English Dub Review: Angels of Death “Who are you?”

Find out your true self.

Overview:

With Zack injured, Rachel sets out to find some medicine.

Our Take:

The series had been slacking before, but now things are really, genuinely good. For the first time since the start of the series, Rachel is on her own again, and so every decision is in her hands. She needs to find some medicine to stop Zack from bleeding to death and enters the new floor with an unparalleled determination.

Gray is the new floor master, and now it’s clear that each of the floors presides over a certain kind of death. Zack, the murderer. Danny, the coroner. Eddie, the gravedigger. Cathy, the judge. Now Gray, the priest. It’s still unclear what this all stands for, but either way, the cycles that a corpse goes through is evident in the layout of this mysterious place that Rachel, the sacrifice, is now traversing. Gray’s floor is even more poignant, considering how we know that Rachel is a very religious person.

Thing is, it’s not entirely clear if Rachel’s perspective is one that can be entirely trusted. It’s obvious that the sweet-smelling gas that Gray uses is something that he uses to cast his judgments, so it could be a hallucinogen. As she exits the confessional, the gas is gone, and several of the paintings that she needed to perform upon to get there aren’t present on her way out. Being under the influence of the gas again, it’s unclear whether the zombies she sees are real people or not. If they are real, they’re probably not zombies, and Rachel is making the decision to slaughter them.

Rachel is on a mission to save Zack, and so she makes a point to push through everything to get some medicine for him. It doesn’t matter how gruesome or potentially traumatic it is, she’s willing to plow through anything. Whether that is other people, horrible implications, or possibly, her own parents. It’s implied, but Rachel’s very quick ability to cut down something that seems like her parents’ hints that she’s willing to do it- or that she’s done it before. We’re not sure of why everyone considers Rachel to be a sinner, but it’s very possible that she’s a criminal that lost her memory, and is now in this place. Altogether mysterious, but hopefully things will be clear as Rachel goes through Gray’s trial.

In that sense, ‘who are you’ is analogous to ‘what are you capable of’. In Rachel’s case, it seems like she’s capable of a whole lot.