Heaven's Design Team
Heaven's Design Team is a Japanese manga series, written by Hebi-zou and Tsuta Suzuki and illustrated by Tarako. It has been serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Morning Two since February 2017, with its chapters collected in nine volumes as of December 2025. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation produced by Asahi Production aired from January to March 2021.
Plot
Kami-sama created the Earth and filled the world with natural resources. Though God originally was going to create the animals that would inhabit the world, the task was outsourced to a team of creative minds. God generally sends tasks to the team to fulfill ideas for an animal with unique and quirky features based on vague descriptions or design goals. Designs that he approves become animals while rejected ones go back to the designer to revise until he is satisfied. Other times, the team can freely create a new design on their own whims and preferences in aesthetic and physical designs. One of God's angels, Shimoda, is tasked with overseeing the crew and sending potential new animals for God's approval.The series serves to illustrate biology of real life animals and their characteristics as well as explaining some biological issues regarding mythical animals, all this while showing the concepts of design thinking, such as testing and prototyping.
Characters
;Shimoda;Ueda
;God, the Creator
Design Team
;Tsuchiya / Saturn;Kimura / Jupiter
;Mizushima / Mercury
;Kanamori / Venus
;Meido / Pluto
;Unabara / Neptune
;Higuchi / Mars
Other recurring characters
;Yokota;Mushibu
;Kenta Tsuchiya
Media
Manga
Heaven's Design Team is written by Hebi-zou and Tsuta Suzuki and illustrated by Tarako. The series began in Kodansha's manga magazine on February 22, 2017. The magazine ceased print publication and moved to a digital release starting on August 4, 2022. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on November 22, 2017. As of December 23, 2025, nine volumes have been released.In North America, Kodansha USA announced the English digital release of the series in April 2018. Kodansha announced the print release of the series in November 2019, with the first volume released on October 20, 2020.