Identify - Death Parade, Ice Skating Scene

Death Parade was an anime that came out in Spiring of this year and centralised around a bar of limbo, so to speak, the Quin Decim, as it was where those who died went and were thusly judged on wether they would go to the void or reincarnate. Most of the episodes cover the lives of those who end up there to be judged by Decim and his assistant but along with this we begin to learn more and more about the recurring characters, I won't go into the story too much as what i want to focus on is a scene in the final episode so, SPOILER WARNING (i think), if anybody wants to go and watch it.

As i was unable to link the video of the scene Click Here to go to youtube to watch it.

In the final scene the black haired woman, (this is what she was known as before her name was revealed) does an ice skating performance as her memories before her death flash before her. What i want to talk about is the animation for the scene, in short and on a personal note i find it amazing. Specifically for the fact that dancing animations which feel alive, feel really hard to come by, especially in anime, most anime will create something more similar to an animatic where characters will shift across the screen in varying poses and sometimes not even that, stills end up being used which i find very disappointing as they don't show the enjoyment of the motion, speed and beauty of a dance. But with Death parades ice skating scene, they showed fluid dance movements and actions and poses flowed into one another. The animation gave the performance real life, with attention to the follow through of hair and clothes as they were pulled along, with secondary actions and anticipation building up into an amazing piece of animation. It is all helped by the background music that sets the stage for the character and builds on the performance giving it more depth and build up giving form to the dance movements creating something id say was one of the most unique anime animations id ever seen, (in comparison to all the action and adventure anime that I've watched). On a side note theres a short piece of dancing in the opening sequence which follows the same concept and feels just as smooth and fluid, also the opening is the most misleading thing there is, in a good way.

Im sure that there are anime that have done this before, maybe even better, but this is the best dancing in anime that I've ever seen if i had one thing i wished for it would be for there to have been more full body shots showing the whole body in motion from head to toe. I also hope that anime animation will continue to get better and the quality to improve like with Death Parade, I look forward to see how anime will evolve.