And the plot thickens. The sense of mystery surrounding this tengoku place, which we have now come to know as Takahara gakuen is so damn good. I love how at one moment Kiriko and Maru might be having a goofy moment and then in the very next, they end up encountering something bizarre or even insidious. Simply epic.

I’ll be surprised if Tokio ISN’T Maru’s biological mother

I can finally agree with one thing on this show without feeling uneasy :

HUH! PREGRNANT AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE?!

Finally, a relatable reaction. Common sense is not dead yet.

I swear, just when I think this show can't engross me with its mysteries anymore, it keeps managing to go beyond. We see that Asura's connection with Kona goes beyond simply "knowing them," apparently helping hone Kona's mental abilities to the point where it's heavily implied they cut Michika's leg. Asura also seems to have the power to heal, and their presence is not seen by the cameras. This opens up so many possible questions concerning who Asura is, how / why they left or died, etc., including the fact that SOMETHING is actively interfering with the adults monitoring the children (one of them was playing Solitaire). Also, Mimihime can see Asura floating up where they died. How curious...

Most significantly is that Asura's final words are an extension of the ending of episode six. Before Tokio and Kona had sex / made love in episode six, Kona mentioned that the feelings that he has for Tokio are different than the ones that he had for Asura. Asura mentioned that Kona should find a new kind of love, something deeper and more profound. It could therefore be said that a lot of the machinations in the nursery are an attempt to create situations or environments in which this kind of love may be found. The children are learning through their own innate sexual curiosity and through someone, or something, helping them along by covering up the tracks that the adults could pick up on. Could it be Asura? And we see this happen with Tokio going to comfort Kona after he is crestfallen, which begins their own relationship into what it is now. But back in the "present," we see the familiar bird symbol on Kiruko's gun and Usami's / Shiro's button, and that Kona fears that whatever "took" Asura will come for Tokio next.

Maru and Kiruko plot their next course, and after running into a theatrical informant (I mean, how else would you describe his "information session" aside from hammy theatre? He even has a cassette tape play creepy music to add ambiance XD), we as audience members learn more about Heavenly Delusion's world - it's still not known what caused the disaster, but the effects are widespread and dangerous in many forms (ecological, geological, etc). Complicating things further is this picture of what appears to be Asura:

But the REAL bombshell - he's apparently a member of the old nursery! After something happened that caused the kids to barricade themselves in the school, the girls / women took over and used only select men as breeding stock, and he had a child with one of the couples...but everything that he says may have been made up to swindle Kiruko and Maru. Much like in other stories such as Garak's story in DS9 or the entirety of Umineko, the truth lies both within and without the lies. In exploring the building he blocked off with his car, we get the ACTUAL bombshell that there seem to be multiple facilities tied to the Takahara Academy. So while this building they found may not be precisely what they're looking for, it does provide a valuable clue. The nursery we've been seeing is not the only one, and the director's words mean that Takahara Academy and the nursery are indeed one in the same.

The show is constantly stabilizing and destabilizing itself to keep the sense of direction in intriguing suspense. I adore it, even taking into account some of its rather odd choices regarding certain moments.

That guy was most definitely telling half truths and lies and the scariest part is that each of those fragments sounds plausible considering what the fuck have we been seeing in this show. I love this so much.

One thing i was confused about was that first scene of kona and asura. Does that scene try to explain kona's ability is to see the future or what? because his power isn't explicitly shown unlike the other kids and how that kids get injured that way and what "sword of light" means?

"I finally understand why was I born"
proceeds to die

kinda knew that would happen when her and Kona wanted to touch each other and wanted the other to touch them too.

Maru's tooth actually grew back

An excellent episode, with more discoveries being made and information being revealed to us. Regarding Tokyo being pregnant, even though they don't teach the concepts of sex, it shows that natural instincts are still present, and as the Director demonstrated, it was clearly not part of their plan.

How much do you want to bet that all three of the theories of the Great Disaster contain a grain of truth?
There wouldn't be any narrative relevance to cover the stories in as much detail as our drifter does if absolutely everything in his stories were pure fiction. The fact that he prefaces these theories with the question we have been asking for a while now, "Why does the cause remain so unclear?" hints that all of the theories should contain at least part of the truth of the Great Disaster within them, but like in a game of telephone, the real truth has been garbled and warped as you would expect in a disastrous, end-of-the-world scenario.

Theory 1: Asteroid Impact: The widespread change in the climate would suggest that something did indeed strike the planet, as this type of event would cause abnormal winters and famines. However, it would not necessarily explain the complete breakdown of society and the lack of technology after the disaster. It would also not explain why the public would not be informed of an impending strike in the first place.

Theory 2: Alien Invasion: This is the easiest way to explain the existence of the Man-Eaters. The photo of that winged figure that looks suspiciously like Asura would seem to support the idea that the Man-Eaters are children from Heaven, and their monstrous forms could easily be thought to be alien life.

Theory 3: War: A terrorist attack in Japan supposedly became the impetus for the start of the Great Disaster. The usage of unknown weapons seems to point to the Kiru-Beam's origins, which are tied to the Academy that we find out about later.

Compiling the information from these theories together with the Heaven story that we know to this point, the following is my most likely theory on the Great Disaster (scroll downward on this msg):

The Takahara Academy was the front for our Heaven Cult. This group of people is likely the terrorists spoke about in Theory 3. Perhaps a conflict between this group and the Japanese government led to the Great Disaster, which seems implied to be a celestial event, something like an asteroid striking the planet. As for why information about an asteroid impact would not be disseminated to the public, it seems most likely that whatever fell to Earth was likely a UFO (hence the Alien theory). If it was a UFO, that would be information the government likely did not want the public to know. I tend to think that the Takahara Academy group somehow learned in advance that this UFO was headed for Earth, and they believed it to be a sign from the gods or something like that, and somehow they tried to undermine potential attempts to either destroy or contain the UFO's impact. This, to me, might be the cause of the Terrorist attack theory, as their facilities might have come under attack from the government because of their actions. If the impact and a potential military raid on "Heaven" happened within a short order of each other, it would explain the popularity of all three Great Disaster Theories.

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i tought tokyo was a boy...

Wait the tokio kona asura stuff is the past? Or are these things happening concurrently?

In that shot Tokio was together with that guy in bed I really thought "Could he get her pregnant?" But then when the doctor noticed something strange and they started the whole mystery of the episode it never even crossed my mind that this was what they were really shocked about. This show continues to be really interesting and it is slowly rising as my favourite of the season.

the alien scared the shit out of me

Well, it's all but confirmed at this point that Maru is Tokio's child or at the very least they are related more than just looking the same.

can anybody tell me when Tokio and Kona had sex together?

One interesting thing about Asura is its actual name. I was researching and found out that:

Ashura was said to be a good deity, because originally 'asu' meant 'life' and 'ra' meant 'give' in Sanskrit. With the negative prefix 'a' and 'sura' meaning 'heaven,

Heavenly Delusion #9: Children of the Nursery

Staff Count:
1|1|0|6
20|8+4|23+12|14+7

Explanation on Staff Count

So we’re getting closer to the truth about Takahara Academy, where the other storyline takes place. Asura growing wings (and their last words to Kona) and the angel resembling Asura only Mimihime can see are new mysteries. I wonder how this season will end. I also didn’t understand the vision Kona had at the beginning and what he means by “sword of light”. Maybe I just lack watching comprehension but it’s hard to tell sometimes what a new mystery is or what is supposed to be a hint to already established mysteries. Overall this episode felt a bit more like a breather, also production-wise. I also saw beforehand already how people talked about the breeding stock story, which is pretty dark. Personally, it didn’t faze me much, but I can see why some think it’s unnecessarily dark. But there is a possibility that there is some truth to it so it can become more relevant later on. We don’t know yet. The way they cut it it seems to hint that at least that part is true that he used to be in the academy 10 years ago.