Death Note is a Shounen Jump anime, but forget the generic conventions those two words invoke. Just like Bleach, this is a story that depicts the soul reaping world of "Shinigami" but where Bleach's version of the afterlife is jammed with pouting pretty boys and nothing else, Death Note's vision is dark, cold and lifeless. The characters that inhabit this world are surreal, twisted nightmares - imagine a slightly toned down version of Hellraiser's cenobites.The shinigami of note is Ryuuku; a permanently smiling, razor toot..
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