Review of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
“Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody” is what happens when You have a generic boring premise and equally boring and cliche execution. A 29 year old programmer has to work late to make changes to a game his company is developing. Exhausted he finally is able to go to sleep after a crunch. He wakes up in a world similar to the one in the game he helped develop. He even uses his nickname as his new name. Because of an unfortunate event and the fact that his idea, he wanted to implement in the game happened to be his new reality, he goes fromlvl 1 to max lvl in one evening. Now, being overpowered, over equipped and having more cash he knows what to do with, he begins his new life.
Despite having a few characters there really is only one that matters and that’s our MC - Satuu. A 29 year old programmer that woke up in the body of a 15 year old in a fantasy world running on game logic, with inventory, stats and levels. As most isekai MC’s he’s OP AF. This time with an ability that basically makes him a god. The ability to learn anything and thanks to his get max lvl quick escapade he can level those skills up to the max in a blink of an eye. On top of that he pulls a lot of skill out of his ass. Some of them he learns without a real good reason.
When it comes to his personality… yeah… he has none. He’s just a pure hearted, kind, helpful fool. That said, he’s at least not a complete moron and is aware of his situation and predicament of having a harem of slave (for some reason most isekais have slavery legal) girls, some of which are basically kids. Good thing they are not attracted to him in “that way”.
Other characters are just there for no real reason. Most of them contribute little to nothing to advance the plot or even world building.
Seriously, this anime uses almost every trick in the cliche book to build its word and play with its tone. It even uses the characters of young, small, demihuman slaves to make the MC seem like a paragon of virtue. Even when he’s doing not so virtuous things (like visiting a brothel) it’s always played like it’s not entirely his fault. Same with kissing characters that look too young or squeezing the breast of one of his companions. Basically he’s living a self indulgent dream without any fault of his own. It’s extremely boring and gets old really fast.
I would like to say that the best written parts are his interactions with his companions… and unfortunately that’s true. He acts like a father figure to some, brother to others but in all cases he’s just kind, patient and doesn’t show anything that would suggest he’s not an NPC.
The show tries to portray him as clever, intelligent and resolute but that doesn’t really work in a setting when the whole world bends over backwards for him. Every dilemma he’s in is resolved with one of his OP skills and often those that aren’t even set up. He has a problem? He just pulls out another skill out of his ass to save the day.
All in all it’s not a bad shot. It’s not good either. It’s just bland and lacks anything that could be considered a creative though.