L: Kira
Both: I will hunt you down where ever you are hiding and I will eliminate you.
Light: I am...
L: I am...
Both: Justice!
Death Note is palpably one of the nonpareil anime of all time, proffering a acutely and riveting rigmarole diegesis emulated by scanty. I can verily say that it is one of the best anime I've ever watched. As the exordium dwindles out to a seraphic, male chorus soaring atop vivacious sight of prosaic stage of Shinigami realm, it gives me palpitation.
"Humans are truly... disgusting creatures!"
The series follows Light Yagami, a Japanese high-school student disenchanted by the world encompassing him, suppurated in crime misfeasance, and who, purely by chance, stumbles upon the Death Note, a notebook which can kill any whose names are written on its pages. Surmising it as a connate rig, Light initially is a minimifidia, until corroborating first-hand the Death Note's competence. Light taps the Death Note to efface infamous criminals in a peregrination to lustrate it of evil and create a utopia. Concurrently, Ryuk who purposefully drops the Death Note, striving to quell his own boredom descends from Shinigami realm to seek out for the owner Death Note. The essence of anime is to assay a punctilious, meticulous tour of the horizon past the initial episode would be paradoxical to fit into a review imbued with spoilers that would apodictically raze the show. The story is tense heaving on your vehemence as Light gets away with his plans or on the contrary that protagonists (L) is about to ensnare Light. Whether you're on L's side or Light's side, the story is akin to a roller-coaster ride that you will refuse to get out of.
"Justice will, without fail, prevail."
Death Note blossoms in serving memorable characters. It is said that, no story would trounce without a single interesting character. Death Note flourishes here. Episode upon episode, anomalous character development is pre-eminent throughout, even for minor sub-characters. Moreover there are no inconsequential plethora here–each character introduced has a clear conviction to execute, which they do with rigor, leaving an audience complacent that the writers' heed never retracted from the good stuff, the substantial plotline.
"I must protect my fledging utopia."
The animation is phenomenal, fitting for a psychological thriller series. A palatial and idiosyncratic shading dexterity commingle with the more traditional style of drawing to create a look and feel that both stayed true to the quintessential appearance of anime and achieved a verisimilitude that reflected Death Note's mature themes. The filters added in some scenes, like when Light and L are having their intellectual fracas, are exceptional.
Alike the animation, aegis has been amplified to ensure that overall, the feisty soundtrack resonates with the mood of the dark world in which the anime takes place. Character themes in particular have been innovatively orchestrated and emphasize the dramatic scenes when played. As for openings and endings, I find no fault. The divine first intro by Nightmare, aptly titled 'The World' unshackles heaven-splitting chords worthy of an zealous head bang. The insert music is amazing, the way they used said soundtracks was awesome, the mystery scores were amazingly executed during L and Light's battles.
"However gifted you are, you alone can't change the world."
Death Note is unworldly plight in full 21st century pre-eminence. Such a densely-bundled, fast-paced story is seldom seen in an animated series, and with thankfully none of those irksome filler episodes the shounen like so much, Death Note continues its vertiginous momentum all the way to its denouement. When you finally pull up the bar, get off the roller-coaster and set two wavering feet on the ground, it only takes a moment of recouping balance until you're back at the queue's end to experience it again. And again. And again. And yet again. Death Note was the paramount that made me watch other anime. The only thing I hate about the series is that it had to end. And also that I wasn't able to espy something which may rival with Death Note, and I'm sure there will be none. Death Note is fad exemplary personating as a magnum opus. If there would be no human beings any more, Death Note would no longer be appreciated.
"I guess it's time to say, farewell...."
