{"id":582161,"date":"2023-07-10T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T03:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-hate-science-fiction-but-i-like-tengoku-daimakyou\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T06:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T03:21:18","slug":"i-hate-science-fiction-but-i-like-tengoku-daimakyou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-hate-science-fiction-but-i-like-tengoku-daimakyou\/","title":{"rendered":"#I Hate Science Fiction but I Like Tengoku Daimakyou"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Season aired<\/b>: Spring 2023<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Number of episodes<\/b>: 13<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watched on: <\/b>Hulu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Translated by: <\/b>Annie Chen<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Genres<\/b>: Science<\/a> Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Action<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Content Warning: this article briefly discusses certain triggering content within the anime<\/a> itself, such as sexual assault and rape.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts<\/b>: <\/span>Tengoku Daimakyou <\/span><\/i>had bad odds for me to enjoy it. As a general<\/a> consumer of most types of media<\/a>, there are still certain genres I don\u2019t click with. Those include science fiction, horror, post-apocalypse, and sports. Yet, despite the fact that <\/span>Tengoku Daimakyou <\/span><\/i>finds itself in two of my most-disliked genres, it won me over with its ability to weave plot points together in clever ways while exploring humanity in such a broken world \u2013 with the exception of the arc in the final two episodes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tengoku Daimakyou <\/span><\/i>follows two separate storylines that are inexplicably tied in mysterious ways. On one hand, we have the travel<\/a>ing duo of Kiruko and Maru. They are searching for \u201cheaven\u201d but have no idea where it is or what it even entails. Throughout their journey, they encounter friends and foes and question their place in a post-apocalyptic world. On the other hand, we have a school of children who possess strange abilities and who are kept in a walled institution with no knowledge of the outside world. They\u2019re under the watchful eye of adults who may or may not have their best interests in mind. As we watch, we begin to understand how these two different storylines relate to each other in this dangerous world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What sold me about this show more than anything is its commitment to showing the humanity within such a terrible world. Most of the time, I dislike science fiction and post-apocalyptic stories because I think they tend to be far more interested in showing the world and how it\u2019s so different from the modern world while ignoring the actual people. In <\/span>Tengoku Daimakyou<\/span><\/i>\u2019s case, the story is heavily character-driven by taking an episodic app<\/a>roach, providing opportunities to show the world without sacrificing the humans who live in it, despite containing things like technological advancements and strange man-eating monsters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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