Life is precious.
That seems to be the main theme of Death Parade: How often we humans take the life we have and the relationships we form throughout it for granted. Quindecim is a bar where a pair of people are prompted by the bartender, Decim,to play a bar game with their lives at stake. What the two don't realize is that they have died and the games serve as a platform for Decim, who is actually an arbiter, to judge whether the person should be reincarnated or sent to the void. Thus begins the emotional roller coaster of a show that is Death Parade.
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Jun 17, 2015
Oyasumi Punpun
(Manga)
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A beautiful and heartbreaking masterpiece. If you like sappy storylines and happy endings, you probably won't like this manga; Punpun is painfully cynical. But what this manga lacks in optimism it makes up for with amazing writing and beautiful art work.
Story: 9/10 The story of Oyasumi Punpun is pretty plain and straight forward. You follow the titular character, Punpun, depicted as a crudely drawn bird, as he grows up. Nothing too revolutionary.Though the story begins as a happy go lucky comedy, it descends into a much darker drama as it progresses. The use of this transition brilliantly represents PunPun's change from a carefree child into a ... |