I currently have:19
Running time: 23 minutes
Number of episodes: 37
Vintage: 2006-10-03
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Police, Psychological, Supernatural
Animation Production: Madhouse Studios
Production: Madhouse Studios, NTV, Shueisha, VAP
Source: Anime News Network
My impressions:
Ok I give up. You guys win. Sometimes you have to believe the hype and check out why some people are going apeshit over certain anime. I have to say that all the buzz behind Death Note is totally worth it. This anime gets my approval. I can’t believe how awesome it is.
The story, for the few of us that are extremely late to the party, is about a guy named Light who finds a very special notebook called the “Death Note.” It belonged to a Death God named Ryuk that dropped it in the human world. Light opens the Death Note and finds instructions written inside that explain how to use it but he has his suspicions that what he found is a very elaborate prank. He eventually breaks down and tries it out with a criminal he saw on TV, and to his surprise it worked.
I don’t want to go in depth any more than that because the anime is put together really well and sucks you in with every choice that is taken. Just imagine the chaos that you can cause if you had a notebook that allowed you to kill anyone you wanted as long as you knew their real name and saw their face. It’s also one of those shows that uses intelligent characters and elaborate thought processes to move the story, so you’ll be guessing your way through what’s going to happen and put on the edge of your seat at every turn. If you thought Lelouch was smart, wait until you get to know Light and L!
Too bad that some of the bad things I heard about Death Note are also true, especially when I went on a marathon run through a ton of episodes. The show is running out of gas fairly early and although there’s plenty episodes left, I felt as if the big change of events that flipped the story around wasn’t all that good. I’m still going to continue watching it but if Death Note keeps going downhill from here on end then it will be a shame because the beginning is pure genius.
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