Death Note is amazing, yea late to the party

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Very, very slight anime genre conventions. Japan is the center of the universe etc.
(I don’t care for anime particularly, but don’t dislike it either).

The premise is supernatural but most of the action is pure logic on either side, its like a long cat and mouse game. I don’t know about any of the sequels or prequels or whatever, I’m talking about the original show.

I couldn’t advise this show enough, it is REALLY good if you like cat and mouse crime/logic type stuff.

EDIT:If I had a complaint it is that Light is obviously a whackjob from day one, and L is not very believable.

2

“Death Note” yes! I loved the, he’s thinking this, so if I’m thinking that too, then he can’t really be thinking it, so he probably is thinking it, or not.

3

I liked the premise more than the execution. Where it fell flat for me is when Light turned from vigilante to cop-killer.

4

I had seen some of the early-middle episodes of the anime a while back on CN, but never watched all of it. Then I finally watched the whole thing. While I still really liked it, I felt as if the portion I’d already seen turned out to be the best part (roughly the period after Light & L first get in contact with each other). I was a bit disappointed with the latter half once L died. It lost a lot of the tension that had previously been built up with the characters, and none of the new ones were as interesting. I also wanted to see more of the sub-plot with the shinigami, who seemed to take a back seat by that time.

5

But that’s speaks to the whole ‘absolute power corrupting’ thing.

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That is what bugged me, unless it is a anime convention or something, by the end of the FIRST episode Light is already clearly planning on wiping out probably 50% of Earth’s population. There never seemed to be a bit of ambiguity that Light was already a total whackjob who would kill even petty criminals, I felt they could have gotten a lot more tension if moving to killing petty crooks or innocents that got in the way troubled him, and made him compromise his original goals over and over.

7

Meh. The beginning was decent. Some shows grow on you over time; Death Note does the opposite, imo. Watch/read more halfway-decent seinen material and it’ll most likely cease to be one of your favorites pretty quickly.

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Light took the power to kill people with no risk, no responsibility, and no oversight.

In what way does that look like somebody who isn’t a straight up psychopath?