Well well this is not a post I actually expected to be writing when I picked up Death Parade. Sure it did sound interesting and could be a good show but many shows do seem like that. The thing is.. very few actually surpass that and achieve more than that. Now for a final judgement of Death Parade!
Been thinking for a while now on how I feel about the show so that I when the final episode arrived that I would be able to say what I want to say and this is how it will be! Death Parade is a show that got all the key components to achieve excellence. It got a very interesting narrative that really only kept getting more and more interesting as the show went on and that is worthy to point out since it's so easy for a narrative to go the opposite and become dull. Death Parade also carry with it a great set of characters that come with their very different personalities and characteristics and through that create some really awesome experiences. There's some massive character growth to be found in Death Parade and it can be found in right about every character and especially in the main duo in which one of them might show some of the best I've seen in a decent while. There've been such growth in other shows but oh dear is that rare to see. Since the show always brought in new characters in more or less every episode there would be a risk that some of them would either be dull or just written in a way where it would be possibly to question why they even existed. Didn't find myself wondering that at all during the show and actually realised more and more why certain characters existed, their meaning and what they contributed!
Death Parade got a great art style that I feel managed to be very appropriate for the things the show wanted to show and tell the viewer. Flamboyant colours would've had a hard time working with Death Parade and instead they used other means to give the show a lot of life! The OST was perhaps a bit of a concern for a little while but as most parts of Death Parade it got stronge as things progressed and I've been listening a good amount of a few soundtracks that I've managed to find on the webz.
Now.. just where do I put Death Parade in my list of shows? There've been many shows that I've watched as ongoing now but I believe Death Parade has been to my liking to such a degree that it achieve what so far no other show has managed. A "most accomplished" score. It will get a most deserved spot.. in the top 10
