Death Note: Complete Series And Ova Collection

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.

(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 Japenese im 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 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 ;)

This is an excellent anime to watch if you like something that is thought provoking! Death Note is about a notebook which can kill people, and has certain rules to it. Once the main character gets a hold of the Death Note, they begin to deliver their sense of 'justice'. Eventually the police catch on, and the hunt begins! The main characters must always be one step ahead of one another in this thrilling anime! Though, I have to admit that by about episode 29, the anime goes a little bit downhill, but, picks up again, but, not to the same level in my opinion. The soundtrack is very good as well, but I have to admit it does become very repetitive as themes for characters and situations are reused over and over again throughout. I highly recommend all fans of anime to watch this! Even if you are new to anime, the drawings are very well done. I have been able to sit with my mother and watch this! (Though she does not like the drawings very much, as she prefers Disney). Other than that, there isn't much I can say without spoiling the plot! So watch it and find out! I promise you will be on the edge of your seat with most of the episodes ending on cliff hangers! I was a little reluctant at first when I first heard about the plot, but when I actually started watching it, I couldn't stop!

I once got a copy of the deathnote manga and wasn't particularly charmed by it. However, when in Japan I stumbled across a copy of the first episodes of deathnote on DVD and bought it. From the moment I watched it I was hooked! The sheer brilliance of the idea, the way the characters where put. It is utterly brilliant. The story is as follows: The brilliant but bored student, Light Yagami, finds a deathnote. This is the book of death of a Shinagami, a god of death. If you write someone's name in it, this person will die in 40 seconds. There is a little more to it, and there are more rules, but this is the basic idea. Ofcourse he doesn't believe it, and decides to test it. It works. He then decides to create a utopia by killing all the criminals in the world. However, an equally brilliant guy, who goes by the alias L, sees a connection between the apparantly random deaths and decides to investigate. A cat and mouse game, and an odd friendship starts between the two. There are a few sideplots, but the game between L and Yagami is the basic story line. Eventually it comes to a showdown at the end which was a slight letdown, but the series (about 32 episodes) is excellent. worth buying it.

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.

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

Arrived on time, just as described - glad I checked through the reviews first though because sure enough there was no art booklet as some had described, but others had said this was a limited gift that is no longer produced, so I wasn't expecting it. This series is just brilliant - the story is so gripping, the art and animation is stunning (brilliant, because so is the manga!), and it's not really short like some series are from being cancelled or running out of the original manga. So much better quality than watching it online like I did the first time round (we don't get too much anime on tv or in shops here) its great with our surround sound, and doesn't look odd on our big widescreen TV like some other animes do, I've noticed. If you haven't seen it I would recommend it - especially as an introduction to anime - it was one of the first series I watched and it got me hooked! Well worth the price too.

Perfect condition 👍

Also, ich muss sagen: Einfach nur genial! Death note ist wohl nicht mit einem "normalen" Anime nicht gleichzusetzen. Für alle, die finden, Animes seien "Kinderkram" oder nur etwas für Jugendliche, weil es nur Kämpfe etc. gibt, möchte ich sagen: Hier nicht! Death note wird von einer düsteren, kontinuierlichen Atmosphäre durchzogen und gekämpft wird hier nicht mit Fäusten, sondern mit Worten. Denn die Konversationen haben es wirklich in sich. Für Außenstehende scheinen die Dialoge normale Gespräche zu sein, doch hier geht es um Leben und Tod. Wer auch nur ein falsches Wort sagt, hat sich sozusagen selbst liquidert. Hört sich seltsam an? Dann stellen sie sich mal zwei Genies vor, zwei Kontrahenten, die für ihre Ansicht von Recht und Gerechtigkeit an den rand ihrer Möglichkeiten gehen, alle ihre Tricks und Fallen gegeneinander ausspielen, und durch ihr psychologisches Duell auch noch die Zukunft der Welt bestimmen. In Death note wird nicht nur das Thema "Gerechtigkeit" an sich thematisiert, nein, man fragt sich auch gleich, wie weit man für eben diese Gerechtigkeit gehen darf, wieviel Macht ein Mensch haben sollte, und das zu viel Macht die Psyche eines Menschen zugrunde richtet. Denn wenn jemand, der an seiner Ideologie festhält, und bereit ist, radikal zu handeln, genau diese Macht bekommt, was passiert dann? Genau das fragt man sich bei Light/Raito Yagami, einem hochbegabten japanischen Oberschüler. Light ich angewidert von der heutigen, "verrotteten" Gesellschaft, und hatte schon immer einen stark ausgeprägten Gerechtigkeitssinn.Eines Tages findet Light ein seltsames Notizbuch mit dem Titel "Death Note". Zuerst hält er es für Blödsinn, dass man Menschen allein durch notieren des Namens töten kann. Doch dann testet er das Buch, und stellt fest: Das Death Note ist echt! Und hier wird ihm sein Gerechtigkeitssinn und seine Bereitschaft zu radikalen Maßmahmen zum Verhängnis. Er beginnt damit, Kriminelle zu exekutieren mit dem Ziel, eine neue Welt nach seinen Vorstellungen zu erschaffen. Er wird in ein Gefecht mit dem mysteriösen Meisterdetektiv L gezogen, denn mittlerweile haben die Menschen bemerken langsam, dass es jemanden gibt, der Verbrecher exekutiert. L und und Light halten sich beide für Verfechter der Gerechtigkeit und schwören sich, den jeweils anderen zu töten. Es beginnt ein Katz-und-Maus-spiel auf höchstem Spannungsniveau... Ich kann Deaht note JEDEM empfehlen, denn es gibt Denkduelle, Mystery, Dark-fantasy, Pschothriller-, aber auch Krimielemente, und eine Ernsthaftigkeit, die durch Ls "Seltsamkeit" aber oft einen leicht lustigen Beigeschmack erhält, mich aber manchmal regelrecht erschaudern lässt. Und auch die Charaktere sind genial. Vom eiskalten intelligenten Gerechtigkeitsfanatiker über das exzentrische, "seltsame" Genie bis hin zu doofen Modelchen. Aber das beste ist meiner Meinung nach - in was sich dieser Anime von eigentlich fast allen Serien und Filmen unterscheidet - dass man sich aussuchen darf, auf welcher Seite man steht, L-Fraktion oder Kira-Fraktion. Hier bekommt der Zuschauer nicht vorgeschrieben, wer der tolle Held und wer der Bösewicht ist. Beide Genies sind einzigartig und auf ihre Art und Weise sympathisch, und ihre Facetten erstaunen mich immer wieder aufs neue. Denn der eigentliche Protagonist ist eher der größenwahnsinnige "Böse", der mordet, um Gott einer neuen Weltordnung zu werden, und der "Gegenspieler" der "Gute", ein Detektiv , der im Namen des Gesetzes und dessen Gerechtigkeit handelt. ABSOLUTE KAUFEMPFEHLUNG!!! (Oh Gott, das war schwer, so eine objektive Rezension zu schreiben, ich HASSE Kira nämlich, um ehrlich zu sein...! So ein...ach, egal...;] )

VERAMENTE ECCEZIONALE!! considerato il prezzo, la mancanza di doppiaggio italiano è del tutto irrilevante... e la serie è un must, anche per non-fan della serie o dei cartoni animati giapponesi in genere: un thriller che vi terrà col fiato sospeso fino all'ultimo

Securely packed, arrived quickly, plays beautifully!

The Blu-Rays themselves are in decent condition, but the box's Cover was banged up and tearing a little. Overall, it's good though :)