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The Best Episodes of Heaven's Design Team Season 1

Every episode of Heaven's Design Team Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Heaven's Design Team Season 1!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 1 - Idea 1
    7.0/10(25 votes)

    #1 - Idea 1

    S1:E1

    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...

    Director:Takashi Kobayashi
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  2. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 2 - Idea 2
    6.6/10(21 votes)

    #2 - Idea 2

    S1:E2

    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...

    Director:Yōsuke Nakanishi
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  3. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 3 - Idea 3
    6.8/10(18 votes)

    #3 - Idea 3

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Kenta Nouda
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  4. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 4 - Idea 4
    6.9/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Idea 4

    S1:E4

    "I managed to fly the horse." Kanamori is nominated by God and faces the challenges alone, but the retake hell that makes the designer cry, saying "You can be free" and "Something is different"! What is the final plan that has been improved and improved ...!?

    Director:Yasuo Ejima
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  5. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 5 - Idea 5
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #5 - Idea 5

    S1:E5

    Ueda was ordered by God to go to hell after the "panda riot". A mysterious man appears in front of Shimoda and the members of the design department who are worried that he may have been transferred to hell because of himself. Building a darkness and fire theme park in hell, he asks the design department to build a "hell mascot."

    Director:Yōsuke Nakanishi
    Writer:Michiko Yokote

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  6. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 6 - Idea 6
    6.6/10(15 votes)

    #6 - Idea 6

    S1:E6

    Out of gratitude for their work, God decides to arrange a company vacation to Galapagos. While they are enjoying the hot springs and the banquet, a bloody Mercury is found. Jupiter, the self-named eats-himself-broke detective, claims that the perpetrator is definitely amongst them and sets off to find them... The key to solving this mystery is the order Venus is working on, an "animal where the male breastfeeds"?!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 7 - Idea 7
    6.9/10(15 votes)

    #7 - Idea 7

    S1:E7

    One evening, after hearing Neptune explain that he felt like someone was watching him in the bath, God puts in an order for an "animal that's watching even though it looks like nothing's there". As always, the order is ridiculous and makes the design team agonize, but then they decide to experiment with the squid that Pluto designed in the past...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 8 - Idea 8
    6.9/10(15 votes)

    #8 - Idea 8

    S1:E8

    The ability to have a concealed weapons inside your body... isn't that the dream?! Tasked with the order for an animal that uses "bones as weapons", Jupiter begins to alter his own ribs like mad. Due to this, his ribs break, or he runs out of oxygen. After he put his body on the line this much, surely the new creature will be really cool, right?!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 9 - Idea 9
    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #9 - Idea 9

    S1:E9

    The new order from God is for an "animal that tickles the maternal instincts". Shimoda and Pluto research different animals to see what their maternal instincts, or 'love', look like. What is the 'love' that Pluto's distinct sensibilities land on?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 10 - Idea 10
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #10 - Idea 10

    S1:E10

    Somehow Shimoda stumbled into an underground kingdom. This kingdom is a land for "animals that create the perfect society", with their queen at the top. In this society, there are few physical differences, no aging, and the collective's happiness is prioritized over the individual's. It's too ideal a place, but there is a hidden truth about this system

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 11 - Idea 11
    6.6/10(15 votes)

    #11 - Idea 11

    S1:E11

    The life form time accelerator device exploded and Shimoda and the others are blasted to Galapagos. To make it worse, the entire team got turned into children! Being attacked by the animals being tested is just one danger there, but Shimoda, Saturn, Mars, and one member of the Insect department use the "insect that can smell an SOS signal" to search for the designers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Heaven's Design Team Season 1 Episode 12 - Idea 12
    6.5/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Idea 12

    S1:E12

    As a gift for Hell's celebratory party, God orders the designers to come up with "an animal that can be used in Hell's attraction and also sent to Earth". Yokota's idea of making it something that "surprises angels" is also tacked on, which really puts the team's abilities to the test...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Idea 1" is the best rated episode of "Heaven's Design Team" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Takashi Kobayashi and written by Michiko Yokote, it aired on 1/7/2021. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Idea 2".