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Every arbiter has his own side story but it is never looked into and he/she ends up being defined only by a single personality trait.
#Guilty parade episode 3 series
The series is not completely episodic, since it does reveal a few things from time to time but nothing really is explained or resolved by the end of it, so you might as well call it meaningless filler. Some people will appear, they will play a game, and then the episode ends and are never seen again. NO PLOT So, what the hell were the characters doing for a dozen episodes if not gradually expositioning themselves and the setting? Well, they basically wasted most episodes on standalone cases. They barely get ten minutes of total screen time each. Everything remains a mystery, including all those people you see in the opening. And even so, by the time the series ends, almost nothing is explored or explained concerning the setting of the afterlife, and the themes of guilt and regret. Meaning, most of everything is lazy infodumping monologues where people are talking to thin air. Despite having a lobotomized askman, many explanations are not replies to her questions, but rather people explaining stuff without anyone around. It is supposed to reveal it one chunk at a time, through whatever she asks… and does a pitiful job even then, since the exposition is terrible. LAZY EXPOSITION This is done deliberately, since the show tries to puzzle the viewer by keeping everything a secret. This turns her into a passive observer and alien to the setting, making it harder to be immersed in it. She is even used as a lobotomized askman type of character, left blank and oblivious, so she needs everything being constantly explained. And a woman with amnesia, thus again someone with no background or objective.
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Strip them down to essentials and what do you get? An emotionless dude with no background or objectives, which may look cool but is otherwise impossible to relate with in any way. BLAND PROTAGONISTS The problems continue with the very protagonists.
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It worked in Death Billiards because it was a single ova with the viewer being unsuspected, but if you try to pull the same trick a dozen times in a row, it loses its meaning, since you feel nothing after the second time. And even so, it’s not even that good at it, since the thrill dissolves if it is used in every episode. The former means nothing once it’s revealed and the latter is just cheap jump scares. So yeah, the trump cards the show uses are mystery boxes and shock effect, stuff that I consider tactless. You are supposed to be initially puzzled and eventually shocked with the revelation. MYSTERY BOX This expands to the whole anime, since it constantly wants to trick the viewer, by hiding pretty much everything that is going on, until it’s all revealed at once with a tsunami of emotions following it. Just like the opening of Madoka Magica it is trolling the viewer into expecting a completely different show. The cheery stuff it shows has nothing to do with the gloomy and depressing tone of the series. It’s a nice sound alright, and the colors are pretty, because Madhouse, but come on, it’s not fitting at all. TROLL OPENING Death Parade was hailed as the best title of winter 2015, partly because of the hype it had from the fanbase of its prequel, the single OVA Death Billiards, and partly because of DAT CATCHY OPENING SONG.