Okay, so i didn't realize this week was the last week the blogs will be marked. Woops. To finish off, I'm still going to do my favourite anime and favourite game, but they'll only b e one post long, and I'll try to make them the best i possibly can, Starting off this farewell to the blog is my favourite anime of all time, Death Note.
Story Synopsis: Okay, this is gunna hurt when it comes to dumbing it down. there is so much that goes on, I'll do my best to summarize it neatly and efficiently. A young highschooler named Light Yagami finds a notebook called 'Death Note' fall out of the sky. Book says whoever's name he writes in it will die of a heart attack. he tries it as a joke, and it works. he tests it again, seeing if he can control the way the person dies and their time of death, and that works too. He meets Ryuk, the shinigami who dropped the notebook in the human world, and after getting the clearance that the Death note is Light's now until he dies, Light sets out to kill all the criminals in the world and be the God of the new world. After a unch of killings, the worlds greatest detective L steps in and attempts to solve the case of who is Kira, Lights new alias and the Killer's name to the public. L gets extremely close to finding them, but keeps hitting roadblocks as Kira kill FBI agents and other poilce officers. l finally shows himself to the Japanese police, wher he believes Kira is. They work together and L finally confront Light at his school. they become 'friends'. and it all boils down to a second kira appearing, this time being a young, idiotic girl named Misa and her Shinigami Rem. The girl actually hampers Light and allows him to be nearly caught by L. Light barely avoids this, but at the cost of losing his memory temporaily. The real Light actually helps L find the new Kira, as he passed on the notebook to someone else, and after Misa gets her memories back, she helps Light's get his bacvk as well. Light, back to his Kira ways, kills L and sets out to be the new God, as well as replaces L. l's successors Near and Mello hear of this years later, and bpoth try and track down the Kira who killed thei mentor. Mello dies, Kira enlists some help, Near is extremely aggressive in his detective work, and it all boils down to wargouse scene where Kira is shown to be Light, gets show 5 times by the pussy of the police group, and dies as Ryuk finally writes Light's name in his notebook, and Near lives to become the new L-DONE!
Characters: These characters are simply mesmorizing. light as Kira is amazingly intriguing, as you get into the mind of a high school kid transformed into a mass murderer, set on doing what he thinks is thr right thing. The voice actors in the dub and sub do a phenomenal job at playing this role, and sounding absolutely diabolical. But L steals the show, by far. My favourite character of the show, hes the oddball detective, who loves sweets and is an absolute genius. All he wears is a white shirt and jeans, with long, messy black hair. he's the opposite of the prim and proper Light, and their exchanges in dialogue are some of the best moments in anime history, as you truly get the sense that the world is somply a chess board for these two geniuses. Supporting characters are also great, seeing a Ryuk whos actually kinda funny, and is simply bored of the afterlife. Misa is perky, but hilariously annoying to all the characters, which to me fits well into the storyline. The father of Light Soichiro Yagami is noble and kind, which is deliciously ironic as his own son is the mass murderer Kira. Near plays a great successor to L, being similar to him, but being interested in toys, rather than sweets, and avoding all social contact whatsoever. mello is an angry teenager who likes to rebel against the L organization, but is still incredibly angry at Kira for killing his mentor. All the characters flow and bounce off each other, creating a memorable story that will stand the test of time.
Art Style: Realism and yet surrealism is Death Note's game, as all characters are drawn as real people, and you don't see one anime face like ":3" and never is their any comedic exaggeration in characters faces. this is as real as anime can get and I love it for it. Sometimes though they have a bit of fun with some actions, as Kira writing down names in the death note is amazingly over the top, and the openings and endings are full of crazy art direction and effects. eahc characters looks and feels like their own, and it's nearly impossible to not tell these guys apart. The art team should be commended for finally drawing an anime truly realistic, and the dark and sinister tone of the show is something to be commended for.
Things I really liked: Everything.
Things I really hated: Nothing.
Emotional Connection (one time category): This show affected me greatly. It was all about the morality of killing criminals, and whether or not it was right or wrong. Because of Kira, global wars stopped, and crime rates were reduced by 70%. This means that kira, instilling fear in the people, actually achieved some great things. Even now i ponder the worth of a human life, and think about whether it's right or wrong to kill another person. L also taught me some things. I constantly put myself into his mindset when thinking about a problem. What would L do? What would L say? I use his thinking to pull apart and examine a problem at all angles, and it has greatly helped me in sorting out some tough issues and a lot of anxiety. the characters in this show are inadvertant role models to me, and I don;t know how my life would hav been, how i would have handled certain problems, how I would have ignored these deep physcological questions, if I didn't watch Death Note.
Overall Opinion and Rating: The best anime, of all time. No anime can even hope to touch the emotion, the drama, the cleverness, the characters, the atmosphere, the...everything that Death Note has accomplished. usually the animes that are hailed to be the greatest are 500 episode long action adventure epics, with lots of fighting and fillers. But not death note. death Note is the miraculous 37 episode giant that is in the top popularity of anime, mixed in with huge animes like Naruto and One Piece. this is what i lvoe so much about this. it's not a fighting show with ecchi moments and super crazy attacks, its a 37 episode drama about a guy who can kill people! Its so different from other popular anime it goes to show its popularity is purely from the show's brilliance. Death Note gets the first ever, and only for animes, 10/10 and a recommendation of Watch It! Youll never regret watching this masterpiece of an anime.
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