Written and illustrated by Masakazu Ishiguro, Heavenly Delusion started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on January 25, 2018.[1] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on July 23, 2018;[2] a promotional video, directed by Tasuku Watanabe, for the first volume was released on the same date.[3] As of October 22, 2024, 11 volumes have been released.[4]
The story is divided in two storylines with one involving the characters Maru and Kiruko as they travel across a post-apocalyptic world, while another story focuses on a group of children who live in a school. In the outside world, 15 years have passed since an unprecedented disaster completely destroyed modern civilization. A group of children live in a facility isolated from the outside world. One day, one of them, a girl named Tokio, receives a message that says "Do you want to go outside of the outside?" Mimihime, another girl who lives in the same facility, has a prediction and tells the upset Tokio that two people will come from the outside to save her, one of whom has the same face as her, while the director of the school tells her that the outside world is Hell. Meanwhile, a boy named Maru, who looks just like Tokio, is traveling through this devastated Japan with a girl named Kiruko, in search of Heaven.
In North America, the series is licensed in English by Denpa.[5] The first volume was released on December 31, 2019.[6]
アフタヌーン 2018年3月号. Monthly Afternoon. Kodansha. Archived from the original on November 18, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
石黒正数が18年ぶりにアフタに帰還、少年少女の冒険譚「天国大魔境」始動. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. January 25, 2018. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
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