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“Former metal guitarist Oji Tanaka must play again to power an intergalactic super-weapon.”
Legend of Black Heaven
課長王子
6.97
4,843 rank · 34,488 viewers · 131 favorites
Adventure
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Music
Space
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Synopsis
Former metal guitarist Oji Tanaka must play again to power an intergalactic super-weapon.
Oji Tanaka has a wife, a child and a mundane job as a salary man in Tokyo's modern society. But life wasn't dull for him to begin with; 15 years ago, he was known as "Gabriel", leader of a short-lived heavy metal band called Black Heaven. Oji's life gets a sudden change in direction when he is invited by a mysterious blonde woman named Layla to pick up his Gibson Flying V and once again display his "legendary" guitar skills, not knowing that his music generates power for a massive weapon in an intergalactic war. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 19 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 19 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 1.30
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.30 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Jun 2008 → Jan 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “I originally ran into _Black Heaven_ due to its inclusion in an _AMV Hell_, and then finished _Black Heaven_ while scanning an old anime encyclopedia (so all quite nostalgic). I wanted to like it...”
- 7 “I guess with more money, expertise and time this anime would have been brilliant. The main reason to watch this anime is the sound. The story is really build up around the head character who is the...”
- 8 “The Legend of Black Heaven…well it is a slice of life/comedy about Rock and Roll and Space…the two are not in fact mutually exclusive you see. The series is pretty good for the year...”
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Short · 26%
Medium · 32%
Long · 42%
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- Format 13 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 25m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1999 – Oct 1999 Summer 1999
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0931 catalog
Produced by
- Pioneer LDC Producer
Licensed by
- Discotek Media Licensor
- Geneon Entertainment USA Licensor