Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Ramun_Flame
Well, where to start. One plus is this show is for sure unique in it's feel, pacing, and design. When I found out this was based on a game maker horror game, it all made sense. PErsonally I haven't dived into those type of games, but I understand the concept. They are usually low res top down games that rely heavily on the plot to carry the experience. For horror, it usually comes down to having some twist, or a bunch of shocking stuff to keep the player interested. It's not my cup of tea, but I understand.
I went on a bit of a tangent, but this show basically feels like playing that type of game. It has them going inot rooms trying to solve puzzles while they go through different floors and need to defeat the boss. The main characters have a bit of charm, but it's not enough to carry the…
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Horror is a sparsely populated genre of anime, which is a shame. A good horror series can offer creative concepts, a gripping story, compelling drama and moments of high emotion. Unfortunately, Angels of Death offers none of these things. Instead, this anime presents a mind-numbing barely-plot featuring a cast of characters the audience never properly gets to know and that not even the series itself seems to care about, thinly varnished with superficial allusions to Christianity. This is a series that wants be perceived as cool and meaningful and perhaps even deep, but which puts in none of the required effort to actually be so.
Angels of Death is a series based on an RPG Maker game and it shows. The bulk of the anime consists of the lead characters, Rachel and Zack, ponderously navigatin…
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I appreciate the anime's story, message, and plot. However, it's not executed well. The initial episodes grabbed my attention, where Rachel Gardner was stuck in a deadly building. I enjoyed the mystery/thriller theme. However, the rest of the show was just her wishing she were dead after witnessing a gruesome murder. She doesn't want to keep living, and she makes that known when she meets Zack and asks him to kill her. Her negative attitude draws Zack's attention to her, and he becomes interested. The anime sometimes seems like it might become predictable or pointless, but the characters' attitudes never change from start to finish. Rachel always wants to die, and Zack always wants to kill. Zack needs Rachel's intelligence to escape the dungeon. Even though Rachel may want to die, she is r…
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This anime is incredibly well written and the characters are all great. The development of rachel and zacks relationship is really well done. The set-up and story are unlike anything i have seen and it only gets more and more unique as it progresses. This anime has exagerrated violence (in certain scenes) but for the most part it keeps it realistic. This anime doesnt follow the typical tropes that would be expected. I truly think this is a criminally underrated show that more people should watch. At points this anime can get quite complex but personally i didnt find it confusing and understood the story well. 10/10 would recommend to anybodybody who likes dark shows and horror themes.
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I don't understand how this show is rated so low relative to ordinary shounens that often break 8.0. From the scoring, I expected this to be some bland disappointment, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Say what you will about the premise being hilarious or this not being that scary, the true impact of this show is how it deals with divine themes and the nature of humanity. Almost no show has ever made me cry, my eyes have been dry through many of the supposed popular saddest scenes. That said, this show actually did make me tear up.
I don't want to spoil anything, but something about the characters and this show truly spoke to me on a deeper level about what it really means to be human, even despite the fact that the situations presented in the anime are often quite patently unnatural and…
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i rarely write reviews but i have to for this anime because I do not understand why this has such low ratings, like this is such an underrated anime.
This has to be one of my favourite horror animes and its so well done because the concept at least to me was so different. It was the setting of this building and the bond between zach and rachel that really sold this for me. Its not some out of the world amazing new concept but it felt fresh due to the characters being so different than each other.
I have played the game for angels of death and its one of my favourite rpg maker horror games ever...and I watched the anime after playing so I may be a bit biased because when I played the game the anime wasn't out. This anime is such a perfect adaption to the game, usually game to anime adaptat…
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Mod Edit: This review was originally written for the final 4 episodes which was previously a separate entry and was subsequently merged into Satsuriku no Tenshi.
Please note, this includes the series and the ONA.
This horror anime month has been pretty middling in terms of the series we've looked at. We've seen some decent anime and some sub-par anime. We haven't seen anything great but we haven't seen anything terrible either. Maybe we'll be able to break up that pattern with a look at Satsuriko no Tenshi, an anime based off of a horror game. Now, your first thought when I mention anime based off of a horror game might be my history with trite rubbish like Galerians or Corpse Party. But at least those two were entertaining in their incompetence. And we have reviewed some good anime base…
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Angels of Death is a great anime for those who want a easy to follow story however also like a character development focused one as well.
The characters are great especially Rachel and Zack's growth throughout the series with Zack's conflict over his past and Rachel being constantly questioned who she is.
Some of the voice actors for the characters are perfect choices such as Ootsuka Houchuu as the Priest who plays the role of an all knowing older man and Okamoto Nobuhiko who also plays Bakugo from My Hero Academia as Zack playing a psychotic killer always screaming which really adds to the fear he induces when he's fist introduced.
The art style as shown on the cover is really good with some of the later expressions in the anime particularly from Rachel really bringing out their emoti…
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Mod Edit: This review was originally written for the final 4 episodes which was previously a separate entry and was subsequently merged into Satsuriku no Tenshi.
(please note I have not played the game, I've only watched the Anime) I don't even know where to begin with this Anime... I went into this show with average expectations, despite the amazing trailer it had... and what was I left with?
Well honestly this Anime is very average at best, I would go as far as to say maybe a little less than that. The story at the start of the show leaves a mystery feel to it and made me keep coming back to find out what and who is Rachel the main mysterious character of this show... but did the ending pay off? yes and no? I honestly felt the ending was rather underwhelming and the only redeeming thin…
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Watching "Angels of Death" was quite a tumultuous journey, and I don't mean emotionally. Now, I won't go into massive detail about the plot, since the synopsis is right on the page; it would be redundant of me to make you read it twice. However, I will discuss the things I liked and the things I disliked about this anime.
First, the things I disliked. For starters, the animation in the opening wasn't as fluid as I'm used to. It was kind of snappy and abrupt, rather than flowy and smooth. However, I did get used to this rather quickly. Another thing that I didn't like too much was the constant talk about God. Now, I am a Christian, so I do believe in God; however, I don't get offended when people don't believe. For me, the constant talk about "be my God" and "there is no God" and "you sw…
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one word: underdeveloped.
huge potential but the story is premature. with 16 episodes and two main characters we should know them through and through and evolve with them. this happens but really only in the last four episodes do we see substantial growth.
loved zack, okamoto was great as his voice actor. he recieved the most backstory. ray isn't as developed and suffers for it as she felt lukewarm. dr. danny was consistently a nemesis, no backstory. the priest was unbuyable, he constructs this psychopathic lair of psychological experimentation and then grows a sliver of a heart toward the end. idk.
eddie was a cute character. cathy was crazy and fun. all in all potentially two more characters we could connect with but zero backstory.
ultimately the plot construction was unstable and…
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Mod Edit: This review was originally written for the final 4 episodes which was previously a separate entry and was subsequently merged into Satsuriku no Tenshi.
Satsuriku no Tenshi was a good anime
It's a good and honest adaptation of the game.
Ok first, we gonna talk about the story (6):
A young girl wakes up in a unknown basement and tries to escape it, the second floor's resident tries to kill her and she escapes from death. Finally, the murderer should ally with the protagonist, who wishes to die from him. They met other murderer and finally escapes the basement, with a lot of injuries. For saving the protagonist's life and kill her later, the 2nd floor's murderer accept to go to jail. Satsuriku no Tenshi ends with a cliffhanger, the murderer escapes from his jail and kills the p…
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Mod Edit: This review was originally written for the final 4 episodes which was previously a separate entry and was subsequently merged into Satsuriku no Tenshi.
At the time of my writing this, the main page for Angels of Death is sitting at a 6.92, and the top reviews are either negative or not seriously written. However, this was one of the shows I enjoyed most during the Summer 2018 season, so I wanted to write a brief review on its behalf.
A major contributing factor to these low scores is that people don’t know what to expect from this show. You wouldn’t know this from the synopsis above, but Angels of Death isn’t really a horror series – it’s somewhere between a buddy comedy and an otome game, except that all of the suitors want to murder the lead rather than date her (Half of them…
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Mod Edit: This review was originally written for the final 4 episodes which was previously a separate entry and was subsequently merged into Satsuriku no Tenshi.
I'd never understand as to why studio JC Staff decided to split this anime into a 2 part thing where the 1st 12 episodes were left as unfinish and end it with a 4 episode ONA. They could have just included the last episodes on a regular airing schedule, that splitting this up to a 2 part series.......But , enough of that, so what we have here were the last 4 episodes of the parent anime, and quite frankly, it was good but not good enough when we see Danny the main antagonist coming back to life after being killed by Zack in the 1st episode and other episodes that came with this ONA, in fact in the 1st episode of the parent anime…
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No spoilers.
The game was better. Also sucks that last part of game is not part of the adaptation but comes out later, leaving viewers at a cliff hanger. The story is fine and I enjoyed following the mystery. I did not enjoy the characters much and found them un colorful. Sound effects and music threw out the show was overall very good. Animation quality was nothing impressive but not bad.
Story - 6/10
Art - 5/10
Sound - 5/10 They did a pretty OK job adapting the sounds from the game into the anime
Character - 6/10
Enjoyment - 4/10 Personal experience. The game spoiled all exciting events
Overall - 4/10 Do I think this adaptation was necessary? No. Do I hate it and wish it was not made? No.
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My mother always said if you don't anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all. Thankfully, this nightmare (and not the scarey kind, ironically) isn't a person.
The summary is a cookie cutout of a typical mystery archetype / story setting. The amnesiac in a strange place. Then there's the weird anime twists with a murder with a scythe who laughs like a popcorn machine with a fork in it. Anyways, nothing overtly special or any red flags in the summary. Except for maybe that stupid little bit about fate. Doubt fate locked you in a building. Moving on. Why it's bad.
The mystery as shown in the summary / template isn't anything inherently special. The story writer, the original author or whoever had most input in the anime clearly didn't do anything to improve on that lack…
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*I have only watched the anime, not the manga or game. Thus, this review will be based on the anime alone*
After having completely finished the anime, I can safely say that Satsuriku no Tenshi is one of the most frustrating horror animes I’ve ever watched. From the very start of the show, there have been a myriad of flaws involving plot, dialogue, and character development, all resulting in a trainwreck of a show, which is really a shame because it had such an interesting premise.
Plot (1/10): The plot to this anime is one of the worst I have ever seen and most of its issues begin with it’s progression, or rather, the utter lack of it. Right from the beginning and up to halfway through the story, we can see this show following a typical formula: villian shows up -> zack does something st…
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So Angels of death used to say it had 16 episodes but they changed it to 12 and the rest are being released as videos. (is what I heard)
Anyways beside that Angels of Death was really just okay. Doesn't really do anything special so it's just kinda average. Although I have my score as an 8 because really I did enjoy it.
The show has revolves around Rachel and Zack trying to get out of this building they're in and leave. They start at the bottom floor and just work their way up battling floor masters along the way. Each floor master having their own weird interest in Rachel which gets weird and annoying fast. Not the battle themselves I think the floor master battles are interesting for the most part but it's the over excessive importance and obsession with Rachel which just gets annoyin…
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Watching Satsuriku no Tensei (Angels of Death) gave me perhaps one of the strangest impressions of this year. Set in a mysterious building, we immediately meet main female protagonist Rachel Gardner as she is confused about her whereabouts. It doesn’t help that she has no memories except for her name. The show immediately drops viewers into this sort of storytelling out of nowhere and it’s hard to take everything in from the start. Make no mistake. Satsuriku no Tensei is one of those shows where I lost count how many times I rolled my eyes and asked myself just exactly what the hell is going on.
As the anime is based on a video game, it also does really feel much like playing one. Rachel meets a serial killer named Zack who nearly kills her in the beginning. The show begins to build on it…
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For over a decade now, the anime industry has been producing one series a season that deserves the highly appreciated title of ironic masterpiece. This time around it's a show about suicidal loli and a massmurderer who refuses to kill her. And it has everything. When I say everything, what I really mean is e v e r y t h i n g, and I have been laughing my butt sore since episode 1.
Our story starts off in a spooky hospital where security cameras garnish the walls every 3 inches, doors close behind people's back like it is Ghost Hunt, and possessed typewriters are the ones asking all the questions that matter since our characters don't even bother trying as they are too busy planning to kill themselves. It's bad? No, it's the peak of self-awareness.
The actual events focus around some fl…
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