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In spirit, Smokin' Parade almost transmits us the same gore vibe than Deadman, which is still great, but it fails in putting the reader inside the ambient, i would say because there is just too simple character development in each chapter.
It follows a story of a group that kills "spiders" and in each chapter you have a new enemy with a new simple motivation and low deepening but with considerable reasons to do what they do. Considering it's a manga about a group of people killing and joking around, the character development is really shallow and don't trasmit enough empathy in any way. ... The best example of character development is the boy in the first chapter and his backstory, but it's like he had just vanished from being a singular character since he entered the group. They act as if they were completely neutral about their lives and don't show any back motives whatsoever.
Aside of this, the story goes well and at least i could apreciate each chapter so far.

The art is great, the character models aren't too much abstract and keeps the badass vibe. The problem is that in the fight scenes, sometimes you have too much going on and can't understand it properly. But still enjoyable. There is a richness of details in this that i like very much.

Until now, it was made of a simple story telling purely based on intense action and some comic relief which in every episode you have a new situation but with a bigger plot running in the background. It turns out to be just a story about the group living it's daylife killing 'spiders' and joking about it. It's not bad, but it's a simplistic way to tell a simple story which remembers me a lot of DG Killer Killer.