Series synopsis
Heaven's Design Team, also known as 天地創造デザイン部 is a Japanese animation comedy sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on AT-X on January 7, 2021. It ended on March 25, 2021. It stars Junya Enoki, Yumi Hara, Asuna Tomari and Yuuichirou Umehara.
I made the light, the water, and the earth below. Now it's time to make the life that dwells upon it. Actually... that sounds like a giant headache, so I'll contract it out! Heaven's Design Team is an agency that creates made-to-order life forms for their client, God. Why does this life form look like that? Why does this life form live this way? Watch the trials and successes of the designers and engineers forced to breathe life into God's absurd requests!
Premise
I made the light, the water, and the earth below. Now it's time to make the life that dwells upon it. Actually... that sounds like a giant headache, so I'll contract it out! Heaven's Design Team is an agency that creates made-to-order life forms for their client, God. Why does this life form look like that? Why does this life form live this way? Watch the trials and successes of the designers and engineers forced to breathe life into God's absurd requests!
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Junya Enoki as Shimoda (voice)
- Yumi Hara as Ueda (voice)
- Asuna Tomari as Higuchi (voice)
- Yuuichirou Umehara as Kimura (voice)
- Ryota Takeuchi as Unabara (voice)
- Takahiro Mizushima as Mushibu (voice)
- Hina Kino as Kenta (voice)
- Junichi Suwabe as Mizushima (voice)
Supporting cast
- Naoki Tatsuta as God (voice)
- Kazuhiko Inoue as Tsuchiya (voice)
- Naomi Ohzora as Meido (voice)
- Daisuke Kishio as Kanamori (voice)
- Ryota Osaka as Yokota (voice)
- Fumihiko Tachiki as Narrator (voice)
- Kikuko Inoue as Queen (voice)
- Nanami Atsugi as 233 (voice)
- Yua Nagae as 213 (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 13 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | April 2, 2021 | April 2, 2021 |
| Season 1 | 12 | January 7, 2021 | April 1, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Idea 13 This time God's order is to "make five animals and combine all of them in the end". The designers are stumped by this ultra unreasonable and difficult order. They each work their respective strengths and after some trial and error... What exactly is the animal they created...?! |
April 2, 2021 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Idea 1 Shimoda is a new angel who was just hired into Heaven's Design Firm. Right as he goes to introduce himself to the Design Team, they begin a meeting. The order from God is for an animal that "eats only leaves from really high places". Right away, the designers begin to pitch various ideas... |
January 7, 2021 |
| 2 |
Idea 2 When Ueda takes Shimoda to the Insect Department to introduce himself, he's overwhelmed by everybody being a character. That's when a vague order from God comes in, this time for an "animal that's cute, but not". Meido, the self-designated expert for designing cute creatures, raises her hand and out comes... |
January 14, 2021 |
| 3 |
Idea 3 Under a dark and ominous sky, pierced by lightning, a man wearing a sinister hood summons a... "dragon"! Shimoda and some of the designers were trying to fulfill the order "has not wings but flies anyway" and were checking out the dragon for inspiration. However, a harried looking Mizushima rushes onto the scene. |
January 21, 2021 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | AT-X |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 7, 2021 |
| Last aired | March 25, 2021 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 23:30:00 |