Question Why is explosion animation not appearing when i shoot the enemy in unity 2D?

I set up a death animation clip in unity and added the sprites, it runs just fine in the preview player, but when I enter play mode to test it, nothing appears once the enemy is shot, i.e. the explosion animation does not appear, additionally there are no errors or messages in the console.

I followed two youtuve videos so far, and neither have worked for me, the movement animation on the enemy works fine, that did not give me any trouble when i set it up at least.

Here are the relevant scripts:

using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyDeath : MonoBehaviour { private Animator anim;

void Start()
{
anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
}

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Arrow"))
{
Die();
}
}

public void Die()
{
anim.SetTrigger("death");
}

}

script 2:

using UnityEngine;

public class ShotEnemy : MonoBehaviour { private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D col) { if (col.gameObject.tag.Equals("Arrow")) { ScoreManager.instance.Addpoints(); // AudioManager.instance.PlaySFX("EnemyKill"); Destroy(col.gameObject); Destroy(gameObject); } } }

Both scripts are attached to the sprite gameobject of the enemy i was testing it on, that's where the animator component is and it runs the movement animation just fine as I stated before. I posted the second one because maybe that's where the code should go?