"Well, That Ruined It" Experiences in Anime

I'll have to agree with those who mentioned Death Note. There were a fair few things I didn't like about how they handled it, despite the excellent premise.

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Killing off L was one of the stupidest things they could have done. Near and Mellow were ridiculously lame excuses for characters. It seems like the writers just killed off L to be dramatic, then had no idea what to do with the series, so they created Near with almost clone-like qualities, except for the fact he's suckier.

The worst part is, I'd accidentally spoiled L's death for me very early on in the series by accident, so I was just waiting around for it to happen (all the while expecting it to be in the final few episodes) and then BAM! Mid-series he just drops off and I literally had no idea how the hell they thought they could carry this crap on for another 20-something episodes without him.

One last thing, though somewhat minor. I actually didn't mind Light's death (though it was somewhat stupid how he got beaten by Near when Near just sucked in comparison to L) and I thought it was reasonably well pulled off (though again, it would've been better if the final "showdown" was between L and Light). However, when Matsuda decided to finally *do* something and shot Light in the hand, I literally just went "what the hell?" in my head. They spend all those episodes developing Matsuda in a specific way, but then that one action and the way Matsuda went about it, everything he said, etc, just seemed to throw his character development out the window. Far too uncharactertistic for my tastes.

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