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| So Sona is planing on doing something. Also, what happened to the idol guy? |
| Quin was the previous arbiter of Quindecim. Replaced by Decim who's really impressive in his job up until now. So that's what those dummies were. Decim keeps them so that they won't be forgotten. That's a pretty good explanation considering that most of the dummies are either good or bad from their past. It's a pretty good past time if your an arbiter of the dead. Next episode will be back to the arbiter business. |
| At least Onna knows that she's already dead. Next is, we all need to know what's the cause of Onna's death. >.< |
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| Loved Decim's face expressions in this one. The VA whoever it is, perfectly fits his appearance and character. |
| 5/5 |
| I am trying to make sense of all the info that spouted from this episode and now the arbiters seem like some form of AI. They have self-awareness and with experience they learn to judge the world. Next logical step is to challenge the system they are in as they obviously work almost like slaves - they can't stop judging (they are forced to?) Oculus appears to be different from arbiters because of his eyes and he seems to be quite nonchalant about how things are developing, which leaves the most intelligent or experienced Nona to do something about the system. My guess is that putting Ginti next to Decim is to highlight the difference between someone who judges without emotional links and someone who doesn't - both are ways to judge though. Stretched prediction is that Decim will develop feelings and will have to judge Onna based on them, still curious to see what will happen. WOw, next time we have murderers, that's why they were special... |
| It's ironic that the only one with a human soul seems heartless. Ginti was hilarious as always but his attitude is annoying. Noticed that the 'flower head' as Quin delicately put it has normal eyes, meaning that he isn't a dummy but a human or a god at that. |
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| Great episode! So glad Mayu's still around, awww her and Ginti are so cute/funny he's still as grumpy as ever xD So Onna knows she's dead, I wonder when we'll find out the cause of her death. I love how Onna didn't know how to react when Decim showed her the dummy cause she asked what he tresures. xD Onna & Decim's interactions are so great :3 |
| this episode was perfect, at least for me moar background story please |
| I find Ginti's intensity of character rather exasperating. I wonder how someone like him is seen fit to be an arbitrer. Any little thing makes him lose his temper. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| that scene where decim was eating the sandwich onna made was so unbelievably cute, it's possibly even cuter than cute girls doing cute things :) it was nice to get a little more background info on decim, which is always good. otherwise, despite the development, this episode felt sort of slow compared to the last episode, which was amazing. |
Craftworld_MM said: It's ironic that the only one with a human soul seems heartless. Ginti was hilarious as always but his attitude is annoying. Noticed that the 'flower head' as Quin delicately put it has normal eyes, meaning that he isn't a dummy but a human or a god at that. I wouldn't say Oculus has "normal" eyes... They seem somewhat reptilian to me. Like a serpent. |
| Another epic episode, it each episode gets more audacious than the previous. The way this is going, hope it gets an awesome ending that keeps up with the story so far. |
| So they even get their name from Nona. Lol Ginti is stuck with Mayu! hahaha looking forward to see more of them! :) I have this feeling that Decim does remember of his "guests"...I wonder why Nona is choosing the people to send to him. |
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| Great episode, without judgment this week, but were explained more some parts of the plot and it also appears that there is a portent of problems, two people can not be judged are still attached to the judges This anime shows a very good suspense, even a quiet episode as it becomes exciting .. |
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| Very good episode. 5/5 I guess that main plot is about change system in this tower. |
| I guess Nona messed up big time. lel >.< |
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| Decim is now 10x more awesome after this episode. |
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| kind of a slow episode, always disappointing when there's no game |
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Jerkhov said: kind of a slow episode, always disappointing when there's no game The anime will most likely get a second season at the current speed of the development of the story |
| Ayy I wanna see more of Onna's past Blankbite said: PLOT TWIST!3rd law of arbiter: They can't feel emotions because they are dummies. Then how come Genti is always angry? |
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
m-i-c-h-a-e-l said: :/ sinking the pool balls is supposed to damage the other player's respective organs. they werent screaming out in pain like in Death Billiards. Uh... did you like, not watch death billiards? that wasn't what was happening at all. The balls were "synced with the appearance of your organs", pocketing them did nothing, you've confused it with the first episode of death parade with the darts that caused pain. |
| Second straight episode of plot development. I am pleasantly surprised. I'm glad they explained the existence of the arbiters a bit more here. And yet I'm confused as to certain things which have been portrayed. Ginti is quick to a temper, but why is that even possible, considering rule 3 states clearly that arbiters are without emotions as they are essentially dummies who have never experienced death. Unless Nona has tampered with both Ginti AND Decim, this would make no sense, and yet considering how positively easy Ginti flairs up, I'm surprised none of the other arbiters, the other staff, nor Oculus has noticed that this arbiter has actual emotions (which is specifically against the rules). For events of this episode, I'm assuming either Nona really did want to mess with Ginti, or that his walking to Decim at the beginning was actually to confide with him that he was unable to judge Mayu, and hence her remaining at Ginti's floor. We got a bit more info on the state of the world and the tower. 7000 deaths per hour with limited time to process and filter all the memories for judgement. You can totally tell that Quin and her colleagues are overworked, leading to possible lapses in the filtering process (or even them doing a half-assed job), resulting in imperfect and possibly incorrect judgments on the part of arbiters (though in that case, totally not their fault). Because of this situation, I'm actually seeing the merits of using those cheat-sticks to force the game participants to drag out their inner evil. It makes for an easier job for the arbiter when judging. That Decim seems to respect the lives lived by his guests makes for a more comprehensive judgment overall. I think this is sort of like an internal revolution that Nona is trying to start here, by secretly enabling Decim's emotions somehow. I'm curious to know what exactly her purpose for doing so is though. She herself mentions that there was little time to begin with, so what is she trying to do with Decim and her current 5-year experiment? Looking forward to next episode, because it seems this "special pair" will instead of being your average game of the week fare, will actually be used to push the plot somehow. |
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| Another episode full of info ... so seems like there are three main "rules" for arbiters eh? Nona implanted Decim with human emotions and pretty much broke the third one (surprising considered how stoic he normally is). Plus it seems like his name (Decim) was chosen because of the place/floor he was on eh? Plus the test he and Ginti went through when Quin was still there ... so much info! I guess that explains his empathy and stuff. Poor Quin too, she looks overworked in the Information Bureau processing the memories ... and Nona has to deal with all of this too. Seems like she got some "special" people sent to Decim next week so that should be interesting to watch! Oh and also Assistant's memories seem to be coming back. The book Chavvot was read to her as a child it seems? Interesting that Nona had it sent from the human world to her as well ... hmm, I wonder what this has got to do with things? Oh and not to mention the mannequins that Decim builds are actually the bodies of the people who go through there ... weird O_O Plus Mayu's still with Ginti somehow ... did she not get judged? I guess that explains what Ginti was asking the other arbiters at the beginning :O ANYWAY! Hopefully we'll get some more info and another good game episode next time! :3 |
| Really liking this series, it's so bleak and non-informative with what the hell is going on; yet it's slowly feeding the information to us. |
| I thought this episode was a little slow, but it was definitely necessary. It established more background of the arbiters and the tower and also gave us some more plot to drive the show forward. Interested to see how this business with Nona and Decim turns out. |
| Nona was cute when she got scared. |
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Paulo27 said: Why can't Ginti judge her? It's not like she has ever done anything wrong, like, I don't see the problem here, I'm also guessing he already judge the other guy and one would think he'd be the one that is hard to judge, not her. I think he just wants to bang her |
| qualification of an arbiter is no emotions...then Nona is quite questioned with Decim because Nona thinks Decim might be the 1st arbiter to evolve and change in to an arbiter with human feelings and Nona wants to know if it would also change the way they judge...An Arbiter that has human feelings might change the one-dimensional way of their judging. |
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| Decim's treasure lmao. But really, he has a respectable hobby. Loved the Decim x Onna moments. Mayu's back! Gotta love Ginti's interactions with her. That old guy seems like a yandere. |
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L-Ryoshi said: Ginti is quick to a temper, but why is that even possible, considering rule 3 states clearly that arbiters are without emotions as they are essentially dummies who have never experienced death. Unless Nona has tampered with both Ginti AND Decim, this would make no sense, and yet considering how positively easy Ginti flairs up, I'm surprised none of the other arbiters, the other staff, nor Oculus has noticed that this arbiter has actual emotions (which is specifically against the rules). Yeah, Ginti seems always in an irritable mood with no provocation; he was even annoyed/jealous when the cat was feeling comfy in Mayu's arms. Why is that, I wonder, when it shouldn't even be possible for Ginti to KNOW what anger is. Other than that, it's kinda amusing to watch him interact with Mayu; I think he got really confused at her when she chose to sacrifice herself instead of throwing that idol into the pit so it became impossible to judge her properly, thus keeping her around. And we get an explanation for Decim's fascination with those dolls. The one she showed Onna, that was Machiko from ep1, right? Nona getting scared was funny, but what could she be up to, saying there's not much time and presumably sending Decim what seems to be a difficult pair to judge. |
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shiroyume said: L-Ryoshi said: Ginti is quick to a temper, but why is that even possible, considering rule 3 states clearly that arbiters are without emotions as they are essentially dummies who have never experienced death. Unless Nona has tampered with both Ginti AND Decim, this would make no sense, and yet considering how positively easy Ginti flairs up, I'm surprised none of the other arbiters, the other staff, nor Oculus has noticed that this arbiter has actual emotions (which is specifically against the rules). Nona getting scared was funny, but what could she be up to, saying there's not much time and presumably sending Decim what seems to be a difficult pair to judge. As far as I understood, Decim is a test subject: an arbiter with human feeling implanted. I guess there is not much time left to prove that he is a success and thus sending him a really hard case to test him for good seems to be her try to solve the situation. |
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| Dang respect for Decim. |
| Liking Decim's character development! Things are getting more interesting! (This show deserves a second season...) |
| Awesome, we finally meet Quin, with a reference to Death Billards. I respect Decim as much as he respects humans. The reason for his hobby is actually quite sincere and thoughtful. But I guess that's what happens when he has human emotions. Maybe Ginti also has human emotions 'cause he hasn't judged Mayu yet. Something big will be happening because of what Nona's doing, but as for next time, we'll have a normal game! And by that, of course it won't be a normal game. |
I’m always searching for something, for someone. This feeling has possessed me I think, from that day… That day when the stars came falling. |
| Outstanding episode. Lots of character development and lots of questions brought to the table. So, despite Decim's attitude, it seems like he actually has human emotions. His hobby is really touching, and the interactions between him and Onna are hilarious. I don't understand what Nona stands to gain from a successful experiment, though. Is it just the better judging of the dead, or is it something more? It's kinda funny Ginti hating on every single thing, yet he's more like Decim than he's willing to admit, since both of them haven't judged a woman yet. Decim's hardest test is nigh. 4.5/5 |
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| Man, people really need to read this http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharacterDevelopment |
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Juhnny said: Wtf was the girl from last game doing there? xD I know! I was confused about that part too....is he keeping her around secretly for his own enjoyment? Or does he want her to be his "assistant" seeing as Decim has one. |
| Great set-up episode! Nona was featured quite a lot this time, I still can't get over how awesome her character design is haha |
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| nona, dont go pls Or was she talking about Decim? Anyway, very interesting episode about where the arbiters come from, even if we are still missing some pieces. If I understood well, the humans that die get their ''soul'' transfered into some puppet? So that mean it isn't their own body, right? The arbiters are supposed to not have emotions, though Ginti seem to be a pretty emotive man himself :/ He even kept the crazy girl because he couldn't judge her! Decim ''hobby'' was creepy and depressing. That girl he reproduced was the girl from the first episode, right? The fact that he does those puppets might be a small sign of guilt from him. The book shenanigans seem to come from Nona. It look like she's trying to bring her back her memories. Now, I'l sketch something that is probably far from the reality, but could Nona be trying to create an artificial human (Decim) and an artificial relationship/complicity (Decim & Onna)? What I mean by that is that from Onna memories, it's almost like she has known someone ''similar'' to Decim in the past, but that totally contradict the fact that arbiters are dolls. Maybe she's trying to create someone that never existed with the memories of someone else... I don't know, I'm confusing myself by thinking too much about it xD |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| Decim has human emotions? ... well.. this is news... I thought the episode was kind of boring. |
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