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| Good ending for a good show. Loved every episode and scenario for the entire anime |
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| This was really sad but also a strangely satisfying conclusion. |
| It's been 2 years, and this is still one of my fave anime ever |
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| #900th post Okay episode. Not much I learned from this slow paced series. 6/10 overall.  Nice art.  (The beard twirling was kinda NSFW and erotic.) The Chavvot story seems to be referencing how the living people(deaf) can't interact with the dead. Well, what if Decim actually showed her mom's actual scenario in real life and what he said was true about restoring her to life? I hoped they left that question lying around. I expected more from this series and for the most part, this was boring and poorly written at the end. Cliche ending. Kaiji was a better series at exploring life and death than this series can ever match up to be. Death Parade is just one of Madhouse's recent failures post 2011. I hope Madhouse gets itself back on track to bring the classics back. |
 Without change,we end up becoming the very person we hate. I was dead until the moment I met you. I was a powerless corpse pretending to be alive. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was bound to lead me to a slow death. |
| really enjoyed the existential theme of this show. hated the ending. essentially used decim's emotional side as a scapegoat for revealing chiyuki's morality |
 And then Decim's heart grew three sizes that day. Arbiters are supposed to be sentient puppets or something? Why were they created with the ability to feel emotions and conspire against their apparent god? And also, they live in the present? Is there a concept of time in the afterlife? |
ShockedOct 26, 2018 2:49 PM
Shocked said: And then Decim's heart grew three sizes that day. Arbiters are supposed to be sentient puppets or something? Why were they created with the ability to feel emotions and conspire against their apparent god? And also, they live in the present? Is there a concept of time in the afterlife? Just like how in the bible, God gave humans free will, in the universe of Death Parade, God gave the arbiters free will. The laws were made by the arbiters, not by a higher power, and they have free will, something they were unaware of until now. At least that's my view on it. |
removed-userApr 21, 2019 3:25 PM
| Episode reaction: A good ending to the show. I loved the moments between Chiyuki and Decim, and Decim finally obtaining the emotions he so desperately sought was beautiful. I love Ginti's little Mayu doll too. Also, god damn Oculus was fucking creepy this episode. Not sure I necessarily enjoyed the direction his character took... Series as a whole reaction: This show was an emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, and while it didn't necessarily have the 14/10 stories that some other shows have, I don't really think this show needed one. It had a message it wanted to deliver and it did just that. I can definitely see where some people wouldn't enjoy this show, but I loved it and can see myself wholeheartedly recommending it. 8/10. |
GytanzoJun 29, 2019 7:37 PM
| Pretty good series, but as with a lot of 1 cour anime it had the potential to be so much better. |
| I heart broke when Decim cried, broke more when Decim and Chiyaki said farewell! I was so glad to see Decim smile in the end and see Chiyaki's doll placed beside the bar. I loved this anime but I wish it could have been more than 12 episodes, I found the plot was a little rushed at the end. Definitely hoping for a season two at some point! |
| Final ep.. Impressive series, and a perfectly and fittingly emotional final. This series is truly a masterpice. The Characters were interesting and deep, the episode that featured guests were not built on a repetitve formula (like i excepted in after the 1st ep.), and everyone, Including the smallest background characters had truly well developed, almost-realistc human-like personalities. The final just blew me away.... Truly the handwork of a passionte creator, instatly going to rewatch after i finish everything i want to.... |
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| I was crying alongside these two people...have no idea why this episode has such a strong emotional impact on me...Also, I want some development in this world, cause I feel like there wasn't enough of it during this number of episodes |
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More importantly...WHAT HAPPENED TO MEMINE! WHERE DID KITTY GO!????[/quote] Good question! When Ginti sends Mayu and Harada into the Void, the cat jumps off his arm (episode 11) and was obivously never seen again (at least in the anime).[/quote] Yeah, it seems like Memine didn't agree with Ginti's verdict and was like, oh you evil evil and said aight imma head out. |
| This last episode made me cry :') (Actually this whole series made me tear up). I didn't think I was gonna like this but I'm so glad I watched it! Also, for almost every episode I listened to the op song 😭 It's so upbeat compared to what actually goes on in the show |
| Ok not 'one of the best animes of the '10s' as a lot of people think but still enjoyable. 7/10 |
 "Please stop talking about math when I'm eating." |
| It's clearly an overrated series, but still an enjoyable one, easy to get into and really fun with its dynamics. They wasted a lot of potential, setting up a bunch of interesting characters and intriguing world while never actually exploring them. They tried to find a balance between episodic content ad an overarching plot that goes absolutely nowhere. The series ends with a myriad questions still lingering: 1) why god left and goes through the idea to set up this overblown system to judge people? 2) maybe he's observing and judging the arbiters, if they are worthy of jugding the living, if they can change in order to judge them more fairly and blablabla. I thought for a while that clavis could be like a link/messenger to god or something, but seeing how easily oculus obtain info from him I don't think thats the case. 3) nona's past? why oculus so fixated in maintaning the same rules for arbiters? castra and clavis clearly underdeveloped/underutilized. how many towers are there? other arbiters? etc they did a fine job in portraying how different you can be judged whether you end up with ginti, decim or other arbiters (I suppose) given similar situations (mayu has to decide if she wants to sacrifice kira for harada, similar context for chiyuki in ep12). obviously the outcome is different due to decim having chiyuki around and awakening to human emotions/empathy and passing a more "fair" judgement in contrast to the old system (ginti's and the others etc) hope to see a second season since they could go in a lot of ways to close this up properly |
WhiteTestamentMar 27, 2020 4:59 AM
| Great feels in this episode. An enjoyable 'concept' series overall. Many finer details left unattended but a smooth ride nonetheless. |
| Seems like Oculus was once a human. Thankfully, Chiyuki got out before Oculus is going to do something to this place. I guess, why Decim felt so emotional is because somebody's important to him is in an emotional state, I think they have shown this before that Chiyuki's word affects his 'emotion'. Unlike other people who cried whilst being judged, they doesn't affect Decim at all. Well, seems now Decim will have a different judgement system on Quindecim. |
| He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. |
| Better than Death Note for Me!!! |
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| Nice ending and the last five episodes were the best. 7/10 as I feel there are lacking in some ways. Some episodes also felt like just a filler ones. |
| the ending was so sudden and felt raw |
| “Life is a constant process of dying.” |
| This anime is amazing, fu**ing amazing. Definitely one of my favorites. 9/10 |
| Is this it? I mean, I really enjoyed a lot, episodes like 9-10, the one with the childhood friends, and even this last one, the resolution for Decim and Chiyuki and appropriate IMO, the music was on point, with really good value of production overall... but really? Smudy said: So Oculus did nothing lol. And just a big ass tease thrown in for a season 2. I don't think, it's gonna happen though. Good ending nevertheless, i feel like some things weren't explained properly, but i can look over that somewhat. Decim crying was touching, Onna crying though got me more in this episode. 8/10 EXACTLY, thank you. WTF, they teased too much with that old fart, these past few episodes, you can only expect he will expose in some regard, hinder, so this momentum is built along with everything else that is going on, and then all just goes nowhere, even with one of the last scenes of that old man, he looked up to something, everything aside Decim and Chiyuki, it just feels like it doesn't end here, and they were supposed to give us the rest of the episodes that would conclude this thread of the narrative. Felt disjointed, anti-climatic, and does sour the experience quite a bit. To the point, I wanted to give it higher praise due to some episodes I really loved and Decim development, but I also wanted to give away a lower score due to it feeling like an unfinished narrative. Guess I will meet it at the middle. 8.5/10 = 9 |
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| Damn, Finally Decim has feelings, and finally he can smile. Goodbye Chiyuki... and this anime is really good! |
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| Show certainly brought the feels with the final episode and with the characters Decim and Chiyuki overall. Not sure how much rewatch value the show has however, I feel its one of those shows with now what has been revealed may not play as well knowing what is coming. I am also disappointed with the subplot of the arbiter organization. Some conflict was teased between Nona and the old guy and in the end... nothing happened. So are more arbiters going to be given emotions? Did they decide its a better way to judge humans? Going to leave things as is? Who knows. So 7/10 I think for strength of the two main characters, everything around them... ehhh not so much. |
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| A few things I wanna talk about are Is Decim no longer a Abiter because he felt sorrow when he was doing the test thing with the girl and when he started crying his eyes changed and looked like a Human's eyes What's up with the old man sucking people with his beard THERE'S A 4TH RULE???? |
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| hm, this episode was quite emotional.. although that trick decim used on chiyuki was too predictable. pretty good episode though. i thought it could've been better though. |
3099Jan 25, 2021 3:44 PM
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| Like many others I felt there was a lot of wasted potential. I liked the episodes which had people to judge. The stories weren't complex, as expected from the episodic structure, but it was an interesting way to explore the idea that people are complex creatures with all kinds of emotions, and it's difficult to judge someone when you don't know what they've been through. But then with the main story the series got too heavy-handed in trying to deliver a message. The main characters were left pretty one-dimensional, and of course with the dummies maybe it wasn't even possible to have more dimensions. They spent a lot of time on the question of whether non-humans are capable of judging humans, or whether it's even fair. The problem with the question is that fairness itself is a human concept. Another message that the main story wanted to explore was the purpose of life being in living itself. While these questions could have made the series really interesting, it spent too much time trying to drive the points home. In fact, the mistake was probably that they tried to answer it in the first place. All answers to complex philosophical questions very easily start to sound banal when there's not much time for handling them. The direction of the episodes was sometimes really good, with great camera angles, and there were some nice pieces on the soundtrack. Unfortunately, the direction also was messy in that there was way too much repetition and unnecessary exposition. It felt like the writers didn't trust that the viewers can figure things out themselves. Most returning characters had so little screen time that their presence in the series felt pretty pointless. For such a short series, they perhaps introduced too many characters who ended up doing nothing but adding a bit of worldbuilding. And all the time spent on them was taken from establishing relatable main characters. Still, it was a fine series, enjoyable to watch as a 1-cour, but I'm not left hungry for more. |
| And so we come to the end. This episode was mainly concerned with the judgement of Chiyuki and Decim's human emotions. The scenes where we were watching her mother's sadness over her death made me tear up once again...this damn show knows how to make you feel sad. In the end, we sort of learnt the lesson that to truly be able to pass judgement over humans, you must understand their pain and suffering. Decim did just that, and then was able to fully pass judgement over Chiyuki. Although I agree with this assessment of the judgement process of the arbiters, I also think that Decim didn't necessarily have to go through all of the trouble that he went through in order to reach the answer of reincarnating her soul. As well, most of the judgements given in the series we see are generally what I would consider to be the "correct decisions". Ultimately I think that having to understand the human experience is a tool that can aid in the judgement of people's souls, but one that isn't necessary in a lot of cases in order to pass a judgement that is sufficient. The show DOES show us instances where the arbiters could have used sympathy with the humans they were judging, such as when Ginti was determining where to send Mayu and Harada (they did NOT deserve the void). So it is something that I think isn't one hundred percent necessary but it it something that can help a great deal in certain situations with certain types of people. Overall, Death Parade is a story that makes you think about a lot of things. It causes you to think about your own life, your death, how your loved ones would react to your death, the value of your own soul, if there is an afterlife, and ultimately if there is one, where would you end up? It also calls into question what type of being is even suited to judge other people's souls. In this way, the show constantly has you thinking, or least it had me thinking quite a bit. The cast of characters in Death Parade were...alright. Decim as the stoic but lowkey emotional arbiter was a good protagonist, although I would have liked if his emotions were shown a little more spread out throughout the show instead of being mostly contained to the final few episodes. Chiyuki was also a nice character who's human emotions contrasted nicely with Decim's matter-of-fact behaviour. These characters get the most development in the show by far. In contrast, the rest of the characters (Nona, Quin, Ginti, Oculus, Clavis, and Castra) comparatively do not receive much development at all. Nona, Oculus, and Ginti all get a little time for us to understand a bit of their characters and personality, but I feel as though they could have been more fleshed out, especially Clavis and Castra. Although, I'm not sure if increasing the episode count could have alleviated this, because I'm not too sure for how many episode the premise of this show is sustainable for. Each of the games contained within the show are done expertly, I don't have any complaints with the execution of them at all. Each one touches upon a new dynamic and a different facet of of human emotions and relationships. Themes such as trust, revenge, love, family, and more are explored in these games. They really make you think about your own life situation and the ways in which your life has unfolded, the things that you would leave behind if you died. I can't believed the amount of times the show made me tear up! Some standouts to me include the darts, bowling, arcade (the otaku NEET portion), and the air hockey two-parter. If I'm allowed be a pretentious douchebag for a moment, the games themselves remind me of Socrates' Socratic Method, which is a method of drawing out underlying truths about the world through a dialogue between two people. In the same way that Socrates envisioned a conversation wherein two people break down an idea into its essential components, we see two people participate in these "death games" and come to realizations about certain aspects about the nature of human life. We eventually see these pairs of characters come to understand their place in the world, and how certain things (such as trust and revenge) have caused their lives to end up where they are. Now, pretentious douchebaggery begone! One thing that continually caught me off guard about the show was its excellent animation. We see a lot of amazing character acting and expressive movement with these characters, which makes them honestly feel like living, breathing people. The show also contains some really good CGI, which is used to move around and through environments which feels as though you are in a rollercoaster ride flying through the setting of the Quindecim bar. Another thing that I really liked about the show was its music. The show has some really awesome jazz tracks that really get you into the mood of the scene, whether it be upbeat and high tempo or slow and melodic. Pretty good stuff, and I'm listening to it right now as I write this review. Now, something that I didn't like about the show was it felt like they teased a few storylines that didn't quite go anywhere. Plot threads such as the fact that people are dying faster than normal, the fact that God has "left", as well as the characters of Oculus and Castra which the show hinted at having a deeper story behind, but we never actually got to see that. The show as well seemed to portray Oculus as a kind of villainous element near the end, but it never really followed through on that. I also felt as though there was hints given to something larger going on behind the scenes, but in the end it was something simple (Decim being implanted human emotion). Another thing that, at the very least, left me feeling confused, was why it took so long for Ginti to pass judgement on Mayu and Harada. I think it was a relatively simple judgement...perhaps he was attempting to find his own way to understand humans, that was the interpretation of those events that I landed on when I watched. Still, that part was a little confusing and felt very slightly unnecessary. I feel like these parts of the show could have been either expanded upon or cut entirely. As it stands it feels like the show builds up some elements that don't get expanded upon later. Perhaps it was the intention of the creators to leave some things unexplained, but I don't know if that is actually the case or not. Despite these grivances, I still think Death Parade is a really good show. It's a show that make you think about life and death, and the many ways in which people can form relationships with one another. It makes you think about your own relationship with living and dying and how you would feel if you died. Are you a good person, or a bad person? Do you deserve to be reincarnated, or sent to the void? These aren't questions meant for us to answer though. That task, is up to the arbiter on the 15th floor of the tower, at the bar named Quindecim. Overall Rating: 9/10 |
| I just finished the show and I don't know what to really think about it, at the same time I want a second season so we can get more of the arbiters but I don't see a point in doing so. The main story is finished and continuing it would only make the show feel cheap and lose all the emotional value IMO. I just don't know how to fee or what was I supposed to take from all this, I'm happy and sad and all emotions in the between but I also feel the void(pun intended). I guess I'm not fit to judge this I don't think it's a master piece but it's not a 8 or 9..... Actually this is a show that I legit can't give a fitting score... I'll keep the 8/10 I gave after the first episode, what I can tell you tho is that I'll be recommending this when people ask for a new show to watch. |
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