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I'm one of the few people who would never say this is one of the best animes of all times and here is why:

Although the plot of Death Note seems to be very interesting to me, I really belive it is painfully developed all over the anime.

For me was pretty cool when the two main characters was presented has rivals (Light and L): I belived it would be really interesting to see which of them will defeat the other and how. However, all I could get watching it was fucking stupid monologues in which Light and L where ridiculously guessing each other thougts.

Here it's an ... example of a joke I found on a spanish web (Inciclopedia) of an hypothetical battle of "Rock-paper-scissors" between Light and L:

(YAGAMI LIGHT THINKING): "The most logical to do would be play rock; L must know this, because of what he would probably play paper, and to defeat him I must play scissors. But: what if he discovered my plan? If that's what it is, to beating my paper he would play scissors, and therefore I should keep playing rock. But maybe he tought that I would think this way, so I must play paper..."

This is a fun example of what I belive is pretty much all you can find on Death Note. Really: this is what this anime is about. At the beginning is "ok", but then it just gets dummer and dummer, and in my case finished in the desire of killing the screenplayer.

For the other hand, before watching Death Note you need to consider that you'd probably never expect to find what you will in the second half of the anime. And I'm not saying it in a good way: on the contrary, from my point of view the second half of Death Note is a big peace of crap. It is as if the writer had died, and a complete asshole had replaced it.

About the characters I would say, although there are a lot of them, only a few has their own personality, and by the way, a non very deep one. In the particular case of the only important female character, Misa, I need to say she is hatefully annoying and do not have a will for her own: the only thing she does is adoring Light Yagami because he is hot, in other words: she is as shallow as she can be.

Another thing: I have to admit I like L wiredness, but I hated when among the story more "wired" characters appear: for me they were just mediocre imitations. Don't make me talk about the guy that was always eating the beginning of a chocolate bar (you would never see him eating a whole bar: I belive he makes one bite, throw away the bar, open a new one, makes another bite, and so on).

Finally I have to admit I enjoyed the music and also the animation: they were really good... but that's not enough to make Death Note a a good anime.

So: this anime sucks, and the only think I really love about it is the way some people make fun of it. If you want to watch it... go on, probably you will like it because most people does. However, if you watch it and you hate it, have for sure you will make fun of it forever and ever.

P.D.: yeah, the characters are hot, especially if you're a girl, or a gay guy.