You yourself will be the judge of judges, you by watching will be the person judging if they are doing things right or wrong. You will judge if eternal void is a good place for certain person, or if heaven is destined for the other. You will be the arbiter.
Coz this piece is about judgment, represented in a twisted way of a elegant bar, and mysterious bartender, watching every move and listening to every word spoken.
Better prepare yourself for a mindful session of hard thinking.
VIBE:
Here you find yourself at a bar. A very stylish one, with chandelier, fishes in water glasses, classy couches and a bunch of standard games, such as pool, poker, darts. Very basic.
And yet so complex.
The bartender glances at a pair of people with no expression on his face, saying "Please sit down, Im Decim and I will be your bartender today"
And then it just go top. Through these purposely simple games he will judge people. Judge their lifes, judge their sins, judge the actions. How they react, what they do.
He will push them into extreme situations, to see how they behave and will their response be like.
Basically it's great, you feel the tension. Sometimes you might get anxious, sometimes you might say "That was justice" and sometimes you just might be said for how unfair things can be. My advice: watch closely, for that little things are important in the series, stay focused.
I don't really have to say much, first episode is one of the best introductory episodes I have seen. It just explains everything in one go.
I'm just gonna behave like a person sending you there, giving you a small peek of what you CAN experience, and what you SHOULD experience.
Bartender waits for you.
ART STYLE:
It is amazingly beautiful, it's almost like an anime movie. You know anime movies always look better, and it almost looks like one.
All the characters, with no expetion, look attractive in their own way, you can't look away, you want to enjoy every and each detail of them. They are designed in a way, where every and each one of them has different trait, all of them are recongizeable by something cool, and so small that you won't notice it's a thing, marvelous job.
I don't even have to talk about animation quality, it's the top end of the line. Just please make more of these animes, they look gourgeous. Im tired of Kyoto Animation style all over the place, give me something new and original!
MUSIC/VOICEACTING:
Let's start with music. I really like the opening. It just makes you wanna dance, no jokes. It doesnt correspond to anything in the anime, it's totally random, with the exception that they really are in a bar. It's fantastically animated, and the music is great. As well as the ending, which is actually epic. I love it, they managed to make so universal, that it could be used during the episode making it more epic, great stuff.
Voiceacting is nice. I think that the most difficult part in recording the voices were the bits that required emotional shouting or the bits that were supposed to show a certain emotion, a negative one to be clear. They managed to do so, they managed to show what is speaking through these people, and how different all them can be.
STORYLINE:
As much as I would like to say that the storyline was good, I cannot really. The thing is that there was some main plot going through it, but it was not executed in a way that I would consider it finished. I loved the little plots, that were running around through like two-three episoedes, all of them were great, and it is great to watch it, I liked it a lot. It's just that they ran out of time to finish everything properly, and that I am sad about. And that also gives us a suggestion for the second season. Hopefully it will be as good.
CONCLUSION:
In conclusion Im just gonna say, that it's a good experience, and it gives you a moment to think about stuff. Is your life meaningful? What is after death? How will you be judged? These are great questions to talk about. Find somebody to discuss it with, you will get much more from the series.
And my advice, look at small things, sometimes they might give a hint to understand a bunch of stuff. Be focused. And otherwise, ENJOY!
Video Review: https://youtu.be/slu2Bw9M0FU
