[Anime] Death Note

I love the anime, but that's all I've seen so far. It's incredibly dark which is right up my alley, and less "big guys with large muscles stupid auras and yellow hair charge up bullshit moves for 84 episodes" than it is an series of intellectual battles between Light and "L." I'm only up to episode 15 but it gets more and more interesting with each episode I see. I don't might a bit of martial arts or fighting in my anime, but I want an intriguing story before I want good fight scenes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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It's going to be especially hard to keep up interest now that we no longer have the intellectual battle between Light and L. At least that's the way I'm seeing it, especially after seeing episode 26. What a boring letdown. I haven't read the manga though or any spoilers so I don't know what awaits me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I haven't read it, but I predicted this "event" would eventually happen. The show is ultimately about Kira, and it promotes an idea that at the core, if we allow our morals to truly surface with no repurcussions, we are ultimately evil beings. I think at a deeper level the story is trying to say that we are all Kiras, or that we could all become Kiras.

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That said, L needed to die for the show to progress. Kira ultimately needs to win in creating his "perfect world." It would have been a lame ending for Light to just get captured and executed. The two narrowed into eachother far too quickly for the result to be anything other than L losing. I'm glad though, that it was something beyond L's control, rather than just him slipping up. He's the world's greatest investigator, after all. I don't know what the rest of the story will deal with, but I'm expecting it to be something dealing with how Kira is going to rise to power without anyone stopping him en masse. There's still a lot of potential for very cool episodes, but it's going to be hard to appeal to an audience that was originally hooked on a thrilling intellectual battle.

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OMFG.

From what I've seen of episode 27 (only halfway through) the second arc looks to be just as or even more amazing than the first.

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HOLY FREAKING SHIT. Kira has to combat yet another L, and a version of himself? This will be insanely interesting. I take back what I've said before about my expectations.

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I initially was very disappointed with the ending, but after watching it a few more times, I like it a lot better than how the manga ended.

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I thought it was better to have Light go out like a "whiny bitch" initially. I mean, he's pretty much NEVER experienced defeat, and the only time he experienced minor defeat earlier on, he threw a hissy fit. It showed just how much he breaks down when he loses, how much his "dream" of a perfect world meant to him. But after seeing the anime ending enough times, I like it better. It really ties viewers better on an emotional level, feeling sorry for all that Light has lost that he's worked so hard to gain. I certainly didn't want him to lose, even after knowing what was going to happen.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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after thinking on it more, I think I see Mikami's motivations for killing himself in the anime more. Well, there's two theories I can't decide between. His "God" had just asked for help, and all he could think to do was kill himself to give Light a chance to escape. Maybe even after all that had happened, he still worshipped him, and was mortified at the mistake he had made, causing his God to fall. Or, he was despairing at seeing his God fall, maybe realizing Kira wasn't all he thought he was cracked up to be, and killed himself in remorse. Maybe a combination of both those =/. Not really sure. All I know is that events didn't play out as they did in the manga, and I think I'm liking the anime ending better.

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shenlon - something i just thought of now. Might he have killed himself because his "God" had just told him "I don't even know you!"? There's some verse in the Bible that says somethign to the extent of God saying "Depart from me, I never knew you" to those who tried to "buy" their way into heaven. Maybe it's a kind of parallelism with that idea. Mikami had "failed" Light. Realising he had failed his God, and that his God had told him that, he killed himself. I don't know. More than likely, the anime was meant to portray the same emotions that the manga had, but it didn't quite come across clearly =/. Regardless, I guess it's not vital to the story and it is still my all-time fav anime ever .

you are probably right though in that the same mental state that was in the manga was meant to be potrayed in the anime

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