I truly encourage anybody, not just manga fans, to read Death Note. It is very, very good. Very rarely do you find such a well-crafted detective story. And you have to read it. The anime skips over a lot of details that are necessary to fully understand everything.

I watched the double feature movies (2006) and really enjoyed it, so I started on the anime, and I really feel like there are so many pointless filler story lines and episodes.

It's just 37 eps. Considering an anime, it doesn't have fillers, maybe 1 or 2. The anime is well-crafted as well. Every episode serves purpose in the storyline, especially first 25 eps.

And I discourage anybody to write Death Notes. Its...um...quite well-crafted.

Whoa, that list of side channel leaks is massive.

This one is from 2017, and has been posted before. mods, please add [2017] in title

If you haven't read Dead Note but have it on a shortlist, don't read the article. It should have "contains spoilers" on the title...

Great site design.

As a side-note to the Death Note recommendations, there is a stand alone story from a year or two ago in which Trump attempts to buy the Death Note. I think you can read it on Viz.com.

The story also gives a different perspective on how to use the Death Note.

Pretty cool.