Death Note

Death Note is without a doubt one of the most influential anime only rivalled by attack on titan and full metal alchemist. its basically the bible of anime. to this day Ive never seen episodes as tense as that of death note (the first 25 at least) its always said that the moment a certain event happens in episode 25 (which is also considered to be its best episode according to imdb) . the trip of light from this highly intelligent student to a psychopath who believes himself to be the god of the new world. honestly to this day i think that the first episode of death note is one of the best hooks into an anime only rivalled by attack on titans first episode. the battle of wits between L and Light is without a doubt one of the best things in the world. the way they both are so close yet trying to figure out whether one is kira / trying to find the others name. now for production value how should i put it..... madhouse nailed it i mean there is soo much you can do to make a man writing down names tense. at least thats what i thought till i saw what madhouse did with the sequences in death note. so death note has it all interesting protag and characters interesting premise and amazing production so why is it not a masterpiece?? well only word NEAR ok so now onward im gonna spoil this show like its some sorta... i dunno where i was going with that one but whatever Im gonna spoil the show . so basically after L died a piece of shet called N or Near came and challenged kira and managed to kill him/catch him via some pure luck and stupid bullshit plan im still mad kira wasnt taken down by L but the piece of shet that is N took him down. its just soo sad to see such an amazing anime spiral down into 4/10 territory even tho is was 10/10 for the first arc. well that's all. now for character development
Light Yagami is the main character. Light is the protagonist and anti-hero of the series. He could be called a hero if seen from his perspective, as the author never explicitly states if he is evil or not. It is left for open interpretation.
He is brilliant, calculating, and manipulative. In spite of being popular in school and his class, he never really has any interest in making friends. The only friends he has are for the show and he doesn’t care about them. He only cares for his family. He believes that his family is innocent and pure, thus deserves to live in the ‘new world’ he is creating.
He appears to be perfect. He gets the #1 position in the nationwide college entrance examinations. Not only is he good in studies but also he is brilliant enough to aid his father, who is the head of NPA (Japanese FBI), in solving some really complicated cases in the past. Along with brains, he is athletic. He is the National junior high champion in tennis for two consequent years. He is really good looking as he is always flocked by girls to go on dates with them.
However, he doesn’t show any interest in girls unless he requires them for his sinister plan to succeed. Light never loved any girl in the series. The girls who showed any interest in him were either killed by him, used by him or he just dated them to throw off suspicion.
He is a polite child and a good brother and son to his sister and parents respectively. However as the series progressed, Kira, the dark, sinister and menacing side of Light Yagami starts surfacing more often. He starts focusing on killing L and uses people around him, including his family as pawns in his game. While he outwardly shows himself to be a perfect, straight-A student and a good son, his darker side emerges when he is alone or with Ryuk, the shinigami.
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