Death Parade

[Ryllharu]

They go out in the same elevators they came in, because it doesn't matter. It is intentionally ambiguous.

The younger guy won the game, but in 'killing' the old man while in Quindecim, he was judged as unworthy and sent to hell. The old man is smiling because he knew he won the true game they were playing. Decim states he ignored their past when the younger guy accuses him of pre-judgment(interestingly, something Nona reprimands him for in the series) and that they came into the bar on equal footing.

Decim deliberately doesn't tell Chiyuki which went where when she asks.

That's because the masks don't mean anything in the OVA.


...and they don't mean a whole hell of a lot in the series overall (because they often don't show them), but they decided to change that a bit to make it a bit easier for the viewers who don't want to have to think about which it is for the less conventional cases.

- Mayu was sent to the void with Harada, but for her it is heaven. That's why it switches. It is an ambiguous result. A seeming punishment, but yet it is actually a reward.
- Harada, redeemed slightly, finally found a woman who cherishes him for nothing more than who he is, and that alone. Not because he's an idol, not because he's famous, not because he is attracted to her, not because he's a good lay, just because he is Harada. Still punished for being an asshole, but a minor reward for his redeeming actions to try and save Mayu as she fell.