I really did try to enjoy Dies Irae, I understand the VN series has seen quite a lot of popularity and the series itself was crowdfunded, implying that there was an interest (at least at one point) to see this adaption come to life. However, despite my efforts I can not endorse the series.
Dies Irae has so much going on that is clearly best left as a VN. Confusing characters,
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I really did try to enjoy
Dies Irae, I understand the VN series has seen quite a lot of popularity and the series itself was crowdfunded, implying that there was an interest (at least at one point) to see this adaption come to life. However, despite my efforts I can not endorse the series.
Dies Irae has so much going on that is clearly best left as a VN. Confusing characters, blink-and-you-miss-it scenes in every episode and a very lax explanation of the villains motives and abilities origins. The series is so obfuscated it required an episode 0 to introduce the majority of the main cast.
As far as the cast goes I really think the timing is terrible on this release, the main villains are Nazi war criminals with supernatural powers (literally:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reinhard_heydrich) and considering the current political climate I think showing one of the architects of the holocaust as a godlike figure is quite simply in poor taste.
In closing, I would not be shocked if this deterred viewers from funding Kickstarter anime projects in future and while Episodes 12-17 will be released in Febuary as OVA, I can not see it saving this series from fading into obscurity. Sorry Dies Irae fans, hope for another chance down the line.
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