I've started watching the anime series Death Note. It is fun.
Things are totally turned around in this series. The protagonist is essentially a supervillain, out to rid the world of evil by having bad guys killed via supernatural means. He's an anti-hero supervillain protagonist. Ah.
Then we have the main antagonist. A hero detective with a secret identity--he's known only as "L"--who must put a stop to the new murder spree.
They both claim to be Justice. Very dramatically.
They show also features a demon who caused this whole mess but won't take sides and loves apples from the human world, some very dramatically drawn shots of a guy writing in a notebook, and some fun imagery during the opening credits. It's dark, I love anti-heroes, and the protagonist is as cold as they come, so far. I'm just wondering how they stretch this out into 37 episodes. Only four episodes in, the plot seems to be advancing fairly quickly.
More pros for the show include:
No giant mecha.
No magical girls.
No teams of people in similar but differently colored uniforms.
Also, no real violence so far. The last episode we watched had some gunfire, but it didn't hit anyone. People keep getting hit in less-than-random traffic accidents, though.
Anyway, I'll have to keep watching this one. It's a nice breathe of fresh air in the anime I've seen so far.
~j
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