1. Pick a game
2. Play the game
3. Watch for the player's reactions to the game's events
The recurring cast is very bland and at points makes no sense, they're meant to be "dummies" without any human emotion, simply made to resemble human form and pass judgement on actual humans. Yet, throughout the show the entire "dummy" cast shows emotions such as rage, annoyance, shock, contempt, happiness, smugness, loneliness, boredom ect ect ect. While I do agree that having the main cast be emotionless beings would make it harder for the show to be of good quality, I would give it a pass if it hadn't literally stated that the characters who've shown a multitude of emotions... don't have emotions!?
The main "meat" is watching the human's reactions in a high-stakes setting where their souls are on the line, and slowly watching them figure out they're dead. As much of a reality-tv-type spin that this show is, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the core of this show. What I actually did not enjoy in the slightest was the over-explanation of mindbogglingly-simple concepts. Yes, we get it:
1. There are "dummys" called "arbiters" who judge those who have recently died by putting them in an extreme situation in the form of a game and watching their reactions to judge their ethics and choose if their soul should perish forever or be reincarnated
2. Arbiters are not allowed to feel human emotions
We don't need you to explain that over and OVER AND OVER again! Chill tf out. There was about 3 episodes worth of explanation and "world building" for concepts a child could understand from the first episode alone where they had already explained it.
Honestly, if it was just the meat without the fat I would've maybe given it a 7. They made a show that was already repetitious in nature even more unnecessarily repetitious. Some characters were even clones of others, the only change being variations in their back story.
If you see one episode of this anime, you've seen them all. I'd only recommend you keep watching if you really enjoyed it, which admittedly, I did.
ALSO THAT INTRO BOI WHOOOOOOO BOY OH SH- BRUH MY GOD CUH OAFIJNEFOAIENFWIF DUDE! The OP might very well be the best part of this show. I'm an impatient motherfucker and I still did not skip it once. 100% certified BOP.
