Decim is unexpectedly emotionless as part of his character development. His face shows no slight bit of humor or any trace of emotion at all. While the games make each human show their true nature and gore splatters across the screen, as a viewer we feel utterly emotionless which is odd when witnessing such a shocking scenario. We tend to identify with Decim and understand his character better when we feel as though the humans portrayed are beneath us living ones. However, in reality we just don’t want to admit to ourselves that we could eventually become these people in the right scenario.

Death is a subject that has been conveyed many times throughout anime. The approach to death as a game makes light of death and rather than being this ultimate and life changing crossing it is simply a job that falls as others monotonous day jobs. This approach to death makes it less scary and rather sad because of how much those in the afterlife look down on humans. Each look that we see from humans are skewed to benefit their own agenda and though it is rare, it makes those who truly are good people all the better.

Decim is arguably one of the best characters in anime. He not only does an excellent job of being a bartender and entertaining those who come to him after death, but also reaches further heights by wondering about who he is and why he came to be in the position that he is in. Since Decim was made by those above him and not born as a human, he has no purpose in what he does and watching him desperately search for that makes us root for him on a deeper level than many other characters. Decim is an emotionless character in many scenes but the depth that he is given throughout the anime draws us towards him and become completely entranced by his world.