Why Death Parade's Flyers is Even Better Than You Realized 

The poor people that started the show after only watching this wonderful op

*Death Parade it's not an anime it's a Masterpiece*

The way that the arbiters in the show felt so chill all the time reminded me of how easily humans can get desensitized to daily occurrences. When carrying out their judgements, the cast come across as familiar with their jobs as a manager at a fast food restaurant. Within a handful of episodes, Chiyuki numbers the rules of the death games like a game show host, trivializing the act of putting them on the spot to battle for their souls. That aspect of the arbiters' behaviour spoke to me and how I act in the workplace. I do some pretty brain-dead stuff at the office and don't ask too many questions, and I found the irony in this show's setup enjoyable

Yeah, all of that...... PLUS IT FREAKING GROOVES

I love this OP. I've always described it as "A Slice Of Life for a Death Parade" because it has that feeling of just presenting the characters having a great time on a day off. I really wish this series had another season to expand on some of the questions it started asking and some of the worldbuilding it has in its later episodes, but I also feel that they did a good job to take the premise (which was originally a oneshot OVA called "Death Billiards") as far as they did... and asking for more could be playing with fire.

I just want to add that BRADIO is a really good band and more people should check them out. They have a couple of albums and several songs I'd say are as good or better than Flyers.

Death parade is to this day my top anime.

BOOM BOOM BOOM DANCIN' THROUGH THE SKIES

My favorite character is clavis, the elevator guy

*casually singing the along with the intro of the last episode, knowing damn well I’ll be crying by the time it’s over* EVERYBODYYYY PUT YOUR HANDS UUPPP-

Definitely 1 of the best OPs I've ever seen I can't immediately think of any other OP that can come to my mind from recall only

thank you for posting this video, it gave me the courage to finally finish the last two episodes of the series, after 4 years of leaving the end of the story in my mind to limbo. I frankly don't remember the series in complete detail, but the void it left always stuck in my mind bc I know my abandonment of the series was cowardly. Around that time I was always afraid of the end, I didn't want to move on and go to the next story, even though that was technically what I did in the end by abandoning it. It's kinda funny how even my own cowardice kinda ties into the story. Well it's been 4 years and I've grown up now, and I learned a lot more about partings and how to handle them, even if I cannot do anything about it. So I finished it, and cried over the ending. Now I can move on to something new, while keeping the story in my heart. Ty again for being the last push I needed to finish this series, and who knows, maybe I'll rewatch it some time in the future.

I think it’s simple. A life or death scenario only gives you a peak at who someone is. That’s said while casting aside the fact that we don’t know who’s life or death is hanging in the balance. For example I’d do much different things in scenarios where my mother was in danger as opposed to one where I am. In the end as intense as it is... it is but one scenario. I’d argue that you’d get a better grasp on who someone is if you saw them in a scenario where they believe they have nothing to gain or lose. With no incentive or immediate danger to alter their choice they simply decide.

I love analytical videos over Death Parade. In fact, Death Parade was the First show I ever wrote about. So thanks, it never came to me to look at the OP from this perspective.

So happy to see new analysis videos on death parade! One of my favorite series of all time and I could watch it over and over

Dude you're seriously SUPER UNDERRATED and you deserve so much more!

Great video! Death Parade is one of my favorites and I love both the OP and ED. This got me thinking about the OP a bit deeper, while also just reminding me how good this anime was. I really appreciate how you don't just discuss seasonal anime and current trending shows, but go back and make videos about older shows too :)

This video make me realise one train of thought in which we should, for a moment, forget the main motif of the series: forget death for a moment and take it as a metaphor. Think the arbiters not as immortal being, but as humans (100%) that isn't involved in a certain issue (you can pick any of the cases in the show as an exemple, any of the problems those dead characters goes right before they die) and still act as they could judge other people. Maybe they are a metaphor for judges in the legal system (real world's one), or a neighbour looking to the family next to him. If we take this approach we see clearly a criticism about how naive and low qualified human's minds are to classify acts as good or bad. This applies even to the ones directly involved (for exemple: the people being judged in the show). If you like: even if those people judge themselfs the system would remain flawed and injust. We can argue that only a inhuman and omniscient God could be just in His judgment, because a human comprehension and limited acess to information would always fail any "true moral rules" (by any definition you like for them). But this is my catholic part speaking louder than it should. Hope you enjoyed the reflection as I did enjoyed watching this video. ^_^

i just watched death parade recently im so excited

Really love your analyses on just about everything.

Who else just loves the fact how when you watch death parade, you know it's about the after life. But, everytime the opening comes on, it has you singing, "everybody put your hands up~". (btw I was the 666th like)

Death parade is in my top 5 anime and flyers is my favorit opening of all time

I need more Kekkai Sensen

The Ed hits deep at ep 9

I watched this to take a break from studying law...:'))))) Great video though!

This show was so good I went to the library and borrowed the blu-ray after watching the first episode

The first time I was watching death parade, the op was cut off from the episodes I would watch. Only after finishing the last episode did I finally hear the opening and I was overcome by c o n f u s i o n.

thanks for talking about this incredible anime, I love your analysis

Cool vid, you made me remind of this amazing anime, keep the good work!

This has convinced me to watch the show this week! I'm so intrigued by the concept and plot you discussed.

I love everything about this anime. Thank you for talking about it because more people should.

I just found a channel I genuinely like and enjoy. Thank you Sir for your ongoing work.

Other than feeling this song is my mental theme song. This show is up there with my favorite Philosophical Anime; Garden of Sinners, Monster & Paranoia Agent. *Also, could you please do a video on Monster. The anime is Beautiful!

I think Flyers works so well because it's celebrating life. All these characters are dead or unable to live, but as the opening to a show all about the grievances that come with death, this song is specifically pointing out the mindset most living people have and show the main cast enjoying their time like any living human might. It reminds the viewers that death is only sad because life is often so happy - and while of course one's life experience varies wildly, life is always something that's celebrated, whether it be the birth of a baby, the celebration of a birthday or the fond recollection of times spent with someone no longer here. Life is always loved and celebrated, and this opening shows that perfectly.

The song itself is a complete twist from the show’s message, given that one of the lyrics is something like “Let’s celebrate our time and body while we’re still alive”, which I really like. It really warps your gaze on the show.

If you haven't seen the original music video for Flyers by Bradio, the band behind the song, let me tell you, it's even more of a masterpiece than the anime opening.

BRADIO makes some awesome music btw. I dont know how many other openings they have made but they should be given more opportunities to create unique openings like Flyers.

Very nice content.

The criticism of the judgement system is laid out in the show itself explicitly, so I don't know why you went into such detail about it or acted as if we needed to have it explained to us why it's flawed. Also, it's not fair to say that arbiters, in general, can't understand why someone would lie to save their loved one, when the one who didn't get it was Decim, who might be described as a bit emotionally stunted. Meanwhile Nona got that part just fine. In fact, she offers a deeper analysis than Chiyuki on the matter.

Everybody put your hands up 🎶

The opening is great cause it feels like a day off for the characters. Just a day where they can party, chill, and do whatever they want and that's something to celebrate.

Sort of funny for me you put this up, I was just looking up the Flyers song because a YT outro sounded like it (it wasn't it).

The art is beautiful.

my favorite opening

might wanna do it again

Death parade is my favorite thing in this world. Best anime change my mind

Death Parade was the exact series I needed at the time it dropped

great vide man!

I gotta admit that I started watching the show just because of the OP.... Just as many of us here...

Hey! I love this video.

I am a simple man, I see Death parade content, I Subscribe.

And that’s why Death Parade is my favorite anime

I 👏 want 👏season👏 2👏 and 👏I👏 want👏 it 👏now 👏

i would like to see what you think on episode 9 the most breathtaking ep. i have seen from anime in a while now

Nice video! have you ever considered analyzing the Promised Neverland?

Death Parade doesn’t get the attention it deserves it’s literally the best

Bradio is underrated as fuck.

And that's people is why i fucking love anime.

3:20 i hear psycho pass in the background ?

Just finished this anime a couple days ago and I loved it, the only thing is that it was pretty short, but I enjoyed every single episode. If you are watching the anime for the first time -like me-, then from the name you can understand that this is some kind of party or show that they do for the people in the afterlife. But then, from the very first episode you can get the contrast of it. It's a pretty good message when Decim always says that he respects when people lived their lives to the fullest and well, this is a reminder for us at the end :) PD: That Psycho Pass Symphony (one of my favs btw) as BGM tho. +1000 pts haha.

love the psycho-pass theme in the background

I would love to see the death note cameo as real xD Imagine. L vs light

people forget the arbiters quite literally dont feel emotion... its the whole plot

Fair argument, I think Flyers is fucking clutch too, but I still think the undisputed king of anime OPs and Eds convaying the message of the show AND being great still goes to Sugar Song and Bitter Step

Am I the only one who thought this anime was gonna be a dark comedy with these guys being in a gang and killing for fun while they had some special powers?

That psychopass ost

I dropped death parade after 3 episodes. It didnt stick with me. Mayb ill give another try and see.

ID INVADED review pls

As humans we are not to truly judge others, God is the one and only true righteous judge.

Concuerdo

A great op that's very misleading for a great and underrated anime

Flyers is the biggest trap in anime history

is it just me who gets distracted by that pscho pass ost in the background?

The moral question of Death Parade never quite landed for me because it wasn't much of a question. We don't know anything about the origin of the games or why the Arbiters do things the way they do, so we can only assess the merit of the system through the point of view of the humans, who are being tortured, seemingly for no reason. Why do people always arrive in pairs? Surely some people of the people who have been voided were better than some who have been saved because they had better "partners"? Why do different people get different Arbiters, and therefore different criteria for judgement? What's the point of absorbing a person's memories if the things they did in life don't impact their judgement? Even if life-or-death scenarios do provide an accurate representation of a person's character, why bother preserving a "good" person over a "bad" one if they're just going to be reincarnated anyway? Do certain souls have a predisposition towards good regardless of life circumstances? If not, wouldn't every soul fail the test and be voided eventually? Why can't every human be reincarnated? Are there new souls being created causing a space problem? The whole thing is very, well, arbitrary. The Arbiters seem to be all-powerful or at least extremely powerful, so without the answers to these questions we're left to assume that things are the way they are just because they (or Oculus or God) will it. Maybe, despite their friendly appearances, all of them except Decim are a bit like Ginti and just enjoy tormenting humans, but I think the show was going for something a little more ambiguous and complex than that. It was always raising the question of if the judgements were fair, and for me the answer was always, "Well, of course not". It's still a fantastic anime and a fantastic OP, I just wish they had some more time to flesh some of those things out.

Hey have you ever thought about talking about Hyouka?

Are you serious? Ive finished my reeatch of death parade exactly 6 days ago, how can this be possible...?

It's great

bop

Memento Mori

👌

Let’s say hypothetically assassination classroom and Death parade did a crossover what would happen how would it end and who would be in it

i couldn't skip it once

When you watch the anime when it was on going. Elite gang only 😩

Finally someone i can agree with the openings.

thank you, no one realizes this!

THERE ARE MANY MOVIES LIKE DEATH PARADE.... BUT DEATH PARADE IS 10000TIMES BETTER

Nah I new it was good

"black haired women"

I loveeeee this openning, sadly the show is so misogenistic