Death Parade

She may have been a cheating whore, but Machiko was a better person in the end.

>>119627846
You w0t m8

>>119627756
>women
>normalfags

>>119627756
why does that guy look like Ginko?

>>119627756
/a/ solved it last thread.

She is Matchy

Is this a mirror? Musiman didn't wear his hair like that.

>>119627846
This.

She lied to allow her husband to keep some dignity. The ring is SYMBOLISM for her love in him, before she decides to go off on him, she stares at her hand and decides to keep the ring on her finger. The flashback is a lie, the cake is a lie, everything is a lie.

>>119627904
She just cheated, she didn't kill anyone.

Nor did she try to win at darts when she thought she was going to die like her shithead husband.

>>119627999
Sure, but which one were the girls in the bathroom talking about ?

>>119627999
This. There's more to discuss, but the husband and wife matter is over.

>>119628130
There was only one Matchy. She was Machiko all along.

>>119628130
Her

see
>>119624375
and several others in that area

>>119627989
Because its what happens when Ginko fucks up and pissed off one too many mushi.

>>119627846
This, it's pretty grey area. In the end i think Machiko did had an affair, hell Machida Yuki was invited and supposedly married, why wouldn't she take her husband name if she hated her own one?
But she acted like a bad guy and overreacted about hating her husband to save him, we saw her happy with him in her flashbacks.

>>119628439

seriously she was happy with her husband in the flashbacks but STILL cheated on him she was nothing more then a slut

>>119628569
She cried after that though.

>>119628608

dosent change that fact that she did it. She may have regretted it after but she could have avoided the whole situation entirely if she wasent so thirsty for dick.

>>119628569
>slut
>she deserves to die and go to hell and suffer horribly

The idea of a character cheating (I personally don't think she did) sure did get a lot of jimmies rustled in several threads. I mean, it's just a fucking anime. Damn.

>>119628439
There's two valid theories for that:

1# Machiko was Matchy all along, but she actually fell in love with Takashi and reveals everything, albait in a way to make him hate her and be free.

2# Machiko was Matchy all along, she never loved him, but after seeing that her actions brought Takashi's madness and the situation they ere in she decides to reveal everything. Hating herself she does it in the worst way for her.

I'm more inclined to believe the first because the flashbacks though.

>>119628730
Calm down and breathe. It's gonna be ok. She didn't cheat on YOU.

I'm definitely giving this series a three episode try. If every episode is just going to be the same concept over and over again, it won't be worth watching. That being said I like the atmosphere.
EVERYBODY~

>>119628813
Will this be the new CAUSE I FEEEL

>>119628569
That's why i say it's kind of gray area, guy was fucking asshole all the time, he was the first one to give into the idea of wining the game, given of course he was the one under the pressure since he had more points, if Machiko was in his shoes maybe she would try to score even earlier, we have no way to know it.
And she had an affair, both of them were remorseful about those things though, guy couldn't stand the idea of killing his old child, machiko was crying in the bed.
In the end she took the blame and acted like the big bad to make him go to heaven/reaincarnate, even though she could easily keep the lie and just push the blame on him for wanting to kill her and baby.

>>119628793
I'm more inclined to believe she was a cheating whore because they outright state in the end that the guy went to reincarnate and the girl went to the "void", whatever that means and since the void elevator has a demon's face thing on it, I'm guessing it's supposed to be the bad one.

>>119628974
Probably

>>119629050
No one's perfect, anon. She might have loved him, but still have to pay for being a cheating whore all along and cause their suffering.

>>119629050
But we don't know what predetermines who goes where, in Death Billiards gramps went into elevator with oni mask which would imply void, even though the younger guy was an asshole, and remember that gramps said something to decim before they got into their elevators, what if the will of players decides the outcome of this? It would fall in line with Machiko actions, because she acted as villain to save her husband, while gramps, content with hiss life ended his, and let just 30 years old one reincarnate.

>>119629050
My theory is that the winner is really the loser. Where the husband just got reincarnated again, but Machiko finally has to face judgement on where her soul ends up, and those bodies behind the bar are those stuck in purgatory.

>>119629009
>In the end she took the blame and acted like the big bad to make him go to heaven/reaincarnate, even though she could easily keep the lie and just push the blame on him for wanting to kill her and baby.
Why would heaven punish anyone for doing a supposedly good thing?

>>119629310
Because she felt as if she wronged him in the end. I believe it's not about some 3rd party judgment that determines where they end up, but the people feelings and will.

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>>119627756
>mfw cuck parade, second coming of jigoku shoujo

>>119629310
How do you know what heaven considers good ?
How do you know they're even taking that into consideration and not staging these games to entertain themselves ? Whoever they are.

>>119629310

i dont think its heaven who's judging people its more like they play the game and then decide between themselves who goes were

>>119628793
>albait

And she also could have been telling the truth about her and Matchy being different people and just lied about having an affair because she knew Takashi couldn't handle the thought of having killed his own baby. Twice.

Though I guess if that were the case it wouldn't really make sense that she got voided, unless the judgement either doesn't know or doesn't count your reasoning over your words and actions.

>>119629479
It's jigoku shoujo on steroids, it's what it wanted to be, but never could.

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>tfw show isn't about the daily lives of hell's bar employees

>>119629548
>And she also could have been telling the truth about her and Matchy being different people
Not this again. We already discovered they were the same person.

>>119629584
At least in terms of production values. Not sure about the plot yet...

>>119629623
We don't know that yet. The ending of the OP when Decim and that black haired girl are in the elevator together implies we might see the employees' lives.

>>119629623
That slut in the schoolgirl outfit better get lots of screen time.

>The women went to heaven because she won.
>The man must suffer another life because he lost.

How is this hard to understand?

>>119628731
>go to hell and suffer horribly
Unless there was a serious mistranslation, she was sent to the void. Meaning her soul doesn't get another go while his does.

They both did terrible things, but at his core he just wanted to start a family while she was using him for his money. His goal was noble, it just got fucked up by the details. That's why he deserves another shot at getting it right while she doesn't.

>>119629896
The woman went to hell, though...

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>>119629896
>void
>heaven

>>119629502
>How do you know what heaven considers good ?
You're right, actually. I didn't think this through. Lying is a sin after all.

>>119630013
These threads are going to turn into fedoracon, aren't they?

>>119629892
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

If you actually believe "Matchy" was not her, herself then you have the critical thinking and human social skills of a piece of fucking fruit. That is all.

>>119629937
>she was using him for his money
This may not be true, though.
In the end, she and Gramps had the same mask above their elevators, and Gramps wasn't exactly a bad guy, while the Young Guy was obviously an asshole.

>>119630086
No shit. It's a show about the after life, after all.

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I liked both of them and would like to see them have a happy after life.

I don't think the void is a bad thing, it just means you're done living and have few/no regrets so you move on.

I remember she saying she didn't love him but pretended to for hist money

how is she a good person?

>>119630114
>Her husband is a doctor
How could this be if she wasn't even married yet?

>>119629896
Her soul was trashed.
The guy got another chance.

>>119630268
That was said during their marriage, anon.

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>>119630134
I'm not one of these kids that was all rustled about her cheating, we're all just people etc, but realistically there's a very low probability of that.

We're all just people, after all.

Also, who is this gramps you're speaking of?

>>119630086
The entire premise is just begging for x did nothing wrong threads. That's an open invitation for moralfags and contrarianfags to go at it.

I hope the last episode reveals that the outcome of the game is all that matters and that everything surrounding it doesn't play a role at all. Then we can all look back and laugh at how stupid we were for overthinking this shit.

>>119630330
The old guy from Billiards, obviously.

>>119630330
Death Billiards.

>>119630086
Only if you want them to

>>119630134
>Gramps wasn't exactly a bad guy
Wasn't it implied he was a complete dick and he went to hell?

>>119630245

she did love him that whole confession thing was an act. She did cheat on him and ruin everything but she definitely loved him

>>119630349
>I hope the last episode reveals that the outcome of the game is all that matters and that everything surrounding it doesn't play a role at all.
lol no, these shows are chicken soup for the peasant soul.

>>119630357
>>119630361
Guess I'll watch it...

>>119630330
>I'm not one of these kids that was all rustled about her cheating, we're all just people etc
As expected of 4cucks.

>>119628117
He didn't try to win because he thought he was going to die. He tried to win because she broke a sacred vow for pleasure.

>>119630383
No? The worst thing his flashbacks show is him bullying some guy and that's it. Meanwhile, the other one cheated on his girlfriend, got killed for it and then tried to kill Gramps after realizing that he's losing.

>>119630383
There was a scene of him being a bully in his younger years, but that's about it I think.

>>119630445
Please, feeling the need to defend your manhood against some bitch in a cartoon is sad beyond cuckoldry.

This judgement was absolute bullshit.

Fucking paranoid insane asshole dude was the entire cause for their premature demise, AND he is the one who wanted to win the stupid fucking dart game, and yet he gets to to reincarnate?

Fuck this shit series.

>>119630294
Breaking the cycle of reincarnation is a good thing.

>>119630582
C'mon Yurippe, you learned that isn't true.

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>>119630468
But that fucking grin at the end, old fucker had something up his sleeve.

>>119630535

he may have been a paranoid asshole but in the end he did absolutely nothing wrong that deserved punishment you have to think objectively.

>>119630582
Fortuna pls go.

>inb4 the way the judgments work is all explained in the next episode and you realize you spent your time arguing over it.

>>119630535
but she admitted to marrying him for the money

>>119629654
How so?

>>119630633
>in the end he did absolutely nothing wrong that deserved punishment you have to think objectively.
He killed them all through being a paranoid asshole.
He's the WHOLE reason they died.

>>119630631
Maybe the bartender told him that there were bitches and hoes in the void.

>>119630532
>someone does something wrong
>meets the consequences for doing the wrong
>anons are happy that the person gets punished

>defending their manhood

>>119630633
He was an absolute dumbfuck who got them both killed because he put his fucking paranoia ahead of common fucking sense of not fucking spazzing out while driving a car on a fucking ridge.

>>119630676
I have fun arguing this on /a/ though, and what joy if it would prove to be true!

>>119630676

im waiting for the shitstorm that will come when everyone's theories get blown the fuck out.

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>>119630521
>>119630468
Does this look like the face of a man on his to heaven?

>>119630631
That doesn't mean that he's bad. He could as well be grinning because bartender told him that he indeed ate a pickle before dying.

>>119630678
Who gives a shit? That doesn't mean she deserved to die because the dude is an absolute fucking paranoid idiot.

>>119630736
Nice damage control.

>>119630801
Does it really matter who caused the death and not who was actually "evil" in the end?

>>119630801
He's not paranoid if he's right.

>>119630715
>>119630740

If she dident cheat on him they would have been perfectly happy she started the whole chain of suffering.

>>119630685
See the last thread. It's something about Machida Yuuki's weeding card wrote with her maiden name.

>>119630768
Is this guy related to that old guy with the pink hair in the OP? They look kind of similar.

Why is everyone here so retarded?

>>119630582

Reincarnation isn't a bad thing.

He's just being reborn, he's not going to remember his past life and his new life might be fucking awesome, he might not even get reincarnated as a human anyway.

>>119630466
He did the 'hand slip' thing before that even came up. He told her to keep missing so he could pull a clever ruse and win. Her hand slip was more believable because she coughed up blood at the time. He was afraid to die before revenge took hold of him.

>>119630879
I just guessing they watched the show just now and weren't in the last thread.

>>119630872
Not true. It's the inverse of "just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you".

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>>119630879

>>119630268
>Japanese wedding customs fall into two categories: traditional Shinto ceremonies, and modern Western-style weddings. In either case, the couple must first be legally married by filing for marriage at their local government office, and the official documentation must be produced in order for the ceremony to be held.
Then you eat, drink, socialize
Then you finally cut the cake.

>>119630873
If the guy hadn't believed two people talking randomly in the bathroom of his wedding nothing would have happened.
He started it all and got them all killed in the end.

>>119630772
>A bully when younger
>Not bad

He wasn't any saint.

>>119630936
I was waiting for FFF and haven't watched the ova, so I'm double retarded.

>>119630876
Why would the bride have a nameplate at their own marriage ceremony/dinner? Usually the bride and groom sits on the "main" table which at the front of the very room. Only the guests usually have nameplates.

>>119630740

Accidents happen and they both deserved to die.

>>119630873
That's some poor logic anon.

>>119630999
I don't even know what to say. Go watch the episode again or something.

>>119631001
That was no accident.

That was a direct result of the dude's lack of emotional stability and loss of any sort of rational thought.

Who gives a shit on who cheated who. This anime just confirmed that fetuses don't have souls.

>>119630532
Why are you trying to shut down discussion over the matter?

She cheated.
Cheating is a shit thing to do.
It generates a negative reaction.

I'm not sure how much shitflinging when on in previous threads, but that's all there is to it to for me. She's a bad person (as a character) because of it, I don't know why you'd defend or gloss over it.

In the end, what we can learn from this is to concentrate on driving when you're driving and confront your wife if you suspect her of cheating instead of being a paranoid fuck.

>>119630992
I really doubt that being a bully nets more bad karma than cheating and attempting a murderer.
Again, he's most likely grinning because of something the bartender said to him.

>>119630948
Paranoia is irrational fear. His fear was not irrational.

>>119630633
>Killed his wife, the baby and himself.
>Did nothing wrong.

>>119631097
No shit. Which is why he should have been sent to the void as well for being such a fucking retard.

>>119631195
Void is not necessarily a bad thing anon.

>>119630736
>happy
What those anons are displaying is much closer to rage than happiness.

>>119630983
If she wasn't a slut who couldn't breakup permanently with her ex this wouldn't have happened either.

>>119631225
Go ahead and kill yourself if you consider it an improvement.

>>119631149
It was basically baseless as he had no real evidence beyond
>two girls said something in our wedding
>SHE'S ALWAYS USING HER PHONE
That's paranoia. He may have been right, but he had no proof.

>>119630134
Gramps? There was just a guy and a woman. Or perhaps there was a ova that i didnt noticed.

>>119631089

Yeah while driving, had he lost control anywhere else, they'd both still be very much alive.

Or are you saying they'd both die in any circumstance at the same time? or that he drive off the cliff on purpose?
It's an accident.

>>119631271
Are you saying that this dude was never going to hear a single fucking rumor regarding his wife's fidelity had she never cheated on him?

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The cutest and sexiest.

>>119631187
Involuntary manslaughter shouldn't be put on the same level as outright murder.

She, on the other hand cheated out of her own volition.

>>119630999
see
>>119628261

>>119631294
Watch the Mirai anime thingie, anon.

>>119631195
You don't understand the point of reincarnation. He won't be sent to the void until he learns how to drive properly.

#standupifyoulovethedarts

>>119631225

The void is where your soul goes to think about what you did for all eternity, that is in no way a good thing.
It'd be like floating in space with nothing to look at or do, you feel nothing but remember everything.

>>119630889
Life is an endless cycle of suffering. An old soul must bear the suffering of endless lifetimes. Until his soul can undo its fundamental flaws that lead it to suffering he will never have a happy life and will never be free.

She was able to let go of her need for manipulation and winning in the end. She was able to come clean and be honest while he couldn't bring himself to really trust her, even after death. He may have been right, but his only proof was that he couldn't trust the woman he loved. Someone who can't do that can never be happy.

>>119631315
Exactly, had he had the mental fortitude of a water flea he could have had his episode when NOT driving the car and they would have been fine.

Therfore, it's no accident that his own incompetence and lack of any sort of mental control directly caused their deaths.

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>>119631348

>>119631449
The crash was an accident.

Her affair was not.

Late to the party GODDAMN WHY IS THAT OP SO FUNKY

>>119631508
Willfully taking you hands off the steering wheel in order to grab your wife's cell phone is no fucking accident. That is a choice that the dude made.

>>119631438
Nothingness is the best place to be in according to Eastern religions. Meanwhile, the husband may as well reincarnate in India and die from poor health care as an infant.

>>119631508
>an accident
No, it was him being a retard while driving, if he had just slipped while arguing or something it would have been an accident, but he even tooke his hands of the wheel.
He fucked up really hard and feels completely responsible for it, reason the wife has to start her
>I never loved you
talk, because he broke.

>>119631551
>GODDAMN WHY IS THAT OP SO FUNKY
And out of place.
I'm not a grimdark faggot, but having watched Death Billiards and then being to be put under such a joyous beat and dancing made me worry.

And the ending, oh, the ending, was a miserable attempt to make us care about the couple.

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>>119631589
>hands
>hands
>plural

>>119631348
>>119631473
When does she get her own episode?

>>119631659
And why did he take one of his hands of the wheel?

>>119631589
No one can predict a japanese death truck appearing in front of them.

>>119631589

Yeah, he chose to take the phone, he didn't choose to drive off a fucking cliff.

I'm sure that guy on the news recently who ran over like 7 people didn't mean to run them over while on the phone either.

It's an accident caused by idiotic judgement.

>>119631737
He's just driving like a masshole

>>119630889
>Reincarnation isn't a bad thing
Learn to Buddhism.

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>>119631847
>Second chances are bad

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That episode would've been better without this scene

>>119631655

Yes, but everything in life doesn't matter when you're dead.
So even if he reincarnated and died in poor health as an infant, that might actually be enough for him to go to heaven instead, as long as he's not being bad whilst alive.

He gets a chance to redeem his soul, while the wife doesn't.

It's like playing a really fucking hard game with everything you could want as the reward and then losing at the end, reincarnation would be starting again, and void would be pulling the plug and never getting to play again, losing the chance to win.

You can't win if you don't try, you don't get to try if you're never given the chance to.

>>119631438
It's more like where you become one with god/the universe itself and gain a connection to every living thing. Your individuality gives way to the greater whole and you rejoin the pervasive cosmic existence. It's a good thing.

>>119631589
It's call negligent homicide. It's an accident that comes from being stupid.

>>119631735
>And the ending, oh, the ending, was a miserable attempt to make us care about the couple.
No, it was to show us what they lost. And, of course, the glorious and based shot of Machida Yuuki's card telling us the truth. I tmight be that the ED whole purpose is to show us that card scene.

>>119632031
It would have made it just some edgy pile of crap.

>>119631951
You don't need a second chance when you win.
Anyway, I don't thing that applying existing religions to this show is wise, since there's zero religious symbols so far.

>>119632031
You mean without the key scene that shows that she did actually cheat, but deeply regretted it?

>>119632049
Exactly, the dude's stupidity is the direct cause for both of their deaths. And yet he gets another chance at life while she is in the void.

We don't know what exactly the void is yet or if it's bad.

But seeing as she DID cheat and ruin his life I don't think it's good, even if she did repent in the end by making herself seem to be a complete bad guy.

>>119632211

Stupidity isn't a sin.

>>119632170
Right.

Sometimes it's best left to the imagination as to what really happened!

>>119632265
Don't you think there's already too much imagination as to what happened as it is?

>>119632042
We don't know if there's Heaven, though. It was mention in Billiards, but it was a bit different and they may have changed it.

>>119632315
Autists, the primary consumers of anime, don't know what imagination is.

>all this buddhist bullshit
They're both going to hell because neither accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour

>>119632362

It might be one of those things where there's all sorts of different places that people's souls can go, heaven, hell, void, reincarnation etc.

>>119632315
I don't think so, I imagine other unanswered things like the void and what exactly that and reincarnation mean will be explained in more detail later.

As for if she was the Matchy mentioned by her friends in the bathroom or not there are answers but they aren't 100%

>>119632211
>he gets another chance at life

A second chance to do what? Make the same mistakes again? Suffer through the same inevitable pains that plague every life, no matter how privileged? He lost the game, so now he has to suffer through another round.

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>>119632453
forgot pic

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>>119632042
The soul is what builds karma over hundreds and thousands of lives and years. Dying once instantly out of the womb as a chinese baby doesn't mean you attained enlightenment, it just means you didn't go in the red for that life.

It's not even about redemption, "redemption" is irrelevant unless you manage to fuck up so many lives that they actually send you to their hellish purgatory. The state of nirvana aka enlightenment is a state where you desire nothing, your spirit is max level and you don't need anything form the earthly world. So nothingness is pretty much the end game.

This is probably the 10th time I have tried to say that in these threads, it would be a lot fucking easier if half you dumb niggers would just read the wikipedia on buddhism for like five minutes.

>>119632534
Only shitty writting can make her not to be Matchy.

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>>119632163
>the void
>winning

>>119632581
Another chance at life anon.

If you think the void is preferable then you can always end your life. Plenty of quick and simply ways to go about it.

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>>119632453
Who's to say any of this has anything to do with traditional conventions of reincarnation to begin with.

>>119632581
>Life is an eternal struggle nothing good comes out of it ;_;
Why don't you just end yourself then?

>>119632534
I thoughthink the name plate mwant match was another person

>Death Parade leads up to Death Billiards and we get to know what the old man said to him at the end

>>119631655
Kyomu was the word they used and that's not what the Buddhist emptiness is called in Japan. (It's kuu)

>>119631284
>he had no evidence besides the evidence he had
genius

>>119632648
Again, we don't know (yet) if Heaven actually exists. I'm sure this will be mentioned later.

>>119630676
I'll take discussion that might mean nothing later on over the constant moe SoL shit posted here.

>>119632728
Noh masks aren't religious symbols either. Obviously they aren't going to copy-paste some religion into the show.

>>119632658
>>119632664
Ending your life doesn't reset your kharma. If you kill yourself you'll just get reincarnated and have to go through it all again. You have to attain enlightenment first.

Jesus, guys, it's not that hard of a concept.

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What's her function in the bar?

>>119632845
I'm saying your assumption that the void is a good thing because the void they're using isn't the one used in Buddhism.

>>119632905
prostitute

>>119632941
Well, you can't assume that it's a bad thing because they use a different word either.

>>119632885
Oh, are you currently achieving enlightenment spending your time watching Chinese cartoons and posting on an imageboard?

Judging by the episodes we have to watch and by what i've been told in this thread about reincarnation and buddha, it seems that the Husband and the young man in each respective episode were reincarnated. By the end of each episode, the Wife and the old man both seem to accept the mistakes they've made, and are at peace with their lives. But on the other hand, the Husband and young man are both in a state of chaos, and general nonacceptance of how things turned out. Therefore the Husband and young man are given another chance at life, and are reincarnated, while the old man and wife are sent to the void, and become one with the world.

>>119632905
Prostitute.

Has nobody picked up on the Funi's mistranslation? When the sluts are talking about Matchy in the bathroom one of them says:

>旦那さん、また医者だってよ
>Danna-san, mata isha datte yo

Which got translated as "I hear her husband is a doctor." when it should have been "I hear her husband is a doctor 'again'.", as if implying that this wasn't the first doctor she'd been with and possibly not her first doctor she was marrying with.

This could mean that Machida Yuuki divorced the doctor she married initially and is going to marry another doctor sometime after the main couple's wedding, thus invalidating >>119624375.

>>119630631
nigga he's senile

>>119632988
We can assume it's a bad thing because the mask above that elevator was mean looking.

Cheating is bad, loyalty is important. Me as an enlightened human beeing very much see loyalty as an important trait, the girl deserved eternal darkness in the void and the guy deserves another life where he can be enlightened like me and count loyalty as his #1 priority.

>>119631951
What you think about reincarnation doesn't have any impact on what Buddhism says about it. On the other hand, what Buddhism says about reincarnation might have a big impact on how the show expects us to interpret it.

>>119633031
Please no, I don't want 20 more threads about that.

>>119633031
>All this reaching

Wife even says Machida got married "several years ago"

>>119632988
Literal nothingness is kind of a bad thing as opposed to nothingness as in sunyata, anon.

>>119632988
If the masks over the elevators actually mean anything, then the girl got the bad outcome and the guy got the good outcome. I guess we'll see in future episodes.

>>119632905
Token trap prostitute

>>119633134
>what Buddhism says about reincarnation might have a big impact on how the show expects us to interpret it.
Oh what Buddhism says about reincarnation might have absolutely nothing to do with how reincarnation is approached in the show.

>>119633064
The old guy in Billiards got the same mask and he was pretty nice, so we can assume that this void is not that bad.
Not to mention that Hannya mask doesn't actually mean anything special.

>>119633002
>you can't understand a philosophical idea without actively practicing the tenets of its accompanying religion

>>119632163
>there's zero religious symbols so far.
I don't know shit about Buddhism, but I'm pretty sure those hands in the back are related to it.

God these threads are full of fucking retarded posters. Do you enjoy getting into futile arguments when there's no proof of anything for either side?

>>119633031
They outright show a flashback of the wife cheating though.

>>119633220
>how reincarnation is approached in the show
We don't know how reincarnation is approached in the show very well though.

>>119633220
It's certainly more likely than Christian/Western ideals being the basis of how things are approached.

>>119631847
It's not you fucking moron, reincarnation is something that every single living soul has do thousands of times to achieve enlightenment. The "second coming" of buddhism is literally just waiting for eons until every life in existence reincarnates enough times to becomes one with the universe, since there is no "herp you failed nigga, sorry" like in western religions.

You keep coming back, forever and ever, even when you fuck up badly enough to get sent to purgatory you come out of that too with enough time UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT AND ASCEND TO SPACE WITH YOUR BUDDHA BROS NIGGA

Reposting.

The elevators were at first referred to as Heaven (天国) or Hell (地獄). These are specifically Heaven and Hell as everyone knows them. Although in Shinto, only the gods live in Heaven, EVERYONE else goes to Hell. Like in Dragon Ball Z. Technically you go to Hell but there's a nice part of Hell where Goku goes and the really shitty part of Hell where Freiza lives. Also it's the same as Greek Mythology where the underworld has the Fields of Asphodel.

I'm guessing they're using the Christian versions for this show (these words in Japanese are also used to refer to Christian heaven or hell). So Heaven=good and Hell=bad

Later Decim refers to them as Reincarnation (転生) and Void （虚無）. Reincarnation is reincarnation as anyone knows it, but Void isn't the one that Buddhism uses, Buddhism refers to the Void as Kuu (空). This Void （虚無） specifically refers to literal nothingness. Like pre Big Bang nothingness. It's also used to refer to Nihilism which is the belief that life is meaningless in a bad way. Buddhism often does get mixed up with Nihilism but it really isn't the same thing. And I really don't want to get into this part so lets just skip it.

So what ultimately happened to Michiko, like everything, is ambiguous. We need to wait for the show to explain what the Void is. The Void is probably if anything, a special anime only thing. Like the thing behind the bar could be the Void for all we know, it was pretty spooky.

>>119633150
>>119633329
I'm not trying to argue in favor or against her. I just thought it was a relevant fact for the discussion. The mistranslation is a fact, not me "reaching" for anything. By the way, I think she might have cheated, but I also think she was telling the truth about Matchy.

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>>119633308
Forgot my pic.

wow this show is a real eye-opener
on you being uneducated fucks that don't know basics of 2 world's major religions.
Holy shit it like below high-school level.
>void is bad
are you people for real...

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Did this episode take place before Death Billiards?

Is this fujoshit?

>>119633395
Yes, and how exactly does Buddha describe this cycle of reincarnation again? What was it again? Oh, right, SUFFERING.

>>119633616
>>119633408
retard

>>119631093
Most lucid post in this thread.

>>119633648
So what do they represent?
Purgatory?

>>119633648
They're still dolls in the DP, right?

>>119633616
Remember, you're arguing with third worlders and people from sweden now. The same people who couldn't grasp psycho pass.

>>119632722
I'm going to be so hype if we get to see what happened in Death Billards from another perspective.

>>119631773
are japanese trucks the GOAT?

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>>119631093
JAPAN PRO-CHOICE

>>119633663
After. If you re-watch it you can hear the woman from this episode saying "Where am I?" at the very end.

>>119633616
People have already pointed out that they're not using the Buddhism term for nothingness, though.

>>119631093
They can only go in pairs though, and not every single person who has ever died goes through the bar. Also didn't the pope say fetuses have souls once they are infused with blood or some shit

>>119633254
I certainly wouldn't be saying 'A second chance to do what? Make the same mistakes again? Suffer through the same inevitable pains that plague every life, no matter how privileged?' otherwise, because we have absolutely no idea if Buddhist reincarnation has anything to do with the show.

So Anonymous, do you find the idea of living to be a hassle or not? I'm actually interested.

>>119631093
Underated post.

>>119633175
Sunyata is just a belief that everything is empty, akin to nihilism. People don't reach Sunyata, they reach Nirvana.

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>>119631773
This. It would've happened anyway even if the guy wasn't a massive cuck.

>>119633616
The void is not satori you fucking pleb.

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Why does he mention heaven and hell after the game is already over?

>>119633616
Spot the retard

>>119631093
Only two people can come down.

The baby was most likely already reincarnated

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>>119633905
>HONK

The way I see it the guy gets sent back because his spirit still needs to live more before it's ready to ascend, while the woman, who put his own well being before hers at the last minute, by lying to protect him proved to have matured enough and overcome the petty mundane existence the man was still stuck to.

>>119633691
Yeah, shit lost in translation (unless you know moon). I realize they purposely made it ambiguous but that in no way defends labeling void as "bad" on your first thought.

>>119633616
Since these are funi-subs, which are almost always shit-tier, what word did she use for "the void" anyways? How did FFF or other groups translate it? Because Buddhism has the equivalent of hell, so did she mean that or whatever that place is called after you break away from the cycle or something else unrelated to buddhism?

>>119634124
She had a positive pregnancy test.

>>119634025
This is what I was thinking. People are assuming the void is necessarily a bad thing, when all it means is that the person's life is over.

>>119633254
Isn't that precisely what Buddhism says though?

>>119632780
based anon telling it like it is

I want to cuddle with Braid-chan!

>>119634144
Oh right.

>>119634133
Read the thread retard.

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>>119634133
See:
>>119633408

In fact, here's a screen cap so it can be posted in every thread.

>>119634166
>634166 ▶
>>>119634025
Life being over is usually regarded as a bad thing.

What I don't get is, they had equal points.
All they had to do was miss, and it would have ended in a tie.

I thought Death Parade was a contender for AOTS at episode one....until I saw what was after the credits.

They absolutely, positively fucked up in telling us where the souls went. Immensely massive fuck up. It should have been left ambiguous.

>>119634133
the word for void in Buddhism is 空, the word they use in the show is 虚無. 空 is Sunyata, 虚無 is literal fucking nothingness.

Buddhist hell is called Naraka which is a literal hell for karma Sinners.

And why do people keep saying the void is a place in Buddhism? There is no Void in the six realms of existence. The Void refers to an empty state.

>Śūnyatā, (Sanskrit, also shunyata; Pali: suññatā), in Buddhism, translated into English as emptiness, voidness,[1] openness,[2] spaciousness, vacuity, is a Buddhist concept which has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. In Theravada Buddhism, suññatā often refers to the not-self (Pāli: anatta, Sanskrit: anātman)[note 1] nature of the five aggregates of experience and the six sense spheres. Suññatā is also often used to refer to a meditative state or experience.

>>119633841
I'm no expert at Buddhism but I think Sunyata is different from believing life is meaningless.

>>119634192
she doesn't look like the cuddling type

>>119634297
It would be hard to keep the same format fresh for 12 episodes.

>>119634302
>>119633408

>>119633825
Yes, but the chinese cartoons make it worth it. I've not been able to free myself from that desire and it always leads me to suffering when I read your posts. Maybe Buddha was right all along.

>>119634243
It means they are at peace with their life being over. They have no reason to try again.

Ya feel me?

>>119634269
Well, Michiko was probably going to do that when she said that she'll show him, but the guy tugged her.

The point is that Machiko regretted it, learned her lesson, and grew as a person Her sin is greater but she moved past it and won't make the same mistake again. This is why she gets nirvana and he doesn't. He didn't do anything wrong except attempt murder but he still couldn't get past his hang ups.

>>119633408
>>119633408

so if she:

>was a complete bitch
>went to void as a bad thing

or if she:

>made all that at the end to save his husband
>went to void as nirvana

amirite?

>>119634302
Since the void is put in opposition to reincarnation, people are interpreting "going to the void" to mean escaping the cycle of reincarnation, which is pretty reasonable.

>>119634361

No, it wouldn't. In fact, Mushishi did a fantastic fucking job with it. This first episode reminded me so much of Mushishi that it was a bit jarring.

>>119634438
>So what ultimately happened to Michiko, like everything, is ambiguous. We need to wait for the show to explain what the Void is. The Void is probably if anything, a special anime only thing.

>>119634243
Yes, but being stuck in the cycle reincarnation is regarded as a bad thing by many people too.

>>119634523

I have not seen any imagining or representation of any kind of "void" that wasn't bad, completely bad, or "oh fucking shit I'm so fucked" horrible.

>>119634431
Cheating does not get you a ticket to nirvana, and she went to the void, not nirvana, brahman, or whatever.
Just by the sound of it you can hear that the 'void' is not a positive thing (for her).

>>119633463
Are you positive it means 'again' and not 'too'? If they said 'too' at the end it could mean Matchy always gets the best deals, like husband being a doctor and her main men being really handsome. It also fits with what Takashi says 'You have never lost, did you?' meaning she always, always plays to win.

>>119634170
No? There are a bunch of different branches, and some might say you need to follow their teachings to reach enlightenment, but the fundamental truth that life is suffering is something that anyone can see. It's what leads people to follow the teachings in the first place.

>>119634431
This. The sins she committed while alive are irrelevant when we're talking about reincarnation. The only thing that matters is her spirit, which, given that reincarnation is a thing in that world, exists beyond her mundane, physical self.

>>119634658
I agree, but I think the better position is the one of the copy-pasted anon.

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Wasn't the game in Death Billiards rigged from the start? Maybe this was too with in favor of the wife but her sudden outburst made the bartender guy reconsider his decision. He looked pretty shocked when it happened.

>>119634678
This is christianity. Hitler could reach nirvana if he managed to achieve it before his death. The void is nirvana. The ultimate goal is not having to reincarnate because life a shit.

>>119634658
People who reach Nirvana lose their Ego, so from one's perspective it may as well be the void.

>>119634747

Well, think of it this way:

Nirvana is a state of being.
All definitions of a "void" are states without being.

There is no way, in any universe, in any interpretation that being sent to a void is a good thing. While being reincarnated isn't necessarily a good thing, it is most definitely not a bad thing.

>Void has a demon face on door
>Reincarnation has a peaceful face on door
This doesn't seem all that difficult.

>>119634845
you're rambling.

>>119634823
It could be. It could not. The game doesn't really matter.

>>119634845
isn't* fug. Its Buddhism, obviously.

>>119634850
Not reincarnating is the same as going to the void. Its the good end.

>>119634896
No, i'm right. Her sins aren't the determining factor here.

>>119634700
Yes, I'm positive. The phrase can't be interpreted in the way you suggested. Regardless of who Matchy is, there were at least two doctors in Matchy's life, one of them is either married or engaged to her at that point in time, and there's a decent chance the previous one was married to her too.

>>119634850
>Nirvana
>>119633408
not Budhism

My interpretation is that Machiko made up the Matchy story and she really did cheat on her husband.
Whoever wins the game goes into the void and whoever loses gets reincarnated.
bad winner: goes to bad void (nothingness)
bad loser: reincarnated into bug
good winner: goes to good void (nirvana)
good loser: reincarnated into human

>>119634965
>Its Buddhism, obviously.
>>119633408
Go fuck yourself.

Did they ever mention that the elevators were always one or the other? Who says that future games can't result in both going to hell or reincarnate?

>>119632049
>It's call negligent homicide
I thought the term for that was manslaughter?

>>119635074
What's the point of the game if they both end up going to the same place?

Death Parade is is the evangelion of our generation. It's so deep I can't tell what actually happened..

>>119634888
Yeah, it seems pretty clear cut.

>>119635050
Its the obvious interpretation given the buddhist imagery present throughout the entire thing. The closest thing to the void in buddhist imagery would be nirvana, especially considering its being juxtaposed with reincarnation. You're really stupid if you can't see that.

>>119635074

I believe that's the entire caveat. The "casino" is basically the universe's idea of a joke. The only people who ever get sent there are those that die at the same time. Obviously, they have more visitors during times of war or during times of plague, but if we assume that it's taking place in a universe similar to our own, there's really not a whole lot of that going around these days. At least, not in Japan anyway.

>>119634888
Did you watch Dead Billiards?

>>119634975
Or it could be she only dates doctors, as in being a gold digger, and this one just happened to hit it off. Does 'again' refer to her being married or the guy she's going to marry happens to be a doctor 'again'? But why didn't Takashi got surprised Machiko married before if she thought she was Matchy?

The 'too' in "her main is handsome too" is different?

>>119635200
>The closest thing to the void in buddhist imagery would be nirvana
kek

She was lying when she kept saying it was her husband's baby. Actually, she was lying when she said she had a baby in the first place. It was just her trying to keep hubby from going homicidal. There was no baby or other man. She thought she made a gamble in her favor but damn was she wrong. Hubby was making paranoid assumptions and she was trying to fix her mistake but she just kept making it worse. The final straw was when hubby said he didn't think it was his baby, then she snapped. She can't believe he would think that and her anger makes her disregard every mistake she made trying to calm her husband. All she feels is anger and disbelief. She's hurt. You know what she does next? She tries to hurt him back real good and she did a hell(lol) of a good job with that. Now it all comes to an end. She's now a slut and her husband is an insane almost murderer(they're already dead though). You could also say it was husband who should've got sent to the void because they wouldn't be dead in the first place if he hadn't reached over to grab wife's phone. Though if that was the case, they wouldn't have had the game in the first place.

Or maybe it happened exactly the way it was shown to happen and we're all just retarded.

>>119635209
Fuck, I meant Death.

>>119635050
>The closest thing to the void in buddhist imagery would be nirvana
see >>119634302 retard

Is this the edgy anime of the season?

>>119635245
Interpreting it as an escape from the cycle of reincarnation is completely reasonable in context.

>>119635290
Tokyo Ghoul root A is the edgy show

>>119635290
Watch it and find out you absolute wanker.

>>119635200
>Its the obvious interpretation given the buddhist imagery
Imagery doesn't have to mean shit and could just be there simply as a motif representing reincarnation.

>The closest thing to the void in buddhist imagery would be nirvana
Stop.

>>119635287
How is that a revelation? If anything it supports my interpretation since we know that its obviously heavily influenced by buddhism which is undeniable, and the void isn't buddhist hell.

>>119635304
>Interpreting it as an escape from the cycle of reincarnation is completely reasonable in context.
So you're saying that it's Buddhism because it's Buddhism ? Great.

>>119635404
It's heavily influenced by religion in general. Buddhism is not the only religion with reincarnation, you know..

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>>119635270
We should take every flash back scene as truth because there's really no reason for them to be lies. The flashbacks are them regaining their memories. She was definitely preggo. I personally think it wasn't his child in the first place. Everyone knows the MC never gets his NTR waifu pregnant.

>>119635145
They're the same thing. Someone died because you didn't do your due diligence.

>>119635270
That's okay buddy. There was no ntr. The wife was pure, just made some nistakes. The guy just got paranoid and caused shit. The void is nirvana and she's happy.

There, you can sleep soundly now.

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>>119635465
the fact that they actually say Heaven or Hell surprises me that we don't have any Christians in this thread.

>MUH NON PURE WIFE
Sometime, you have to avoid talking about shit in the past and accept the person as he/she is now.


Hell, it is possible that she start to cheat because her husband is a paranoid piece of shit.

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>>119635434
Okay, so, if it is buddhism I am in fact obviously correct.

You're contesting that it might be some anime only religion. You're not contesting that in the context of buddhism its so fucking strait forward that even a child could figure it out. Correct?

>>119635304
>implying falling out of the circle of reincarnation is a good thing

They both seemed like pretty awful people.

>>119635526
I went to catholic school

>>119635526
I'm pretty sure there's no reincarnation in Christianity.

>>119635516
Oh no, I get that. I just have never heard the term 'negligent homicide' before.

>>119635588
Only God gets to cause he's like 3 people in one

>>119635550
It's not fucking buddhism. Since when does Buddha own a fucking bar? It's some made up religion based on all world religions.

>>119635588
See above.

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>>119633727
>people from sweden now
>2015
>living in sweden

>>119635228
>the guy she's going to marry happens to be a doctor 'again'
This one.

>But why didn't Takashi got surprised Machiko married before if she thought she was Matchy?
He actually gasps in shock at that exact line.

>The 'too' in "her main is handsome too" is different?
It's a "as if that wasn't good enough, her main is handsome too" kind of "too". In this case the translation was okay.

Holy shit, will you people shut the fuck up about Buddhism?

>>119635476
If they make a story where the woman NTRs her husband, but always uses a condom with the other guy while letting him impregnate her, would that be better or worse for the anti-NTR brigade?

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>>119635651
The overarching mechanism is likely going to be directly jacked from one religion. The bar is just an offshoot. Find me significant christian imagery or islamic or jewish in the show if you think its just a giant mix. Even void is "new", so its certainly not supportive of it being a mix. If its not directly jacked from buddhism, its almost certainly an interpretation thats slightly altered in its overall form as opposed to some vague mixture.

>>119635578
They both seemed pretty human to me. Both had good sides and bad sides.