Death Note is truly an amazing and well-crafted show which plays with its dark psychological tone very nicely. The spooky intro and outro and perfectly matched background score gave the show's dark-psychological tone a serious boost. The character development of the main characters Light and L is PHENOMENAL^INFINITY but characters like Mello and Near totally ruin the show after episode 25.

I would even call it a masterpiece had it not been the somewhat lame events after episode 25 which seriously brought down the interest-levels to a great extent.

What is interesting about this show is that we are forced to contemplate - "was Light somewhat justified in his actions?" This question is itself a great silent message to the existing Governments which often fail to provide justice.