Death Parade Season 1

If you want a crime drama that treats its mystery as more than a puzzle, Death Parade Season 1 is available on right now. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 605 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Asami Seto sets the tone, and the ensemble matches it scene for scene. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Death Parade Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The plotting gives Death Parade Season 1 its backbone, but it is the characters you come back for. Season 1 of Death Parade includes 12 episodes. It aired from January 2015 to March 2015. This season stars Asami Seto, Tomoaki Maeno and Misa Kato. Asami Seto and Tomoaki Maeno lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2015. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — Death Parade Season 1 passes that test consistently. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

If you cannot walk away from a good mystery, Death Parade Season 1 will keep you hooked. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Asami Seto's performance is the kind that shows up on best-of lists years later. If you have been looking for something to fill the gap left by a recently finished story, this is a reliable answer.

🎬 Death Parade Season 1 — Episode Guide

Death Seven Darts

2015-01-10

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.

Death Reverse

2015-01-17

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.

Rolling Ballade

2015-01-24

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.

Death Arcade

2015-01-31

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.

Death March

2015-02-07

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!

Cross Heart Attack

2015-02-14

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.

Alcohol Poison

2015-02-21

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.

Death Rally

2015-02-28

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.

Death Counter

2015-03-07

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.

E10

Story Teller

2015-03-14

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.

E11

Memento Mori

2015-03-21

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.

E12

Suicide Tour

2015-03-28

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.