Light is probably the greatest anime-character ever. I so agreed with his view of everything. Sorry, but discrediting Light that way is stupid.Originally Posted by masamuneehs
Light is probably the greatest anime-character ever. I so agreed with his view of everything. Sorry, but discrediting Light that way is stupid.
Death Note is set to debut on adult swim on the 20th of this month. I think i might have to watch it over again
And you are lucky enough to know you can stop right at the time when L dies and go directly to the last few important scenes of the showDeath Note is set to debut on adult swim on the 20th of this month. I think i might have to watch it over again
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Too bad they couldn't spell "desu" right. Makes them look really stupid.
I find it better to just consider Light's little conduction scene the end of the series, there's no real reason to watch anything past that go past that as it wraps things up rather nicely.
Last edited by Yukimura; Mon, 10-08-2007 at 08:50 PM.
Wheres a good place to find this series. I would browse the topic but I don't want any spoilers. Thanks!
gonzo: here you go mate. Direct Downloads
Thank gotwoot's spiegel!
Power without perception is virtually useless!
Hahaha, so did anyone catch the English premier on Adult Swim?
I was a little bit surprised at Light's VA, it wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. HOWEVER, it's not great. I would say it's fine enough to put up with. I just want to hear more before I pass judgment.
And Ryuk? Ehhh....he sounds a little too...what's the word, refined. His voice isn't gritty enough like it was in the Japanese version. It just doesn't fit very well, but it's not horrible.
I'm pretty curious about the other character's VAs, and it was good enough that I'd bother watching until at least I get a taste of L and Misa.
Weill I think Light's VA sucks completely for his role. He sounds too young and immature and that will probably makeit so people won't want to take his side. If they gave L a voice that sounds really mature and refined I don't think I'll keep watching since it takes away from the story to try and make one sound lesser than the other.
I would have been totally okay with Light getting arrested as long as they had focused in on the fact that he was still wearing his watch. If the last shot of the anime had just been a shot of him with his hands cuffed (in front of him? Is Mogi a moron?) with the watch glinting beneath the cuffs, I would have been happy.
Where was the preparation? Where was the back-up plan? Where was the beautiful acting he used to fool Naomi? Where was the patience that kept him from discarding the Note while in captivity that one time? Heck, he could have just told Mikami, "Test it before coming, and if it doesn't work write down my name too but leave this blonde kid's name out."
But no, just "THIS IS MY VICTORIO!!11!!!1ONE1!"
how do you suggest he tell that to mikami considering he had no mean of comunication when takada died?
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
I'd have thought that it would be part of the original plan from before Takada died, just in case. Considering that their entire bait-and-switch was based on the assumption that Mikami was being followed as the fourth Kira, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that something might happen at some point, making it necessary to make sure all the pieces were in position.
Light rarely demonstrated planing for completely out of the blue unforseen contingencies, especially after the skip. He constantly assumed he had predicted everything and accounted for it in his plans and usually he was right. However he was always vulnerable to events that defied all logic and thus his predictions.
I tend to blame all of Lights troubles on Near's magic safety deposit box replacement fiasco. Weddy, who was L's personal choice for best person to circumvent security was stopped by HIguchi's home security system, yet that random agent guy was able to rob a safety deposit box, duplicate its contents, and put them back all in the span of an hour...in broad daylight. In the face of such a non-naturalistic ability to there really was no chance for a rational solution. Just like L's camera's had no chance of catching Light off guard because he had Ryuk to tell him where they were. Just like people had no chance of avoiding their deaths once their names were entered into the Note. Light would have had to come up with a contingency plan for the supernatural to avoid what happened.
His plan to take Near down was pretty based on out-of-the-blue occurrences though. He had to assume that they would take the Death Note and try to modify it rather than arresting Mikami outright for having the Note or just taking it and writing Mikami's name in it. It's not "out-of-the-blue" to think that a person might be caught and his unstoppable super-weapon taken away or de-powered when the person is being watched like a hawk and could feasibly give himself away by accident. Like, say, if something causes him to go to the location of the hiding spot of the unstoppable super-weapon.
BTW, that was totally out of character for Mikami as well; he had been set up as a totally devoted follower of Kira, and the thought that he would just dash aside all that obedience isn't within the boundaries of his tendency to overdo things.
And honestly, Near's magic doesn't end at the safety deposit box. The nonsense with the room spinning around while Near suddenly had a byakugan made me want to knee him in the face repeatedly like my name was Tony Jaa. It just smashed the suspension of disbelief into a thousand pieces, and that (apart from the finale) was probably the moment of my highest disappointment with the series.
Death Note special is subed now... but i heard its a terrible sub >_>
http://www.mininova.org/tor/949368
http://mihd.net/r50e3n mirror
i guess its better than nothing
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
Another Mirror on the front page of my site, http://shinigami-only-eat-apples.net.
So the subs really fuckin blew it out the ass, but it was nice to see a recap and the added parts. I still have to say that Light is a fuckin' prick and I'm glad he got what was coming to him, even more so after having seen what he did at L's funeral.
Soo...anyone want to explain the ending to me? I think I got it, just want to hear what other people think.
This is the ending of the final conclusion.
The special was awesome. aside from the horrible subbing, of course.
i really like the way it ended right after L, the way it should have. and how light became a death god (which i figured was what Ryuk meant when he couldnt go to heaven or hell).
as for the normal ending. Light's irrational behavior, id say is normal. He pretty much went crazy after the whole thing with L, so it would be understandable that he wouldnt be as calm and collected as he was at the very beginning. The inevitable downfall of man, pretty much. But i just hated how Near was always on top of it. Making impossible guesses and not testing anything like L did. He could predict everything Light did without even thinking, and just went with it and was always right.
but I agree with most of you that the adult swim version looks really watered down. but i pretty much assumed that as any anime thats been played in the US has been watered down and ruined, usually turned into a kids show.
I don't know why everyone hated Light. I knew he was a bad guy, but as the main character, you can't help but feel sorry that there were circumstances as to how he became a bored 17 year old. Was it that he was too smart and couldn't hold an intelligent conversation with anyone?
I wish the ending would have been somehow L and Light ended up as friends. They had good times together.
*Yagami Light IS a cool name, isn't it?
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