The Death Note manga ran in Shonen Jump magazine from 2003 to 2006; the anime aired from 2006 to 2007. I first got into it in 2007 or 2008, when I was a young teen (as so many do!) and I've revisited it many times over the years. It remains one of my favorite things to this day!

Death Note has a really interesting balance of drama and camp and intrigue and violence and themes that make it appealing to an incredibly broad audience. Death Note is no longer an enormous fandom, but it's never gone away, either, and it has a powerful cultural presence even in the US. Iconic and classic!

It might seem strange to say that something so well-known and successful is underappreciated, but I do think that! While many people have read or heard of Death Note, and even have vaguely positive feelings about it, I feel that not a lot of people actually appreciate Death Note for what it is.

Since a lot of people liked Death Note as children, and it has always had a particularly strong appeal to kids in the 12-15 age range, it is often the butt of jokes & considered cringey and bad. It's a low-quality show for immature edgy children which everybody ought to grow out of.

And lot of people don't remember it particularly well and/or didn't read it especially closely when they read it, because they read it when they were kids!

I suppose it's pretty common for people to think that only they really appreciate the thing they like and everybody else is a fool... well, I'm like that about Death Note. It's good and I like it a lot! Other people just don't get it!!!

This is a dumping ground for my Death Note ramblings, my weirdly-large collection of Death Note screencaps, my favorite Death Note fandom links, and everything else Death Note-related that I might want to save somewhere!

Even this site does not capture the true depths of my love for Death Note, which I think can only really be experienced by those unlucky enough to have let me watch Death Note with them and provide them an almost-incessant running commentary for hours on end.