Death Note
| Death Note | |
|---|---|
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| Original Manga | |
| Director/Artist | Toshiki Inoue |
| Format | Multiple |
| Made By | Madhouse |
| Episode Length | 23 minutes |
| # of Eps/Volumes | 37 (anime) 12 (manga) |
Contents
Genre
Mystery, Suspense, Crime Drama
Summary
An extremely intelligent high school student has a book from another dimension that allows him kill people with only a name and a face. The world's various law enforcement bureaus investigate. Will he be caught?
Description
Due to a slip-up by the gods of death in another dimension, a book capable of causing people's deaths lands in the hands of Light, a high-school student. When Light secretly begins executing dozens of people from his bedroom desk, the police calls in an anonymous detective known only as L.
Although the manga is already licensed and being released, the anime has also been licensed by ViZ. Downloadable episodes (in subtitled Japanese) should be available soon prior the Region 1 DVD release. Death Note also has a live-action motion picture (in Japanese, naturally) and hopefully someone who knows more about it will add information here.
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Personal Opinions
Craptacular!
Death Note is almost certainly the best anime to arrive in 2006. Haruhi fans will probably want to murder me for that, but that show is another slice of life story at it's core while Death Note is something that could help anime evolve in mainstream North America. There's something very infectious about how it develops, as the viewer watches Light not only turns into an executioner overnight, but tries his best to stifle his paranoia and cover his tracks. The director has managed to build a lot of various plot threads without turning the show into a complete mess and leaving gaping logic gaps. One flaw is that there's plenty of "oh well that's a rule we just made up and didn't mention until now. Even so, those kinds of twists serve to keep the viewer guessing what's going to happen next without breaking the show.
Links
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