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Death Note (Opinion)

So considering i am a big fan of the death note series, i decided for my first proper blog i would write up my opinion of the series.

To start with, if nobody is aware of this anime, i will tell you the basic just of what the series is about. The 'death note' is a notebook that allows you to kill anybody you like just by writing their name into the notebook whilst picturing the face of the person. The death note has several rules to it these include:

  1. it will happen.
  1. The notebook shall become the property of the human world, once it touches the ground of (arrives in) the human world.
  1. The owner of the note can recognize the image and voice of the original owner, i.e. a God of death/Shinigami.
  1. The human who uses the notebook can neither go to Heaven nor Hell.
  1. The human who touches the Death Note can recognize the image and voice of its original owner, a Shinigami, even if the human is not the owner of the note.
  1. Gods of Death, the original owners of the Death Note, do not do, in principle, anything which will help or prevent the deaths in the note.
  1. A Shinigami has no obligation to completely explain how to use the note or rules which will apply to the human who owns it unless asked.
  1. A Shinigami can extend their own life by putting a name on their own note, but humans cannot.
  1. A person can shorten his/her own life by using the note.
  1. The human who becomes the owner of the Death Note can, in exchange of half his/her remaining life, get the eyes of the Shinigami which will enable him/her to see a human’s name and remaining life span when looking through them.
  1. A god of death cannot be killed even if stabbed in his heart with a knife or shot in the head with a gun. However, there are ways to kill a Shinigami, which are not generally known to the Shinigami.
  1. The specific scope of the condition for death is not known to the Shinigami, either. So, you must examine and find out.

These are not all the rules but the main and you get the idea of what the death note does.

So it all begins when a shinigami (god of death) named 'ryuk' drops his notebook into the 'human world' A young high school student, Light Yagami, finds the notebook on the floor and decides to kill off all criminals and become a 'god' of the 'new world' by getting rid of all evil. It later becomes battle to the death between the two greatest minds the world has between L and Light.

What is good about this anime is that you could take a side of either L, a very talented detective, or Light. L doesn't believe all criminals should be killed and works with police to stop light or aka 'Kira'.


I don't want to go into the entire series and say what i thought was best but i want to say what i thought about the death of L. After L dies, the anime seems to die a bit. I wouldn't mind if he died at the end of the series with Light but bringing Near into it was just like a smaller, younger version of L and i didn't like him at all really.

What i wanted to ask in this post, to the fans of death note, is what you think the ending should of been like. So an alternative ending? Or do you actually like the ending how it was, if so why do you think that?

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