Death Parade ~ Episodes 6 and 7

So it’s time for some good old fashioned judgement to go on around here again, but the Arbiter handing out judgement this time isn’t Decim. It’s Ginti and it’s rather obvious from the moment the episode starts how totally different their styles of handling things are.

Let’s focus instead on the people who are being judged this week. There is this girl, Mayu. Wait, I know her from the opening. She’s human? That’s confusing, why would they keep her around in that case? Well I guess we’ll find out. The second guest is special musical guest Harada from C.H.A. -cue audience clapping- and of course, Mayu is a huge fan of his. I would be too, he’s pretty cute.
Alright, what’s the catch? What kind of awful human being is he? He is way too pretty to be a good person. We’ll find out through a game, what’s the game?

Twister.

Twister, they are playing a life and death game of Twister. How many people actually even remember this game? I haven’t seen Twister played since I was rather young. It’s just not a popular game anymore that you hear talked about often. It would be like having a skip-it or a bop-it game in this show. Even the show is like ‘Wait, how is this even played.’
Ginti has to explain the rules because neither of the humans had ever even heard of it. Just in case anyone here doesn’t know how to play the game, the basic rules is there is a roulette wheel that tells you where to go with simple instructions like “Left hand on Red” and such.

So, we get at first what is a totally normal game of Twister. Then, as they get tired and want to call a break. The real life and death game of twister begins. Ginti presses the button and switches it so there are symbols on each of the dots on the board. It’s all pretty much what you’d think, Red is fire, Green is Wind, Blue is ice and Yellow well….that one has a bunch of question marks.

So, they go through all the other ones before someone steps on yellow and what’s behind the question marks? The floor falling out from under them to reveal a pit of spikes. Well, they have to create extreme conditions to test the human soul right? This is about as extreme as it gets. So, the game will end when one of them falls. Harada thinks about knocking her off but she volunteers to jump herself.

It’s a whole hell of a lot more noble if you didn’t know she was just too ashamed to pee herself in front of her idol.

As she goes to jump we learn how each of them died, I almost don’t want to tell you Mayu’s. It’s really embarrassing, like SUPER embarrassing. Like, I could never face anyone again in this life or another if i knew I had ever died this way. That is how bad this is.

She…..slipped on soap in the bathroom. If you think i’m making this up, I’m not….I’m embarrassed for her…

As for Haraba, a girl had committed suicide after he turned her down and then her sister set up a bomb in his room and blew him sky high. That’s a lot less shameful then Mayu’s death. So, long story short. He regrets what he’s done, she accepts him for being a womanizer and Ginti is just all kinds of confused by Mayu and if she’s even actually human.
Harada puts on a show for everyone and the episode wraps up with us being rather unclear about the judgement that went on. I mean, I assume he went on somewhere….was he reincarnated? Sent to the Void? Why was Mayu kept there?

Wasn’t Ginti JUST harassing Decim for keeping a human around like one episode ago? Now he has a pet human of his own. Is he trying to study her? Is that why they kept her? I’m confused.

Oh well, onto episode seven where we learn a lot more about Decim actually. First off about his so called ‘Hobby’ of making dolls, it’s not so much a hobby as a way to hold onto something he knows he’s going to lose. So he makes dolls of the people who have visited Quindecim. Since he’ll forget their memories, forget that they even existed.
Honestly, it’s pretty sentimental. We also learn this episode one very important thing about Decim. Something that is going to become a big deal down the line when it becomes common knowledge.

He’s been implanted with human emotions. Arbiters aren’t supposed to have human emotions. They are merely dolls, created to judge the living without knowing what it’s like to be one of them. So he’s different and that’s why Nona seems to have a special investment in him.

Also in this episode, Kuro remembers that she is dead. Also, she finds a copy of the Chavvot book, the story that she has been dreaming about for a while now. She goes to talk to Decim about it but he doesn’t seem to know much about the book. He thinks that Quin might of left it behind when she was moved to the information department.

This is one of those episodes where I can say a lot happened but not have a lot to talk about because a lot of it is character related development that can’t really be put down into words. There is a flashback in this episode where we see Ginti and Decim as they take their final test to become Arbiters and are first given the buttons to create the extreme conditions. While Ginti is gung-ho about using his, Decim doesn’t use his at all.
He says he was rather distracted by thinking about what the players were thinking. It’s interesting to see this and to know he has human emotions because of the mess up back in episode 1. [Also, this is the first time this series i’ve seen anyone play Billiards! it only took 7 episodes.]

So, most of what I can gather from this episode is Decim shouldn’t exist in the way that he does, Nona stands to get in a lot of trouble if she’s found out, and next episode we’re going to have some…special guests at Quindecim. Should be a lot of fun.

These two episodes were good, I like seeing the different styles of judgement that Ginti and Decim have. I thought Mayu was cute and I was actually sympathetic enough towards Harada since he felt bad about what he had done and tried to save Mayu that I wish that they’d kept them both around. It was fun, but I feel like next week is going to be rather intense. Also, much hype for the dub cast that Funimation has announced. Alex Organ who played Makashima in Psycho-Pass leading up the cast as Decim and Jamie Marchi who voiced Panty in Panty and Stocking taking up the mantle as Kuro. I can’t wait to hear how that comes together! Good times all around.

~Midnight