Review of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
This review will be purely judged from my point of view (duh) and please take everything I say as just merely as a grain of salt and give it a go yourself to see how good or bad it truly is. So; Death March, another isekai/other world, harem, mmo oriented anime based on its LN version: The first episode is promising, it was easy to get into it, necessarily so, if I'd might say, for short 12 episodes. But this is where things start to go downhill, the build up from there on is nonexistent, the "challenges", if you can even call it that, being thrown atthe protagonist are all easily tackled and faced with a nonchalant manner.
Characters personalities are tolerable, they're not annoying neither do they grow on you, yes, including the protagonist. Furthermore, despite for being already bland, 1 out of protagonist's harem does not even get much screen time and barely any interaction time or attention from protagonist (does make you wonder why the hell she's even there for). The protagonist himself has a lot of Mary Sue issues, overall a gentleman, with decent amounts of chivalry, humanism and rational thinking combined with all the cheat head start he's gotten,no personality or any other sort of flaws, to the point that you can honestly call it boring.
As for character development; there is none and why should there be any if they don't grow from any challenges?
Protagonist faces off any situation without panicking and deals with it in the best possible fashion while benefiting from it...
Soundtrack wise, the opening is okay and ending track is a cutesy song I don't mind have playing in the background frequently, the rest doesn't stand out much, mediocre at best. The voice acting is the same.
The interest in this particular anime just kept dropping ever since episode 4-5, the happenings are just plainly linear and just to be very sure I didn't miss anything or misjudge it, I've sat through the 12 short episodes that felt way longer as time went on. The happenings are random, merely there to introduce more waifus to our protagonist, as for plot related content like why he's been thrown into this world or why what he even is, is not even something the protagonist thinks all too much about himself.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the harem genre, actually, the fan service bits were the best part of this anime. But as for an adventure fantasy anime, it fails in all aspects. The magic, special races or anything other worldly was never properly featured or explained, it's plainly THERE for the sake of it.
TL; DR This is a story of a 30 year old being thrown back to his early teens as an over powered mmorpg character of lvl 310 that could destroy the world, but he's too busy unintentionally picking up all these women that have no special characteristic features except for their individual exterior beauty and cuteness.
But hey, if you're looking for something just to pass time by, something that doesn't sit all too heavy on your stomach and tear glands and can be even played on the second screen while your main focus drifts off to something else because you obviously wouldn't miss much, this anime is definitely for you.