I dont' know if you've heard, but the awsome manga has an animated series out too.

It can be found here

It rocks, this has got to be the best Anime I'ver ever seen so far, because it makes you think, oddly enough.

 

God damn, you've got good timing. Vash told me about this today and suggested I download it and here it is, without me even having to try

 

Ah yes...Death Note. I've read the manga and watched all the anime episodes so far. All I can say is that both are great, though I prefer the anime a bit. It sticks to original manga quite well and somehow makes the whole thing even more exciting and thrilling with all its little, neat, cinematic elements.

Basically, it's all writing in a book and a lot of thinking process. And while that is, as I already said, great in itself, the anime manages to make these small things even more suspenseful. The music, the colour effects (i.e. the thing with the red/blue hair, eyes), everything seems to fit perfectly and makes the whole thing even more worthwhile.

Plus, in the anime, Kira looks so much more evil and cunning than the one in the manga. Might be the whole play with the colours and stuff, but after comparing both, the manga Kira appeared so much 'weaker' (look-wise) than his animated counterpart.

Anyway, the Kira in Death Note is probably one of the greatest anti-heroes I've ever seen and the whole series simply doesn't get boring despite the lack of explosions, DBZ-like fights, 'BOOMS' and 'BANGS', etc. It's all a matter of guile and thinking. That's what Kira is good at and that's what makes him so awesome.

...Well, and that's probably why I was rather disappointed with the ending. With the way the world was at that moment, the other way around would have been so much more likely. And seeing Kira reduced to that was also rather sad. But, well, I'm spoiling so I better shut up...

 

Quite possibly one of the most compelling manga I've read to date- well, before it got to around volume 8 or so.

A definite recommendation. Nice and dark, and intellectual (although there ARE a few plotholes...you have to actively look for them to find any though), I think it'd really fit most of our tastes here at DLP.

 

Nice to be of help there Dwitty.

Yeah, for those of you who aren't manga/anime freaks, Death Note is about a book that falls to earth from the realm of the Death Gods, the book is obvioulsy the Death Note which happens to have the power to kill any human just by writing down their names.

In the series you follow a very bright young man as he finds, and uses, the Death Note to try and become a God and rid the world of 'Evil', all the while dodgeing the police.

Really, to truly understand the awsomness of this you have to watch it, so... Do it NOW!

 

I've read it before. Pretty damn good, though the ending irritated me.

 

Very nice thank you for sharing this..

 

The latest, I think episode of Death Note (14) can be found here

Edit: This one has a little easier subs to read http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih6RM-Rtb-M&mode=related&search=

 

Thanks for the link! It's always difficult to find a Death Note video on youtube with subs that don't necessitate you to squint too much. Youtube users are usually pretty fast with the new episodes but I wouldn't mind waiting an extra day or two for the upload to be of better quality.

 

Stalicon, you tard. The latest is 16.

Irocen.com hosts direct downloads for Animanda, the best fansub group working on the project. Live-Evil did up to like... episode 12... I tihnk it was, but they dropped it. Animanda picked it up.

The anime does follow the manga pretty well though. They leave out minor little things. Like I dont remember the Anime mentioning more American criminals died.

 

I. LOVE. THIS. SHOW!!! I was watching it in Sociology one time. I loved the main character, I think his name his Kira, or something. He was the coolest!

 

Not sure if you guys know this... however... its not ONLY an anime series!
Its got a movie too! In fact it is only behind Titanic for highest grossing movie in the Japanese box office.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/528497

Above link will dl the hq DN movie which has been conveniently hard-subbed for your viewing pleasure! Please keep in mind that this movie is only part one and the second part Death Note: The Last Name has yet to be released.

bon appetite!

 

Ditto
This is definitely a favorite of mine.

 

Thanks for the better link Vash, I'm still new to streaming/downloading. I just got a high speed connection a bit ago. Wooo, now I have not need to wait 20+ hours.


Vash, your link sucks, I can't get it to download at all...

 

works perfectly fine for me, Stali.

 

I don't know which Fansubgroup this Subs made, but I download it from here
http://narutomania.com

Death Note is really interesting, atm I watched up to episode 10. When I have time, I'll load the rest.

 

There's a live-action version of Death Note. The actor who plays Light is the same effeminate guy who played the protagonist in Battle Royale.

The live-action's plot slightly deviates from the original manga/anime but if you have two hours to waste, it's worth watching, mostly because it's funny to watch real people interact with a very fake animation of a shinigami. More people die too, I think.

EDIT: I was going to put a link but it seems the youtube user has been suspended. 0_0