Dies Irae

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English: Dies irae

Synonyms: Day of Wrath

Japanese: Dies irae

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 14, 2017 to Dec 23, 2017

Premiered: Fall 2017

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:05 (JST)

Producers: Genco, DMM pictures, Greenwood, My Theater D.D., Brave Hearts, Crunchyroll SC Anime Fund

Licensors: Funimation, Crunchyroll

Studios: A.C.G.T.

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Action, Military, Super Power, Magic

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 5.37¹ (scored by 30,208 users)

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Ranked: #10234²

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Popularity: #1317

Members: 116,722

Favorites: 187

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Synopsis

On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of the 13 Lances, a group of supermen whose coming would bring the world's destruction. Years later, no one knows if this group of officers succeeded, or whether they lived or died. Few know of their existence, and even those who knew began to pass away as the decades passed.

Now in December in the present day in Suwahara City, Ren Fujii spends his days at the hospital. It has been two months since the incident that brought him to the hospital: a fight with his friend Shirou Yusa where they almost tried to kill each other. He tries to value what he has left to him, but every night he sees the same dream: a guillotine, murderers who hunt people, and the black clothed knights who pursue the murderers. He is desperate to return to his normal, everyday life, but even now he hears Shirou's words: "Everyone who remains in this city eventually loses their minds."

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Characters & Voice Actors

Tristan Eugen Heydrich, Reinhard

Main

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Marie

Main

Sakakibara, Yui
Japanese

Fujii, Ren

Main

Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese

Mercurius

Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese

Schwägelin, Rusalka

Supporting

Inokuchi, Yuka
Japanese

Sakurai, Kei

Supporting

Mizusawa, Kei
Japanese

Yusa, Shirou

Supporting

Maeda, Takeshi
Japanese

von Kircheisen, Beatrice Waltrud

Supporting

Mizusawa, Kei
Japanese

Trifa, Valeria

Supporting

Narita, Ken
Japanese

Ehrenburg, Wilhelm

Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou
Japanese

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Kudou, Susumu

Director

Morita, Yousuke

Sound Director

Kamanaka, Nobuharu

Episode Director, Storyboard

Masada, Takashi

Script, Series Composition, Original Creator

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Opening Theme

"Kadenz" by Yui Sakakibara

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Ending Theme

"Opera (オペラ)" by Phero☆Men

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Dec 22, 2017

11 of 11 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Blood_Diver_A (All reviews)

85 people found this review helpful

[THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS]
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[A Confusing and Frustrating Mess]

If I had to describe Dies Irae, it’s this: confusing and frustrating. Almost every episode left me saying, “what the fuck is going on” or “what is happening”. But, in most cases, I just sit there looking confused and dazed as I try to piece together the events that happened this episode with the previous ones. After awhile, I sort of understand what is happening, but not without a few lingering questions. Questions that I hoped would be answered in the next episode, except they weren’t, leaving me even more confused and frustrated.

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Dec 22, 2017

11 of 11 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 1

PavelShinpuSama (All reviews)

52 people found this review helpful

A wise man once said: "There is no Tsukihime anime."

His august thought, pregnant with knowledge and brightness can fit any visual novel adaptation perfectly. To ruin a magnificent novel by an unspeakable, abominable, despicable, damned monstrosity of an adaptation is a grave sin one could say.
Great books don't make great movies, or series in this instance.

So I say: "There is no Dies Irae anime."

Really just read the VN, it's available on Steam, you won't regret spending those sixty hours reading it. It is a magnificent story filled with so much thought you won't be able to remove it from your thoughts (unless you don't read more

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Dec 22, 2017

11 of 11 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Streecer (All reviews)

37 people found this review helpful

This show is a disaster. This isn't something I say lightly. On a basic level Dies Irae is a complete and utter failure on almost every possible level. And knowing that (at the time of this review) there are still web exclusive episodes left is a harrowing thought.

I have not read the visual novel, in fact I was dared to watch this show, having not read it. As somebody who hasn't read the VN Dies Irae is baffling. Characters teleport around, change powers and appearances, and have momentary appearances in the show for seconds before randomly becoming important later. Of course, this is because much read more

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Dec 22, 2017

11 of 11 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Raggadish (All reviews)

33 people found this review helpful

I can get why people have a problem with this show. The pace is quite uneven, the story isn´t that coherent, much is not explained, and the clear haram vibe can be a turn off. I haven´t read/played the popular visual novel that the anime adaption is built on, so I can´t say if it´s a good adaption or not. However, I actually quite liked the show, its just demand that you are focused on the bits and pieces of information you get, and that you puzzle them together yourself. But before we dig into the actual review, some background information can be good.

Let´s first understand the title “Dies Irae”, the show actually makes more sense when you know the meaning of it.

“Dies Irae” is contrary to what many believe (me at the beginning as well), is not German, it´s Latin. Directly translated it means “Day of wrath”, and I found out when googling some, that it is a real psalm text about the absolute dooms day, which has an old catholic origin, and were translated to German in the 1700th. Dies Irae, is the day the world will be dissolved in ashes, much like the Vikings “Ragnarök”. Which basically telling you which direction this show will take.

Now when we cleared that out, let´s take a look at how “Dies Irae” were as a show.
The fractions of the show that let you in on the plot, weren´t that bad at all. An old society of super powerful mages, with some dark plans and a big end game, the origin of the main character Ren and his friends Kasumi and Shirou, the connection with the mages powers and human souls, and the techniques and incantations they use to preform magic, are all some interesting parts. But it´s just that, it´s just fractions of those bits throughout the show, which never were explored or explained to an extent that would have taking the show from “this is kind of cool” to “kind of really damn good” level.

As for the 0 episode, if you didn´t get it the first time, re-watch it after the 7th episode, it fits pretty good there, and the episode will make since.

The show has some of its focus on other parts, such as the harem part (yes, it´s very harem influenced, hence the several routes), surprisingly much slice of life, and some fights that felt kind of pointless in the beginning, besides present many of the villains as psycho sadistic assholes (with a few exceptions). Personal opinions aside, many of the characters are stereotypes with a twist, and used as such. For example, the childhood friend that wishes she now would be teenager MC´s girlfriend, MC´s rival male childhood friend, and a loli-looking tsundere senpai. But at the same time, I weren´t bored with them, they had enough importance in what´s was unfolding, and interesting enough personalities.

Some explanations of the circumstances and certain characters place in the story are provided during the watch, but they could´ve have focused much more on those parts to really make it interesting.

Besides that, I actually looked forward to watching a new episode each week. “Dies Irae” grow steadily on me, and had something that made me not only keep watching it, but looking forward to it. And that may been partly because of the plot development, it takes a little bit of a lift in the 7th episode, and partly because of the soundtrack. Some of the soundtrack is some real high-class pieces; German classic-music-orchestras, sometimes with some good opera. Which fitted the atmosphere of “Dies Irae” really well, with the German inspired uniforms, plot-base, and names. And after googling some more, I found out that the incantations the mages preform is individual, and are based on famous German literature and operas like Wagner and Goethe (the quote which is seen in every episode, just after the opening, is from Goethe´s two pieced tragedy). The rest isn´t too bad either, with some nice rock pieces fitting the darker theme. The opening "Kadenz" by Yui Sakakibara, is engaging and presents the mode and spirit of the show well. It´s a lot of characters and connections, which the visuals do a good job of displaying. With the highlight being the ending song, "Opera” by Phero☆Men. If not watch the show, just look that one up, it’s pretty great, it was the best part of the show according to me. The VA´s were well matched, with a nice sounding Japanese accent.

I liked the art and animation. The character design seemed to be somewhat similar to Kouta Hirano´s works (the man behind Hellsing), with their specific hair styles, eye and face shapes, long limbs and bodies, gloves and uniforms with Nazi-Germen design. Which is in my opinion isn´t a bad thing, I´m a big fan of his work. To see the similar style in another show, was just a plus. The animation, by studio A.C.G.T, is absolutely decent, it often looks pretty good. Nice colours, backgrounds, effects for the super natural/magic parts, and the fight scenes were fluid and interesting enough.

So, to round things up, I actually did enjoy most of my time with “Dies Irae”.
Especially after I looked up some information, that gave the show the platform it needed. Some will be explained throughout this first 11 episodes, and since the show is scheduled for at least 6 more episodes (ONA), it has the opportunity to grow in that department, and give the show a solid feeling. The soundtrack, opening, and ending were worth the time on its own, I´m still a bit surprised about how good they were. And the Kouta Hirano inspired art were a clear plus as well. I will definitively check out the visual novel it based on, I haven´t had the craving for a game in a while, but Dies definitively awoke up that feeling a bit.

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