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  • Anvilicious: Smile more, because you'll make others happy and more motivated that way. Your father will be more productive at work and may get a raise soon, which will give your mother enough money to buy better goods and make the shopkeepers happy. Otherwise, you'll risk falling into Hell when you die.
  • Glurge: This OVA, in its 15-minute duration, teaches kids that smiling and being cheerful will bring joy to others. While such a lesson isn't bad in and of itself, the way it's handled borders on teaching spiritual bypassing, which is related to the concept of toxic positivity. Demonstrating this is that Alto, who may not be older than six, has an out-of-body experience with Tenshi-san, but then falls into Hell for thinking he was dead upon discovering the latter was an angel. After running around and crying for help, Alto only gets out of there by expressing joy, which calls upon Tenshi-san to escort him out of the Spirit World.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: When Tenshi-san appears to Alto in the dark void he fell into, the former reveals to the latter that such void is his "inner world." Come The Laws of Eternity where Ryuta, Yuko, Patrick, and Roberto enter the Spirit World to meet Thomas Edison and God Eagle saves the latter two from falling into Hell, the entity explains that the Spirit World is a reflection of one's mind, which if disturbed will be moved into an appropriate place, ie. Hell. This retroactively gives the OVA a darker implication that Alto did really fall into Hell, all because he was distressed at the thought he was dead.

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