Short Peace (anthology; mostly good, with the fire story notable for its animation, and the final short film an engaging exploration of near-future warfare using networked soldier squads assisted by drones and robotic suits)
Death Parade (expansion of Death Billiards, as an episodic series; stories remain a bit heavily focused on suicide and murder, but while the dark background story arc ultimately ends in a whimper, the main story arc ends in a very emotionally satisfying way)
Death Parade is great! Except episode 2 which feels very repetitive, because it mostly is a repetition of episode 1, with added observations from a new character that will become important in the series. If you get bored by episode 2 just as I did, the important information is that the remaining episodes are just as good as the first one, so don’t give up.
What I liked about episode 2 was that I was certain I understood what was going on in episode 1, but then Decim disagreed with me; making matters worse, when I googled discussions of episode 1 to see what I missed, I found that everyone else agreed with Decim. Then I watched episode 2 and learned I was right all along. :) It’s not often an anime surprises me like that.
Short Peace (anthology; mostly good, with the fire story notable for its animation, and the final short film an engaging exploration of near-future warfare using networked soldier squads assisted by drones and robotic suits)
Death Parade (expansion of Death Billiards, as an episodic series; stories remain a bit heavily focused on suicide and murder, but while the dark background story arc ultimately ends in a whimper, the main story arc ends in a very emotionally satisfying way)
I watched the first episode of this, but found it too torture-porn-y. Is it all like that?
No. I think that most of the episodes don’t reuse the organ thing.
They use psychological torture instead.
Yep, much better.
Death Parade is great! Except episode 2 which feels very repetitive, because it mostly is a repetition of episode 1, with added observations from a new character that will become important in the series. If you get bored by episode 2 just as I did, the important information is that the remaining episodes are just as good as the first one, so don’t give up.
What I liked about episode 2 was that I was certain I understood what was going on in episode 1, but then Decim disagreed with me; making matters worse, when I googled discussions of episode 1 to see what I missed, I found that everyone else agreed with Decim. Then I watched episode 2 and learned I was right all along. :) It’s not often an anime surprises me like that.