I didn’t look, but I condemn. Overview Death Parade

Welcome to the Qindecim bar. Let me clarify the situation a little.First: you cannot find out how and where exactly got.Second: you have to play the game.Third: the game will be determined by roulette.Fourth: your life is at stake.Fifth: until the game ends, you will not leave here. Drinks at the expense of the establishment.

Behind closed doors

Genre : psychological drama, fantasy Production : Madhouse, Japan Director : Yuzuru Tatikava Screenwriter : Yuzuru Tatikawa Seiyu: Maeno Tomoaki, Seto Asami Premiere : January 10, 2015 Website : http: // www.Deathparade.JP/ Similar films : “Multicolor”, “hellish girl”, “angelic rhythms!"," Caizi "," Master of Musi "

Yuzuru Tatikawa managed to attach a hand to many series, including outstanding Shiguru Triumph Casino , Steins; gate And even Shingeki No Kyojin , But his happy ticket to the league of directors was a short film Death Billiards , Filmed as part of the project of training young animators Anime Mirai. In the allocated twenty -five minutes, Tatikava invested so many interesting ideas that his “Part of the Per” gave a chance to become a full -fledged series. More recently, the “Death Parade” was held on Nippon TV, and it turned out that it was beautiful as exactly as, alas, superficial.

► Death Parade – This is a view of life through the eyes of an obsolete, but the melancholy atmosphere is now and then diluted with a healthy, tidy humor.

The sensations from Death Billiards are largely due to a feeling of misunderstanding of the essence of the “game”: you will learn everything gradually, along with the players. The focus of attention here is the behavior of people driven into a corner, which made a short film with a good psychological thriller with a taste Death Note Or, let's say, Kaiji. The finale was open, disgusting gave food for thought: about who got anywhere, it was possible to argue comfortably for tea (or uncomfortable on the Internet).

IN Death Parade The meaning of the court becomes obvious not with the first, so from the second series, and the outcome of the game is not hidden from us. Therefore, if you wanted to see Death Billiards, keeping the intrigue, do it right now.

The rules have changed a bit

So, the Qindecim bar is one of the many “purges”, where people are judged by actions and where they are given to them according to their merits. Every hour, seven thousand people die, and the bartenders have always been affairs on the throat. Only two can be judged for one game: one will be reborn, the other will perish in oblivion. The task of the judge is to expose the dark sides of their souls with the help of the memoirs of the deceased and the chosen game and make a verdict. The victory in the game does not matter, only the behavior of the defendants in an extreme situation is important. Each story has its own shade, the nuances of the behavior of the heroes are captured, and the rules sometimes change in the most curious way.

► There is no need to complain about the variety of games and fates, but it is a pity that the message is always the same: life is cruel, unfair, but worthy of being lived; The main thing is to learn to understand each other.

Death Parade also focuses on psychology, but otherwise. Players recall their past gradually, and the task of the bartender is to stimulate their memory at all costs, even secretly sabotting the game. And each time the salt is not so much in the desperate dead, but in the reason for their death. One of the strongest sides is manifested here Death Parade : Unlike short films, where they managed to reveal only one of the players, the series pays due attention to each defendant, composing stories one another sadder.

And the thriller is replaced by a psychological drama, touching, adult and extremely vital. Unrequited love, marital infidelity, irresponsibility, revenge, a thirst for justice – all the circumstances of the lives lived are reflected on the characters of the defendants.

And this kaleidoscope develops in the main story: the drama of the judge of decim and his charming assistant. Their relationship develops with each process, revealing the characters and exacerbating the main question Death Parade : who is entitled to judge a person?

► At first, the assistant is no one to call her. More precisely, call her brunette. But over time, she will gain a name and open one hundred and fifty percent.

Peering into the sun

Judges are dolls made in the image and likeness of man. They never lived, they will never die. They are not familiar with emotions, their judgments are sober. Do they have the right to judge us? Are they able to understand us? Whether they reveal the dark sides of the human soul – or create them themselves, subjecting people to cruel trials? If in Death Billiards the decim presented a harsh and infallible professional, then here its authority is disputed at the very beginning.

► ideologically Death Parade Discuss with the story of Runosuke Akutagawa " Spider "(Perfectly filmed in the series "Classic stories"), and in the fifth series, he refers directly to him.

► dolls – one of the main characters Death Parade. Decim manipulates the deceased, achieving the fear of death and a desperate thirst for life, but he himself becomes a puppet in someone else's experiment. However, the role of mannequins is not exhausted by this.

In parallel, we will learn more about the afterlife and its other inhabitants, but, like everything in Death Parade , The purgatory serves to disclose the relationship of decim and brunette, no more. You will not recognize half of what you want to know. How this judicial system appeared? What is so terrible threatens the cleaning of the judge capable of emotions?

The mythology of the world is one of the main highlights Death Parade , distinguishing it against the backdrop of other stories about life and death, but the series left too much by brackets, and among unusual questions there are also very uncomfortable questions. But the most offensive is connected with the secondary heroes and the plot lines planned for them. Half of the workers of the purge is inserted as if exclusively for the sake of excellent opening: they are, and enough on this.

► in the middle Death Parade Still switching to relations between colleagues in purge, but to the level Planetes He is far from this: half the episodes, and the director could more reasonably use the allotted time.

► From the opposition of the methods of cynical ginti and soft -hearted deciming, a story close to " A liar on the couch »Irwin Yaloma. However, the authors have prepared a different role – short, but interesting.

Despite the variety of plots and angles, all short stories Death Parade reveal the same topic, which is pretty experienced by patience. All other things being equal, deciming would be comfortable in a full -length anime, and the series is closely in the twelve series, and at the same time unjustifiably spacious.

But weaknesses of the plot Death Parade Rushes skillful production, psychologism and heartbreaking drama. Well, such a piercing and emotionally rich ending to look for: with all the problems of the series, its climax is a small masterpiece.

► If you like the very idea of ​​local "cases" and does not bother to observe people's behavior, Death Parade It will suit you. Those who were expected from the series of something more, perhaps, will be disappointed.

Rating

E

Existential psychotherapy: spectacular, cruel, fair. Not perfect.