Death is an odd thing and when it comes to basing your show on the premise of the afterlife no can fault you on accurate depictions of what it might be. Death Parade essentially believes that in the rare cases where 2 people die at the same time they are sent to a bar to judged by a person called an arbiter. The people have no memory of how they died and a faint memory of who they were before they came to this bar. The story usually takes place in Quindecim one of the bars in Death parade run by the arbiter Decim.
From this point is where the character development takes place in Death Parade as the people who died are forced to play games in order to leave the bar and as they participate both they and the audience learn of how they died and what kind of person they were. As a device for character development goes, this one is actually interesting cosidering how the characters have to be developed in essence. However most the other recurring characters, aside from Decim, don't really get that much exploration which is kind of a shame considering how different everyone feels to each other (even though the world makes it seem like they shouldn't).
In addition the voice acting was on point. The show's main theme is death so you would expect a certain grimnace in the VA's voice's. The soundtrack was also a good fit for the show giving a certain 'life' to scenes. And speaking of Soundtrack, the OP was undoubtly great making the ED not sem as good by comparison but was still something that sticks in my mind.
Furthermore the art style that is paired with the score can be breathtaking. Though most of the time it will look ok but that is usually during its stiller moments. When a tense scene appears you can feel every frame.The chracters are unique for the most part, but one thing death parade will make notice whether you like or not is the eyes and they have some pretty gorgeous effects with said eyes.
I enjoyed Death Parade emensly and watch it at the beggining of every year to remind myself of the good (and the bad) of it. I'd recommend Death Parade to anyone who likes characters and their development in a condensed form as well as an open ending, which Death Parade has.
