Death Note is, in my opinion, one of the most meaningful anime shows created. It will make you question life and everything in between.

As a whole Death Note is a low 8 (in my opinion: 290 = t ÷ 37), with an amazing start and an amazing end. Death Note is a brilliant concept with a surprisingly high execution. The series takes some turns that may fail in fulfilling quality expectations, but that ends up being quite necessary for a worthy finale.

The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness, and thus a great unfortune to the one that finds the notebook of death. And bad luck will follow that person that is pursued by a God of Death.

There is no heaven or hell. No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die. Death is Equal. However, justice is thus a divine judgement and a one greater motivation to be righteous. Laws aren't perfect, because humans who created laws aren't perfect. It's impossible to be perfect, which Death Note brilliantly shows. But laws are evidence of peoples good will.

"You have lost, Light. Didn't I say in the beginning, when you die, the one who'll write your name down in a notebook will be me? That is the deal between the Shinigami and the first human to get their hands on the note in the human world. Once you enter prison, I don't know when you'll die. It's annoying to wait. Your life is already over. You'll die here." Ryuku.