In the end, the best thing to do is watch this series and decide for yourself, because it is a brilliant story with so much going on around it. Once again, they can’t show screen captions and dialogue simultaneously, and have instead merely inserted the text translations into the dialogue subtitle stream. The Company reserves the right to change these conditions from time to time as it sees fit and your continued use of the site will signify your acceptance of any adjustment to these terms. There is still the rare moment of judder over pans and scrolls, but this is a very pleasant viewing experience in high definition. Join Latest Deals for free and get a hand-picked list of the best deals, delivered straight to your inbox.

Well you’ll have to wait it to find out; but this is just a small piece in the ever-changing-puzzle that makes Death Note so thrilling to watch. The rules and pacing of the series often change within a heartbeat to keep things fresh and new; and even after a decade it still feels exilerating to watch. That interesting aspect being the ‘cat-and-mouse’ between Light Yagami and the mysterious detective known as L; who in turn begins to lead the Police’s investigation into these murders.Death Note offers a great concept, and it delivers it in a character driven, psychological drama that is a far sight different from the usual shonen action tropes. If you were to ask me which character in western fiction Light is most similar too, oddly I would go for a sitcom character: Rik Mayall’s right-wing MP Alan B’Stard in the satirical sitcom The New Statesmen from the late 1980s and early 1990s. For instance just as things begin to settle between Light and L – with both parties investigations coming to a stalemate – another Death Note wielder appears on scene and begins to stir things up. Sure enough the quality is as good as you would expect; however given it’s age – and the way the series is animated – a fair amount of grain can be seen on the screen; so don’t expect that crystal clear quality from Blu-ray sets released today.

What I do know is that Death Note is the anime I choose whenever I want to introduce a friend to anime, and that means a lot.By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. People threw their coats at him in appreciation – which actually was a mistake because so many people threw their coats that according to legend he suffocated under a massive pile of them. Using a fake video, L is able to track down Kira’s location to Kanto, and soon Light ends up in a battle of wits with L, as well as the Japanese police, of which his father happens to be a member. Blu-ray is a high definition format, and you would think that only anime created at high definition would be best served by that format.