DEATH NOTE

tsubaki · newbie! Joined: Jun 29, 2005 Posts: 40

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Rick_battosai · Conscript Joined: May 20, 2006 Posts: 130 Location: canada

wow.this is like one of the best series this month.
just watched ep5 and it kicks ass.but i have a feeling im not going to like the end.

Faebinder · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

I hate to say it... but episode 6 has dropped the series back to a 9 in my eyes.... the flow is just not as strong as I wanted it to be.. further I feel no anger/empathy/hate/love towards the good guy or the bad guy....

This needs more. Confused

When I think of this series.. I think of the closest series to it... probably Monster.... and Monster did a GREAT job making you feel angry/hateful/fearful of the bad guy and made you feel bad towards the good guy... at least you knew what you should feel like.... not just be completely neutral like in this series. Maybe it will improve later to a 10.

Kaiser · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject:

leoxjm · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject:

silverkitsune · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject:

I read the manga, but this series is still very entertaining to watch.
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Kenshin4545 · newbie! Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 17 Location: The Place

Is this thing ever going to come to america? I'm angry if it isn't.
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Kidder · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:38 am Post subject:

I finally get around to watching the Death Note anime and I have to say I'm extremely impressed. I've never read the manga and have only seen the trailers for the live-action movie, so I didn't know what to expect, but I've found this anime to be extremely entertaining and intriguing.

So far I'm suitably impressed to give this a 10 out of 10. Animation and story are top notch. The pacing suits me and I'm craving new episodes all the time. OP and ED aren't really my cup of tea which is a shame, but the background music is perfect. Therefore I can't justify giving the show anything less than 10/10... for now

It's a definite addition to my "anime-to-follow" list.
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Martin_G · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Nov 17, 2006 Posts: 53

I haven't read the manga or anything, but one thing I have been wondering is wether or not kira could write his own name in the death note. If so he could control the time of his death and garuntee himself a long life. I don't remeber reading any rules against that.

I just finished ep 10 and I was truely impressed. Maybe it's just because I haven't watched a lot of mystery/horror animes and my senses have not yet been dulled to the genre; but I was really on the edge of my seat the whole episode! The music totally drew me in as well.

It seems wrong to say I love this anime because it is so sad, but there's a lot of amazing things about it.

-Martin

Faebinder · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

silverkitsune · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:29 am Post subject:

Kidder · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:22 am Post subject:

I'm a little confused as to the role that the Shinigami play in the Death Note universe. Are they an important integral part of the Heaven and Hell system or are they merely "predators" that prey on the life-force of humans, simply to sustain their own existence?

Another paradox I noticed:
Since the Shinigami eyes can see a person's name and remaining life-span, wouldn't that imply that "Fate" exists (since a person's life-span is pre-defined)? But then if a Shinigami or Light kills a person, doesn't that go against "Fate" since they are killing the person "before-their-time" and hence negate the existence of Fate?

Martin_G · Heimin (Commoner) Joined: Nov 17, 2006 Posts: 53

well I think that the death gods are suggested to have played a more integral role in the universe long ago, but as the stage set up for Light, it turns out that all the death gods have become lazy caring little more for their universal importance than it takes to simply continue living. Hence Ryuk is frustrated and he intentionally drops his death note in the human world, whom are apparently an especially interesting species, just to see what a human death god will do.

Ryuk compliments light early on in the series telling him that he is already a much better death god than any of his collegues. So it seems that if the shinigami were ever anything more than predators, they have lost that ambition.

Addressing the Fate paradox, I don't think that the show is really concerned about it. Fate is acknoledged as real, but the shinigami powers simply trump the forces of fate. Once the stories' mechanics are set up, the bulk of the story is really just a spy vs spy thriller. I don't think that they are too worried about explaining the paradoxes too much.

Hopefully, however, by the time the show comes to an end Ryuk will have found some purpose or resolution of the lazyness issue for himself and his kind.

darksimperson01 · newbie! Joined: Aug 08, 2005 Posts: 15

Heh, I came with the same idea at about the same time Martin_G.

It would require some careful wording "Dies at the end of his expected lifespan from painless death", but I could see it being done.

However, if it didn't work, or if it wasn't worded carefully enough, it could cause instant death by heart attack, and that would lead to problems. It's a high risk venture with only a moderate reward and low chance of success.