General Overview

LordLexx said:
I just want to give people a little insight to this upcoming anime.

Sorrowsenpai said:


Almost all the character bio's say also how much detail does it go into of slavery in that world? As slavery in an anime kind of scares me off, so if its in I hope its just a plot foible and passed over, like 'illegal slave trade etc' but

LordLexx said:



It's not cruel slavery at all. Tama, Pochi, and Liza were slaves do a dick but Satou saved them and their previous master died so he had the option of keeping them or selling them and he kept them mostly because he wasn't confident in his abilities yet and wanted extra protection. Then Arisa and Lulu were slaves from previous kingdoms downfall (Arisa is a princess and Lulu is the child of a mistress) but Arisa uses some fancy wordplay from suspecting that Satou is a Japanese and cons him into buying them to later find out an interesting secret about her. After these 2 incidents slaves are hardly mentioned except for Satou saving some and I think much later he buys a ton of them to work in some of his many business ventures, but he has them work for fair commission and gives them the option to free themselves. Arisa and Lulu are bound by a powerful spell called a geuss(sp?) So they can't be freed by normal means, but the other 3 eventually get their freedom from the kingdom after performing some badassery (they chose the to stay as his slaves for a while).

Sorrowsenpai said:


Almost all the character bio's say also how much detail does it go into of slavery in that world? As slavery in an anime kind of scares me off, so if its in I hope its just a plot foible and passed over, like 'illegal slave trade etc' but

LordLexx said:
I just want to give people a little insight to this upcoming anime. This is from the perspective of one who activily reads the web novel as the kind translators release the chapters, as well as having read the translated manga chapters.

There are some pretty big differences between the two, as anyone that reads the the stories knows. However my hopes for this anime is pretty high and I'm still excited for it.

Some of the major points that matter is that the MC is NOT a dense moron about how women feel. It's simply the women that are interested in him and are following him are either was to young for his tastes (he's mentally 29 years old in a 15 year old body), or they are not mentally mature (in the case of Mia the elf that travels with him). He is aware of the people's feelings for him, he just morally chooses not to act on them.. He does however visit brothels from time to time. People call him the loli god, but he really only has 2 loli girls romantically interested in him. Tama and Pochi are really to young and immature to understand those feelings. As for the manga and subsequently the anime (that will most likely follow the manga) they will likely tone down the deaths and the darker side of this series.. regretfully. MC spends the first little bit thinking he is in a game, but later accepts it as another world and then goes on a journey to figure out what happend and why.. also why he has a 15 year old body (I'm fairly certain that its just because they didn't want a 30 year old man running around with girls that are 11-17 years old but as of volume 16 it still hasn't been revealed). He also handles problems in a mature manor and later on used disguises and other personalities to go do hero stuff so that it doesn't interfere with his daily life. Overall this is a really good series, and I'm looking forward to it despite the cuts they are gonna do from the web novel version. I hope others will also be interested and the series gets a decent run time.

Blarey said:
It sounds similar to Mushoku Tensei so I will be checking it out. I can’t say my hopes are very high though tbh, LN adaptations like these usually aren’t very good.

FontSize72LOL said:


In all honesty its more similar to Shieldbro than MT, in the fact that most things in the world have skills that you can put points into, although the differences are that shieldbro are more masteries than skills, and that Satou starts out OP where Naofumi starts out rather weak and grows to be strong. Both series have an emphasis on Slavery in the world building and use side characters whom were slaves.

The MCs are much different though in how they grow and are executed. Death March can be likened more to an Isekai fantasy superhero hidden identity formula than Shieldbro, where at least initially its just a dude that is trying to survive the screwed up situation he was thrust into with a side dish of revenge.

I've only read up to volume 8 (WN) so far, Its not great by any stretch of the imagination, but I find it entertaining enough.

stone616 said:
I'm not really getting this show. It's a video game to him but not to the people in it or is it not a video game to anybody at all? He has a HUD and levels his skills so it seems like at least to him it's a game.

Sorrowsenpai said:


Almost all the character bio's say also how much detail does it go into of slavery in that world? As slavery in an anime kind of scares me off, so if its in I hope its just a plot foible and passed over, like 'illegal slave trade etc' but

nightcrawlercyp said:
Mentally mature? :)) So you want him to date old hags? Women stop mentally maturing around 16 . They stay at that mental state well into their 30's or 40's. And they could have had him running around with 17-20 years women. 30-35 man + 17-20 woman is a good match.

stone616 said:
I'm not really getting this show. It's a video game to him but not to the people in it or is it not a video game to anybody at all? He has a HUD and levels his skills so it seems like at least to him it's a game.

flannan said:

1) The anime really softens things compared to LN, so you would not see much focus on slavery.
2) Yes, of the girls who join the MC, 5 are legally his property. He plans on releasing them when there is a good opportunity (the beastgirl trio would be too much at risk of racist attacks, and the other two are cursed), but the anime will probably never get to actually releasing them.
3) Since MC is a modern person, and an adult who isn't eager to adapt to otherworld's morality, he doesn't treat them as slaves, he treats them as his children.


Mia the elf doesn't have mental maturity of a 16-year-old girl. Or at least she seems immature because she tends to use single-word sentences. I've seen anime kindergarten girls that are more reliable than her.


The world is not a videogame. But the MC has a user interface like in the games he designed for some unknown reason (probably related to him going into that world in the first place). That makes him wrongly assume the world is a video game or a dream for a while.

flannan said:

1) The anime really softens things compared to LN, so you would not see much focus on slavery.
2) Yes, of the girls who join the MC, 5 are legally his property. He plans on releasing them when there is a good opportunity (the beastgirl trio would be too much at risk of racist attacks, and the other two are cursed), but the anime will probably never get to actually releasing them.
3) Since MC is a modern person, and an adult who isn't eager to adapt to otherworld's morality, he doesn't treat them as slaves, he treats them as his children.