I can only describe the story of DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 with one word: mind-blowing. So many secrets are revealed in this episode. Especially the secrets revolving around Ontan’s past that they teased a couple episodes ago. Needless to say, you’ll likely be gaping at the screen the whole time like I was.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13: Details

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION NA key art.
And now we know why Ontan acts like she does.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 is the 14th episode (you can read my reviews of Ep. 0, Ep. 1, Ep. 2, Ep. 3, Ep. 4, Ep. 5, Ep. 6, Ep. 7, Ep. 8, Ep. 9, Ep. 10, Ep. 11, and Ep. 12 here) of this 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.

Production Cast

Tomoyuki Kurokawa is the director behind DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13, 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. This time though, “Seishun Ōka” (青春謳歌, lit. ’ Adolescence Hymn’) by Lilas Ikuta feat. Ano is the new ending theme song for this second part.

Voice Cast

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 features the voices of Lilas Ikuta (Elyse Maloway in English dub) as Kadode Koyama and (Britt McKillip in English dub) as Oran “Ontan” Nakagawa.

Other notable voices in this episode include Miyuri Shimabukuro (Meaghan Hommy in English dub) as Ai Demoto, Saeko Oki (Kazumi Evans in English dub) as Rin Hirama, Azumi Waki (Chelsea Miller in English dub) as Futaba Takemoto, Ryoko Shiraishi (Travis Turner in English dub) as Makoto Tainuma, Koki Uchiyama (Graham Hamilton in English dub) as Kenichi Kohiruimaki, Saori Ōnishi (Kazumi Evans in English dub) as Hikari Sumaru, Kengo Kawanishi (Bill Newton in English dub) as Tarō Miura, Miyu Irino (Cole Howard in English dub) as Keita Ōba, and Junichi Suwabe (Mike Li in English dub) as Hiroshi Nakagawa.

When and Where to Watch

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 made its airing and streaming (aka. simulcast) debut on August 22, 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. 13: Synopsis

Well, at least he has learned to keep his sneezing under control.

Alas, DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION is an ongoing anime series. In fact, DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 only just premiered 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 read that synopsis below:

Futaba makes a decision regarding the task assigned to her by SHIP. Early in the morning, Ontan sneaks off somewhere, causing Oba to fear the worst. Together with Makoto, he tries to find Oran before anything worse happens.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13: The Good

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 screenshot showing Futaba holding Isobeyan up at Ouran.
I suppose you can say that this is a good thing for Futaba to do.

The story of DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 is why my eyes were glued to the screen the whole time. Because seriously, the revelations just kept coming one after the other. There is some drama with Futaba and the 3D printed gun she got, but it’s mostly overshadowed by all the drama around Ontan. Good lord, the drama is intense. I can’t even reveal anything about it because it very easily crosses into spoiler territory. However, I’m just going to say: Inio Asano writes some very dark stories here.

Complementing that story is the animation by Production +h.. Their animators continue to maintain a very high animation quality for this anime. It isn’t surprising really, considering that they were also the ones animating the original anime film duology this anime is based off of. That animation quality really gets put into focus with the trippier aspects of this episode. Without context: leaping across universes and going into locations with distorted space-time produces some of the most bizarre animation sequences.

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13: The Bad

DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13 screenshot showing Keita rushing along with Makoto.
This on the other hand could’ve been very bad indeed.

If I had one complaint about DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION Ep. 13, it’s the way the story is handling Kadode and Ouran’s relationship. In any other story, I feel this would’ve resulted in a romance developing between them. Yes, because they’re both women, their relationship is treated as being somehow…lesser than romance? Or at least, neither of them even remotely consider their relationship to be romantic. I realize that very strong platonic relationships do exist, but…this could’ve been a really good yuri story if they had just gone that route. I’m just disappointed that appears to not be the case here.

And alas, this episode is not the episode for action junkies. There’s not a hint of action in this episode. It’s basically all suspense, drama, and thriller this time. Not even the very dark and bloody military action of the previous episode. If you want high-intensity action scenes, then you might want to check out Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Solo Leveling, Kaiju No. 8, and/or The Elusive Samurai.

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