Based on a novel series, this moderately diverting gamer-inspired adventure centers on a monkish computer-games programmer/moderator, 29-year-old Ichirou—nicknamed "Satou"—who works long hours in the office one weekend. Subsequently, while asleep, he finds himself a teenager again, exploring (with aid from floating pop-up menus and list graphics) a magical realm that is a pastiche of fantasy-game clichés—a land of medieval-style settlements, wizards, animal-people, elves, and warnings about the return of a once-defeated "demon lord." Blending into society as a merchant, Satou "levels up" with skills and weapons and emerges victorious in adventures that also result in a growing harem of nubile female questing companions. It turns out that this is not an otaku dream or virtual reality but rather some kind of afterlife (gamer heaven?), and Satou is not the only person with keyboard/controller mojo involved, although much remains unresolved by the finale. Presenting all 12 episodes from 2018 in a dual-language Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, rated TV-14, extras include an episode commentary. A strong optional purchase. (C. Cassady)
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
(2018) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $84.98. Funimation (avail. from most distributors). Volume 34, Issue 5
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
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