Review of Deca-Dence
!!!EXTREME AMOUNT OF SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW!!! [PLOT OF DECA-DENCE] At the end of the final episode there is a line stating that the bugs and the bugcatchers are part of the system and the bugs aren't actually bugs, making the titling of the term "bug" simply a stylistic choice for perspective-warping purposes, and how both elements are required for the entire thing to work, and really, this is the truth about how reality, existence and life flows, all the engagement and side taking going on the world might seem like a negative thing, and while it might indeed be a negative thing, it's still necessary becauseexistence is chaos. Offender/Defender, Right-wing/Left-wing, Rebels/Supporters, Afraid/Confident, Arrogant/Humble, Powerful/ Weak. A lot of these things might seem like bad or good things for certain people, or they might actually be in fact objectively positive or negative, but without negative there is no positive, there needs to be a clash between two things to create a spark, with no cock what is a womb good for? there cannot be a spark without the other, there can be no allies without enemies. There is an ancient chinese proverb which goes something like this; "flow like river", and this really is one of the greatest phrases one can inhale if done with enough confidence and ponderment. This sort of logic can be applied with almost everything, for example fake news, one could say fake news are orchastrated to confuse and distract the masses, and that is probably the conscious aim for it, but reality accepts such proposals to further create life sparks i.e. chaos, the river will not flow if there is no current, it will turn into a boring ocean. A river has such a great amount of rocks and distractions and it directly crashes into such distractions and rocks creating chaos but it does not stop, and the rocks are a vital need for such a unique current that is reality. One of my favorite applications for such logic (or philosophy if you wanna call it that) is the hate there is for hate, people are always striving for happiness, agreement, acceptance, wholesomeness and other such nice and happy emotions and forms, and of course i do agree that such things might work for certain people (not for everyone though, some people were born for the darkness) there is also a strong need for hate and destruction, for reasons explained before. A an existence with no chaos and no sparks can be seen in the famous anime Technolyse, for the setting of that anime is exactly a motionless river, the results of such a boring river and the strong need there is for chaos. There is no need to end chaos, you must simply become chaos itself and then your life will also flow naturally. The Natural way is the Chaotic way.
[CHARACTERS OF DECA-DANCE]
There is amazing characterization in this anime, particularly a mary sue that appears in the last third of the series, i must admit, i cannot remember her name, but she is a great ball and has really fluffy hair and the polka dots on her are definitely something to be admired, not to mention she is voiced by the future world wide voice actress legend Michiyo Murase, famous for her work on the beautiful Sucy Manbavaran from Yoh Yoshinari's masterpiece Little Witch Academia (2013) animated by, you guessed it, Studio Trigger. Don't watch the TV version of Little Witch Academia by the way, it's not very good, just watch the original OVA. Anyways, Michiyo Murase, my favorite voice actress, she reminds me of Arai Satomi, known for her roles such as the one and only Kuroko Shirai from the anime adaptation of Kazuma Kamachi's とある魔術の禁書目録, first animated by J.C. Staff in 2008. There was also a fat dog bug thing who was one of the highlights of the entire thing, after the fluffly ball thing, what a cool guy, that dog.
[ART OF DECADANCE]
One of the android's design looks exactly like the female robot from Wall-E but it's a guy which makes it pretty weird, maybe they were trying to subvert expectations? he's so smooth and shiny. The CGI usage in this anime isn't very good, but the designs are pretty not bad, a lot of em often look dead because they haven't got any light in their eyes, kinda tricks you into thinking all of these characters are gonna die but then they literally disappear from the anime, they introduce plotlines about these guys but then drop them, not very cash.
There are several characters that are quite obviously meant to ignite a certain animalistic desire within the human male, as you can see their pits. These specific designs are mostly for background characters though. I think what this anime really needed was more use of it's world, they have a giant robot which punches things but it's barely used, there should also be more things going on in the androids' world. I think you should watch Appare Ranman instead.
[MUSIC OF DECA-DENCE]
Not bad, but it's not very memorable. I gotta admit, i don't really remember, which is only proof that it's just mediocre, if it was good i would remember, and if it was particularly bad then i would also remember. Served it's purpose then.
All in all, cool show. Maybe needed a couple more episodes but i don't think it was particularly rushed, it just kinda boring because the world is more interesting than the actual storyline.