Review of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

It's a BIT better than Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. but that isn't saying much... Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku is our dime a dozen isekai shows that has almost no tension with a bland main male protagonist who procures a harem *cough* NPC slaves *cough* and is utterly OP as hell...so yeah the comparison to Isekai wa Samrtphone to Tomo ni. is rather apt here. LA does feel like to give Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku "some" praise...in comparison to Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. at least. Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku "tries" and LA says as loosely as possiblethat our main male protagonist Ichirou Suzuki aka. Satou some tension in some of the rare amount of fights he does and actually goes through dungeons not as quickly as possible but taking "some" time in the dungeoneering (like spanned over 2 episodes, the fastest being about half an episode...LA thinks) and the game aspect to it in comparison to Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. where it takes from a minute to 5 minutes worth. Next would be that the slice of life moments is "ok" as it's just the main cast going through "daily quests" as slowly as possible in an isekai game that's THIS immersive and really all they do is fluff around in this game world to fill in the time, "world building" is fine and uhhh there's gonna be some flaws LA is gonna get into that REALLY pissed LA off. The harem actually does help a bit towards Satou with either their magical or physical combat or to the game aspects to themselves but uhhh again LA will get back to that that too. Really Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku has some restraint in comparison to Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. but like LA said at the start of this review...that's not praiseworthy enough.

So about those flaws LA said in those small praises LA said about Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku, let's start with the tension of Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku, the tension Satou brings is still dull and boring as it's a forgone conclusion due to Satou's "accidental" power leveled status he has at the start of the anime and at the bulk of the anime where he can essentially MASTER any kind of skill as he's got the skill points to do it at his level thus becomes a master at EVERYTHING by the end of the series. He's restrained in his powers but still overpowered to all hell that even though the length the threat or tension is MUCH longer than Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. but "a bit" doesn't cut it SERIOUSLY. So those slice of life moments are decent at best if it concerns world building however because of how "immersive" Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku's game world is LA has to question how "immersive" it is in the first place, the major annoyance to this "immersion" is the various amounts of skills that can be acquired in the game, like Satou learns and acquires the most mundane to simplest skills that allows him to function as a game character it's crazy, even to the point of learning "poker face", like what?. LA KNOWS that at the start of the anime that before Satou gets transported to Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku's world that the game he's in is filled with glitches and this "might" be spawned from it however even THIS detail is just hurriedly glazed over and forgotten about that this is suppose to be a game with glitches in it and the glitches themselves is probably how Satou gained those levels in the first place AND ONLY THAT. Also as much as Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku is trying to be immersive by having an in-game HUD, the menu's gets annoying FAST especially when Satou learns and acquires skills and titles, it easily takes us out of the experience to repeatedly knock you on the head and say "IT'S A GAME, IT'S A GAME!!!...MENUS!!!". Satou's harem, well technically excluding Tama and Pochi are in Satou's harem however in the romantic sense, they are just for comedic fanservice set pieces, nothing more and they don't progress their relationship, the exception to that being Zena Marientail voiced by Rie Takahashi and guess what she's not in for HALF of the anime itself. Liza, Nana and Arisa are combat-reliant (Liza physical, Arisa magical and Nana probably in both but we don't really see her in combat after being in Satou's party) while Lulu and Mia are tag alongs (Lulu hardly gets development while Mia gets a small mini arc to herself!, screentime in this "harem" is unbalanced as hell). Well LA feels like for the most part that the combat of most of the harem is "almost" useless all due to...yeah Satou and him being overpowered be it in combat or outside it (no thanks to him learning any and ALL skills whenever he can).

LA gets it that this like Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. and now Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku is like a power fantasy and giving us not much tension is "relaxing" but these kind of isekai subgenre's should realize that there needs to be more than "just relaxing" or a typical power fantasy we've been seeing time and again to the point LA didn't care about ANY of these characters by the end of it, for a power fantasy it compensates for dull material and almost no tension, and "just relaxing" for something that's already becoming cliched to all hell. If our main protagonist has NO conflict or tension or weakness AT ALL, any type of threat or conflict is meaningless and we learn NOTHING from our main male protagonist and he doesn't grow as a character as he pretty much has no weakness to speak of and no just because Satou himself takes his time with his conflict in comparison to Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. isn't enough to change that...it just draws everything to a crawl to the foregone conclusion. As for the harem aspect, well this is the least focused and almost useless part to it, as due to Satou being overpowered in all aspects of the game, it's almost like Satou can just take any threat be it combat-heavy or the mundane. The harem in Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku is ONLY used for comedic and fanservicey aspects...THAT'S IT.

Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku's animation done by Silver Link and Connect....just ohh my god what happened?. LA says this as they did the same animation for Strike the Blood series and that looks polished as hell, but Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku just looks muddy especially the backgrounds. The character designs are decent enough but even they kinda blend in with each other AND the background. The battles though rare are "meh" at best and "boring" at worst as it has no fluidity to the battle motions and it just finishes as fast as it begins. Silver Link and Connect, Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku just might be one your most lackluster productions LA has seen from you...like what the hell and LA says this as just because your animating an isekai show that's a dime a dozen in the anime landscape by now in Winter of 2018, that doesn't mean you can slack off like this, LA hasn't been this off put from an animation style in quite a while.

The voice acting....ohh Aoi Yuuki AND Rie Takahashi you've been wasted on this anime. The voice acting was "meh" and though LA could see that most of the voice actors were having quote unquote "fun", LA just felt for the most part, the voice actors were on autopilot, Aoi Yuuki doing her perverse scthick, Rie Takahashi's typical vocals to Airi Eino who voiced Mia doing a typical kuudere and probably the easiest voice actor in their role of Kiyono Yasuno as the deadpan Nana. The only voice actors that LA felt were doing some kind of uniqueness to it were....Tama and Pochi's voice actors (Kaya Okuno and Hiyori Kouno respectively) and that's only because of their certain moe cadence that they NEEDED to it for these characters. Autopilot is the best LA will say about this voice cast.

Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku as a whole, it's a bit better than Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. because it has some restraint in keeping the main protagonist's OP powers somewhat in check but that comes in with it's own plethora of problems, from an almost useless harem besides it's slice of life comedic fanservicey moments, the slice of life moments being dull and dragged out and though the tension is there from time to time, that too is gets dragged out and like Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. LA didn't get invested in the world or it's characters even though Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku at least "tries" to be immersive in it's game aspect, only for one of it's elements to annoy the crap out of LA by the end of it and it's characters are bland, stock or our main protagonist at the end of the day is overpowered with no weakness and if he DOES have a weakness he has the probably millions of skill points or exploit of the game itself to REMOVE THAT.

"Death March" is right, marching straight to LA's boredom...