![]() I'm not sure why we would want to know about some deep-seated meaning behind sex monsters assaulting young little boys. I've had people telling me there's subtlety and references in the jokes made. It’s commendable that the show doesn’t want to stick to the usual anime cliches, but its blatant suggestive violence and unfunny boorish humor immensely outweigh the more evocative beats this show may have had, if any at all. A nun is literally gang-raped on-screen to oblivion in quite visually hilarious fashion, yet she gets made fun of for being pathetic and weak. An Idaten gets knocked around to where they have gaping holes in their bodies or broken bones all over, but then an unfunny joke or remark is inserted and immediately kills any incentive to take shit seriously. Someone gets brutally killed and turned to mush and blood, yet there’s no realistic sense of shock or impactfulness, just a stale deadpan reaction. Nearly every episode, the show feels obligated to insert some obnoxious, and ugly slapstick gags, yet attempts to juxtapose more serious moments. The tone is all over the place, and it seems obsessed with garnishing the obscenity, yet somehow it still wants to be something serious. I’m not saying a show like Idaten needs to go full-on philosophical, but what’s the point of all the chaotic splatter and action if there’s barely any sufficient groundwork done beforehand?Īside from the wasted concepts, Idaten Deities has more fundamental issues at its core. The intended subtextual notes are nullified, and the show turns into your typical black-and-white action series full of conceited perilous plotting here and there that matter no more than further complications. The given opportunity to judge and absolve the down-to-earth problems of humanity is discarded conveniently. With this uninspiring and underwhelming twist, anything tactful the series had is no more. Except that it later turns out here that the presented main antagonists turn out to be.demons themselves, revived and disguised as the radical authoritarian human figures responsible for all the main conflict. It means that the deities would eventually need to take action at some point, because the many lives that would be saved in the process of punishing and killing actual criminals would still matter more, regardless of their previous reasoning. I’m usually an advocate of the concept of grey morality when it’s implemented the right way. The main reasoning for them to not help humans seemed compelling and mature at first: saving lives would also mean taking lives as well. The long-lived deities don’t intervene, they just lay around observing stuff, their boredom fueled by the lack of adversity since the clash against the demons. This is no by means anything new, but it would’ve sufficed, regardless. Centuries later, humans has since advanced in technology and civilization, but have turned into their own worst enemy as a result, constantly getting into conflict with each other for multiple sociopolitical or military reasons. In response, a higher race known as deities, also referred to as the Idaten, step in and seal the demons away, effectively saving humanity in the process and maintaining peace in the world. During the earlier days of human history, mysterious monsters known simply as demons attacked and came close to wiping out humanity. The basic premise of Idaten Deities sounds really neat at first. Idaten Deities, on the other hand, has a sense of embellishment that is foul and tactless in nearly every way thinkable. much as I heavily disliked the latter being essentially anime pornography, it was at least wasn’t something I found especially offensive or grotesque. It isn’t so surprising when it turns out to be written and created by the same author who did Interspecies Reviewers, which itself was quite the shameless example of anime pornography, for better or worse. Idaten Deities advertises itself as brainless “style over substance” entertainment, but it turns out be something far more inherently vulgar than what people wanted to acknowledge or admit. What you get is essentially this filth of a series, and from the likes of Studio MAPPA, no less. Imagine taking a great portrait like the Mona Lisa, and then furiously splashing it with buckets of different colored paint.
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