Death Note (2006)

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I have watched a few anime movies but haven't tried any series so thought of trying one. Actually, I am not so much a fan of the anime world, from the interest of watching movies I got the chance to come across a few popular ones like Your Name, Spirited Away, and Grave of the Fireflies. There might not be anything more than these on my watchlist, yeah just the ones that I had watched so far. So from a few random suggestions, I picked "Death Note" and a few suggested it as a gateway to the anime world.

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Death Note is a Japanese anime series, which is regarded as the starter for anime series according to many anime fans. This series is written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. For me, it was available on Netflix and it got 37 episodes and each one with a duration of around 20-22 minutes. Won't be taking a long time to compete so good one to start.


As far as the story goes, it starts with a character named Light Yagami, who is a meritorious boy and one day he gets a notebook that fell from the sky at his school ground named as "Death Note" it says that whoever's name is written in that book shall die. He thought it was some kind of prank and still he brings it home, he tries it on a criminal broadcasted on television and that person dies from a heart attack so it works. Light was impressed and thought of eliminating all the criminals and would create a world free from crimes and he would be the god of the new world.

And suddenly, a monster appears, which is called a Shinigami and his name is Ryuk, actually this notebook belongs to him and he threw it into the human world, and whoever gets this notebook shall be only able to see Ryuk. There are lots of rules in that Death Note, one of the basic rules are like,

To kill someone, one must write the name and also should know the face of the victim, if these two criteria are met then the person whose name will be written shall die of heart attack.

One can also manipulate the actions of the victim before his death by writing details on how he would die or do before death.

There was another interesting rule, if a human trades half of his lifespan with a shinigami then he would get shinigami eyes which would help him to see anyone's name just by looking at the face, also the lifespan will be visible.

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Screenshot is taken from the tv-show

As far as these murders are being taken these will also be regarded as murder/crime to the law, so a special task force was formed led by someone anonymous named as "L" the person who was using the Death Note was titled as Kira, the clash between Kira/Light and L was the whole story about. Will 'L' be able to reveal Light as Kira or Light will get away with his actions? So that's the basic story.


Now about personal thoughts and opinions. As per the story, it is an amazing mind-blowing crime-thriller series. From the first episode, anyone will be attached to the story just to know what's coming ahead. The intelligence used by the main character Light and L are worth praising, both of their calculated steps are bound to leave you speechless.

Well, after a certain period of time I was feeling like they are dragging the story on and on, like after the part of L we get N, and somehow the chase begins again, they build up the story quite good but personally I would have preferred something different, maybe a few more shinigami to interrupt, maybe light gets bound to use eye-deal, he goes to the realm of shinigami, things like that might have given the series a different vibe too instead of just the chasing.

To be honest, it was a good one. I am really impressed to enjoy this one as my starter to anime serieses. Maybe I won't be able to start one anytime soon because of my upcoming tight schedule but I would love to start another one when I get enough time to begin.



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3 comments
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Death note has a very creative plot! Good review
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Death note has a very creative plot! Good review

Yeah, that's for sure.
Thank you for your appreciation.