Kamikatsu: Working for God in a Godless World

Yukito Urabe is raised within his father’s cult and takes part in a rite meant to appoint him as the next leader, trusting that the all-powerful Mitama will ultimately protect him. When the ceremony goes wrong and he drowns, Yukito’s final wish is to be reborn in a world where gods and religion don’t exist.

He awakens in a strange land stripped of spirituality and is brought to a village by an eccentric girl named Aruaru. Any hope for a peaceful new life collapses when Yukito witnesses a sanctioned mass suicide and discovers the nation’s ruthless end-of-life policy, where citizens can be ordered to die at the government’s whim.

Not long after, Aruaru and her sister are seized for execution, and Yukito’s attempt to save them fails. Cornered, he falls back on the teachings he tried to leave behind and prays for Mitama’s help—only for a small girl to descend from the sky, wipe out their attackers, and calmly introduce herself as Mitama.