Actually it should be the best one.Netherless, the unnecessary second half destroy it. Therefore I'm goning to rate the anime in two part(1-25)(26-36)
From the first part,I can tell that the story is unique and the characters is well-developed. I think after watching this ,everyone can tell that it is a masterpiece.10 marks for the story, 8 marks for the art,8 marks for the sound,10 marks for the characters, and 10 marks for my enjoyment. For considering it was an anime aired near 10 years,I will give a perfect 10 for the first half. L and Light, the forever rivals has controlled the whole story,with the dark hero -- Light has a wonderful brain which has a perverted dream-- to become the god of the new world after he got Death Note. L-- with a wonderful brain same as Light but he is a detective,(actually I think he is smarter than Light) with the strange action. Ruyk with a scary face but he is only a god which like eating apples. The really big differenences between them to create Death Note.
For the second half ,I think it is not the same level as the first half, in fact it is not poor, but it is just average.
For the story I will give it a 6 becuase of the unrealistic stoy line and N always using some methods which has already surpassed the natural.
The best part in the second half is only the part when Light dead, it has not much surprise. For the art and the sound ,it has not change much so I will give the same marks as the first half for 8. The characters has no enough time for developing in only 12 ep. N and same as L but never better than him. M is a quite good character however he deads early and cannot developed well.Therefore I will give a 7 for the character (5 marks for Light and Ruyk, 2 for others).For the enjoyment,after L deads, I have no mood to watch M and N, I'm just kept my concentration on Ruyk. It is different on first half that L and Light are propably two of the best characters in the anime history. Therefore I can only just give 5 marks for my enjoyment.
In a conclusion, 10 marks for the first parts while 6 for the second. In the average, 8 marks are given.( I must give a 10 without doubt if there hasn't the second part)
