Death Note Anime Preview
Marc Kusnierz | Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 4:15PM I am a little over halfway through Death Note and have enjoyed every second of it. It’s not often an anime lives up to all the praise it receives and I don’t know many anime touted as highly (and as often) as Death Note, but I was hooked and invested from the very first second of the very first episode and have yet to be disappointed, something I’m rarely able to say; though, I’m a little disappointed in myself for waiting so long to finally watch it.
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If you don’t know what Death Note is, it’s about a young man, Light Yagami—I hate that his name is Light in the same way I hate that Baby’s name is Baby in Dirty Dancing—who sees a mysterious notebook fall from the sky one day during class, eventually picking it up once class is over, not knowing what it is or where it came from; this mysterious notebook is called a Death Note and it is much more than just a notebook. A Death Note is a notebook that, if someone writes a person’s name in it while picturing their face, that person will die of a heart attack 6 minutes and 40 seconds have passed; though, it is possible to change the way a person dies if such details are also written (and physically possible). Death Notes are traditionally used by shinigamis—gods of death—to kill humans before their time is up in order to extend their own lives, essentially making shinigamis immortal; however, humans can use Death Notes if they happen to come into possession of one—cue Light.
