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Death Parade

TV·2015–2015·1 season, 12 episodes·NTV·Anime, Fantasy, Horror·25m·7.3

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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. From Studio Madhouse (Death Note, Black Lagoon) comes a thrilling new series where the stakes are high and the rules are simple: your life is on the line.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Death Parade S01E09Death CounterS01E09 · 9.3As 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.
  2. 02Death Parade S01E03Rolling BalladS01E03 · 9.0College 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.
  3. 03Death Parade S01E06Cross Heart AttackS01E06 · 9.0A 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.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode12Episodes2015Aired 8.6Season avg
  1. S01E01Death Parade S01E01Seven Deadly DartsJanuary 10, 2015 8.6A young couple, Takashi and Machiko, arrive in the bar Quindecim without any recollection of how they got there. The bartender tells them th
  2. S01E02Death Parade S01E02Death ReverseJanuary 17, 2015 8.4A 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, w
  3. S01E03Death Parade S01E03Rolling BalladJanuary 24, 2015 9.0College 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
  4. S01E04Death Parade S01E04Death ArcadeJanuary 31, 2015 8.3TV personality Misaki Tachibana is convinced that she is in Quindecim as part of a hidden-camera TV show, and enlists her counterpart, Yousu
  5. S01E05Death Parade S01E05Death MarchFebruary 7, 2015 8.0Two more people--a young boy and an older man--arrive at Quindecim, but this time, Decim senses something out of place. Before Decim can exp
  6. S01E06Death Parade S01E06Cross Heart AttackFebruary 14, 2015 9.0A 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
  7. S01E07Death Parade S01E07Alcohol PoisonFebruary 21, 2015 8.0When 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'
  8. S01E08Death Parade S01E08Death RallyFebruary 28, 2015 8.5Prior 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, si
  9. S01E09Death Parade S01E09Season's bestDeath CounterMarch 7, 2015 9.3As the two contestants continue their game, Shimada is surprised to learn that Detective Tatsumi is sympathetic to his desire for revenge ag
  10. S01E10Death Parade S01E10Story TellerMarch 14, 2015 8.2Decim visits Nona and tells her that he believes that their way of passing judgment is flawed. Nona sends him another customer, whose case m
  11. S01E11Death Parade S01E11Memento MoriMarch 21, 2015 9.0Mayu 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 skat
  12. S01E12Death Parade S01E12Suicide TourMarch 28, 2015 9.0Oculus confronts Nona concerning Decim, demanding to know what she has done to him. Chiyuki awakens in her house the living world again to f

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