Tengoku Daimakyo

Warning; Spoilers ahead, I REALLY think u should watch it blind

Whilst I was really hoping this would be a 13 ep contained story, I'm happy that there's likely to be a second season though. As far as general style goes it was pretty good and as far as the later episodes go, a nice change of pace with the alternating art directions. From a writing point and especially an execution standpoint the show is near perfect. The way many deaths and uncomfortable scenes become a generally common occurrence and yet still manage to be shocking each and every time shows how well placed everything is. A favourite point of mine in the show would be the story of Dr Yanagi, at first he's shown to be a cruel person only in it for his personal gain as he was described from the group of white coats as well how said white coats described the person he was trying to keep alive compared to how he acted with his patients as well as the reasons and methods for keeping that person alive (I especially liked how gruesome both the phrasing and the imagery when the white coat said they were 'hacked to pieces' when in reality it was nowhere near that bad.

As the story is far from over there are a lot of questions left unanswered so I've got a few theories that I want to write down so when the next season comes out I can see if I was correct about them, some are borderline confirmed but not outright stated to be true so they're being written down anyways. 1- The Man Eaters are either the spawn of or are the children from the facility, if they come from the children the Tokio doin whatever she was doing or the disease of the first kid may have become the start of the Man Eaters. 2- The girl with the sunglasses became the man eater that shows you your worst nightmare. 3- Shiro becomes Dr Yanagi and Mimihime is the person trying to be kept alive (if that's the case then the person wanting to see the sky for the last time is pretty cool nod to how big Mimihime saw the sky to be when she first escaped. 4- Anzu is the one who ends up taking in Maru and showing how to kill Man Eaters. 5- Pretty obviously Maru is Tokio's other child. 6- If all Man Eaters come from Tokio's meltdown then that explains why Maru (her son) is the only one capable of killing Man Eaters (as apparently stated by his mentor), he might be able to do this as he would technically be a Man Eater himself and therefore can absorb the part of Man Eaters that keeps them alive, this would also explain how he's able to do the MaruTouch to humans as well. 6- The children were being raised in the facility not only as experiments to be immortal but also to maybe become like genetically engineered soldiers of some kind potentially explaining why a prototype weapon (the KiruBeam) was in the facility in the first place.

I'm aware the last theory is a bit of a stretch but it's the only explanation I could think of for the existence of the KiruBeam. Also thinking about it now the chance the person trying to be kept alive is Mimihime is very very high as it was said she had the disease that makes people into Man Eaters yet we're yet to see a known human with that disease.

Edit: I might be lying cause I don't remember if the patients of Dr. Yanagi had had their amputations done as a means of preventing the spread of the Man Eater disease or if they were generally injured and went to him for treatment/ prosthetics (Seeing as the first prosthetic he made on a whim for sum random guy rather than a disease patient seemingly.