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Death Parade
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Asami Seto
Black-haired Woman (voice)
12 eps
Tomoaki Maeno
Decim (voice)
12 eps
Misa Kato
Risa (voice)
12 eps
Yuna Taniguchi
Mai Takada (voice)
12 eps
Atsumi Tanezaki
Mayu Arita (voice)
12 eps
Koki Uchiyama
Clavis (voice)
12 eps
Shota Yamamoto
Novem (voice)
12 eps
Rumi Okubo
Nona (voice)
12 eps
Ryoka Yuzuki
Castra (voice)
12 eps
Ryoko Shiraishi
Quin (voice)
12 eps
Tessyo Genda
Oculus (voice)
12 eps
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Ginti (voice)
12 eps
Akane Fujita
Sae (voice)
12 eps
Ayako Kawasumi
Machiko (voice)
12 eps
Azusa Tadokoro
Female guest (voice)
12 eps
Chafurin
Spinner (voice)
12 eps
Chinami Hashimoto
Friend B (voice)
12 eps
Hiroki Yasumoto
Fujii (voice)
12 eps
Fumihiko Tachiki
Game voice (voice)
12 eps
Toshinari Fukamachi
Friend A (voice)
12 eps
Hiroomi Tamaru
Friend B (voice)
12 eps
Hiroyuki Honda
Detective E (voice)
12 eps
Katsuyuki Miura
Detective B (voice)
12 eps
Takaaki Shingyōji
Male guest (voice)
12 eps
Hiroki Maeda
Man (voice)
12 eps
Ikuko Tani
Sachiko Uemura (voice)
12 eps
Izumi Chiba
Tria (voice)
24 eps
Junji Majima
Shigeru Miura (voice)
12 eps
Kazuya Nakai
Takashi (voice)
12 eps
Keiji Fujiwara
Tatsumi (voice)
12 eps
Lynn
Shigeru Miura (voice)
12 eps
Mao Ichimichi
Chisato Miyazaki (voice)
12 eps
Mamoru Miyano
Harada (voice)
12 eps
Marie Hatanaka
Chisato Miyazaki (voice)
12 eps
Masakazu Morita
Yousuke Tateishi (voice)
12 eps
Megumi Matsumoto
Jirou (voice)
12 eps
Miki Ito
Storybook narrator (voice)
24 eps
Shinnosuke Ogami
Detective D (voice)
12 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Shimada (voice)
12 eps
You Taichi
Manager (voice)
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Death Parade actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Death Parade reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E09
Death Counter
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.
S01E12
Suicide Tour
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.
S01E11
Memento Mori
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.
S01E03
Rolling Ballade
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.
S01E10
Story Teller
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.
S01E07
Alcohol Poison
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.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Yuzuru TachikawaWriter
Direction
- Yuzuru TachikawaDirector
Music
- Yuki HayashiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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