Death Parade

Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell

This anime was introduced to me by my classmate. I wasn't sure if it was good or not until she told me a short summary of an episode. I thought that it was a pretty creative idea so I decided to watch it since I finished Kamisama Kiss. In the end I liked the anime and still have two more episodes to go before finishing it.

When people die they are either sent to heaven or hell. In Death Parade that doesn't seem to be the case. When people die they go to Quindecim. An arbiter will be the one to judge if they will go to heaven or hell or in Quindecim terms: Reincarnation or the void. Once two souls enter the in-between space, they will have to play a game in order for the arbiter to judge their personality. It was a pretty interesting concept especially when the games they play have a lot more gruesome twists to it.

Main Cast of Death Parade

Arbiters aren't your ordinary humans. They have no emotion, and are merely puppets created for judging souls for eternity. One cannot quit being an arbiter, and an arbiter cannot easily die for it will make them too close to being human. These were the rules of an arbiter, but our main hero Decim, is an arbiter created with human emotions. Decim encounters a soul who remembers how they died, when they clearly weren't supposed to because they lose their memories from the shock of their deaths, he has no clue on how to judge her and was unable to convince her to play any game.

Nona, the greatest arbiter, favored Decim and decided to help him by erasing the girl's memories and making her as Decim's assistant. This is how the anime went on for a while until Chiyuki gained her memories back and her body slowly starts turning into a mannequin, for human souls cannot last long in the in-between. The final two episodes will decide on Chiyuki's fate, will she turn into a mannequin? or will Decim finally lets his emotions go and finally judge her?

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