Well, the adaption of manga to anime is here too. It looks pretty good to me, for a newcomer to Death Note. I love the suspense and the break from traditional anime to a brain-versus-brain anime.
Summary: Yagami Light is an intelligent high school student, possibly the best in all Japan, being at the top of the National College Entrance Exams. His father, a police chief at the Japanese Police Department in Kantou, has relied on him twice to solve cases that have stumped the police. Yet, tedious school life has made Light bored. Combined with his disgust for "people the world would be better off without", Light feels that the world is rotten.
His luck changes, however, as he picks up a notebook labeled "Death Note" on the ground. At first, he merely dismisses it as a hoax, but after trying it out twice, once on a criminal who had taken a nursery school hostage and another who was about to rape a woman, Light is forced to acknowledge that the Death Note is real. Driven by an insane desire to make the world a better place by killing criminals, people who have been deemed by Light "unfit", Light aims to make the world a better place by becoming a God. He is later accompanied by the Death God Ryuk, the same Death God who had dropped the Death Note in the first place because he "was bored", and now has to follow Light around, mostly for his own amusement as he watches Light become a God he envisions to be.
As criminals worldwide die in prisons and on the streets of heart attacks, the method of death by default of the Death Note, much of the public has been rooting for "Kira the Savior" ("Kira" is the Japanese way of saying the English word "killer"), who has been "knocking off the bad guys". However, his actions have always left Interpol confused. Is this just a coincidence, or is this murder? And, if it is murder, who can kill so many criminals with heart attacks? With Interpol at a loss, they call upon the assistance of L, a man whose identity, face, name, and location is a complete unknown, a man who has helped Interpol solve cases worldwide that even Interpol cannot handle.
Thus, the race is on between Light and L. Each considers himself justice. Each wishes to rid of the other. Neither knows the other person's name or face or identity. But the two geniuses know that, in this battle of brains, wits, and strategy, the first person who's identity is discover is the person who dies...
Summary: Yagami Light is an intelligent high school student, possibly the best in all Japan, being at the top of the National College Entrance Exams. His father, a police chief at the Japanese Police Department in Kantou, has relied on him twice to solve cases that have stumped the police. Yet, tedious school life has made Light bored. Combined with his disgust for "people the world would be better off without", Light feels that the world is rotten.
His luck changes, however, as he picks up a notebook labeled "Death Note" on the ground. At first, he merely dismisses it as a hoax, but after trying it out twice, once on a criminal who had taken a nursery school hostage and another who was about to rape a woman, Light is forced to acknowledge that the Death Note is real. Driven by an insane desire to make the world a better place by killing criminals, people who have been deemed by Light "unfit", Light aims to make the world a better place by becoming a God. He is later accompanied by the Death God Ryuk, the same Death God who had dropped the Death Note in the first place because he "was bored", and now has to follow Light around, mostly for his own amusement as he watches Light become a God he envisions to be.
As criminals worldwide die in prisons and on the streets of heart attacks, the method of death by default of the Death Note, much of the public has been rooting for "Kira the Savior" ("Kira" is the Japanese way of saying the English word "killer"), who has been "knocking off the bad guys". However, his actions have always left Interpol confused. Is this just a coincidence, or is this murder? And, if it is murder, who can kill so many criminals with heart attacks? With Interpol at a loss, they call upon the assistance of L, a man whose identity, face, name, and location is a complete unknown, a man who has helped Interpol solve cases worldwide that even Interpol cannot handle.
Thus, the race is on between Light and L. Each considers himself justice. Each wishes to rid of the other. Neither knows the other person's name or face or identity. But the two geniuses know that, in this battle of brains, wits, and strategy, the first person who's identity is discover is the person who dies...
