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8/10

It seems that this show was somewhat bypassed despite being a work of high quality. Art, direction, sounds, voice acting and music are all on good levels. As I see it, this anime fullfills its intended mission quite well - character profiles combine quite well for comic and absurd situations, relatively many of which I found genuinely funny.
While freely diving into absurdity is the main idea, it has an inner logic in it, interconnections do make "senseless sense", so to speak, making it interesting to watch and allowing the getaway from the constraints of common sense to be a comfortable experience.
The core of ... the plot reminded me of Spy x Family a bit, but it is much crazier and carefree, which works as a some sort of a relief from constant exposure paranoia of Spy x Family.
The main drawback are somewhat not aesthetically pleasing scenes here and there, which sometimes contrast way too hard and could be too much for appreciators of cute stuff like me, however this is probably to be expected from the work of this genre.

I can't stand seeing insects and can't do much about it for now, the constant push for insect consumption was the main shortcoming of this anime, but it was kinda tolerable because there were no close-ups (especially heads). Dragonfly close-up in episode 7 was the last straw and I don't think that I can enjoy this anymore, sorry :(
If it was at least human size it would be tolerable.

*Please write a longer review* Oh ok. Apart from that, yeah this anime follows its idea quite well and could indeed by very enjoyable as a light beatiful adventure anime.

*Please write a longer review*... Hmm what ... else... The 2 ex-brigand characters are kinda annoying and especially their mother or something.

This anime is very relevant for today in the age of global pandemic and, in my opinion, it presents a logical model for the future society, in which death would be a curable decease and, as a result, human death and potential instability from it would be the ultimate central problem of society.

The social system and technocratic centralisation envisioned would definitely not be the only way a society could organise itself based on an ultimate value and veneration of life, and the film is a bit pessimistic, focusing on risks and not the perfection - it's a shame that authors showed the future of ... not aging as a dystopia, while it definitely could be made a real utopia, if human freedoms were really respected. Such a movie would be much more beneficial and a breakthrough, even a compass for achieving a society of the future.

One more interesting theme is the the one of human self-awareness and free will, the possibility of making rational decisions without second thoughts and once again the movie is too vague and pessimistic. In my opinion, it is easy to reject the idea, which was pushed by a certain group of characters in the movie - instead of discussing their ideas, we have a fanatical cult-like group, with the movie transfroming from a general vision of dystopia to a mediocre action movie, which did not do any good.

Basically, the movie states a number of interesting problems (which is double plus good in itself), but not only offers no solutions, but not even a meaningful discussion of the topics, providing mainly emotions and action, kinda moving away from its philosophical premise. One more troubling element was the projection of a Japanese crime against humanity during WWII (the "comfort women" stations), which, as we know well, is being actively denied by many Japanese, on Russia (never massively practiced anything like that, this even forced me to do double checking on this in Wikipedia, Google and multiple history books on the history of the Caucasus for a couple of days, including openly anti-Russian literature), which came out of the blue during the movie and spoiled the impression about the movie even more. In general, if you like to think about modern and potential societal/philosophical problems, I recommend this, but keep in mind its bad/biased/fraudulent civilizational perspective 5/10

This is probably my favorite anime of all time, and I've watched much more than what is currently noted in my profile. I was interested in the reviews for it and was surprised by regular mentions of Hell. If not for these reviews, I'd probably leave this element out of my review because in my opinion this anime is not about Hell at all. It became my favorite because it is probably the only one which gives the feel and illistration of secured calm perpetuity. Not much changes from episode to episode because it is not supposed to as the characters are granted eternal existence ... in a very rich and stable environment and thus are mostly well, open and easy-going.
The characters' personal tastes and attidudes are different but they are all very uniformic in their benevolancy towards each other and therefore humanistically developed despite some exessive emotions, psychic specifics, outlooks or behavioral patterns. This atmosphere of neverending mutual benevelancy (which, in my opinion, is "cleaner" and more stable than tolerance, friendship or camaradery), understanding and unity is what got me to love this work. Then come the fluff, art, music, voice acting etc. which contibute well to the general image, especially the artstyle. I couldn't find anything similar to this, but arya the animation (I did not finish the first season as of yet, so I can't be sure) and the recent Maoujou de Oyasumi could be closer than most.
The reason to choose "Hell" as a setting is easy to explain, in my opinion: the author needed a world for this idea of perpetual well-being, comfort, softness, healthy relationship (on a macro level) and referring to an already existing concept of perpetuity (monotheistic heaven and hell concepts) was a wises choice as it saved a lot on explanations and made the world more solid and grounded. The choice of "Hell" other "Heaven" was probably for practical reasons as it would less controversial, more attractive to some audiences and allowed characters to be more eccentric and dynamic, but if you' llook at the Pandemonium it is really not far away from the image of "Heaven", constant work and hierarchy aside (even though monotheistic Heaven has a hierarchy). The choice also allowed the author to save some time on character design as he had material to work from.
This is the only "Hell" I see in this work and it really has nothing to do with the original concept so these two do not link in my mind at all. I see it more like a space of luminous (even pure or innocent), harmonious eternal existance before any fluff kicks in full. The setting is so uniquely well-made, some minimalism and simplicity of the story appear to only benefit it. The creators somehow managed to do a great show, even if they themselves probably did not notice it (it was a really distastefull move to add a promotion in one of the last episodes, even though I love KFC... were they so broke? This creates an interesting mystery. The thing is, the world is crafted in such an aprropriate way, that it can take hits like this gracefully, without the loss of the beauty). In the end, this is a great piece of work and it became my favorite.