YMMV / Angels of Death

• Awesome Music:
  • First Quarter Moon, a BGM playing during Rachel's floor. A combination of violin and dubstep makes the song astounding and fitting the tragic circumstances she faced.
  • VITAL by Endoh Masaaki, the opening theme of the anime. Fits the dark and edgy atmosphere of the series while showing each character throughout and highlighting some cool visuals.
  • Pray sung by Rachel's seiyuu, Haruka Chisuga, a melancholic yet beautiful song that captures her character's personality and the series' more somber mood.
• Complete Monster: Catherine "Cathy" Ward, the B3 floor master, was once a manipulative girl who strung Lucy into killing her school rivals, before growing up to become a sadistic prison warden who punished the "sinners" under her charge, forcing Lucy into helping her, later killing Lucy herself. Helping Danny Dickens recruit killers for the Tower, when Ray Gardner and Zack Foster encounter her, Cathy tortures both of them, and also makes Zack relive traumatizing memories from his past, before drugging him to force him to kill Ray. Additionally, Cathy keeps several Tower prisoners withered and trapped to enjoy their unending pain.
• Draco in Leather Pants: All of the Floor Masters have received plenty of love and sympathy from the fandom despite being serial killers. The fact that all of them have sympathetic backstories (with the exception of Cathy) doesn't hurt in the least, a popular theme for many fans is portraying them as normal people with happy lives.
• Fanon: In regard to the Ambiguous Ending, it's mostly accepted that Zack and Rachel escaped and made it out alive. The novel confirms that they do escape, but it's unknown if they are still alive right after that.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: A really big number of people ship Rachel and Zack despite the big age difference due to the interactions they share as the game progresses. Some people age Rachel up just to be safe.
  • If Pixiv is to be believed, another favorite couple is Daniel/Cathy. It helps that Daniel and Cathy act as the Villain Protagonist and Deuteragonist, respectively, in the prequel manga, Episode: 0. The two even went out on a "date", or something similar to one, in Chapter 3.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Ib, Forest of Drizzling Rain (A game by the same creator) and Noel The Mortal Fate.
• Magnificent Bastard: Reverend Abraham Gray is the B2 floor master and the Tower's creator, having done so after becoming repulsed by evil actions committed in God's name, so he could himself could experience being God. In Episode 0, Gray has Dr. Danny Dickens and Cathy Ward recruit killers to serve as the masters of the Tower's floors and kidnaps people to be put through the Tower's Deadly Game. Though sinister in intent, Gray truly cares for his followers like family. When an amnesiac Ray Gardner comes to him for medicine for Zack Foster, Gray puts her through a dangerous trial with the intent to have her confront her past sins. Guiding Zack through floor B1, Gray helps him rescue Ray from Danny and helps her and Zack escape from Danny, resolving to stay behind and die in the collapsing tower for his own sins after realizing his shortcomings.
• Narm: The running sequence where you first flee from Zack can result in this if he gets stuck against various objects only to appear right behind you unimpeded if you load into another area, especially if you've been taking multiple tries to do this.

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