Review of Deca-Dence

Deca-Dence is what I'd call a "brave anime", at a first look it may seem an average post apocalyptic and action anime with nothing special except for an outstanding art and a very good animation, but then the second episode comes and upsets everything, I'd say showing a sadist twist, in fact most of the people dropped there the show, what a pity. That episode reveals the truth behind the world of Deca-Dence and it does it astounding and amazing the spectator in the probably most effective way I've ever seen. There the story splits beetween the world of Natsume and Kaburagi, and while inepisode 1 Natsume seemed to be the main main character, Kaburagi proves himself being a more interesting and round character, well Natsume remains a great character too, who represents the human spirit and determination ecc..., but Kaburagi is just amazing.

The show from what I remember has no big clichès, well you got it: the plot and the story are good, the real problem with Deca-Dence is something I really can't ignore: the characters.

As I said both Natsume and Kaburagi are good, the problems come with everyone else. Honestly the part of Natsume was a bit worse than the Kaburagi one, it had on his side only the art which was without any doubt way better, the main problem with it is the fact the characters are wasted, for example Linmei who I really expected to be an important character appears in the whole show for like 1 minute overall, it's too strange, I wouldn't be surprised if it was due to some timing problems during the realization of the anime, which are understandble after all that "coronavirus stuff", but still it's a problem, also Kurenai could have been an interesting character, and she does her best in order to, but she just fails; on the Kaburagi side there are plot twists, suspence and a lot of cool stuff, the characters are not even that bad so his part is much more interesting

The opening was good, never skipped it, I don't remember the ending

Deca-Dence is an anime about dreams, war, the limits the fun should have, the inevitability of fate, the importance of invididuality and one's opinion, the getting check without knowing, asserting your thoughts, sacrifice and probably even more, it's a good anime, go watch it as soon as you can, it doesn't have the attention it deserves

Even if... well, Deca-Dence could have given much more if only it had 3 or 4 more episodes, unlucky it had not.