The BEST Episodes of Death Parade
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Sep 7, 2021
Network: Nippon TV
"Welcome to QuinnDecim." What greets two unsuspecting guests is a strange bar, QuinnDecim, and the white-haired bartender, Decim. "From here you two shall begin a battle where your lives hang in the balance," he says to introduce the Death Game. Before long the guests' true natures become apparent. As a matter of course, at the game's end Decim is revealed to be the "arbiter." Decim's judgement on the two guests is...
#1 - Suicide Tour
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired Mar 28, 2015
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.
8.74 
#2 - Memento Mori
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Mar 21, 2015
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.
8.31 
#3 - Death Counter
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Mar 7, 2015
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.
8.30 
#4 - Story Teller
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Mar 14, 2015
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.
7.92 
#5 - Rolling Ballade
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 24, 2015
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.
7.90 
#6 - Death Rally
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Feb 28, 2015
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.
7.84 
#7 - Death Seven Darts
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 10, 2015
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.
7.75 
#8 - Death Arcade
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Jan 31, 2015
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.
7.71 
#9 - Cross Heart Attack
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 14, 2015
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.
7.58 
#10 - Death Reverse
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 17, 2015
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.
7.45 
#11 - Death March
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 7, 2015
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!
7.40 
#12 - Alcohol Poison
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Feb 21, 2015
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.
7.30