Dead Mount Death Play Episode 2 Discussion

Sigmar-Unberogen said:
Takumi, bro, what exactly doesn't add up? MC killed Misaki because she wanted to kill him (twice). It's 2+2.
I expected the most logical question from MC though: "Who are you and why are you trying to kill me?" - But it was never asked. 

KiyoS said:
The one they were trying to kill was the original owner of that body though

Stark700 said:
That Misaki is definitely a sadist...her personality is just far from normal.

Looks like Polka is using his powers and getting better control of it. This anime still relies heavily on its undead elements and necromancy magic. Gotta feel bad for those kids caught up in that fire though. Kursaki also might be worth to keep an eye on but it's hard to trust her.

Jbhannibal67 said:
Man this series is so freaking unpredictable ....when you thought this guy is evil and will kill anyone who gets in his way in episode 1 here comes episode 2 . All he wanted to do was die since he lost those children but yet didn't give up and used reincarnation spell . Now he will be doing some dirty business to gain money? i have no idea pretty sure whatever you think right now is going to be overwritten by something else

Marinate1016 said:

DAL S4 looked great and had amazing reviews lol.

Sigmar-Unberogen said:
Yes, but the corpse god doesn't know that. He just got reincarnated and some psycho girl, then her buddies chase him and try to kill him. It's pretty logical for him to wonder why they do it. 

Funnily enough, the original owner seemed to be "normal kid" as we were told. Wonder if we'll ever find out what he did and the reason why he was targeted for assassination.

Treyv0n said:
So Misaki is basically a misunderstood killer idk why but that makes me laugh a lil bc I’m sympathizing with a killer💀

Anyway I wanted the MC to keep his powers concealed and not show anyone except for Misaki and Takumi but I guess it’s fine that the organization she works for knows about his magical powers

Cant wait for the next episode the art is so fucking good and the animation is clean as hell😮‍💨🔥

MeanEYE said:

Completely agree with you here. Whole episode was forced mishmash of tropes. Here's a main character who is overpowered and looks like a bad guy but he's actually a good guy. We've never heard that one before. Besides lack of any reaction when everyone essentially saw magic for the first time, and no less resurrection magic, is just bullshit.

Only redeeming thing is the unintentional fact he can have a boner from a real bone. That gave me a chuckle and they didn't even think about it.

The rest is just worse than mediocre. Like you said, god to them, just resurrected himself and random titty chick and they offered him a job. Worse even he accepts it. Why not go to school and participate in a tournament. That would fill trope basket well.

I'll give another episode a shot, but it seems to me am dropping this one.

Alkimia said:
Same goes for me lol they were both way too quick to accept each other. I would've expected a bit more of a reaction from the normal human side, and you know, not just accept this weird kid who can resurrect people and can summon giant skeleton hands. I really liked the first episode but yeah this definitely knocked it down a few pegs at least for me. That Spider-Man swing bit was ridiculous lol you're telling me no one saw ANY of that? They only saw the skeletons in the fire, and the slightly transparent hand?

The humor can also seem kinda jarring at least to me sometimes. It reminds me a lot of Hellsing Ultimate, a show I despised and couldn't even bring myself to finish because of those stupid comedy segments. Which sucked because it was so hyped up for me just from reading other people's thoughts on the show. Now this isn't as bad as those jarring comedy bits in that show (if anything I prefer these), but yeah it is a bit odd. I'll give it one more episode, and then decide if I'll see this one through though

MeanEYE said:
It feels as if they have an agenda and everything else can take a back seat or is done with least amount of interest. Of course jumping to any sort of conclusion with this few episodes aired is kind of pointless but it doesn't feel right at the moment. I just hope it doesn't turn into yet another run of the mill issekai.

Just for once I'd love to see anti-hero main character or at least someone who behaves as expected. That's why I love Accelerator as a character, even though his voice acting is downright annoying. What can be expected from someone who is untouchable and most powerful. Why would he do anything others ask him to. There are no repercussions. How awesome would it be if he just decided to make them shit their pants, and take women hostages and then they come up with some sort of a deal where they will help him achieve whatever goal he needs in return for their lives or whatever. It would be far better than "yes I want to work some more" kind of attitude while he has a gash across his neck that failed to kill him and moments after resurrecting a person from the dead. Yeah, makes total sense to be able to take whatever you want without repercussions and then deciding to go and mop the floors because that's what good guys do.

So annoying.

Alkimia said:
Dude that would be so much better, and I hate that it didn't go down that route. It's completely unrelated, but it reminds me of A Galaxy Next Door, which is also airing rn. In that, it feels like they just shoved in all those weird supernatural aspects and the female MC's weird stinger thing. I would have loved if it was just a simple rom-com, but instead we get a rom-com with weird and forced supernatural elements. Why couldn't it have just been about two manga artists falling in love with each other?

I guess the same kinda can be said with Hellsing Ultimate like I mentioned in my last post. Those weird comedy segments felt so out of place and out of character in most cases. Idk it just feels weird how 2 shows from this season, that have so much potential are shoving/forcing certain things into them. I would love both this and A Galaxy Next Door if they were just... More simple, I guess? Like again idk, it would be more enjoyable for me if this MC would actually behave more like you expect him to. It's hard to explain but yeah

MeanEYE said:
I think shoving those moments in is there to cater to as wide of an audience as possible. Humor in anime is not something I like. In fact I watch in spite of it. Only anime that gave me a nice laugh was Scissor Seven, everything else rarely even gives me a chuckle. Their humor is not for me, that's obvious and for the life of me I have no idea how people consider Gintama to be a comedy. But that's me I suppose.

Last season, or one before that, we had a show about power rangers essentially which was rom com and it worked. At least it was entertaining for me no matter how silly the premise sounded, execution was good. Perhaps studios are trying to nail that kind of feeling and are missing so often by sticking to known tropes.

Bibimbapski said:
I wanna know how many people will defend Misaki and say she's a good person because her parents were killed and she's just doing it to "bad guys" and because she's hot with big breasts. She did kill Shinomiya Polka thinking he was a "good person." Her character archetype of being a heartless killer but is uwu kawaii and quirky used to be new but now it's overused and makes me gag. 

Also I'm in the faction where I feel the humor is wedged in in the weirdest places, the "humor" isn't even funny, just weird and misplaced. Like it's trying to be cute when it isn't. 

I hate using this word but this series just seems like an "edgelord/edgy" type of series that I used to watch back in the 2010s during my crappy emo phase. Younger me would've loved it. I'll stick around and probably finish it since it's only 12 eps just to see what happens.

The only best part I think was seeing the spirits of the children's parents watching over them helplessly during the fire, as if they wanted to do something but couldn't. That little girl seeing her late father was nice.