Death Note (7)

Death Note starts off with a young highschool student, named Light Yagami, who discovers an ineffable book, the book allows the user to kill anybody whose name he writes in it. Light uses the Deathnote to kill many criminals and cleans the world, attempting to create a perfect kind of utopia. Light becomes known as “Kira” and attracts the attention of many detectives, including the best and youngest detective of all time, L. Throughout the series, L and Light fight in an intense chess match, with each trying to smart and manipulate the other. Both characters are extremely intelligent, and use mind games to obtain control of the chess board. Both L and light approach the battle like a chess game, using people as pawns, and sacrificing when necessary. Both characters are cold hearted monsters who have a good sense of human psychology, and use this knowledge to manipulate others. 

This anime is the reason why I spend so many hours playing chess. It taught me to think of every game like a chess board, taught me to think of everything like a puzzle. Sacrifices are necessary in order to succeed and evolve from the mediocre stage which gravitifys us downwards. Unpredictableness allows an individual to always be ahead, and when you master the ability to predict others, you can’t be beaten.