I cannot agree more with your assessment of Death Note. The coming together of the various plot points makes the first half of DN, in my opinion, one of the best manga ever.

The second half kind of sucked comparatively, so I stopped reading after a few chapters.

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spoilers: right after aeris dies it completely goes down the tubes and the writer rolls up the continuity into a crude cigarette and smokes it

but then I have some sort of irrational hate for manga and didn't really like it up until that point (just wanted to find out who wins round 1, basically) so don't listen to me

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If by "round 1" you mean Righto vs. L, then yeah, what I meant was that the climax of that conflict was what made it worth reading at all.

It's not even the continuity in the later parts... it's the most basic elements. I can't get past the part where they land a passenger airline in the middle of the desert to trade a Death Note for a hostage, through a secret underground possibly Cold-War-vintage bulletproof glass revolving door designed specifically for trading documents and people, and then aforementioned Death Note gets launched in a rocket, the kind of rocket that can't be detected by radar. Wait, what kind of rocket is that? Could it be the kind of rocket you just made up?
Forget jumping the shark, this is where the entire thing just crashes into a wall and explodes.

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alol oh lord that happens? didn't get that far

might have to now in order to laugh

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