Mmmm…apples are how you say…juicy (quote Ryuk the shinigami[death god]). Ya, apples are juicy, but lets get down to the next anime review, DEATH NOTE. What if you wanted kill anyone and all you have to do is write their name in a notebook? But not just any notebook, a “Death Note” (“note” is Japanese for notebook)and if you felt lazy and don’t want to write the details of their death, they would just die of a heart attack. That is the power Light Yagami (pronounced Raito Yagami in Japanese, there in no “L” in the Japanese language so to speak but replaced with an R when needed) has and with his death god acquaintance, Ryuk (apples are his favorite human world food), he goes around killing anyone he deems “evil” in the name of “justice,” which is his own sense of justice, in order to create a pure world with no evil with him reigning as a god over the people. But there are people who wish to stop this “cleansing” including a person deemed “L”, a person who is able to solve the hardest cases the world over. Light, deemed “Kira” by the people of the world (the name looks like Killa doesn’t it(remember the “L” rule in Japan),which if you don’t know is someone who has killed or looks like they would kill someone as seen in this U.S. persons point of view), is always toe to toe with “L” in a constant struggle to see who can identify each other first, as both have never revealed their faces to the public.
This anime is quite interesting to watch and always leaves you in suspense for the next episode. What’s amazing is this anime is actually legal to download according to Viz entertainment, that has the rights to show it in America later, while its still being shown in Japan. That’s right..those who are afraid of downloading from the internet rejoice (well if you live in America anyways I believe), you can download it and there is nothing wrong with it. A couple sites I found include deathgod.org for the anime and if you are still afraid well you can watch it online on this site deathnote.tv.I recommend this anime to watch, its one of the most interesting ones I have ever seen. Another interesting thing is in one of their opening theme songs, which is totally hardcore heavy metal, swears in it by saying the F word. I don’t know if this was intentional as I have seen many misused English words in Japanese culture but it adds to the song and making it excellent. I also like how “L” likes sweets so much as I have seen him eat something sweet like strawberry shortcake (possibly his favorite?), cookies, éclairs, popsicles, etc. in practically every episode “he” is in that is accompanied by tea with a ton of sugar cubes in it (once he overfilled his cup with it that he created a mini sugar cube mountain from a cup full of tea).
The main character, Light
The sweet loving “L” and his cup of tea
Ryuk, the shinigami, kowai (scary) isn’t he
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