcased brutal and realistic details of how terrifying rape is for a victim, alongside the story making it clear that even brave women who fight literal monsters on a regular basis can be traumatized, especially if the victim had trusted their rapist beforehand with their lives. Fortunately, she has Maru to help her when things get too rough for her alone, and overcoming these grim experiences has made her a stronger person.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Maru. Heâ€™s able to take punches from adults like they smacked him with a pillow, dish out serious hurt of his own, and can run fast compared to a normal human being. Due to his â€œMaru Touchâ€� having obvious supernatural origins, itâ€™s possible his enhanced physicality isnâ€™t because of training alone. Given that he bears a heavy resemblance to Tokio from the Nursery plot and she had supernatural powers of her own, Maruâ€™s impressive physicality may have come from her.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_dc020791	type	It's Been Done
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_dc020791	comment	It's Been Done: During one chapter, Maru and Kiruko are escaping a giant Man-Eater in their van on a bumpy road, so to give Kiruko stability Maru ties her down to the seat with some cloth. Once they escape, Kiruko praises Maru much to his satisfaction, saying that he came up with a brilliant invention. But in the shot of her saying this and the shot of his reaction you can see the car's unusued seatbelts behind them.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e266d610	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e266d610	comment	Expository Hair Style Change: At some point in the past Kiruko's haircolour changed from black to reddish brown. She figures it's probably from a traumatic injury she suffered in the past and also sees it as a reminder from her sister to take care of her body.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Rather than a character, the gun that Kiruko uses has two different names depending on the translation. In Japanese, itâ€™s called the â€œMurder Beam,â€� whereas in the English translation itâ€™s known as the â€œKiru-Beamâ€� to follow suit with her name-themed descriptions of her companionâ€™s abilities like the â€œMaru Touchâ€� and â€œMaru Sense.â€�
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The Chief of the Water Filtration Plant becomes one after he raped Kiruko. He was earlier revealed to be Robin, who at one point was Kirukoâ€™s Big Brother Mentor she looked up to — even going on a long journey for several years to find him, only to be betrayed in one of the worst ways possible. The authorities of the town later discovered Robin had also been performing experiments on a woman, whose limbs had been removed with her body connected to a docile Man-Eater via tubes. Even worse, she appeared to be aware of her situation and in complete pain, unable to do anything about her situation. The Glasses Man raped Helm when she was a young girl and skirted the authorities by not wearing his glasses; he managed to escape after another attempt at raping Helm was botched. During the present time in the Post-Disaster plot, heâ€™s seen walking through a town with another young girl chained to him, making it clear she was a child prostitute the Glasses Man was taking advantage of in exchange for food.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e6b906c0	type	Wise Old Folk FaÃ§ade
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e6b906c0	comment	In the â€œNurseryâ€� plot, the Director is this. Many people see her as a wise old woman who oversees the entire operation of the nursery and cares about the children, but itâ€™s all an act.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_e7dfebe8	comment	I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Kiruko sometimes resorts to this with Maru when faced with a task sheâ€™d rather not do herself. For instance, when the duo were trapped on a concrete pillar because of a wild bear trying to eat them, Kuriko dropped the battery that powered her â€œKiru-Beamâ€� ray gun by accident. She then told Maru if he went down to fetch it that she would let him feel up her breasts; he jumped down without hesitation and got the battery, which led to the bearâ€™s death a short while after. Unfortunately for him, she managed to escape her end of the deal later that night due to the innkeeper Totoriâ€™s meddling.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: The Glasses Man is a victim of this when Helm detached her prosthetic arm and latched it onto his groin using fishhooks built into the gloveâ€™s fingertips, inflicting immense pain on him. Then she revealed the arm had explosives in it, blowing up the pedophile rapist when it successfully detonated at his groin, which guaranteed that even if he somehow survived the blast his groin wouldnâ€™t.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ed46da54	comment	Martial Pacifist: When against human opponents, Maru and Kiruko refuse to murder and will even avoid killing in justifiable self defense, instead using their wits and surroundings in combat to disable opponents or try to talk them down. That is, unless you push Maruâ€™s Berserk Button and violate Kiruko, as Robin found out the hard way.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ede69913	comment	Worthless Currency: A rare aversion for a post-apocalyptic setting in the â€œPost-Disasterâ€� plot. Yen is still accepted by some pockets of civilization in Japan, although bartering goods/services is still seen as the more reliable way to get what you need.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Juichi's van, later given to Maru and Kiruko as a parting gift. It's beaten up and rusted, and conks out on them briefly when they first depart with it in their possesson. While it remains mostly reliable in the manga, it stalls a second time at the end of the anime, much to Kiruko's embarassment.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_f85d3c1e	type	Sequencing Deception
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_f85d3c1e	comment	Sequencing Deception: At first it seems as though the two plotlines are occuring at the same time, that the nursery may be some sort of bunker that survived the disaster which destroyed Tokyo, but itâ€™s eventually revealed that the Nursery plot line happened before the disaster struck.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Kiruko is the Tomboy variant. She behaves this way towards Maru, who looks up to her and nicknamed her â€œSis.â€�
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_f88bba7c	type	Detect Evil
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_f88bba7c	comment	Detect Evil: Maru later gains the ability to detect the presence of any nearby Man-Eaters in the Post-Disaster plot; itâ€™s nicknamed the â€œMaru Senseâ€� by Kiruko later on. This includes the â€œHiruko Humansâ€� introduced in the Nursery plot and their descendants in the Post-Disaster plot. They have a Hiruko Core that Maru can see with his power like the Man-Eaters, such as Juiichiâ€™s son.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Maru is a kind and empathetic person, but heâ€™s more than willing to give a brutal beat down if the situation calls for it; a vigilante group learned this the hard way after one of them sucker punched him and made him lose one of his teeth. Also, he does not like it when anyone harms Kiruko. When Robin raped Kiruko and taunted Maru about this, he showed how vicious he can become when pushed too far.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: 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.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Kirukoâ€™s past in general is this. Sheâ€™s the result of a surgery that put the brain of a dying boy, Haruki Takehaya, inside the body of his sister (who was believed to be dying for reasons not yet known). Since she believes sheâ€™s Haruki — due to having his brain — she lives life believing sheâ€™s a man trapped in a womanâ€™s body, leading to all kinds of psychological issues when she contemplates who she is as a person. And neither sibling lived a grand life beforehand, instead living in a post-apocalyptic world where people wouldnâ€™t hesitate to murder you for the clothes on your back; itâ€™s no wonder she also became cynical about life. Maru grew up not knowing anything about his parents, having instead been brought up by random strangers who did their best to keep him alive in a post-apocalyptic world. One of his guardians was even murdered, yet he was forced to follow said murderer into their gang because Maru otherwise wouldnâ€™t have survived, leading to an uncertain life of not knowing who really cared about him and who was just using him. He lampshaded his situation at one point, mentioning to Kiruko that he lived his entire life following random adults, one after another due to various circumstances with her being the latest one, albeit in her case he does warm up to her over time. Helm was raped when she was a young girl, but her attempt to get revenge ended horribly wrong when she learned that she had accused the wrong man. She didnâ€™t take it well at all, seeking retribution by chopping off her left forearm, mirroring the punishment that the innocent accused man suffered from the townspeople when they condemned him.
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Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Heavenly Delusion (Manga) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: A good number of real life survival tips/tactics are showcased in the Post-Disaster plot. When Maru and Kiruko were being chased by a wild bear, they managed to escape by climbing up a make-shift ladder to wait out the bear on a concrete pillarâ€¦ except the bear had no intention of letting a rare meal escape and remained in the area. Kiruko feared that the concrete would sap their body heat, meaning they would die from hypothermia long before starving or from dehydration, not to mention the cold weather would speed the process up. Knowing how to start a fire has helped survivors numerous times. It has numerous uses, such as cooking meat to edible temperatures; maintaining a heat source to keep warm; and creating a beacon in the darkness that would allow other survivors to know of oneâ€™s location (itâ€™s even mentioned that the smoke the fire produces can be seen from further distances). Alternatively, fires can attract unwanted attention, making it imperative you keep a close eye on your surroundings. Kiruko oftentimes mixes vegetation she finds with Maruâ€™s meal and her own while resting on their journey. Proper nutrition is vital for survival, which is why eating only preserved food from containers they looted can lead to serious illnesses like scurvy if the food is lacking in nutrients. However, at one point Kiruko made the mistake of mixing unknown vegetation with an entire can of food for dinner, which led to their dinner being inedible as well as gross tasting. If you want to eat plants in the wild itâ€™s best to know what youâ€™re dealing with, but if youâ€™re not sure then only mix it with a small portion of the main dish set aside as a taste test. And be prepared to feel sick if the plant you couldnâ€™t identify was poisonous and/or contaminated. A tunnel environment can get dangerous if you donâ€™t know the layout of the area. If you enter a tunnel, yet the original entrance you used either gets blocked off by a freak accident (e.g. cave-in caused by an earthquake) or a hostile being cuts you off from the outside that you cannot overpower, youâ€™re forced to either wait and hope your resources on hand can sustain you until help arrives or explore deeper for a new exit. And if the rest of the tunnel(s) is cut off (e.g. flooded with water) then youâ€™re trapped, further limiting your options.
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