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Death Billiards
デス・ビリヤード
(Desu Biriyādo)
GenreDrama, mystery, psychological thriller
Anime film
Directed byYuzuru Tachikawa
Produced byTakuya Tsunoki
Written byYuzuru Tachikawa
Music byKotaro Tanaka
StudioMadhouse
ReleasedMarch 2, 2013
Runtime25 minutes
Anime television series
Death Parade
Directed byYuzuru Tachikawa
Written byYuzuru Tachikawa
Music byYūki Hayashi
StudioMadhouse
Licensed by
Original networkNTV, SUN, BS Nittele, AT-X, MMT
Original run January 9, 2015 – present
Episodes12 (List of episodes)

Death Billiards (デス・ビリヤード, Desu Biriyādo) is a 2013 animated short movie produced by Madhouse for Anime Mirai 2013. The short movie was created, directed, and written by Yuzuru Tachikawa. A television anime series based on the short movie titled Death Parade (デス・パレード, Desu Parēdo) began airing on January 9, 2015.[1]

Premise

Somewhere is a mysterious bar known as the Quindecim, where a lone bartender named Decim works. Whenever two people emerge from the bar's elevators, those two must participate in a Death Game with their lives on the line, the results of which will reveal what secrets led them there and what their fate will be afterwards.

Characters

Main characters

Decim (デキム, Dekimu)[2][3][4]
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese); Alex Organ (English)
The bartender of the Quindecim bar who oversees the Death Games. His hobbies consist of making mannequins.
The Black-Haired Woman (黒髪の女, Kurokami no Onna)
Voiced by: Asami Seto (Japanese); Jamie Marchi (English)
A human who has no memory of her real name. She is Decim's assistant and helps when it comes to the games. It is revealed that her memories were taken by Decim, who didn't judge her in the games as she was aware she was dead upon entering the Quindecim.
Nona (ノーナ, Nōna)[5]
Voiced by: Rumi Ōkubo (Japanese); Jad Saxton (English)
A worker on the 19th floor. She is Decim's boss and sometimes oversees the games.
Ginti (ギンティ, Ginti)
Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya
Another bartender who previously worked in the Quindecim, but now runs his own bar, Viginti, which also oversees Death Games.
Clavis (クラヴィス, Kuravisu)
Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese); Zach Bolton (English)
Queen (クイーン, Kuīn)
Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi (Japanese); Anastasia Munoz (English)
Castra (カストラ, Kasutora)
Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki
Oculus (オクルス, Okurusu)
Voiced by: Tesshō Genda

Players

Man (男, Otoko)
Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura
Elderly Man (老人, Rōjin)
Voiced by: Jun Hazumi
Takashi (たかし, Takashi)
Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese); Eric Vale (English)
The first to play the game. He and his wife Machiko enter a darts game and stake their lives on it. After realising Machiko's affair he sets out to win the game, later learning his jealousy drove him and his wife to their deaths. He ends up losing but Decim's judgement puts him in for reincarnation rather than the void.
Machiko (真智子, Machiko)
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese); Trina Nishimura (English)
The first to play the game. Her and her husband Takashi enter a darts game and stake their lives on it. After admitting an affair and that she married Takashi for his money, she landed the winning shot. Takashi attacks her but Decim intervenes. Although she wins the game, Decim's judgement puts her in the void rather than reincarnation.
Shigeru Miura (三浦 しげる, Miura Shigeru)
Voiced by: Junji Majima, Lynn (young)
He is a college student who awakes at Quindecim and reunites with his childhood friend Chisato. He plays Death Bowling against Mai, later learning that he died in a vehicle collision alongside Mai.
Mai Takada (高田 舞, Takada Mai)
Voiced by: M.A.O., Yuna Taniguchi (young)
A part-time attendant at bowl alley where Miura and his friends often played. It is revealed that she was childhood friends with Chisato and Miura.
Chisato Miyazaki (みやざき ちさと, Miyazaki Chisato)
Voiced by: Marie Hatanaka (young)
A childhood friend of Miura and Mai who moved away. Mai initially claims to be Chisato when she meets Miura at Quindecim.
Misaki Tachibana (橘みさき, Tachibana Misaki)
Voiced by: Yuriko Yamaguchi
She is the hostess of a reality television show. Misaki's explicit relationship at a young age leads to an unexpected pregnancy with an abusive man. She attempted to raise her five children despite all the mishaps, but was killed by her assistant.
Yousuke Tateishi (立石 洋介, Tateishi Yousuke)
Voiced by: Masakazu Morita
Yousuke's parents had divorced and his father remarried. However Yousuke refused to accept his new mother and avoided her at home, eventually committing suicide. He is placed in a Death Game against Misaki where they must fight in an arcade game.

Production

Short film

Death Billiards was produced by Madhouse as part of the Young Animator Training Project's Anime Mirai 2013 project, which funds young animators, alongside other short films by Trigger, Zexcs and Gonzo.[6] Death Billiards and the other shorts each received 38 million yen from the Japanese Animation Creators Association, who receives funding from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs.[7] The short was created, directed and written by Yuzuru Tachikawa. The short, along with the other Anime Mirai shorts, opened in 14 Japanese theatres on March 2, 2013.[8]

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TV anime

A television anime series based on the short, titled Death Parade, began airing in January 9, 2015.[9] The opening theme is "Flyers" by Bradio while the ending theme is "Last Theater" by NoisyCell. The series is licensed in North America by Funimation, who are simulcasting the series as it airs and will begin streaming a broadcast dub version from February 18, 2015.[10]

Episode list

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References

  1. ^ "Anime Mirai Short Death Billiards Gets TV Anime (Update)". Anime News Network. October 31, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  2. ^ "CHARACTER｜アニメ『デス・パレード』公式サイト". Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  3. ^ "Death Parade". Nippon TV. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  4. ^ "Rumi Ookubo, Yoshimasa Hosoya Join Death Parade Anime Cast". Anime News Network. December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  5. ^ "Death Billiards' Death Parade Show Previewed in 2nd Video". Anime News Network. December 12, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  6. ^ "Gonzo/ZEXCS/Trigger/Madhouse's Full Anime Mirai Trailer". Anime News Network. February 5, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  7. ^ "Gonzo, Trigger, Pierrot, Madhouse Make Anime Mirai 2013". Anime News Network. June 6, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  8. ^ "Anime Mirai 2013 Slated for March 2". Anime News Network. December 16, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  9. ^ "Death Billiards' Death Parade TV Anime Slated for January 9". Anime News Network. December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  10. ^ http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2015-02-13/funimation-dubs-assassination-classroom-death-parade-tokyo-ghoul-a-7-more-winter-shows/.84440
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