Did you really expect anything less from Death Parade? This is one of those shows that imposes the risk of having already said too much for me as a blogger. I mean, over the course of eleven episodes (and Death Billiards) I’ve laid out my feelings about this series and […] Read more
Madhouse, thank heaven for you – saving anime one commercial flop at a time. It seems to me that fans of the Onepunch Man manga (and I knew they are legion) ought to be very excited about the news that Madhouse will be handling the adaptation (with Shingo Natsume directing, […] Read more
Tachikawa-sensei is just making it look easy now… Has there ever been a gap this wide between the best series of a season and the second-best? It’s an interesting question to which I don’t know the answer, but intuitively it seems to me as if great series are more likely […] Read more
That certainly answered some big questions. Way back after Episode #4 I raised the “Universe is kind of an asshole” question. That is, that it seemed quite reasonable to me that the average person would look at goes on at Quindecim and say it was a bloody awful way for […] Read more
Back to the old grind at Quincdecim – or is it? This is moving weekend for me, so my apologies for both the lateness and brevity of its posts. I’m actually using my time on the Shinkansen to try and catch up a little bit, since I’ve been running nonstop […] Read more
The name is Tachikawa Yuzuru, aged 33. If you’re an anime fan, I think it’d be a good idea to remember it. Death Parade follows up possibly its weakest (but still very good, and quite well-received by most) episode with just maybe its best. I’m not breaking any big news […] Read more
This series certainly isn’t getting any easier to figure out. It’s definitely a point in Death Parade’s favor that it continues to move in directions that surprise me, not just consistently but almost exclusively. I had a broad suspicion of what sort of series it was going to be based […] Read more
That was certainly a game-changer. You know, there’s a reason why most fairy tales and nursery rhymes are really scary, when you actually think about the words (Jinirui wa Suitai Shimashita – oh, how I miss it – brilliantly riffed on this with Assistant’s wicked take on “And Then There […] Read more
I think the greatest endorsement I can give to Death Parade is to say that even when I don’t like it, I can’t look away for a moment. This is a tough series in many ways, among the most obvious being that it’s often not easy to watch. But it’s […] Read more
The gap widens. There were a lot of questions hanging in the air after last week’s episode of Death Parade – fundamental ones pertaining to both the series’ form and its content. Some of them were answered this week (including in the preview) but a bunch of new ones were […] Read more