Death Parade

[Ryllharu]

They never show Mayu actually making a choice. Never. All we see is her hesitating over and over.

Your explanation actually has no fewer assumptions.

- That the mask flip has any deeper meaning. Both elevators can flip masks. They do it all the time. Just saying, "well the animators put it in, it must be really important!" is terrible reasoning. Ginti also has a cat, and that hasn't had any impact on anything. You can easily say that the mask starts the one way and flips to the other because Mayu is actually being rewarded (which she is), but flips because they still have to go to the void.

- Who wouldn't be shocked their body is disintegrating? Chiyuki had the same reaction when hers started to flake.

- You say Ginti was satisfied, I say Ginti was resigned. Interpretable either way apparently, though I will never agree with yours. The tone of his last line agrees with me.

Ginti couldn't judge her, but wanted a reason to make a decision. He didn't get it. When she refused to play along, he sent them to the void together, not separately. Mayu wasn't willing to sacrifice someone else for Harada, and wasn't willing to abandon him either. Your interpretation can't explain their souls merging together, and the final shot being of two mannequin's holding hands.

We can keep going, or we can agree to disagree.