Dead Mount Death Play Part 2

Polka Shinoyama's life takes a dramatic turn after being forced to use his magical powers in public. His divination cabinet attracts the attention of several people hellbent on exposing his true nature as the reincarnation of Corpse God, a necromancer from the Other World. To make matters worse, Polka and his friends are framed for the murder of one of their protector's employees.

When group member Takumi Kuruya is abducted by his former boss, Kuon Higuro, Polka sends his most trustworthy ally Misaki Sakimiya to their friend's rescue. It turns out that some of the recent incidents the group finds themselves caught up in are interconnected, and Polka needs to be twice as careful if he wants to make it out alive from this maze of pitfalls.

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Sakimiya, Misaki Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Corpse God Main

Sakakihara, Yuuki Japanese

Kuruya, Takumi Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Sorimura, Tena Supporting

Takahashi, Hiroki Japanese

Arase, Kouzaburou Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Shinoyama, Sayo Supporting

Taichi, You Japanese

Lemmings Supporting

Aoi, Shouta Japanese

Shinoyama, Polka Supporting

Sakakihara, Yuuki Japanese

Lei, Xiaoyu Supporting

Fukuen, Misato Japanese

Kuraki, Lisa Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Satsuma, Yoshihiro Director

Yamaguchi, Takayuki Sound Director

Nagao, Akihiro Episode Director

Ono, Manabu Script, Assistant Director, Series Composition

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Jan 8, 2024

TangyAbleOrange

Recommended

This show is engaging for a variety of reasons. It actively engaged me with the various mysteries of its characters, from their motives to their backgrounds to their powers. The ability to juggle more than two "sides" already makes this show impressive, but to then have most of them compelling and entertaining to see play off of each other is simply great. It's a curious case of sort of rooting for everyone but also not wanting anyone to win, whatever "winning" means.

So, yeah, the characters and story are this show's best features. Visually it's pretty great as well, and the soundtrack is serviceable. The ending ... may have felt a bit anticlimactic as a lot was going on, but seeing as it's not really an ending and there's more yet to be unraveled I can't fault it too much. This is definitely one of the better isekais out there.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 27, 2023

Gregory_Senpai

Mixed Feelings

It's nearly impossible for me NOT to compare this to DuRaRaRa!! (previous Naritaverse series), so I won't try.
I really love this series, but I'd like to say upfront, i think if you have to pick between watching the anime or reading the manga - read the manga. The anime didn't really add anything, or improve on the base at all, and I felt some of the animation was pretty rough and felt rushed-out. The voice acting was fine, but nothing on the level of DuRaRaRa!! (which has one of the best ensemble casts in basically anything). I don't think anyone in Deathplay really stood out ... to me as giving an incredible vocal performance, except for maybe Misaki's VA. She was a faily good pscyho. The music was decent, but not "I'm rushing out to buy this OP and ED on iTunes" level (DuRaRaRa! OP1 still a banger btw).
As far as content goes, s1p2 really starts to unravel some of the mysteries in this series at an almost break-kneck pace. There's lots of action, and a whole bunch of interesting new characters, but the chemsitry between them is kinda placid.
This review may come off as being down on this series, but I did enjoy it. Just not as much I as thought I would when it started. And, having read the manga, I wish they had animated some of the epic battles a bit more EPICLY.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 31, 2024

puppygirl_gwyn

Not Recommended

Damn... What an absolute disappointment. Part One had genuinely made this one of my favorite (Reverse)Isekai, and this Part managed to capture almost none of the cool and intriguing elements of that. So much just felt rushed, underdeveloped and just genuinely like they completely lost it at some point. It was hard to even follow, because the worldbuilding just got worse with every episode. None of the reveals worked for me and I just could not get into it, no matter how much I watched.

Now, honestly that wouldn't be as bad if I hadn't had that kind of high expectations that the first twelve episodes ... hat installed in me. I was so hyped to finally get to the second half and it just didn't deliver. I love the concept of this powerful necromancer coming into our modern day world and I love him getting mixed up with all sorts of criminal shit, and I was even fine with magical elements being introduced as already present within our world, but I feel like they kind of abandoned what made the premise charming in order to just have full-on magic fights like you'd have in any other fantasy anime which is absolutely not what I came to this show for. Maybe that's really just on me, and I won't blame anyone if that's exactly what they wanted out of this show, but it just wasn't for me. What a shame, what a shame.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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