Hidden Gem Anime Series to Enjoy: ‘Tengoku Daimakyou’

Here’s the next entry in ‘Hidden Gem Anime Series to Enjoy’ for you all to enjoy. As we’re officially in summer, let me introduce you to Tengoku Daimakyou. I picked up the first few volumes of the manga and learned that there was an anime adaptation already streaming, and I just felt that there wasn’t enough buzz about it. The more I watched the more I knew that outside of some of my faves this Spring Anime Season that this was a stunner that I had to keep watching. It had been described to me as “The Last of Us meets The Promised Neverland,” so I knew I had to tell all of my anime watching friends. If you love your dystopian anime with a TV-MA (Mature Audience only) programming rating, this may be your jam. On a note of transparency and as I think trigger warnings are great tools, please take care as I link here for a later episode that might just make some viewers drop the show altogether. Spoilers aren’t great, but mental health takes precedence here in the house of BNP. Take care yourselves, friends.

What is it About: In short, the world has gone to crap. Some fifteen years ago The Great Disaster befell Japan. Now in the year 2024, grotesque human-eating monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while the remaining population is scattered about eking out a living with the surviving technologies. The anime centers upon two groups of young adults: Kiruko and Maru who are traveling through Japan while Tokio and his classmates that he’s grown up with in an isolated facility …