Death Note Reviews

I have just watched the final episode of this anime series. And I felt the need to write a review on it, on the off chance that someone could be looking for a good anime. The plot is one of the best and most entrancing plots to an anime I've ever seen. I've seen well over 100 different anime's and I'd have to rank this in the top 5.

The plot starts with a young high school student, Light Yagami, finding a notebook. This is no ordinary notebook though. When you write a person's name into the notebook, they will die in exactly 40 seconds, unless you specify differently. There are a few rules that...

Death Note remains unique among many other anime series' due to the questions that the series raises. It is more than just a plot and sequence of events, though it does have an excellent story-line. Bored but brilliant teenager Light Yagami acquires a Death Note, dropped by the death god Ryuk. By writing a person's name in the notebook and picturing their face in his mind, Light can anonymously kill people. They will either have a hear attack, or Light can specify the cause of their deaths and manipulate their actions moments before their death. The Death Note comes with many rules he must...

Death Note starts out with basically an introduction to what is going on.  High School student, top of his class, perfect kid, bored as hell.  Then his life is turned upside down when he finds the "Death Note", a notebook in which a name is written and that person dies.  Soon after some experimentations and a new purpose, the student (Light Yagami) is under the pressure of being caught by the police.  "Kira", Light's name by the police, is being hunted by a master detective, L.  So basically it centers around Light's journey as he outsmarts the police and pursues his dream to create an ideal...