Satsuriku no Tenshi

Okay.... where to begin with a series like Angels of Death. To give a vague synopsis, it follows Rachel Gardner with little memory of what happened or brought her to the bottom floor of a 6 story building, who meets fellow building dweller Isaac, and together, with a very strange request, are both motivated to escape the building. Overall, if I'm being blunt and honest, there isn't anything overly offensive about this series, for the most part it was fine and I found myself enjoying it... again, for the most part. Art wise, the series looks good, character wise they're very individual, if not somewhat rushed, and plot/motivation is very unique, or at the very least not one that I've seen before. My favorite part were the characters. Especially the way Rachel and Isaac play off each other, Isaac's outbursts, their contrasting personalities offered me a few chuckles here and there, and the majority of their interactions with other characters. The only reason I can't say this was brilliant or masterful, is because, at it's core, I personally found it confusing. The concepts and messages they were bringing up and having characters worry/motivate them were fascinating, but incredibly confusing the first time around and very quick to change from one episode to the next. This is another reason I enjoyed Isaac's character so much, because every now and then he would just blurt out exactly what I was thinking regarding these situations; "What the hell are you talking about?", "What the hell does that mean?", "What are you getting at?" and at times just straight up demanding someone explain wtf is going on. This shows me that the writers/creators are at least aware of the deep thinking bits in this story. I'm sure if I watched this a few more times, with the knowledge I now have having finished it, some concepts could make more sense to me and I perhaps would be able to understand what characters are saying to each other. Regardless, I found the series incredibly tense, and from the aspects I definitely 100% understood it gave me satisfaction to arcs, answers to mysteries and questions they put forward and offered me an interesting perspective of relationship types that I thought worked remarkably well. Overall, what I can definitely praise are the lead characters, (for the cliches they portray very well), and honestly the ending is something I haven't seen or expected for a while. Would recommend, but warning, it can be a thinker!

I was definitely not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did so I watched all the 12 episodes and the additional 4 but this anime is surely not for everyone, basically you will probably like this if you enjoy (in a very strange way that makes you feel memorized and absorbed by the whole thing) dark and some what sad anime. Now, if you don't want to read too much just skip to the last paragraph that sums this all up quite well. In all honesty the story only had me interested around episode 4, though even after that it seemed rather plain but i felt this strange, calm and absorbed feeling and it just kept me going. As i progressed i felt it is was definitely a one-of-a-kind story line that i don't think i will ever encounter again, not sure if thats a good or a bad thing. I will say that it had a nice beginning and a beautiful ending that is basically based upon how you wish to see it, by that i mean that you can interpret it by many different ways until you are left with the one you are most satisfied with. However, in my opinion, there is only one true ending that can be seen if looked into deeper but i cant quite accept it as it simply makes me sad just thinking about it... I have in fact got very much to say about the characters but once i get started i might as well of started off by saying " I will now just basically re-tell the whole anime in words so don't get too bored" So all i will say about them is that they are very unique, but a feeling kept bothering me that they have something in common about them all that i have missed or yet to discover while i occasionally think about this anime in my day to day life. On the other hand, i don't really have anything to say about the sound because i didn't pay much attention to it, or was there even any sound except from their voices and the opening? Well, what i can say is that the story did a good job then because i was so memorized my it and what was happening my attention was drawn exceptionally to it. Well if you reached this far in my review you probably already realized that i very much enjoyed this anime so theres not much to say to end this off with except from saying one thing; I was definitely not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did (yup, that is exactly how i started this review)

This anime is awesome. I don't understand why it got a low rating. Some people may think this is a weird anime. I never play their game or reading the manga but the anime itself doing a great job. You might think what is the point to be killed? No. I understand less or more. To be killed, because you have no purpose to live. You hate yourself. That's what Rachel wishing for. But the end of it, it shows the synonym of her request was actually "please love her". This anime has so many confusing things up but all I can say is it's a melancholy. I'm not a psychopath because enjoying this but these 2 people shared the same pain. It has a nice plot. You can relate this if you're into psychology thriller anime. Don't relate this with anything other than that because you'll be complaining a lot. Hey this is the type of psychological thriller, of course, it'll make you feel weird. what so good about psychological thriller is you need to think wide and wise so you won't get boring or lost in the middle.

This is a story about a kid, who never really understood much of anything she did, she wants to die but doesn’t want to be killed, I can’t figure out a way to end this. This is an anime starring a girl called Rachael Gardner and a psychotic retard called Isaac (Zack) Foster. We follow them on their quest to escape from a certain hospital which also doubles as a hunting ground for sociopaths who kill the unfortunate souls that enter the damned building. Each floor of the building is occupied by one of these psychopaths who will kill anyone who enters their “level”. One of our main characters, Isaac is in charge of the bottom-most level where he tries to kill Rachael but fails to do so. Rachael, then remembers some stuff that happened to her in her past and comes to the very obvious conclusion - that she needs to die; but she doesn’t want to commit suicide because “God will not forgive her, for suicide is a sin”. So, she does what any sane person would do, she asks for Isaac to kill her to which he gives her the stupendous reply that he won’t kill her because her face doesn’t look good. So they decide to team up and escape the building together and thus starts the abomination that is Angels of Death. You might think that a premise like this must provide some sort of entertainment to the viewer, and it does, which is immediately ruined by the introduction of some cardboard cutout character who wants to kill Zack and Rachael. The characters that occupy the floors of the building try to kill them because how else will we progress our non-existent and a sorry excuse for a plot? Let’s talk about Rachael. She wants to die but won’t let anyone kill her and neither will she kill herself. This state of ambivalence is never clearly explained. You could argue that she promised Isaac that she would help emancipate him, but why the hell does she care when she just wants to go to the afterlife? Also she doesn’t speak much and is brooding all the time for some equivocal reason. That’s all there is to her character. Isaac on the other hand is a very irksome character who does absolutely nothing but shouts and swings his scythe around to decapitate someone or to spill someone’s guts out. Apparently, he was abused as a child and became a killer because he saw someone in a movie killing a girl. And that’s all there is to his character. The writing is utterly balderdash and it’s filled with banal, edgy clichés. There is copious amount of blood for some reason. Zack gets his stomach cut and keeps bleeding out for 4 episodes straight without inching any closer to death. A person gets shot, he/she goes flying backwards 2 meters because there is no such thing as Physics. Prisoners in this anime can apparently survive for months without food or water. There are four lines of dialogue in this series which are delivered in subtly different ways. It’s like the writers put their brains in abeyance when making this atrocity. All that the characters do is kill, and when they’re not doing so, try to kill. Tl;Dr If you want to watch an anime filled with interesting characters and a grand story then is not the anime you’re looking for. But, if you want an anime that you can enjoy with your brain turned off, then this is definitely not the way to go. Don’t watch this anime.

Okay so to start fresh it's edgy reeeeeeal edgy so edgy in fact people call it cringe. Which I can understand when most of the dialogue is the mc talking about god or how she wants the male protag to kill her. Is it worth it tho. Absoschmutely it's a banger animation and VAs it's all good. Reminded me of Deadman's wonderland. I love the RPGmaker storytelling and I will probably play the game in the future. The horror is really subtle probably went out after ep1 for me but still it has eerie atmosphere the whole time and it is at some point a psychological horror apart for being a normal murder horror most of the time Watch it if you are not fragile liberal.

ATTENTION!!!✋✋......( NO SPOILERS ).....WATCH IT NOW!!!!!!!.......Kindly pay zero interest towards mean🙁 comments, they are drunk beings✌. Ok Lemme be clear, this anime is nothing spicy with no plot twists, its just totally PSYCOLOGICAL and AMAZINGLY HEART-TOUCHING, BEAUTIFUL😳 TAGIC story. Animes like this are rare. In the first few episodes it may feel nothing special and frustating but NO DEAR every episode has its meaning, you will understand when you keep watching. You may feel every character(like the priest) is faslely accusing the main protagonist Rachel Gardener of causing Zach harm, but its somewhat true and she acted quite selfishly with Zach due to her psycological disorder but you'll later feel sorry towards her. You may also feel that Zach's bad because he is a serial killer, but he has a true soul without emotions, he kills people who smile and are hppy but doesn't know why. He atlast develops some feelings and care towards Rachel and thats why it ends more tragic. In case you do not understand the last scene, do look at this guide and it will leave you speechless : https://www.quora.com/Can-you-explain-the-ending-of-the-anime-series-Angels-of-Death#:~:text=Basically%20Isaac%20WAS%20sentenced%20to,soul%20comes%20as%20an%20ANGEL.&text=He%20basically%20saved%20her%20from,floating%20in%20the%20air%20too.

see the thing i find so exquisite about this anime is that it doesn't spoon feed you, it doesn't tell you what's happening or what they're thinking or feeling, its a masterpiece in that it gives you the pen but you have to find the paper, this anime truly is a hit or miss because most people wont put their spin or their own thoughts into it, its beautiful in the sense that if you give it you own meaning, it will make it worth watching. see i loved its art, the character development, the relationship building, i love how you can see Rachel and Zach's relationship get stronger as the episodes go on. Its so unique that one second it will have to rolling you eyes at the oh so dramatic 14 year old and the next it will have you loving her wholeheartedly. Its so elegant in its flow of the story that it will keep you hooked till the very end. Angels of death made me cry and smile a sad smile. its sour-sweet to say the least and is truly a Masterpiece.

I will be short. I enjoyed this anime to the fullest. It was my first time watching an anime of this genre and I have to say that I wasn't disappointed at all. What I LOVED MOST was that the overall atmosphere reminded me of Alice in Wonderland in its darker version (more specifically, Alice Madness Returns) as well as the Escape Room games. I found that was completely unique and highly entertaining. If I had to note something less satisfactory that would might be the character development which by all means was okay, if someone considers the fact that the series consists of only 16 episodes. The chemistry between the main characters is beautiful and the bond they share is guided both by each one's benefit and some kind of affection making the whole thing entirely intriguing. All in all, I was fully satisfied by Satsuriku no Tenshi (Angels of Death) and I would highly recommend it to those who want to experience something different, dark but light and refreshing at the same time.

It has some interesting characters, a interesting enough plot, but i find it lacking. i dont have the desire to rewatch it, i feel it needed to be more flushed out, it does get a bit repetitive and i would recommend as a time filler. though it is interesting to watch and does make you want more, but a show that doesnt deliver on that front doesnt get points for it. It feels half done, and rushed to the finish line at the exact same time. that makes me want to see more of the show, but it also makes me mark off points due to it not doing that by making me invested, but more by making me feel like instead of flushing out the story, or adding details, they cut out a lot of things and pieced together what was left.

Angels of Death is an anime about death. Wow, big surprise, I know. The MC wakes up being chased by a scythe-wielding maniac who she then asks to kill her, but he turns her down, saying he'll only kill her once they escape from the building they are in, where each floor houses its own killer and dangers. Episodes vary between physical confrontation, exploration, and insightful discussions. It's pretty great in terms of art but the plot is a bit lacking. The characters are a bit strange but that's part of the appeal, as the vast majority are murdering psychopaths. The plot does actually have some twists but there is only so much plot possible in what can be boiled down killer escape rooms. If you like psychopaths, ethically dubious protags, or killing games then this is probably something you will like. Liking gore and death will also be helpful in terms of liking this.

This is probably one of the best anime of 2018. The story is interesting and makes you eager to know what will happen in the next episode. Also this anime based on game? I never realized that until I browsed from google. The art is good. Yeah, that's not weird since this is modern anime. The music is fine, I think. The character is quite interesting especially the man who always bring scythe. There are also plot twists. Tragedy, mystery, a bit of drama and bloody scenes. The Opening and Ending are amazing. Really suit the show. There are also several emotional moments. But in my opinion, this anime is kinda underrated for some reason.

Oh Angels of Death, what the heck are you? A suicidal kid and mass murderer teaming up is my kind of bleak. The story arc over the series is basically nonsensical, but at least things flowed episode-to-episode. The ending theme is BOSS, and in general the music cues throughout did a good job of drawing me in. Things start off feeling like an anime version of a VN (too lazy to look up whether there is one or not) in the "escape the room" vein of 999 or (to a lesser extent) Danganronpa. The good news is I love that kind of thing. The bad news is, an anime isn't interactive like either of the aforementioned games. But I was digging it, and its heavier slasher overtone. Then there's a weird religious element that crops up and I could never quite get a hold of what Angels of Death was saying. I mean, I suspect it's saying NOTHING--that the religious elements are narrative stylization more than actual moral core--but I might also be too stupid to really see what the writers are laying down here. And with the religious stuff being more or less meaningless, the series as a whole is a simple journey with a lot of flash-bang distractions. Which is a long way of saying that the series switches focus midway from a tangible and entertaining Point A to Point B journey, to an internal, intangible (and still somewhat entertaining, but also hollow) internal journey that lacks the thematic kick to feel meaningful. But I'm very easy to please, and the basic concept was enough to carry me through the rougher second half.

NOTE:this review is so long that you might long for death.So be careful Angels of death is about this girl, and this girl is in a place and with the help of Jeff the killer, she needs to escape and its super crazy.Anyway, watching this show was an absolute ride of emotions but most of them were not positive.This show is based off a game, but the adaptation will be reviewed alone, but the show does feel like a game and its so not subtle about it.Usually most of the time, the main girl, Rachel or another character says that they need to find something, and i could just picture the objective sentence pop up on screen, but for the things i kinda enjoyed not ironically storywise,I like the first half of the first episode, everything else is absolutely repetitive and boring to such a point where i just didnt even bother taking this shit seriously anymore for how stupid it was. I'll break it down for you since I'm a nice person.So, Rachel does this thing where since her parents died, she gets so depressed that she asks for Jeff the killer to kill her , but Jeff(I forgot his actual name because he has two of them ffs).wants to escape this building and since he's as dumb as a rabid dog, Rachel helps him, and she reminds him to kill her over and over and over and over and over to the point where I wanted to kill my own damn self, but besides that, most of the show is Rachel and Jeff talking to each other, getting into tame danger, talking some more, meeting with people, talking to them, and talking about religion for a long ass time.Religion as a theme is not a bad thing, but using it as a crutch to talk about it instead of focusing on the characters dealing with the dilemma themselves makes things more opinionated and uncomforting. Angels of Death kinda does both of those things, but it fails more than it succeeds,speaking of which. Religion in Angels of Death(*asterisks are around spoilers so watch out*) One thing that really kinda made me think about the show(and not in a good way" was how religion was portrayed in the show.It puts religion on this weird spotlight and has this sort of message of religious people mostly use religion to fulfill their own corruptness or boost their own ego by having followers, which is very intriguing, but the way it's handled in this show is absolutely nonsensical,I mean it doesn't spend it's time trying to validate it, more of it's like this intangible and loose force that affects many people, but the majority of people in this show are psychopaths so their philosophies don't make a lot of sense.***For example, around the middle of series, Rachel just decides to make Jeff the killer a God despite him only being a human with no moral compass, or the other guy who pretends to be his own God in this weird building just because he wants to be the center of attention, but he kinda doesn't get the fact that the concept of a God is not to have the same natures of a human, so his whole experiment is kinda stupid.***i feel like the whole religious aspect was kinda thrown in just to gawk at religious people and look at them like spectacles when it's not really how it is in reality.For anyone who lives under a rock,or resides on Reddit all the time, not all religious people are bad, you got some here and there who take it too far, but for the most part, they're just normal people trying to live a mentally healthy and happy life.Sure there was one promising scene where Rachel gets mad at Jeff the killer for saying that God doesn't exist, and she lashes out at him and that actually expresses just how much religion really gave her hope, this would've been able to balance out attitude of religion on individuals and make it less biased, but after that,any intention of cleverness never came back again and even then her caring about Jeff the killer,escaping,or anything for that matter didn't make sense, because most of the time she just wanted to die..I'm not arguing for or against religion, I'm just stating the fact that the way it was handled in the show was kind of nonsensical and convoluted Anyway, animation, JC staff made it, and as a studio, they're alright,I mean, they kinda had a rough ride after animating a sequel to a series that is infamous for having some of the best animations in modern 2d animation, (Thats One Punch Man if you didn't know)but honestly, the quality of the show is a spectrum that ranges top tier film budget quality to bland and boring, and it goes up and down that spectrum like a carnival ride.First episode for example,includes some of the best animation I've seen from them in literally forever, and there are some character animation that looks surprisingly good in other episodes, but for everything else, its kinda dull.The show does have some interesting shots and character designs,but all attempts of having a scary thriller atmosphere are kinda weak.Even during some of the show that takes place in a dark house seem kinda lifeless in terms of setting a tone, sure the house is super dark and blue but the bland cinematography kinda doesn't do anything for me. Alright, im not gonna sugar coat anything.All the characters are absolutely terrible, not one , not most, ALL OF THEM.There is not a single character that I liked, if one was just annoying and trying so hard to be an edge-lord, another one was just either stupid.contradicting, or had no depth at all.Starting down the list, we have Rachel, the girl who gets super depressed and wants to die, but at the SAME time tries way too hard to make an impression on her husbando Jeff the Killer(I think his real name is like Zeke or something IDK)but as i said before Rachel repeats the same thing over and over that I wanted to jump into the screen and slap that girl so hard that she died and this show could end. But at other times she is either so deadpan in the most dire situations that its kinda funny to not see any emotion out of her, trust me its not intentional most of the time.Not to mention her contradicting her own religious beliefs such as deciding not to commit suicide because God said it was a nono but later in the show she actively tries to murder someone else. Also around the middle of the series when religion plays a heavy ass role, she starts to become dumber by the episode.Not like she sticks out because everyone else is just as bad, but i think JEFF THE KILLER IS THE WORST IN THIS ENTIRE SHOW,besides his annoying screaming,(which is ear grating in both the english and japanese dub) he is just stupid and loud and edgy and rude and he curses and OP at such a level where he can survive electrical chairs, poisonous venoms, and hes alright until suddenly hes not alright and now hes in danger of dying uhoh.Yeah, thats literally all about his character, he does start to grow on to Rachel and at the end its like he was actually an angel(get it because dats the tittle of thje show) but, his entire caring personality is just a dumb facade, he says this thing to Rachel where he is like “DONT DIE ON ME CUZ I WANNA KILL YA’(yes the caps were needed thats actually how he talks) but i dont see why people actually pity the guy and act like he was developed as a character when he wasnt really, he still wanted to kill the girl,so i dont see why hes so protective of her, is it a love thing??Also, the show actually put in the effort to explain the backstory of Jeff the Killer that is very accurate to the actual story of the actual Jeff the Killer, in which people be mean to Jeff, jeff snaps and kills them and (unlike other backstories that dive into the mind of the person on why they continue these horrible acts)he just kills even more random people because he’s super edgy and tumblr users can romanticise and make fanart of him as an anime fxxkboy(i mean, he even has the rude personality and the hooded jacket to go with it.).All the other characters are interesting, but that's the biggest overstatement ever,because they have at the most three different emotions and ha…

This one without a doubt was one of the worst animes of 2018. He tries to be terror, tries to take action, tries to make a drama, tries to be suspense ... anyway just try more never get anywhere. The female protagonist is totally without charisma and well ... this is it. Already the masculine besides being annoying to a fucking passes the whole anime giving irritating screams and has a very stupid personality. He is generally more forced than the ecchi of fairy tail. For you to have an idea it is electrocuted several times, and the person who was behind this "magnificent" moment says that any other human would die the first time, then take a heavy drug that makes hallucinate, takes two or three shots, has the bariga ripped and even then HE GOING RUNNING AND SCREAMING. He spends some time and he finally faints. Unsalted loli clogs his belly and gives some remedies and he magically recovers (????????). The plot twist is totally predictable, if you have two ninjas in the head there pro episode 6 you would have already pulled everything. The script of this anime becomes a joke for the intelligence of those who watch it. To the producers and creators of the anime I only say this: Congratulations, it was a beautiful shit

“I want to die”, a statement that is presented a lot but never seems to amount to much. It’s a harrowing remark that tries to show the disdain for Racheal's own existence, one that ends up being a plight on the shows incoherent mess of a plot. The narrative starts out rather mysterious, with our two main characters being tied together in circumstances rather than by purpose. The theme of Racheal wanting to die starts here with a promise between the two. If they both get out then Zack promises to kill Racheal in return, plain and simple. There is some good initial exposition of the start of the story and I was originally hopeful with what the premise could offer but soon after my excitement was dashed as every episode turned into a reiteration of the last as Racheal keeps repeating her request of dying to each villain only to have Zack recommit with killing her later. This level of repetition is increasing suffocating as nothing is added or changed for the characters to grow. To explain this discrepancy several philosophical purposes are purposed to why Racheal thinks this way. The first is initially that she wants to die for the sake of dying but is then reconciled with the belief that Zack was her god, and that somehow gives him reason to kill her. By having Zack be her god she believes that it will erase all her sins when she is killed and therefore grants her relief. The problem with the ideology is that it completely fails to bring reason to her constant complaint that she wants to die. If anything, this just makes her character even worse as she now has layers of ineffective characterization, bogging down and dialogue that comes up for the rest of the series. Zack is only slightly better than Racheal with is character is extremely simple and easy to understand. Not much in terms of depth but at least he is not held back by the many contradictions that the other characters in the show present. These two make up the bulk of the show's development and as you can see not much to go off of through the entire story. The other characters tend to have the same level of weird shallow contradictions with themselves. The ending was actually satisfying for me but that’s only with my personal preference in sentimental things and not that the ending was anything of quality. Along with the narrative, the animation was also really on the lower side of quality. For a show in 2018, I expect a certain level in key animation, movement, and background. JC staff did a great job in providing a standard quality for the show and there are hardly any flaws, but in return, the show doesn’t match the level of quality that I would expect from a show in 2018. Mediocre is best to describe the standard it has put out. The soundtrack was straight was bad and this comes from the complete ineptitude of the composer. There is even a track where the entire piece is him going up at one semitone at a time for no particular reason. Not to mention that even though the show is supposed to be horror, the soundtrack does nothing to create that atmosphere. It’s a rather kind of annoying ambiance that detracts from what is actually happening on screen. In the end, the soundtrack has nothing even remotely good about it and unfortunately ends up hurting the show in so many ways. I would like to add my thoughts on the voice acting as well and how terrible it can sound at times. Zack in the sub was particularly bad to the point where I couldn’t stand his screaming anymore and decided on the dub instead which had a much lower and raspy voice for Zack. Racheal's voice was decently done as her voice was already melancholy, to begin with, and the English version of it was more or less the same. In conclusion, I was really holding on at the end with my sense of disbelief. The show was wrapping its self-inside out with so many inconsistency's that I lost complete focus of it by the end of it. I haven't played the game but from what I can see the length of the game was not long enough to accommodate the length of the show. Which made the writers and director trying to stretch the show as long as possible to last for the entire season and in the end backfiring heavily against their own favor. Angels of death is available on Crunchyroll for the sub. For the home release and dub, it's currently available through FUNimation.

Angels of Death is a weak, poor and unnecessary adaptation of its video game counterpart. I didn’t actually play the game. In fact, I didn’t even know there was a game in the first place until I watched the first episode. So even if you’re diving into this show without any prior knowledge about it other than the actual synopsis, I feel almost obligated to warn you that it’s in fact terrible. Any game adaptation for that matter has been terrible, minus some extremely rare exceptions. Take a look at Corpse Party and the KanColle Collection. This anime is not inherently bad, in a sense that the original game is bad. This anime is bad because it lacks any form of development, is full of inconsistencies and unlikable characters in a story that could have ended in 1 second but didn’t. So Rachel, our main protagonist wakes up in an eerie abandoned hospital. Having no recollection of her past and how she got here, she begins exploring the building before getting chased by Zack, a murderous psychopath who wants to kill her for no reason whatsoever. After miraculously escaping, something snaps in her head and she decides to die, still HAVING ZERO recollection of her memories. But hold on to your seat, because its gets even more absurd. She asks the very same psychopath to kill her, but to her surprise he doesn’t accept, simply because she’s “not making a good face”. And so the duo go on a suicidal adventure, casually defeating enemies on every floor, because how else are we supposed to move the story forward? Throughout the series, they continuously engage in a repetitive, flat and awkward dialogue that is repeated 20 times or even more. I don’t know at this point, I’ve lost count. Here’s a typical conversation between the two that you can almost certainly find every 5 minutes in a single episode: - “I want to die” - “I will kill you when we get out. Just make sure you make a good face and smile a bit” - “But you will kill me right? Because you promised God” - “Don’t get so serious you brat. You look too boring I don’t want to kill you” - “I want to be useful to you” Not only that, but every single villain in the story paraphrases the same thing over and over again, because how else are we supposed to fill 20 minutes of screen time? The villains are stereotypical, bland and forgettable since they are one-dimensionally evil and constantly remind everyone about their goal. The doctor reminds everyone about his eye fetish, and how he will literally pop Rachel’s eyes out because they’re beautiful. I’m not even joking about this. The kid reiterates about his obsession with graveyards and also Rachel. He loves her so much that he decides to kill her just to bury her in a nice looking grave. The sadomasochistic girl wants to torture the main characters just for the fun of it, as this wasn’t clear enough from her high-pitched crazy voice. And finally, the priest who complains about how bad religion is, by acting like any teenager in his rebellious phase. *hurr durr* God doesn’t exist, religion is bad, people are hypocrites. As for Rachel herself, she is an irritating, ambivalent and indecisive girl who wants to die at the hands of her psychopathic friend but at the same time doesn’t want to be killed by the villains. Because how else are we supposed to give her a clear and convincing motivation? If she’s that determined to die she can simply kill herself for crying out loud. But for some bullshit philosophical debate, she doesn’t feel like it because God will get mad. I mean, isn’t the act of asking someone else to finish you off the same as your decision of committing suicide in the first place? God will get mad in both cases anyway. The writer pretty much plot armors the very thing the protagonist can achieve in an instance by having said protagonist NOT WANTING to achieve it in an instance, but rather waste her entire time fooling around a hospital with her friend, aimlessly defeating enemies every floor, before finally accepting to be killed after escaping the building. Then why exactly didn’t she kill herself in the first place and be done with it? Why waste your time that you clearly disregards for such absurd means? Because how else are we going to write a meaningless story with a crystal clear objective that could have been achieved in an instance? But the inconsistency doesn’t stop there. Her companion, Zack, genuinely wants to kill her. But doesn’t because he wants her help to escape, even though he can clearly do it by himself since the puzzles in the show are basically made for kindergartens, by kindergartens. Plus, she doesn’t really hold a unique ability, weapon, or a skillset that he can use to his advantage. Having an IQ greater than 0 for solving such puzzles doesn’t count. Halfway through the show, Zack slices his belly wide open with his scythe, loses 10 times the blood capacity of a normal human body but somehow survives after 2 whole episodes. And get this, Rachel spends her remaining time finding a medicine for a guy she doesn’t need nor care about since she can JUST kill herself or hell, ask another villain to do it in her place. Plus, why the hell should we care about Zack? He’s still a serial killer who brutally murdered countless innocent people because his parents treated him like a tool. You can show us flashbacks about his tragic past but this won’t magically make him a better person. He has to earn it. And so far, all he’s trying to do is resist the urge to kill Rachel. So I don’t see any progress. Giving each main character a tragic backstory is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It’s not going to help redeem the characters because all they do is act irrationally, contradict themselves all the time, and have barely any resemblance to an actual human personality. As for the other scenes, they are indecipherable and a complete waste of time. Rachel basically gets teleported in and out of different scenes for no other reason than to fill screen time. And she finally gets back to where she was at the beginning of the episode, so there is absolutely no continuity. The story is basically a snake eating its own tail: it keeps running in circles until it finally breaks out from its loop by revealing a “plot twist” at the end. A plot twist that makes zero sense because it turns the two characters against each other by having them fight to death. Wait a second, wasn’t this the premise of the show? The art is clearly a step forward from the actual game and even the manga itself. The animation is most of the time captivating, but other times makes your head spin when special effects such as smokes, blood, weird writings and such are all applied at the same time. The music on the other hand is average and repetitive, especially the piano music which was spammed in almost every episode. The OP fits more a Slice of Life setting, seriously. The ED was a bit better though. To sum it up, Angels of Death is a badly written horror story of two sad protagonists who are thrown in an excuse of a plot that looks and plays exactly like in a RPG. You’ve got characters defeating a villain every level and finding a clue or a trigger before passing to the next stage. The only catch is the awkward and almost laughable relationship between the duo, where Rachel refuses to commit suicide since she prefers getting brutally killed by some serial killer she just met, and Zack who refuses to kill her because she’s not “making a good face”. This back and forth ultimately led the show to its demise due to its own inconsistency.

Satsuriku no Tenshi seems like horror and survival anime but it has so many psychological factors, I think that makes the anime great. Also if you interested in abnormal relationships between fictional characters, you can like it. * Zack is totally a bae for me. He is just a non-complex killer but I don't think he's "dumb". Yes, he doesn't have a deep philosophy about life but he has sharp, clear thoughts. * Ray's catatonic personality made me sick. Afterwards, we saw the reason of her behaviors. Ray has a deep story and many right reasons to act like that. But still; that unemotional, unreactive loli was very boring to watch. * Ray has good synergy with Zack. You can define the relationship between them as "Stockholm Syndrome". I don't understand that kind of relations but I think they are cute as a couple, in a weird way. * All antagonists are okay but completely my personal opinion: That doctor is very annoying. My favorite antagonist is the Priest. * All episodes have little details about Ray's past. In my opinion, the best episodes are the last three ones because Ray starts to react more humanly in these episodes. And Ray-Zack relationship becomes apparent. * The opening is good, the ending is perfect. Every episode has a motto.

This anime. Wow, WOW, WOW. This is not your average dark show. I think I need a soul cleanse after this one. This show went all in with the dark, gritty and gore. I won't tell you about it because the write up is already there. So let's dive in with my review...... Story 10/10: This story and plot twists were out of this world. It kept flowing and kept you intrigued with what's going on. It didn't stall where most shows do ,where it would hit that middle episode slump. There were just "wtf after wtf" moments with this anime. It delved deep into the dark corners of religion and mental illnesses and challenging you to find out who your really are. Lots of psychological mind games this story was. Art: 9/10: The animations were great. I loved how they drew Rachel's eyes. And throughout the anime, you can see her eyes going a shade darker or lighter. The church scenes were beautifully designed. Lots of beautiful shots. Especially when Rachel was in the purple smoke. Sound: 9/10: Opening and closing theme songs were great. The piano rift with the ending theme reminded me a lot of Angel Beats. Both songs were catchy. Character 9/10: You immediately love Zack and Eddie, even though you know they are the bad guys. Zack was the foul mouthed, comedic relief to break some of the dark and horror aspects of the show. Rachel was a little getting use to, mainly because of her deadpan, monotone expressions. But she get's better as the show came to its final episodes, where she starts to show emotions and you begin to feel sorry for her. I love that there was a lot of character background information on everyone, development, somewhat, with Zack. The priest still gives me the creeps too. Enjoyment 10/10: How can you not? Overall 10/10: I loved it. It took me down a dark path for 16 episodes and I felt like I was drowning in dread and despair and should be doing 12 hail marys afterwards. It was bone chilling, some weepy moments, a bunch of laughs and some moments where you just want to question your humanity. It ended with an opening, where you can come to your own conclusion on what happened to them both in the end. You can either wish for a happy ending or a dark sad one.

This anime is the best example I've seen of the 'so bad it's good' concept in anime. Nearly everything about the show is a total trainwreck from the writing to the art to the sound (except the voice acting) to the animation is godawful and feels like it was made by a group of people who have exactly zero idea what they're doing. (Except for the first episode. The first episode is definitely the most solid episode of the whole show.) But, despite this, the show just somehow manages to click and be a fun thrill ride of a dumb edgy action show with one or two really memorable characters and one hell of a ridiculous plot. Story: 4 The story makes like literally zero sense when you think about it. Like within the narrative it makes sense but it's also just like really really dumb. It's a cool concept and an interesting idea to get two characters with such ridiculously contrasting personalities into a situation like this, but in the end it ends up raising a lot of questions. Like how has no one ever found this building? How did the police get there? How did Gray know this would happen? How did they know about Ray? How do they pick sacrifices? It's really never clarified. It's enough to keep the show running, but certainly not what makes it so fun to watch. Art: 3 After some pretty impressive animation cuts (mostly Zack being Zack) in the first episode, I was shocked to find that almost the entire rest of the show flows like a cheaply produced A-1 Pictures show. The CG effects are atrocious and the shot composition verges on painful. This certainly provided a lot of laughs as I was watching the show, but this, again, is not what makes the show fun. Sound: 5 The voice actors are (for the most part) clearly having an absolute blast as they scream and spout absolutely ridiculous edgy dialogue. I'd say Gray has the weakest performance, but Danny, Zack, and Cathy more than make up for any weaknesses in the other performances with their bombastic over-acting and hilarious dialogue. The actual sound design of the show is, like the animation, utterly atrocious and the music choices can often feel entirely mishandled. But this is more a source of unintentional hilarity than anything else. And the OP is freaking amazing. JIN FTW!!! Character: 8 This is basically all because of Zack. Zack is the emotional center of the entire show. When he takes a few episodes off to spend dying in a hallway, the show isn't fun to watch anymore. His easy-going banter and fun chemistry with Ray is like half the reason any of the show works at all. The other half is Zack just being a bouncy, fun, lovable character to spend time with. And honestly, he provides any depth or heart the show has at all. I could probably write a full analysis about how Zack's characterization contrasts with that of Ray and how he's portrayed as a more genuine and kind person than her despite him being a serial killer and her just being a little girl. And how much they grow to care about each other over the course of the show is the real emotional core of the series. Overall: 6 From an objective standpoint, Angels of Death is pretty terrible. But, from a purely subjective standpoint it's an absolutely hilarious romp full of heart and a really entertaining bandaged psycho that you should definetly watch with friends if you plan to watch it.

I had a lot of doubts about whether or not this would be good or bad when it first started. For an RPG Maker game I think it’s a great adaptation. (This review included the ONA episodes too) The story 8/10 : I have to say that I was surprised there, I didn’t know who it would end at all and always left a bit of suspense at the end to keep you going. You can see from how the scenes are made and some interactions that it was made for and RPG Maker creation, I think that knowing that it was made from a game helps to watch it. The art 10/10 : Astounding, that season there was a good of show with good art but this one definitely caught my attention more than the others by it’s beauty and care for details as little as they could be. There were some nice shots such as the one in the end or the judgment scene. The sound 9/10 : The piano was one of the main reasons this had a high score, the OST was at the top of it’s game. And other than that, the sounds effects weren’t too bad either, but one thing that annoyed me really hard at first was Zack’s scream every now and then. The characters 6/10 : Some are gonna say that the characters in this are awesome, which I agree to. But some characters were not as loved or interesting as Rachel, Zack, Danny or even Abraham. Catherine was just a very weird SM roleplay lover and for Edward he was just kinda there for me. The enjoyment 9/10 : There was always something to look forward to, another floor, another character, discovering a little bit more about who are the characters. They always kept me going back for this anime every week, the only “Boring” part was with Edward.