I don't really watch ANY anime, but I checked this out because why not...
Death Note hit it's peak like, four episodes in (or whenever THAT MOMENT happened). It then kind of hovers around good to mediocre for 2/3 as people said, and then goes into snoresville for the last third.
I'd recommend it? I think?
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