Death Parade (Original Japanese Version)

2015 • FUNimation
4.8
99 reviews
TV-MA
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (12)

1 Death Seven Darts
1/9/15
Season-only
A young couple, Takashi and Machiko, arrive in the bar Quindecim without any recollection of how they got there. The bartender tells them they cannot leave until they first finish playing a game, one in which their lives will be at stake.
2 Death Reverse
1/16/15
Season-only
A black-haired woman awakens in an unfamiliar place, unable to remember even her own name. She is taken by a girl named Nona to Quindecim, where she is told that she will be an assistant, and is instructed as to the purpose of the bar's existence.
3 Rolling Ballade
1/23/15
Season-only
College student Shigeru Miura wakes up in Quindecim, and falls in love at first sight with the woman at the bar. Unable to remember even her own name, the woman asks him to play a game with her, after being assured that it will jog her memory.
4 Death Arcade
1/30/15
Season-only
TV personality Misaki Tachibana is convinced that she is in Quindecim as part of a hidden-camera TV show, and enlists her counterpart, Yousuke Tateishi, to help her liven the show up. Decim takes measures to ensure extreme conditions for the contestants.
5 Death March
2/6/15
Season-only
Two more people--a young boy and an older man--arrive at Quindecim, but this time, Decim senses something out of place. Before Decim can explain the game to the pair, the older man reveals that he remembers having seen Decim and the bar before!
6 Cross Heart Attack
2/13/15
Season-only
A high-school girl named Mayu arrives at a Japanese-style bar being tended by Ginti. He demands that she play a game against the man in the bar, who she instantly recognizes as Harada, of the boy idol band C.H.A, and she eagerly accepts.
7 Alcohol Poison
2/20/15
Season-only
When the black-haired woman stumbles upon a picture book, she asks Decim about it, and he tells her that it might belong to Quin, Quindecim's previous bartender. Decim reveals the reasons why he spends so much time putting together mannequins.
8 Death Rally
2/27/15
Season-only
Prior to the arrival of a pair of guests--a police detective and young man raising his sister--Decim wonders if there has been a mistake, since the memories he has received are those of a killer. But despite his protestations, Nona prods him to continue.
9 Death Counter
3/6/15
Season-only
As the two contestants continue their game, Shimada is surprised to learn that Detective Tatsumi is sympathetic to his desire for revenge against his sister's attacker. The black-haired woman is troubled by how far Decim is willing to go.
10 Story Teller
3/13/15
Season-only
Decim visits Nona and tells her that he believes that their way of passing judgment is flawed. Nona sends him another customer, whose case may unravel the mystery of the black-haired woman, and whom Decim chooses to judge without the aid of any memories.
11 Memento Mori
3/20/15
Season-only
Mayu is given a chance to spare Harada's soul from the void, for a price. With Chiyuki's judgment pending, she revisits her love of ice skating, with the hope that the memories she recovers will help her to come to terms with her passing.
12 Suicide Tour
3/27/15
Season-only
Oculus confronts Nona concerning Decim, demanding to know what she has done to him. Chiyuki awakens in her house the living world again to find that Decim has brought her there to offer her the chance to reclaim her life.

About this show

There is a place after death that's neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
99 reviews
Enrique Sanchez
July 19, 2020
I wanted the genre to pull a 45 degree turn to the right at the ending. (A little more affection that feels disney like) Other than that the show really enlightens you about how examples of lifestyles try to fit into a judge's view of good and bad. The arbiters kinda get affected by it though. Great, good, good, good, good
Nealious x12 (will2012)
February 1, 2017
Love this series had to purchase it. It has a great take on the afterlife and very interesting plot. Not a cheerful anime very serious at least try the first two episodes and see if it's something you might like.
Josh Cunningham
July 25, 2015
The story is simple in delivery but the emotional content of the characters in each episode build a questioning suspense that comes to a wonderful climactic end with the two protagonists you follow through the series. It may not be action or gore packed like alot of other modern anime but it is well worth your time. Do your soul a favor and make time to see this show if only just once in your lifetime.