It was a chore to watch the 5 episodes I watched.
I’m sure you’ve heard of this over-popular anime. Light, a smart kid in high school in Japan, comes across a Deathnote, a book in which he can write anyone’s name and they will die at whatever time and in whatever method he specifies. His main nemesis becomes L, a mysterious genius detective who vows to stop him. Light takes on the name Kira (how “Killer” sounds in Japanese) and vows to defeat L and become a god.
It is very, very, very slow-moving. A friend told me it’s an intellectual anime. It’s not. I enjoy detective anime. This is just long, drawn-out torture.
I also enjoy character-driven anime. The characters in Deathnote are almost wholly unlikable.
Light is stuck-up about how he can outsmart the cops and kill people without anyone able to stop him.

He even looks like, well, an asshole.
L is ‘mysterious’ and can be said to have no personality aside from his objective to stop Kira.

We are only shown his computer and a little bit of his mouth and hair in profile. As if it matters! It’s not like we viewers will recognize the guy or anything.
Ryuk is the one with most personality. He’s a shinigami whose Deathnote Light is using. He likes to eat apples. I like him because he looks cool. Kinda has like a fish head … and I like fish as pets … I also like how he flies without ever flapping his wings. Nice skills.

Mmm, apples.
Light’s sister or relative or whatever she is, looks cute and bad at math. That’s about all I’ve seen of her.
Random police/FBI people are just going to die anyway so there’s no point in liking or becoming interested in them. I bet Light’s dad will be written into the ground soon, too, since he’s chief of the serial killer department of police.
Here’s why I only watched 5 episodes. It -may- get better, but there’s no way I’m going to find out.
1. Repetitive. Every episode recaps what happened in the last episode. I guess that’s useful if you were watching it once a week. However, nothing important ever really happens in each episode, so it’s not required.
2. Repetitive. The episode itself repeats new information learned, usually 3 or more times. (Kira can kill people without physically being there! How amazing! Let’s discuss over & over again!)
3. Repetitive. Every episode is about Light killing people in new (and not really interesting) ways. Mostly, he kills people with heart attacks while changing the circumstances of death to test how specific he can get with the Deathnote.
4. Repetitive. Every episode has people repeating how Kira can kill anyone. Yes, I know. No one’s safe, even people in jail. Get on with it.
5. Repetitive. At least 5 minutes of every episode focuses on the police, who are, during that entire time, merely wondering whether they can trust L , wondering how Kira kills people in jail, or talking about resigning in fear of Kira. Because, you know, no one’s safe.
6. Redundancy. Light just kills a few more people, and maybe learns a little bit more about using the deathnote (oh, this week he learned he can set the time of death. Next week he’ll learn how to make people leave dying messages to torment L). Or it’s about how L is getting closer to finding Kira, but oh! Light’s just one step ahead of you, L. Maybe next episode!
7. Redundancy, redundancy, repetitiveness, boring. Heck, I’ve spotted a few points where this post has repeated itself!
All Light is is a sadistic, unlikable character, killing people without repercussion. In ep 5 he kills an innocent man who was about to get married. Sure, the guy was in the FBI, and investigating Kira, but he didn’t deserve it. I just can’t watch an anime focused on an evil main character for 25 35?! bloody episodes until he finally gets caught. Seriously.

























































































































































