Blog Post #12: Death Note

Death Note focuses on a character named Light Yagami, who is a very intelligent student. He comes across a note book called DeathNote which was dropped into the human world by a death god. Anyone whose name is written in this notebook will die. With the help of this notebook Light tries to create a new world where he punishes all the criminals by writing their names on the DeathNote and killing them. At this point people are afraid, and the detectives work hard to catch the vigilant behind the mass murders. Of the Japanese animations I’ve watched DeathNote is one of the best shows with the worst ending.

The entire show Light proves to the world that he is the smartest of all and does reduce the crime rate just by sitting behind a desk. He cleverly tricks people into thinking that he wasn’t the one behind all the killing and portrays himself as a regular hardworking student. He even manages to kill one of the smartest detectives without a doubt. In the last few episodes new characters were introduced and they manage to catch Light in no time. In the last episode is just seemed as if the writers got really tired of keeping the show well organized and decided to kill off Light in the end. The last episode was just completely out of context to the entire show and had a typical mainstream ending ruining the entire show. How could Light Yagami so easily be defeated by two characters and overcome his smartness in such a short period of time?