Chapter 1

This is the first chapter in the Heaven's Design Team manga series.

Plot
It all started when God got a bit too lazy to create animals. So, he outsourced the project instead of the Heavenly Creative Agency's Design Department, where the animals are made.

It's Shimoda's, a rookie angel, first day, and he'll be the acting liaison between the Design Department and God. Typically, Shimoda is a bit nervous, seeing that it's his first day.

His supervisor, Ueda, explains to Shimoda the Design Department's role in the creation of animals. She and Shimoda go inside a conference room to take part in the meeting. Shimoda then introduces himself to the designers: head of the department Tsuchiya (Mr. Saturn), Kanamori (Venus or “Ven”), Kimura (Jupiter), Meido (Pluto), Mizushima (Mercury), and Unabara (Neptune).

One of the first projects is to create an animal that can eat leaves high up off the ground. The team has developed three proposals. Tsuchiya comes up with a Pegasus, much to the dismay of the rest of the team. Nevertheless, they start talking about the next proposal; however, each one comes with animals similar to their original masterpieces. Mizushima comes up with a carnivorous plant called a ping-pong tree. Unabara’s proposal is for a deer with an extended neck.

So, they send all their proposals to the engineering team to see if either of the designs will work. Just before Ueda and Shimoda reach the Engineering Department, Higuchi (Mars) opens the door. She's mad that Tsuchiya still wants to push the Pegasus idea, even though she had told him many times in the past that it won't work. Therefore, she rejects his idea much to his dismay. Not only that, Higuchi rejects all the Design department's ideas, emphasizing that they also have flaws. Mizushima’s idea wouldn’t be able to withstand Earth’s gravity, and Unabara’s idea fails because of complications with the heart. Higuchi had even built a prototype to demonstrate the problem.

All the designers start thinking of new ideas for the project. Since Unabara’s design was the simplest of the first three, they all brainstorm on how to improve it. With a few tweaks, the teams come up with a new animal, the Giraffe. God then sends his stamp of approval to Shimoda, who is happy to have witnessed the creation of a new animal.

Suddenly, Ueda receives a message from God. Mizushima’s ping-pong tree idea gets a stamp of approval as a sea sponge, much to the surprise of Mizushima.

New Animals

 * Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
 * Ping-pong Tree Sponge (Chondrocladia lampadiglobus)