Pluses:
+Great art
+Nice music
+Nice setting idea, quite unique to me (judges in the afterlife)
+Interesting (mostly at first, falls off later)
Neutral points:
+- Great, but misleading opening (with quite an opposite atmosphere to the show) - it was one of the reasons I watched this show and one of the reasons why it felt so disappointing(
Minuses:
- Big dramas without justifying enough essence to them (some felt forced, some felt rushed)
- SIMILAR: A lot of serious, big, pompous words without good meaning to them, often with vague meaning. The show throws beautiful words left and right, but what do they mean? Show pretends to be smart and deep, yet, after some thinking, feels quite shallow and underdeveloped on the inside.
- BIG holes in world setting and general logic. Example (Few SPOILERS): "Judges have no emotions" - constantly said phrase in the show... But they clearly HAVE emotions! Also, those judges don't really feel as judges, I felt them mostly as a random bunch of some young people who've got the power to play judges. They made primitive ill-effective judging structure, and they use it - without developing through the many years.
- Slow pacing at the beginning, becomes EXTREMELY slow in last ~3-5 episodes. Slow can be read as "boring" here.
- Non-developing main characters. Main woman was somewhat developed near the show's end, yet it still felt disappointing (she wasn't all that special, actually..)
- Vague in general. Many, many things are left to viewers interpretation... but again, it mostly feels as a lazy effort to hide logical holes and craft more drama.
The show's pluses and minuses remind me of "Violet Evergarden" a lot. Both are episodic, beautiful, both are slow and pompous and without an actually good essence, but they both try to bring good morale as a conclusion.
Yep, I recommend "Violet Evergarden" to those who liked "Death Parade" (and vise versa) and I discourage to watch to those who didn't
In short: Death Parade was an interesting watch at first, but has become incredibly more tiring and boring as the show went on - because of it episodic, slow, vague and non-developing nature. And I personally really hate it when the show has a strong feeling of "fake smartness"
