Death Note: Complete Series And Ova Collection

Little bit on the pricey side, but a nice collectors edition of this classic series.

This is a long series (37 episodes) and the first episode didn't really fill me with enthusiasm. However, as an anime fan I continued to watch it, and was surprised at how quickly it hooked me after that.The plot is clever, gripping and generally well structured, while unexpected twists make it seldom predictable. It does fall away from these initial high standards during some of the latter episodes, but the quality of the series as a whole is little diminished, The dialogue is intelligent and both it, and the occasional narrative information, display a subtle, often dry and sometimes flippant sense of humour. I should say here that I almost always watch anime in Japanese with English subtitles - I don't know what the dubbed version is like. The characters are intriguing, plausible and often react to events in unexpected ways which are, nevertheless, consistent with their character.The animation and character drawing is certainly competent, although for general scenes fairly basic and unremarkable - one of the reasons I didn't get into it straight away. However this only serves to highlight the high quality when they pull out all the stops, which they do quite regularly, both for lengthy scenes, and for short, intriguing actions or camera angles. The artwork has a similar approach, and varies from the unremarkable to the superb.The soundtrack is good, and although the opening song is not to my taste (but there's no accounting for taste) the rest of the music is well-chosen.This is good quality entertainment - as good if not better than most television drama.

a MUST have for all anime lovers and not only - One of the best anime series ever .. plus this box set is a very good one :)

I must say I am really happy after purchasing this product.Before buying it, I thought this box set would be much bigger in size, but actually it is not so big, which in the end is a good thing.The whole set consists of 9 DVDs (4 episodes per disc). Each DVD is presented in an independent DVD case (not the regular size, but half width).You also get a 67 page booklet with illustrations, and everything comes together in a cardboard box.I really want to put emphasis on the fact that the price of this box set is really good, considering what you get.You are paying less than a pound per episode, and the audio/video quality is much better than anything you can find on the internet.The only flaw I can find is how the subtitles look. They are yellow, in my opinion they could have looked better, but anyway you get used to them.I did not mention the plot itself because it needs no comments, it is simply the best series I have ever seen, the plot is amazing.In conclusion, go ahead and get it ;)

(Wish this series would come out on a big Blu-Ray boxset)First i will start off with this anime is a Masterpiece! It is the most powerfull, gripping, episodic series i have ever seen.I have friends that literally walk out the room when i put animation on the tv they hate it so much but when they eventually sat down to watch this they all changed thier minds begging me to let them see the next episode.i cant really rate this highly enough, i have seen alot of anime which sometimes make me hold the question why was this even made its so boring or the storyline is going no where, but Deathnote is utterly fantastic!The soundtrack is incredible best i have heard in an anime.The boxset comes with 9 volumes 37 episodes all together, some boxsets come with the booklet (mine did) some dont and bonus featurres. ENGLISH DUBBED and also in Japeneseim not going to go on about what its about check out other reviews for that :)Its About Light Yagami, a student who comes accross a Notebook with Deathnote on the front inside it has the rules of the deathnote long story short you write someones name in it they die. There are so many twists and turns in this.i dont want to write to much about it as you really just need to watch it. i promise you, you will not have seen anything as gripping as this, trust me.I personally prefer the English dubb i dont really see the point in watching it in another language with subtitles but thats just me.The englsih dubb is just as good or in my opinion better than the japanese version but each to thier own.Basically as long as your old enough you will appreciate how brilliant this is from any age over 15.I am sure like the rest of us i hope Hollywood doesnt Destroy this stunning series.I am just a huge fan of this and reccomend this to anyone, thanks for reading.

I am fairly new to anime, coming to this by way of Black Butler, Fullmetal Alchemist and Yuri on Ice and I have enjoyed this a lot despite being disappointed with the death of a major character but at least this dismay means that I did engage with some characters. The Shimigami are excellent as are Light, L and Near as they become 3 dimensional with their own foibles. When Near gets his turn to play Sherlock Holmes(metaphorically), he strategises while playing with toys on the floor and interestingly reminds us so much of his (Brother?) without the relationship being clearly stated.Sometimes I have a problem with high pitched screaming female voices in anime. I couldn't watch Fairytale for this reason. However Misa is ok and I had sympathy for her despite some dumb moves!I will say that the show comes to the brink of stabbing itself in the foot with its own cleverness when the rules of the Deathnote become so complicated during the second half of the set but it does stick to its own rules so in the end I decided that this meant a second watching is warranted rather than just feeling frustrated.Definitely recommended if you enjoy a complex story that you have to concentrate on and where characters are not always black and white but display light and dark sides.