Heaven's Design Team 4
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GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 4/2/2021
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 4/2/2021 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I got this softcover manga at Barnes and Noble, after enjoying Volume One. The series mixes humor with science - indeed, there are segments from "the encyclopedia of real animals" which include photos of the creatures "developed" in the stories. The design team consists of characters with quirks of their own - the guy who designed the horse and now tries to give every new creature a horse-esque style (sometimes this works: seahorses, for example; more often it does not, for reasons which the engineer who builds the prototypes is happy to point out); the tiny girl who loves cute things (but for whom "cute" means "poisonous and/or cannibalistic"); the big bearded guy who really does go for things that most of us would see as cute and cuddly - and more.
Later: this one picks up with the design team visiting Hell for a celebratory banquet - to which God is about to arrive; but alas, he's been distracted by other things, and sends his mount Garuda instead. With a new commission: "a creature suitable for a theme park in hell"! They head back to the office and try to come up with something fabulous, with the discussion ranging from a T-rex to a lyrebird.
Later chapters include a rap battle (!) between two of the designers - neither of whom are very good at that; the design of a turtle and several owls, and a design-battle between Jupiter and Neptune for "a bird that lives on an island of ice". Yep, a penguin-design contest! Farther on we meet a hive of identical beings, which at first seemed like an insect colony of some kind but turned out to be that most colony-minded of mammals, the naked mole rat...
This volume ends with a look at jellyfish - and the concept of immortality, leading to quite the cliffhanger!
[There's a TV Tropes page on the series, with some entertaining tidbits. And the anime adaptation is quite charming!]
See also:
Volume 2
Volume 3
Later: this one picks up with the design team visiting Hell for a celebratory banquet - to which God is about to arrive; but alas, he's been distracted by other things, and sends his mount Garuda instead. With a new commission: "a creature suitable for a theme park in hell"! They head back to the office and try to come up with something fabulous, with the discussion ranging from a T-rex to a lyrebird.
Later chapters include a rap battle (!) between two of the designers - neither of whom are very good at that; the design of a turtle and several owls, and a design-battle between Jupiter and Neptune for "a bird that lives on an island of ice". Yep, a penguin-design contest! Farther on we meet a hive of identical beings, which at first seemed like an insect colony of some kind but turned out to be that most colony-minded of mammals, the naked mole rat...
This volume ends with a look at jellyfish - and the concept of immortality, leading to quite the cliffhanger!
[There's a TV Tropes page on the series, with some entertaining tidbits. And the anime adaptation is quite charming!]
See also:
Volume 2
Volume 3
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Sagamore St. in Manchester, New Hampshire USA on Monday, May 3, 2021
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Sagamore St. in Manchester, New Hampshire USA on Monday, May 3, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (5/3/2021 UTC) at Little Free Library, Sagamore St. in Manchester, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.I left this book in this new-to-me Little Free Library; hope someone enjoys it!
[See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 20 Years of BookCrossing challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2021 TV Series challenge. ***
