Death Parade

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Death Parade
Original title デ ス ・ パ レ ー ド
transcription Desu Parēdo
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genre Adventure, fantasy
Anime movie
title Death Billiards
Original title デ ス ビ リ ヤ ー ド
transcription Desu Biriyādo
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2013
Studio Madhouse
length 25 minutes
Director Yuzuru Tachikawa
script Yuzuru Tachikawa
production Takuya Tsunoki
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Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2015
Studio Madhouse
length 23 minutes
Episodes 12 in 1 season
Director Yuzuru Tachikawa
music Yūki Hayashi
First broadcast January 9 - March 27, 2015 on NTV , Sun Television , BS Nittele , AT-X , MMT

First publication in German		 March 10 - May 12, 2017 on DVD / Blu-ray
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Death Parade ( Japanese デ ス ・ パ レ ー ド , Desu Parēdo ) is an anime television series by the Madhouse studio from 2015 , which is based on the 2013 short film Death Billiards by the same studio. The idea for both works came from Yuzuru Tachikawa , who also wrote and directed the scripts.

content

The recently deceased who are not yet aware of their death arrive at the Quindecim bar in the Realm of the Dead. Here they are faced with a test that determines whether they will be born again or whether their souls will fall into eternal nothingness. They are pushed to play a game in the bar - darts , billiards , card games, or anything else - that is to determine their fate. But the bartender Decim actually observes the behavior of the deceased as referee, who reveal their hidden sides in the course of a game, and makes his judgment based on this behavior.

One day, Decim is assigned a young woman as an assistant who was human but has lost all her memories. She gets to know Decim's work and how he judges people, and his colleagues too. Nona is the head of the referees and is increasingly dissatisfied with the rules by which they work: All referees are not allowed to have feelings and are only puppets. However, you and all your supervisors Oculus do not want to allow any changes. Ginti is another bartender and referee and Clavis is the always friendly lift boy who leads the referees to the many floors of the underworld. Quin at the information office collects information about the life of the deceased and passes it on to the referees.

Decim's assistant is increasingly frustrated with his method of judgment, in which he ignores people's feelings and drives them into extreme situations while playing. At the same time, Nona secretly wants to help Decim get real feelings because she is convinced that the referees can make better judgments this way. Finally, the young woman at Decim regains her memory: She, Chiyuki, was an aspiring figure skater who, however, was never able to get on the ice again because of an accident and shortly afterwards committed suicide. In front of a mirage of her mother, Decim confronts her with the choice of living again and sacrificing another life for it. Chiyuki refuses with tears, otherwise someone else would die and leave relatives behind. Decim, who for the first time developed human emotions, also carried away by her grief and despair. From now on he wants to get really close to the people who are sent to him.

Production and publication

The 25-minute long film Death Billiards was made at Studio Madhouse with significant contribution from Yuzuru Tachikawa , who directed and wrote the screenplay. The character design was created by Shinichi Kurita , who also directed the animation. The responsible producer was Takuya Tsunoki . The production was done for and financed by the Anime Mirai film festival , which is run by the Japanese Cultural Office and aims to promote young talent in animated film. The short film had a budget of 280.00 euros. The demonstration took place accordingly on March 2, 2013 at the festival. The following year, the studio announced that they would turn the idea for the film into a television series called Death Parade . The script and direction were again directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. Shinichi Kurita took care of the character design again and the artistic direction was with Satoru Hirayanagi .

The television series was broadcast from January 9 to March 27, 2015 on NTV , Sun Television , BS Nittele , AT-X and MMT. A German release followed by Universum Anime from March 2017. The 2013 film was included with the first DVD or Blu-Ray. English dubbed or subtitled versions have been published by several publishers and online platforms. French and Italian dubbed versions also appeared on commercial media and via streaming media .

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role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Decim Tomoaki Maeno Benjamin Völz
Chiyuki Asami Seto Katharina Schwarzmaier
Nona Rumi Ōkubo Farina Brock
Clavis Kōki Uchiyama Benedikt Gutjan

music

The music for the television series was composed by Yūki Hayashi . It consists of jazzy bar music, synthesizer sounds and choral chants. The opening credits are underlaid with the song Flyers by Bradio and the closing song is Last Theater by NoisyCell.

reception

According to the AnimaniA , the television series is a "bitterly angry psychological study" that explores the dark side of the human soul and shows with "impressive uncompromisingness" "how thin the cloak of civilization is". With this and the dolls that appear frequently, Death Parade is reminiscent of the film series the Garden of sinners or Jigoku Shōjo . The design of the series is kept gloomy and combined with “neon-colored light accents”, which gives “an unreal, downright posterior charm”. Computer-animated effects always fit in harmoniously, as did the musical accompaniment.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Animania 3/2015, p. 60f.
  2. ↑ Anime Mirai Short Death Billiards Gets TV Anime (Update). Anime News Network, October 31, 2014, accessed May 24, 2017 .