Heaven’s Design Team is like any other creative workplace. There’s brainstorming, difficult clients, failed designs, and getting unexpected success. Mars, the engineer, is there to test out all animal designs and see if they would survive on earth. We often see the designers getting attached to animals that didn’t get approved, so Mars has to patiently explain why a unicorn, for example, however majestic looking, cannot exist. Mars’ explanations are biology nerds’ favorite part of the show. For a gag comedy, we definitely learned a lot about the animal kingdom, and we never got bored, which is the highest praise for the genre.

Heaven’s Design Team follows what many comedic shows do, but still takes it up a notch. Our designers clash due to their opposite personalities and different approaches, each member of the team having their own specialization. This leads to several funny misunderstandings: For instance, hopeless romantic Venus who specializes in creating birds gets furious when her creation is hunted down by the snake, Jupiter’s exceptionally minimalist design. We loved how the designers would defend their weird creations with seriousness and passion, much like real-life creatives do.

Heaven Design Team’s format is repetitive on purpose. Each episode has two parts, and we get to see two different projects. This works well for an office edutainment anime full of jokes about the trials and tribulations designers go through to keep a client happy. Quite often, creatives have deadlines from hell! While they are grateful for the work, they are also out of their minds. Is this perhaps an inside joke from the mangaka, and the anime studio?