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Heaven Cannot Wait Season 1

Ended 1999–2001 70 Audience

Heaven Cannot Wait Season 1 Plot

The protagonist, Shiro Amakasu, moved to Tokyo but, after failing his university entrance exams, gave up studying. He never found a job and drifted through life carefreely, living from day to day. Just as Shiro was about to abandon everything and return to his parents’ home, a man calling himself “Angel”, Seshinmi Tendo, appeared and warned him that he would die if he failed to complete a “proposition”. Introduced to the mail-order business MONO Company by his best friend Masato Nakatsugawa, Shiro finds employment and, with the help of Tendo and his colleagues, manages to overcome a series of propositions. This is a comedic coming-of-age story about Shiro Amakasu, depicting what it truly means to live life to the fullest. The series ran for 11 episodes with an average audience rating of 13.4%. Two special episodes were broadcast after the main series concluded.

Season 1 Episodes

11 episodes
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Jan 8, 1999
Shiro, who has long given up all hope of ever passing the college entrance exam, has been living the life of a pessimistic wastrel. One day, he’s accosted by Tendo who claims to be an angel. If, by 1:30 PM tomorrow, Shiro doesn’t mend his ways and learn to sincerely desire to live, he will die!
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Episode 2
Jan 15, 1999
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Episode 3
Jan 22, 1999
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Episode 4
Jan 29, 1999
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Episode 5
Feb 5, 1999
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Episode 6
Feb 12, 1999
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Episode 7
Feb 19, 1999
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Episode 8
Feb 26, 1999
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Episode 9
Mar 5, 1999
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Episode 10
Mar 12, 1999
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Episode 11
Mar 19, 1999