Unpopular opinion time: Death Note is one of the most overrated animes of all time. I'm talking about the anime... I've never seen the manga but it seems like the anime is just a poor adaptation of the manga. I was seven episodes in and was like "hopefully this isn't just cat and mouse the whole time". Surprise... it basically was (minus- like- seven episodes in the middle). The plot was so depressing that you didn't even know who to root for... You could not prepare for any of the plot twists that happened because the characters reasoning was so "out-there". The last 7 episodes just randomly introduce characters that we're supposed to support? The only thing I appreciate about it is the dub was amazingly done. Again this is my thoughts on the anime. I'm sure the manga resolves a lot of the issues I have with the manga. Don't get me wrong... it's a great anime, but it's definitely not worth all the hype it gets.