Death Note – Anime Review
Review: Light Yagami is an outstanding student and genius. His father is a high ranked police man and Yagami often helps him solve difficult cases, but still he is bored all the time. One day he finds the Death Note a shinigami (Death God) has dropped by accident. He can kill people by knowing their face and writing their real names into the Death Note. Just few days later lots of criminals in Japan and all over the world die from heart attacks. Yagami intends to make this world a better place by killing hardcore criminals and making people afraid of committing crimes this way. Soon it becomes obvious that all those mysterious deaths can not come by coincidence and there must be someone behind it. Society is split between those who support Yagami’s idea and those who think he is a sick murderer. The police of course have to find and stop him, but many officers are afraid of getting killed if they investigate Kira (Yagami’s new nickname). They hire a world-known detective who is known as “L” to catch Kira. Will Yagami be able to find out L’s real name to kill him before L finds out that Yagami is Kira?
Death Note is an unique story revolving around 2 unique and very intelligent characters with lots of unexpected and interesting plot twists. It is based on a manga bestseller that even has a successful live-action movie adaptation. While the manga already is a masterpiece, I could not find many scenes where the anime lacks behind the manga, so you can have equally high expectations of the anime.
Rating: 10/10
Monday, 20 December, 2010 at 23:51
deathnote is a good anime but it is not my favret and i don’t woch it a loute ennymore like i usteto.
Saturday, 5 March, 2011 at 23:21
whoever wrote this probably didn’t watch deathnote :
1st Yagami Light doesnt help his father solving cases only later when it came to the Kira case becuase he wanted to keep himself away from suspecious and a chance to get close to L
2nd Ryuk didn’t drop the note by accident he dropped it because he was bored he wanted to see something interesting and see the real human world
3rd Light wanted people to notice that the killing of the criminals is not by coincidence so they can see that there is someone who is trying to change the world and creating justice so people will believe in him and soon he will be like a god
seriosly where did you get this from jeez!!
Sunday, 6 March, 2011 at 2:53
I wrote this some time ago and I asure you I watched the anime, the movie and read the manga.
1st) I’m afraid you are wrong on this one. It is said that Yagami already helped his father in many minor cases in the past. While those cases were not shown explicitly, it was hinted to the viewer that already earlier on (in high school I believe)he was a tallented boy smart enough to assist with some minor cases.
2nd) You are right on this one. But as this is a review ment to make readers interested in this anime I didn’t want to go too much into detail as to avoid spoilers. Before Ryuk explained the situation his intentions were not known, so I went with “coincident”.
3rd)I see no disagreement here. I indicated that his plan is to better the world through getting rid of crimes through deaths AND fear. People fearing commiting crimes because of being killed mysteriously of course means that those people understand that there is a connection betweens deaths and beinga criminal, so they can be punished for thier crimes everywhere and anywhere. Acting a god for that is only a means for that at first, but becomes his obsession later on.
As you see I can’t agree with you on everything; but you are always welcome to point out mistakes and disagreements of course.
Wednesday, 23 January, 2013 at 17:51
I’ve read manga for this anime and seen the show on adult swim i loved it from the moment i first saw this and i solely agree wit u on all ur points so props 4 that!
Wednesday, 23 January, 2013 at 17:53
what also makes it strange is my half blooded sister got me into anime and manga when i was eight years old, so anime till death is my creed
Wednesday, 23 January, 2013 at 17:55
i hope u guys aren’t thinkin i’m stupid by the way
Thursday, 31 January, 2013 at 19:53
i’ve always loved this anime but it’s not my fav like bleach see i have an invisible door in my head and every time my obssesion wif bleach kicks the invisible door in my brain down
Saturday, 25 October, 2014 at 20:57
I love this anime…the concept of battle of ideology was very unique.
it also has many perspectives for watching it, some people root for light, others for L(though some people also liked mello and near), asi f reader him self think killing of criminal is justified or not.
Thursday, 27 November, 2014 at 11:13
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Sunday, 21 December, 2014 at 5:54
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