This week offers a bit more context to last week’s premiere and also provides some answers for those that were debating last week. What I like about this week’s episode (and actually, I like this method of storytelling in general) is that it takes a step back to explain what went on behind the scenes of Machiko and Takashi’s game. The show didn’t bother introducing a new pair of people to judge so there’s isn’t too much information bombarded on the audience at once and yet, there’s still plenty of new material to grasp what’s going on in purgatory. Ginta Nona (
) and she gives her a job as the assistant to Decim within his bar. There’s little explanation as to who she is, where she came from, or even her name, so for now – she’s called Nameless Girl (but if you look it up, she’s known as Kurokami no Onna). The bulk of the episode is spent describing the events that took place based on what Nona and Decim are trying to do. They get images and flashes of memories of Takashi’s and Machiko’s past lives, but they still have the make the call themselves as to who gets reincarnated and who goes into the void. The same scenes are played out and the results are the same… except now, we see that Decim probably made the wrong call.
I stand by what I said last week and I think it’s made clearer this week that Machiko did in fact cheat on her husband. However, I also find relief in knowing that Nameless Girl came to the same conclusion I did. In the end, Machiko loves Takashi and regardless of how or why she cheated, the baby is his and she wants them to love a happy life together. Personally, I think she regrets her actions, and she wanted to save her husband from “Hell”. Whether or not you agree with Nameless Girl’s analysis of Machiko’s feelings though, I think it’s clear that Machiko does feel bad. Whether she feels bad for cheating or for lying or all of the above, the flashbacks to me indicate that she truly loved her husband. Seeing the person you love degrade themselves to blood and tears because they’re untrusting of your relationship must have been so difficult for her to see. I can imagine that she wanted to relieve him of these internal struggles, which only manifested because he’s an untrusting person by nature.
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For that, I think Machiko should’ve ended up with the better “elevator path” and if you think that’s reincarnation (or that’s what the show was eluding to), then Decim judged them wrongly. From the events of this week’s episode, it does imply that Decim made a mistake by believing that Machiko cheated on her husband and carried someone else’s baby. However, Nona also points out that Takashi is an untrusting individual by nature and he couldn’t have been saved either way so Nameless Girl’s theory of them being “happy together” could never have come into fruition anyway. What I got out of this though, wasn’t so much what the results were for the married couple, but the fact that Decim and Nona could be wrong. They judge the individuals that come into the bar based on a few memories and their actions during the games, but they don’t know the full story. Humans are unpredictable, I agree, and the reactions that you get when you’re in this type of dire situation, really invokes actions and feelings that you may not otherwise have or do. I think Nameless Girl will probably stay to help Decim evaluate the people that come into the bar and she seems to have a different interpretation of their actions. However, that still doesn’t answer of the question of which path is “preferred” and what is heaven or hell.
Provides a bit more context about the setting that we’re in this week, although it still doesn’t provide any concrete answers. I don’t know that’s the point, but I’d like to see more of this purgatory world that they live in and who the main cast is at least. Nona seems to be calling the shots
She lives on the bottom floor of this universe alone so perhaps she’s the one in charge. On the other hand, there’s also a lot of other individuals dwelling here that don’t get enough screen time for me to evaluate them. A lot of people last week were also talking about the meaning behind “heaven” and “hell” and how that may potentially be because of the heavily influence that Buddhism has. That hasn’t be confirmed, although I think it doesn’t completely lean to one religion or the other. When Nameless Girl pauses to look around, the statue that she’s looking at doesn’t exactly look like the Buddha that I’m used to, although it has similar characteristics. The hand placements are different though and reminds me more like how you would pray to a God. Anyway, another great episode from
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. I like how they executed this episode with a different spin from last week and I can’t wait to see where the next two individuals are going to go. Bowling. I love bowling!
Bottom Line – @RCCherrie: Much needed episode to clear up some of the questions from last week. Also some good context for the setting of #DeathParade. Nameless girl is still nameless by the end of the episode… o_o I guess I can look it up. #dp_anime…then allow us to clarify a few things for you. Yeah, that’s how this episode basically works. If you were lost at any point in last week’s episode, then allow Nona to give you a simpler, more straightforward take on the show’s premise. We even get down to brass tacks and debate whether or not Decim had sent the husband and wife pair from last week’s episode to the right places. Oh yeah, the void is pretty much just the deep darkness. Well, there’s no ambiguity there, then. If you lose, you get sent to the void. In other words, the wife failed in Decim’s eyes. The new assistant — we don’t know her name yet — doesn’t quite agree, though. She, too, noticed something odd about how Machiko had acted near the end of the whole ordeal. As I have discussed, perhaps the wife was lying in order to spare Takeshi the anguish of thinking he had killed his own kid. I’m not convinced, though.
Everyone seems to acknowledged that Machiko did cheat, but the assistant kind of suggests that Takeshi’s jealousy had driven his poor wife to commit something she would forever regret. And hey, we all make mistakes, right? Well, the assistant is quite empathetic on that front: “I’m sure it could have been just a one-time thing, couldn’t it?” What does that mean, though? Everyone reacts to adultery differently, and you can’t just brush it off as a one-time thing. One man might find it in his heart to forgive his wife for cheating once, and another man might not. Neither of them are wrong to feel the way that they do. Personally, I would never forgive cheating of any sort. Takeshi’s problem is that he could never maturely discuss his insecurities with his wife. Of course, we can also acknowledge that Takeshi’s jealousy had poisoned their marriage, but then again, the mature adult would simply walk away, i.e. not cheat on her husband.
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Plus, I’m still bothered by the fact that when they realized that they were playing a game with their lives at stake, Machiko never told Takeshi about the baby. He had to start hurting her — inadvertently or otherwise, we’ll never really know — in order for the wife to reveal the truth about the baby inside her or, more accurately, was inside her. Sure, they lost all their memories when they died only to get said memories back slowly over the course of the game. Still, I don’t think knowing whether or not you’re pregnant is one of those memories. Otherwise, the story would have made a big deal out of Machiko realizing that she is (or was) pregnant. The story makes a huge point whenever one of them recovered a significant memory, so why would it be subtle and coy about Machiko’s pregnancy? As such, I suspect she knew from the start that she was pregnant, and was hoping to secure a future for herself and her husband. So then why would the wife lie at the end in order to spare the husband’s feelings?
Well, Machiko didn’t initially remember whether or not she had cheated. She also didn’t remember how much she truly loved Takeshi. Whether or not cheating is forgivable in your book, she still cared for the guy. She still truly regretted what she had done. So in order to make amends, she allows Takeshi to believe that she is the bad guy. The baby’s fate doesn’t matter anymore, since she realized she was dead. But don’t
Plus, I’m still bothered by the fact that when they realized that they were playing a game with their lives at stake, Machiko never told Takeshi about the baby. He had to start hurting her — inadvertently or otherwise, we’ll never really know — in order for the wife to reveal the truth about the baby inside her or, more accurately, was inside her. Sure, they lost all their memories when they died only to get said memories back slowly over the course of the game. Still, I don’t think knowing whether or not you’re pregnant is one of those memories. Otherwise, the story would have made a big deal out of Machiko realizing that she is (or was) pregnant. The story makes a huge point whenever one of them recovered a significant memory, so why would it be subtle and coy about Machiko’s pregnancy? As such, I suspect she knew from the start that she was pregnant, and was hoping to secure a future for herself and her husband. So then why would the wife lie at the end in order to spare the husband’s feelings?
Well, Machiko didn’t initially remember whether or not she had cheated. She also didn’t remember how much she truly loved Takeshi. Whether or not cheating is forgivable in your book, she still cared for the guy. She still truly regretted what she had done. So in order to make amends, she allows Takeshi to believe that she is the bad guy. The baby’s fate doesn’t matter anymore, since she realized she was dead. But don’t
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