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Tengoku Daimakyo

2023 · 1 season

A haunting, puzzle-box journey through ruined landscapes and sealed corridors, balancing tender character bonds against sudden violence and unsettling mystery.

Created by
Koji Komurakata, Shota Hamada
Genres
Animation, Mystery, Action & adventure
Starring
Gen Sato, Sayaka Senbongi, Hibiku Yamamura
Tagline
Do you want to go outside of the outside?
Overview
In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they can to survive. Kiruko, an odd-job girl in Nakano, accepts a mysterious woman's dying wish to take a boy named Maru to a place called Heaven. Maru is convinced that there will be a boy there who looks exactly like him.

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Stream in the UK
  • Disney Plus
More options Data from JustWatch
Created by
Koji Komurakata, Shota Hamada
Genres
Animation, Mystery, Action & adventure
Starring
Gen Sato, Sayaka Senbongi, Hibiku Yamamura
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • survival
  • mystery
  • found family
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
  • single country house
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror5
Humour4
Realism4
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
animation, mystery, action & adventure, sci-fi & fantasy
Created by
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Written by
Makoto Fukami, Hirotaka Mori, Ikumi Nomura, Asako Kuboyama
Starring
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Music
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Cinematography
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Length
1 seasons, 13 episodes, 24 min each
Network
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Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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