Death Parade in a risky move has taken things in a new direction. A daring adventurous move that no one expected. And it is…absolutely terrible. Death Parade, what happened? Did no one read over the script and do a shaft head tilt in wonder? Was there not an Animator who said “Excuse me sir. But I was under the impression that this was a psychological thriller. Not a slapstick comedy.” This is just one of those creative decisions that just has me baffled. To think that a team went over this and thought it was a good idea is something I have difficulty comprehending. But well here it is. This weeks Death Parade attempted to be comedic with a game of twister between a boy band member and one of his rabid fans.
One good thing to come out of this was seeing Ginti’s style of judgement. It definitely seems less professional and more sadistic than Decims methods. The boy band fellow also had potential in his past. I like the idea behind his guilt but find his death to be ridiculous. A girl getting revenge on him by first sleeping with him and blowing him up with a heart shaped bomb. I think poison would have been more cost effective and wouldn’t require you putting your incriminating DNA all over him. But then there was the main problem of this episode. The girl who is apparently so important that she’s in the opening for a few seconds. A girl who sports the dumbest death in the series so far(slipped on and bar of soap in the bathroom and cracked her head) and the most pointless backstory. A girl with a personality so aggravating that she deserves to be sent to hell just so she can be removed from existence entirely. At any point when the episode looked to be improving this girl just needs to say a line to drag it back down.
There was tonal whiplash everywhere. For example, at one point the girl was going to sacrifice herself and the boy was distraught over it do to his past of driving a fan to suicide. It could have been a moving scene but the only reason the girl is giving up is because she’s too ashamed of pissing herself in front of him. It jumped from comedy to serious business. Not certain whether it wanted to make us laugh or get emotionally invested. The final insult is that this episode was pointless. It could be removed and nothing would be lost. True the series is only half over but besides an introduction to two characters I wish to never see again we learnt nothing new. With the series half over I can only see Death Parade as yet another premise with wasted potential. Unless the last six episodes are consistently great this is likely to be a testament of misguided direction.
Lol, I actually quite liked this episode. It was a bit of a digression on the series’s part, but fillers are fillers. And this one actually provided some great character development for its side characters. Or perhaps I just liked it because I was laughing all the way through. The girl is hilarious. Her death was hilarious. And I’m glad she stayed for a couple more episodes as someone was is numb to the gloom of death.
So you like bananas, watched an apple and complained that it isn’t yellow like you would expect. IMHO you totally missed the point of the show, which evidently is not your cup of tea. I suggest you keep watching bananas 🙂
Why the fruit comparisons?
Pretty sure I have not missed to point of the show. Kinda hard to miss really. Life is precious, do what you can while you can, etc etc. But well are you saying I should have walked into a show called Death Parade expecting a comedy?
This look like a good anime to watch. I laughed at the ” A girl who sports the dumbest death in the series so far(slipped on and bar of soap in the bathroom and cracked her head) and the most pointless backstory” I don’t know why, I just find it funny.