DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6: The Twist Darkens [Review]

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 continues the sudden childhood twist from the previous episode. However, the twist gets even twistier in this episode, going down a very dark and disturbing rabbit hole. Seriously, by the end of this episode, you too will have your mouth dropping open and going “WTF?!”.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6: Details

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 is the sixth episode (you can read reviews of Ep. 0, Ep. 1, Ep. 2, Ep. 3, Ep. 4, and Ep. 5 here) of this postapocalyptic science fiction slice-of-life anime series. Said anime is the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Inio Asano (Solanin, Goodnight Punpun). Said anime also originally premiered as a pair of anime films on March 22, 2024 and May 24, 2024. Production +h. (The Orbital Children) is the animation studio behind this anime. Crunchyroll is the company licensing this anime for its worldwide debut.

Tomoyuki Kurokawa is the director behind DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6, and alas, he is the only member of the production cast we know is behind this specific episode. For the anime as a whole, we do still know that Tomoyuki Kurokawa (PSYCHO-PASS) is the director. Reiko Yoshida (Violet Evergarden) is the writer. Takaaki Suzuki (Violet Evergarden series) did the world setting. Nobutake Ito (INU-OH) is the chief animation director and character designer. Satoshi Takezawa (Digimon Adventure) is the color designer. Mika Nishimura (Typhoon Noruda) is the art director. Satoi Inami is the CG director. Takuma Morooka (Moriarty the Patriot) is the cinematographer. Masayuki Kurosawa (Laid-Back Camp) is the editor. Takeshi Takadera ([Oshi no Ko]) is the sound director. Taro Umebayashi (Space Dandy) is the composer responsible for the music.

Speaking of the music: the opening theme song is “Shinsekai Yori” (SHINSEKAIより, lit. ’From the New World’) by Ano and Lilas Ikuta. “ZeZeZeZettai Seiiki” also by Ano and Lilas Ikuta is the ending theme song.

Voice Cast

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 features the voices of Lilas Ikuta (Elyse Maloway in English dub) as Kadode Koyama and (Britt McKillip in English dub) as Oran “Ontan” Nakagawa. The other notable voices in this episode include Tomokazu Sugita (English dub voice actor unknown) as Isobeyan, Junichi Suwabe (Mike Li in English dub) as Hiroshi Nakagawa, and Kenjiro Tsuda (Giles Panton in English dub) as Nobuo Koyama.

When and Where to Watch

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 made its airing and streaming (aka. simulcast) debut on July 4, 2024. You can watch this episode of the anime only on Crunchyroll. In fact, you can watch this anime series as a whole only on Crunchyroll as well, due to it being an exclusive there.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6: Synopsis

Alas, DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION is an ongoing anime series. In fact, DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 only just made its debut six days ago as of this writing. Thus, you will all get the official synopsis of this episode from Crunchyroll in place of a spoiler-filled plot summary. You can check out that synopsis below:

Kadode decides to use the tools of an “invader” to help people in trouble. During the hot summer, he tries to help a pregnant woman who is stuck at a closed railway crossing, but accidentally causes a train derailment. Shocked that his good intentions ended up hurting people, Kadode resolves never to fail again…

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6: The Good

Okay, seriously, there’s no question about it. It’s the story of DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 that had me glued to my seat, gripping my keyboard in astonishment at what was happening. Long story short and without spoilers: this episode suddenly turns the cute slice of life into a very dark thriller, full of violence, blood, and death. Seriously, there is suddenly 1000% more death in this episode, to the point where it’s approaching a horror story, all courtesy of Inio Asano. It’s gone from dark chocolate straight into pure cacao at this point.

Complementing that violent thriller of a story is the animation. Production +h. continue to maintain a very high quality of animation in this episode. All anime film levels of quality, which you can see in the detailed animation of the bloody violence. Which does make sense considering that the same studio also made the anime film duology that this anime was adapted from. If you’re going to make an anime out of a pair of anime films, why not go the whole way and give it feature-length anime film levels of animation quality?

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6: The Bad

If you’re not a fan of very dark thrillers, then DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 6 probably isn’t for you. Seriously, it’s quite intense. If you want something nice and relaxing to calm down with, I would suggest Astro Note, Senpai is an Otokonoko, and/or the more light-hearted episodes of Black Butler -Public School Arc- and Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF. Those are relaxing enough to help you calm down from the intensity of this episode, along with perhaps a chilled cup of tea.

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