Death Note

Ishbalan · Post by **Ishbalan** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:44 pm

It sounds like they managed to fix L's voice in the English version. Its sounds a lot better than that one used in the trailer.

wind star · Post by **wind star** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:45 pm

I only saw the Japanese version, and it a good anime, but the ending was...DISAPPOINTING!!!

I hate that end...I mean, in the manga, it is different, it is more natural...but in the anime, it is like all the anime was a story for kids...
Anyway, I kinda feel sorry for Misa...I guess she loved Raito too much...and Raito/Light didn't made a mistake, it was only Teru's fault...

if he hadn't made that stupid thing, that plan could succeed...

but he went right into M and N's trap...I just feel sorry that I do not have a Death Note...

BigFattyPlus · Post by **BigFattyPlus** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:17 am

I just started watching it on Adult Swim (sorry, poor anime fan alert), and I like it. Liht reminds me of MacGuver a little bit in how he thinks things out and always has an ingenious plan to back him up. He just seems smarter than the average hero.

dragonrose44 · Post by **dragonrose44** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:26 pm

I just started watching the series on adult swim. The voices are pretty good. I thoguth they'd do a terrible job but the voices were just as I expected o.o gee nice imagination of mine ^_^;;

EvaFan · Post by **EvaFan** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:16 am

Not to crack down on this anime or anything, but the whole concept of the deathnote and intelligence of kira is pointless. He could of killed "L" at any point in the anime. It became obvious to me after the bus scene. Too be honest, I'm surprised i didn't realize it earlier after hearing the rules. They aren't specific enough.

Think about how the deathnote works and how he got the FBI agent to reveal his badge without knowing his name. Seriously... If it can go that in depth on cause and effect then why not for example:

When he kills the FBI's fiance after finding out her name... Instead of killing her imediantly. Put something like...

[Her name, I forgot it] - Will die immediantly after finding out the true name of the person known through-out the world under the code name "L" and calling me with that name on MM/dd/yy xx:xx time.

with 6ish minutes to write more detail, you could include her becoming a part of the investigation and gaining "L"'s and everyone elses name that is included in the investigation.

Theres way to many loopholes to the deathnote. The storyline is still enjoyable but knowing stuff like this destroys the concept a bit. I really liked it up till the bus scene too

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Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:45 am

@Eva-Fan

I agree that there are loopholes, but the example you gave is wrong. Light simply assumed (or "deduced"

) that the FBI agent would show him his badge in order to gain Light's trust - the Death Note did not interfere directly with that. In the bus chapter, all instructions written on the Death Note refer to the escapee that hijacks the bus. Besides, while it isn't written on the instructions, Ryuk says to Light that writing an alias in the Death Note will not work, and that doing so would invalidate the instructions. At least in the manga. I don't really care for the anime. Therefore, he could not have used the Death Note to force that woman into getting L's identity since there would be no way for him to properly refer to L in the Note and since that would require the Death Note to manipulate other people besides the person whose name was written (since Light wopuld have established as a condition for her Death that L and the other team members revealed their names). That alone, regardless of the alias issue, would also invalidate the instructions and cause a simple heart attack death.

I hope I didn't sound like a fanboy - there's actually a lot of stuff I hate about Death Note - but you were just wrong.

EvaFan · Post by **EvaFan** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:44 am

Gepetto wrote:Ryuk says to Light that writing an alias in the Death Note will not work, and that doing so would invalidate the instructions. At least in the manga.

Ah I see.. If that was in the anime then i must of missed it, though I figured if you are refering to "L" in the way that I mentioned it would of worked cause you dont need his name when it's said that way.

Gepetto wrote:since that would require the Death Note to manipulate other people besides the person whose name was written... That alone, regardless of the alias issue, would also invalidate the instructions and cause a simple heart attack death.

I wasn't aware there was a rule against conditions and manipulating either. As long as you could right the details of the death in 6 minutes and 40 seconds then it would work. Maybe i'll stop watching the anime and read the manga instead. It would probably be more enjoyable.

Pas · Post by **Pas** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:55 am

Eva-Fan wrote:Maybe i'll stop watching the anime and read the manga instead. It would probably be more enjoyable.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:02 pm

Pas1990 wrote:
Eva-Fan wrote:Maybe i'll stop watching the anime and read the manga instead. It would probably be more enjoyable.

Agreed. Especially in the end.

BigFattyPlus · Post by **BigFattyPlus** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:49 pm

Eva-Fan wrote:Not to crack down on this anime or anything, but the whole concept of the deathnote and intelligence of kira is pointless. He could of killed "L" at any point in the anime. It became obvious to me after the bus scene. Too be honest, I'm surprised i didn't realize it earlier after hearing the rules. They aren't specific enough.

Think about how the deathnote works and how he got the FBI agent to reveal his badge without knowing his name. Seriously... If it can go that in depth on cause and effect then why not for example:

When he kills the FBI's fiance after finding out her name... Instead of killing her imediantly. Put something like...

[Her name, I forgot it] - Will die immediantly after finding out the true name of the person known through-out the world under the code name "L" and calling me with that name on MM/dd/yy xx:xx time.

with 6ish minutes to write more detail, you could include her becoming a part of the investigation and gaining "L"'s and everyone elses name that is included in the investigation.

Theres way to many loopholes to the deathnote. The storyline is still enjoyable but knowing stuff like this destroys the concept a bit. I really liked it up till the bus scene too ...

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I think that the Death Note is a bit too powerful. Light could have just came out and taken over the world with just a few penstrokes. Shoot, if he could write fast enough, he could win a fight with the Death Note, saying that his attaccker would slam his own head into the wall repeatedly until he died, or he could just have a heart attack, or whatever. Also, with's Light's intelligence, he could trick the shinigami into revealing the names of people that Light didn't know and kill them. I can see far batter ways to use the Death Note.