Episode 1

Death Seven Darts (デス・セブンダーツ, Desu Sebun Dātsu) is the first episode of Death Parade.

Summary
When a couple named Takashi and Machiko arrive at a bar named Quindecim, a bartender, Decim, asks them to remember their past few minutes. Takashi remembers the two of them cruising down a windy road in a red convertible during their honeymoon, but can't think of anything else. Machiko echo's his thoughts, down to her blanking about the result of that trip. Decim thanks the two of them, and proceeds to tell them the five rules that dictate what occurs in the bar.

1. He is unable to inform them of where they are.

2, The two of them will play a game soon.

Takashi asks him to clarify what he means, but Decim keeps listing the rules.

3. Their lives are at stake while playing the game.

4. The game will be decided by a roulette spin. A mint colored board descends from the ceiling, broken up into nine sections. After getting over the shock, Takashi bangs his palms on the table, but Decim keeps on with his last rule.

5. They are unable to leave until a winner has emerged.

Unbelieving, Takashi convinces Machiko to leave him, calling him screwy in the head. They try the elevator and various rooms, including the bathroom, to find a way out; none of their attempts work. They return to where Decim is, angry. Decim presents them with many bodies strung up. Knowing that he may be mentally unstable, Takashi convinces Machiko to play the game with her, and if anything is to happen, he will protect her. He pushes a button laid out before them, whcih causes a randomize to start to choose a game. The game that is selected is darts, and a giant, multicolored dart board emerges from the ground. The rules, as told by Decim, are quite simple: they both start with 501 points, and who ever is closest to, or reaches zero, is the victor; however, they only have seven dart to do so.. As he speaks, the colors on the board are replaced with diagrams of various body parts and organs; however, the red and blue outlines, representing double and triple points spots, stay. Each section is supposed to a part of the body that will affect the other person while hit. Takashi and Machiko don't believe him, so Takashi throws a dart that lands on a bone worth 6 points; not long after, maybe a second, Machiko crumples to the ground with shoulder pain. Takashi rushes over and apologizes, while stripping her hair and clothes out of the way to show her pink bra strap and uses his medical skills to deduce that she mustn't make any hasty movement. She insets that she is fine, and she takes her turn, hitting an 18 point organ. Takashi feels the agony this time, causing Machiko to runs over to him. Takashi is now fully convinced, but is perplexed at to how someone could install something like this in a a body without him noticing. He runs over to where Decim is and demands to know what he has done to him. Taking his time, and being quite polite, Decim informs him of the situation: he hasn't done anything. Offering a suggestion, Decim tells Takashi that if they don't wish to be harmed, they will have to miss until someone looses all their darts. Excited by this prospect, Takashi is reminded of the scores: Machiko is leading by 12, so if they keep this the way it is now, he would loose. He returns, and Machiko asks him how it went. Takashi informs her of the new regulation they are going to implement, and she happly agrees. The two miss their targets for five consecutive turns, with landing either on the numerical point values (11 or 20), or going in between them (19, 3). While waiting for his turn, Takashi envisions himself in the room in the back. Noticing that he looks paler then he just did, Machiko asks if everything is fine, and he respond sthat it is and plays his dart, unintentally hitting a a body part worth 16 points. He tries to cover, but letting the bllod seep through her hand. They take a break, and she gets back into postiation, but the injury resurfes, and so she hit the eyes worth 10 points, bringing her total to 475. Takashi wrathes about, grapsing his eye and knocks himself and the table over. He gets up,, unaffected by Machiko insistence that it wasen't her fault. He takes his dart and is about to launch it, but Machiko holds her stomach and pleads for him to not hit it, because the baby could get injured.

Surprised, Takashi berates her for not telling him about it, but she counters by saying that she asn't told anyone other then him, and the trip that they were going was to be the place to inform him, as a surpirse. Calming down, for now he is touched by how kind she is, he asks her as to how long she has known. Machiko has known for ten whole weeks; this causes Takashi to have flashbacks of various times in the past where she has either fallen asleep on the couch or bed suddenly, merely thinking it nothing more then stress. hits the stomach hole and then Machiko was honest and told him she was pregnant and asked to not hit any areas near or on the stomach.

When Takashi was on his last dart, once he threw it, he realized that Machiko might have been cheating on him and it landed on the small intestine hole. After landing on the hole, Machiko screams in pain and then Takashi claims to have done that one purpose and starts going crazy believing that Machiko was cheating on him the whole time.

Takashi then asks Decim if he could use another player's darts and got the reply that it only matters where the dart is going. The couple then fight for the dart, but in the process, Machiko hits the heart hole and Takashi had gotten hurt in the heart, both physically and mentally.

By this time, Takashi was completely engulfed in his hunch about Machiko cheating on him. Machiko tried to convince Takashi that she wasn't, but after seeing how crazy and lost Takashi was, Machiko then starts to walk a few feet away, cry, laugh and claim that she was cheating on him. Takashi then tries to stab her by pulling the darts down and running towards her. Decim then intervenes to stops him by restraining him with wires.

At the end, Machiko goes to the void and Takashi goes to heaven to be reincarnated.

Characters

 * Decim
 * Takashi
 * Machiko
 * Nona
 * Black-Haired Woman