So when I first got into anime this was one of the first series' that I began watching, and I can tell you that I wasn't disappointed in the slightest...at first. So the series follows almost perfect protagonist Light Yagami, who is a flawless student with a clear and promising future, his life is changed however, when he comes across the Death Note, a book holding the powers of a death god. He uses this to wipe the world clean of criminals, but his morals soon come into question. Obviously the authorities notice this and use what they can to catch the person killing the criminals, who is nicknamed 'Kira' The premise is absolutely fantastic but the only thing that did get me at first was how quickly Light descended into madness, by the end of episode one he was already showing signs of it, which got to me a bit. The characters are great and realistic, and Light's rival named 'L' is a complex but equally interesting character, his goal is to catch Kira and soon Light and L have a game of cat and mouse between them, switching roles on occasions. Now here's for the bad parts of Death Note; First off, the series makes the most simplest of things dramatic, for example, there is extremely dramatic music playing while Light is just writing names down in the death note or just eating potato chips, it isn't that bad, but it makes the series look less serious than it should be. Now here's for the main flaw, the series begins to get repetitive, but then gets good again by episode 20, and episode 25 is absolutely brilliant, but after episode 25? It just gets boring as hell, I nearly gave up on the series because of how boring and uninteresting it got, it introduced two characters, Near and Mello. Near is a little sh*t and makes the series worse while Mello just acts cocky and eats chocolate, which didn't really appeal to me and after looking at other reviews, it didn't appeal to a lot of other people. So in conclusion I recommend Death Note highly because it is a must see series for any anime fan out there.