And WATCH IT!! Honestly, this anime is great, but is it the best? ...No. The main character is the bad guy, which is rare. The plot is smart and unpredictable, which is a very good thing. The animation is awesome and helps with the dark tone of this show, and even makes the characters seem more lifelike and stand out. What bothers me about a lot of anime is that when a character walks down a street, it's like he's walking down a still picture since the cars and people are standing still, as if painted into the background. But no, oh no, not this show. The producers and animators and directors and everyone else actually did a very good job adapting this anime from the great SJA *Shonen Jump Advanced) manga of the same name. The characters you love to hate, love or just simply want to drag out of the TV screen just to tell them to shut up are used very well.

My favourite character is L, mainly because I can relate to him with being smart, hardly ever going outside, doesn't wear socks and of course has a major sweet tooth. Now for the plot: Ryuk, a death god (or Shinigami, pick one) is extremely bored with, pardon the pun, 'life' in the world of the Shinigamis drops a notebook into the human world as an experiment. An excelling high school senior who's just as bored with 'actual' life as Ryuk with his world, finds the notebook and picks it up. He reads the instructions of the Death Note, "Those whose name is written in this notebook shall die" and thinks it's all just a big joke. Still, he takes it home and tests it out on some criminal he sees on the news and naturally freaks out when he realizes the Death Note works. Soon though, like a siren, it grabs hold of him and he begins to think that he will become the 'god of the new world' by killing every criminal in the world. This sets off a chain of events that eventually brings in L, a genius detective who works in secret to track down Light, dubbed "Kira" by the public that supports him. Since Light needs a name and a face to kill someone, Light begins his quest to track down L and kill him, all the while with Ryuk watching and giving the odd hilarious remark or comment, mostly about apples. Overall, I give this anime my first ten.

All you Light fans, don't write my name in your own notebook just because I think Light is an ass and L's awesome. Frankly (and this is one of my only complaints about the show) Light should have been caught about thirteen episodes in, maybe even less. He's way too arrogant and careless at first. The whole way he dealt with the Penber situation was so flawed that L should have figured him out. But whatever. It doesn't take much out of the show.