By Jeannette Ng. Masakazu Ishiguro’s Heavenly Delusion is a sprawling saga through the urban wastelands of a post-apocalyptic Japan, as we follow a teenager named Maru looking for “heaven”, alongside a girl who shares his face. Kiruko accompanies him as a hired bodyguard by their bond soon grows deeper and more complicated than that. This […]
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