Death Note (2006)

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Light Yagami is a high school student and about to take the difficult entrance exams for Japan’s elite universities. But that’s not a big challenge for Light. After all, he is blessed with such outstanding intelligence that he passes all his exams with flying colours, and he’s also diligent and conscientious. But one day, he finds a mysterious notebook in the school yard. It’s a so-called Death Note. It says that any person whose name is written inside of it will die. After being sceptical at first, Light finds out that the notebook actually works by testing it on criminals. Not only does he find out more about exactly how it works, but he soon meets the original owner of the book: a God of Death.

The temptation of using the book is too big for Light: He sees the Death Note as a chance to rid the world of evil and criminals. Soon, the incredible number of unexplained deaths of criminals attracts the attention of the police. At the head of the international special commission set up for this purpose are the Tokyo police chief and a special investigator of whom neither face nor name are known. He is only addressed as L. The hunt begins …
Light Yagami geht in die Highschool und steht kurz vor den schwierigen Aufnahmeprüfungen für Japans Elite-Universitäten. Doch das ist für Light keine große Herausforderung. Schließlich ist er mit so überdurchschnittlicher Intelligenz gesegnet, dass er alle Prüfungen stets mit Bravour besteht, zudem ist er fleißig und gewissenhaft. Doch eines Tages findet er auf dem Schulhof ein rätselhaftes Notizbuch. Es handelt sich um ein sogenanntes Death Note. In diesem steht, dass ein Mensch, dessen Namen man in das Notizbuch schreibt, daraufhin stirbt. Nach anfänglicher Skepsis findet Light heraus, dass das Notizbuch tatsächlich funktioniert, indem er es an Kriminellen testet. Er findet nicht nur genaueres über die exakte Wirkungsweise heraus, sondern trifft auch bald auf den ursprünglichen Besitzer des Buches: einen Todesgott.

Die Versuchung, das Buch zu benutzen, ist zu groß für Light: Er sieht das Death Note als eine Chance, um die Welt vom Bösen und Verbrechern zu befreien. Bald darauf erregt die unglaubliche Anzahl der unerklärlichen Tode von Kriminellen die Aufmerksamkeit der Polizei. An der Spitze der dafür eigens gegründeten, internationalen Sonderkommission stehen der Polizeichef von Tokio und ein Sonderermittler, von dem weder Gesicht noch Name bekannt sind. Er wird nur mit L angesprochen. Die Jagd beginnt …
Light Yagami cursa el bachillerato y pronto tendrá las difíciles pruebas de admisión para las universidades de élite japonesas, aunque esto no es un gran reto para él. Después de todo, ha sido dotado con una inteligencia tan por encima de la media que siempre pasa con éxito todas las pruebas. Además, es diligente y meticuloso. Pero un día encuentra una libreta misteriosa en el patio, se trata de un Death Note que dice que las personas cuyos nombres sean escritos en la libreta, morirán. Después de su escepticismo inicial, Light comprueba con nombres de criminales que todo es real. No solo descubre más sobre cómo funciona exactamente el Death Note, sino que pronto conoce a su propietario original: un dios de la muerte.

La tentación de usar la libreta es demasiado fuerte para Light. Él ve el Death Note como una oportunidad para liberar al mundo de los malvados y los delincuentes, aunque la increíble cantidad de muertes inexplicables de criminales no tarda mucho en llamar la atención de la policía. Liderando una comisión especial internacional creada con el único propósito de investigar esto están el jefe de la policía de Tokio y un investigador especial cuyo nombre y cara se desconocen, a quien llaman L. La persecución comienza.
Light Yagami est au lycée et s’apprête à passer les durs examens d’admission des Université d’élite du Japon. Tout cela n’est cependant pas un problème pour Light. En plus d’être sérieux et consciencieux, il profite de intelligence hors normes qui lui permet de réussir tous ses examens avec brio. Mais un jour, il trouve un carnet de notes mystérieux dans la cours. Il s’agit du carnet dit Death Note qui raconte que les personnes, dont on inscrit le nom à l’intérieur, mourront par la suite. Light reste d’abord assez dubitatif, mais découvre rapidement que le carnet fonctionne, en l’essayant sur des criminels. Mais il ne trouve pas seulement des informations sur le fonctionnement du carnet, il rencontre également son ancien propriétaire. Un dieu de la mort.

La tentation d’utiliser le carnet est bien trop grande pour Light. Il le voit comme une chance de libérer le monde du mal et des criminels. Mais le nombre important de morts inexpliquées de criminels ne tarde pas à attirer l’attention de la police. Au sommet de la hiérarchie de cette Commission spéciale internationale, créée pour élucider ce mystère, se trouve un homme dont ni le visage, ni le nom sont connus. On le connaît simplement sous le nom de L. La chasse commence…
Light Yagami frequenta le scuole superiori e sta per trovarsi davanti all’esame d’ammissione delle università più elite del Giappone. Ciò però non da grandi problemi a Light. È dotato di un’intelligenza talmente superiore alla media che supera ogni esame con facilità, oltretutto è studioso e diligente. Un giorno gli capita trovare uno strano quaderno nel cortile della scuola. Si tratta di un cosiddetto Death Note. Al suo interno trova scritto che una persona il quale nome viene scritto sulle sue pagine, morirà. Inizialmente scettico, Light scopre, testando le sue abilità su dei criminali, che il quaderno funziona veramente. Non solo riesce a scoprire di più riguardo al suo funzionamento, ma presto incontra anche il proprietario originale del libro: uno shinigami, dio della morte.

La tentazione di usare il libro è troppo forte per Light: vede nel Death Note una possibilità di liberare il mondo dal male e dai criminali. Poco dopo, il numero sbalordante di morti inspiegabili di criminali attira l’attenzione della polizia. Al commando della commissione speciale internazionale creata appositamente per affrontare questi, si trovano il capo della polizia di Tokio e un investigatore speciale, del quale si conoscono ne face ne nome. Dagli altri viene chiamato solo L. La caccia abbia inizio …
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  • Light YAGAMI

    I’ll take a potato chip AND EAT IT!

  • Light YAGAMI

    This world is rotting…

  • Light YAGAMI

    I knew I was the only one capable of doing it. I knew that killing people was a crime. But that was the only way to correct this world, and one day, people will accept that as being righteous. I had to take the role of Kira and do it. This was a mission that was entrusted to me. I was chosen to make amends for this rotten world, and to create a truly safe and ideal world.

  • Light YAGAMI

    This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world … can't go on like this.

  • Light YAGAMI

    I am Justice! I protect the innocent and those who fear evil. Im the one that will become the god of a new world that everyone desires!!

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Avatar: Garimto#1
Death Note is a well known anime throughout the community and everyone interested in anime will have to think about watching it at some point.

The story begins in a Japanese high school where the highly intelligent (and thereby succesful) student Light Yagami finds a notebook, which a Shinigami (Japanese god of dead) dropped there intentionally out of boredom. The owner of the notebook named "Death Note" does have the ability to kill people by writing their name into it while imagining their faces.There is a certain ruleset which determines the patterns by which the notebook can be used. Those rules are revealed eventually throughout the series and shall not be introduced here any further.

The Shinigami named Ryuk soon realizes, that having Yagami finding the notebook, turns out to be a promising cirumstance according to the entertainment he is looking for, because great plans are taking shape in Light Yagamis mind:

Yagamis view of justice is based upon the believe that there are crimes, which make those who commit them, lose their right to live. Therefore he begins killing criminals of the highest category using the death note. However, as the suspicious incidents of dying imprisoned criminals rise above normal, people begin to scrutinize, about someone being responsible for the deaths. One of them is "L".
"L" is a mysterious detective of whom nothing more is known, than that he is a genius solving complicated cases already in the past.

Not even little less intelligent than Light, a great story of chess-like trap-laying, -avoiding and bait taking unfolds around the two given individuals. Their colliding understandings of justice split society into half and even if the manga-author denies any philosophical intention of the story I personally cannot think of a story that illustrates the conflict of two contradictionary views on a subject like (in this case) justice and ethics better than "Death Note". At least in the first half of the series. Later the conflict and the "chess-game-like" character of the rivalry does fade out a little, but the first half of the series makes up for the weaknesses of the latter half.

To round this outline I'd like to mention a view technical details on this anime. The soundtrack places itself somewhere between rock and metal and is not the worst I ever heard in anime. A big portion of gothic-loli serves for the fan-service-faction of otakus and the quality of the drawings is upper standard nowadays.

To conclude the review I want to say that "Death Note" is a duty for everyone who enjoys a twisted intensive story, a philosophical discussion or chess. Since this anime is often considered silimar to Code:Geass I want to add,  that indeed there are paraleles, as there is also a great manipulating main character, doing morally questionable things, to make the world better. For this aspect Code:Geass does have the upper hand. But in storytelling and -twisting and unfolding traps, Death Note sets the bar very high and is still uncontested.
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