Death Billiards

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English: Death Billiards

Synonyms: Wakate Animator Ikusei Project, 2012 Young Animator Training Project, Anime Mirai 2012

Japanese: デス・ビリヤード

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 2, 2013

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Madhouse

Source: Original

Genres: Game, Mystery, Psychological, Drama, Thriller

Duration: 25 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Ranked: #584²

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Popularity: #653

Members: 147,635

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Two men have just arrived at a location known as Quindecim and are unable to remember how they got there. They are immediately greeted by a young woman who escorts them to a small bar, where a bartender awaits them. They are told that they will have to participate in a game, randomly chosen by roulette, and will be unable to leave until its completion; if they refuse, the consequences will be dire. In addition to the rules of the game, the two men are told to play as if their lives are at stake.

The game that has been chosen is billiards. But there's more to it than just pocketing pool balls, as the two are about to find out the outcome could mean life or death.

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Death Billiards is one of the four anime works that each received 38 million yen (about US$480,000) from the "2012 Young Animator Training Project." Just like in 2010 and 2011, the animation labor group received 214.5 million yen (US$2.65 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios who train young animators on-the-job.

The film was later expanded into the 2015 TV anime Death Parade.

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Decim

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Maeno, Tomoaki
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Seto, Asami
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Otoko

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Nakamura, Yuuichi
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Roujin

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Hazumi, Jun
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Tachikawa, Yuzuru

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Kurita, Shinichi

Animation Director, Character Design

Kanemori, Yoshinori

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Hirayanagi, Satoru

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Apr 7, 2013

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Tanshaydar (All reviews)

197 people found this review helpful

Now that is a single pearl, easy to miss and likely to be underrated.
Madhouse studios must be mad.

A short story of life and death, a story of human life and the illusion of equality. Could it be possible to compress into 25 minutes? Well, it seems it was.

On artistic-wise, visuals were appealing, if not gorgeous. Such details and great work for such a short story, with all the detailed background visuals were something that multiplied the joy.

For a one shot special anime, it would not be fair to judge characters, yet they were not half-baked personages either.
Death Pool (or Death Billards for that matter) uses read more

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Apr 14, 2013

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Kynov (All reviews)

129 people found this review helpful

"Life is never fair" - Bartender

Death Billiard is like a piece of beautiful diamond between a pile of rough stones, not so many people even aware of this anime (actually me too, until now). Its kinda coincidence i found this one, honestly i found this one when i am looking for some ecchi anime, thats why i said "like found a piece of diamonds in a pile of rough stones"

Anyway, why do i called it like A beautiful diamond? first of all, Death Billiards is just ONE episode anime. One? yeah just one, but its enough to make your head blows up.

The story involves about read more

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Feb 8, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

lawlmartz (All reviews)

56 people found this review helpful

Welcome to Queen Decim, mystical bar of fate.

What happens when two people, whether they're strangers or the closest of companions, are pitted against each other in a seemingly mundane contest, with the stakes being their own lives? Suspicions, outrage, deceit, bargaining, and all manner of psychological warfare commence, all in the name of survival. However, is everything as it appears?

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I feel this episode 0, if you will, should actually be seen after the first two episodes of the Death Parade TV series. That way, one has an idea what's going on, and who read more

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Jan 16, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

DaJetBoy (All reviews)

44 people found this review helpful

As quite few of you already know this is the preview for Death Parade, which has drawn comparisons to things like Saw movies or Twilight Zone, but this particular episode clearly screams out Twilight Zone episode called A Game of Pool. you'll nod if u know what I'm talking about!

Anyway, I actually started watching Death Parade before this, and thus that kinda influenced me of knowing what was going to happen in Death Billiards.

What makes this episode great and like all other death parade episodes are how they present you 2 characters that are pushed to their extremes thinking at first they have to read more

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