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While the animation is lovely, the rest is a rather incomprehensible mess.

We're given no context about the world or the characters living in it besides a quick, and mostly irrelevant, monologue in the beginning. Characters are introduced and abandoned randomly, things are referred to that the audience knows nothing about and are never elaborated on. The tagline of the series is repeated several times without any explanation so we have yet to find out what it means. I went through the entire thing not knowing what the heck the plot was or what the importance of the characters were, and had to look it up ... to make any sense of it. The most important aspects of the plot are referred to only vaguely, and the audience is left wondering what exactly anything means, and not in a good way like you might get from a good mystery or when the writer wants to leave something to the imagination. That doesn't work when you leave the audience in the dark about literally every aspect of the story. So in the end it's a lovely looking spectacle with no real conclusion, not real cohesion, and no real satisfaction.

Death parade was instantly interest catching for me. There's so much mystery to the series, and watching it all be revealed is awesome and fascinating. It seems like it will be more episodic at first, but there's much more going on behind the scenes.

Atmosphere is perfect, the art and animation are stunning, and despite being a very dark anime, it manages to have a lot of colour to it. The bar is very beautiful to look at.

I love the questions about human nature, how no guests are true "good people" or "bad people", it makes them feel a lot more relatable and realistic. Similar to ... Mushishi, this anime is great at making you care about the temporary episodic characters.

The reoccurring characters are great too, Decim is fascinating and likable, despite only having 2 facial expressions. They manage to give him a lot of character through character interactions, dialogue, and his own subtle reactions to the things that the guests do and say. The other supporting casts are also great, and while we don't know much about them, they feel quite natural, and not cliched or gimmicky.