Death Note.

[Ghoulish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue8fM2FBL_A

Season 2 please?

[Cin]

Whammy's House didn't need a massive explanation, with Death Note was in the beauty was in the lack of background.

Light underestimated just how much Mello had actually done against him, Mello's actions made Mikami act out of turn giving Near the location of the Real Death Note. Light didn't realize that Mikami had made this mistake, so Near and Mello had him cornered.

The films are good actually, its an alternative version of the anime/manga storyline and shows just how cold Light really is, how you feel on the ending depends if prefer L or Light. The 3rd film isn't worth watching though, as great a job as amazing a job Ken'ichi Matsuyama did as L (He won Best New Actor at the Hochi Film Awards, Nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Awards of the Japanese Academy, and won Best New Talent at the Yokohama Film Festival all for Death Note.) he had L down to a T. Too much Engrish and use of the name Near for one of the cast makes it confusing towards Near/Nate if you watch the Anime/read the Manga in Film 3 (L: Change The World). Plus a plot in the previous film sort of ruins all his actions.

Stop double posting seriously.

[Ghoulish]

? didn't think double posting was that big of an issue especially when they are two seperate things....but alright, do you know anything of what the manga vid i just posted? Is it supposed to be a teaser manga type thing or will it actually go somewhere?

[Kiyo]

I stopped reading/watching after Chapter 58/Ep 25. It just got boring without L around.
To be honest, I actually felt like it started going downhill during Yotsuba. The first 15 or so eps was the greatest battle of wits I've ever watched.

I love the OST, though.

[Ghoulish]

i know right, to me it seems like it was rushed?

[.Starrk]

They have to come out with ep 38 soon or i will kill someone.

[Ghoulish]

i wish they did especially after the manga vid i posted if it went into some storyline like that it would be sik, i doint think they will though they've said it's finished haven't they

[.Starrk]

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i wish they did especially after the manga vid i posted if it went into some storyline like that it would be sik, i doint think they will though they've said it's finished haven't they
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No I don't think so.

[Cin]

The story is FINISHED enough said, the only things they could do was cover more of the stories mentioned in the Novel: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.

I'll get and get How To Read 13 to quote things about the length.

[Ghoulish]

that's dissapointing to say the least the whole Light vs L. in a game of wits is what made this anime for me one of my tops

[Cin]

Remember the whole series boiled down to Light Vs L, if not directly through L, but indirectly through Mello,Matt and Near.

Tsugumi Ohba knew the end long before he really got into his flow "When writing a story I start with the ending". I do lol that he couldn't put a finger on the nationality of L: "I think of him as a quarter Japanese, a quarter English, a quarter Russian and...maybe a quarter French or Italian? Something like that."

[Ghoulish]

true i guess, regardless though it is quite dissapointing that its at an end.

[Cin]

Good things must come to an end, you don't want them to continue and it get bad.

Also how can you continue with: L (L Lawliet), Light, Misa, Mello (Mihael Keehl), Matt (Mail Jeevas), Watari (Quillish Whammy),and Rem dead. Out of the main cast we have what Near (Nate River) and Ryuk left.

[i]Misa has a death date of 14/2/2011, a year after Light died. (Source: How To Read 13).[/i].

The only mystery left is whether or not Near wrote Mikami's actions into the Death Note (Matsuda's Theory in Chapter 108).

Get reading Another Note, it covers the case Noami and L worked on together, it covers the 1st and 2nd kids of Whammy's A and B. B's alias was Backup. That gives you the set up for case.

[DL]

I began reading the manga again after a LOOONG break (because I didn´t finish reading, as I could not find volume 12 anywhere)

And I find I still enjoy it as much as the first time I read it.

THAT´S how you know it´s an amazing story.

I know what happens, kinda, yet it stil surprises me every time.

[Cin]

I always notice something new everytime I read it, perhaps I should go reread it now =D

[Kiyo]

I can't stop watching the last few minutes of Ep 2. The way L owns Light never gets boring.

[Lt. Colonel Remo]

true dat, i hated Near in the anime and manga though. just a fake L, even worse was when light called himself L, Light is my fav char but there are boundaries

[Cin]

You can't call Near a fake L, L was just an alias after all, even if it was one of L's given names I doubt he felt any attachment to it.

[Kiyo]

Ohba or Obata (can't remember) said Near thought of L as "ugly" (hence L's ugly finger puppet in the last episode), yet he copies L down to the way he sits and holds things :/
Kind of a hypocrite, if you ask me.

[Ghoulish]

i just think that L was more of a challenge to light then near, what he did to catch light was daring like when he showed up at his school, near did basically nothing in comparison to that

[Kiyo]

True. Watching the battle between Light and L was suspensful, because of the lengths they'd go to figure each other out.
Near didn't do much in comparison. Plus if, it weren't for L's progress in the case, he probably wouldn't have gotten far.
Conversely, if L had the knowledge of the Death Note that Near got to start with, it would've been over ina couple of episodes

[Ghoulish]

yea, L vs Light was like

"I did this so i win."
"Except I did this so I win."
"Butt I did this so I win."

Against Near it was just like.

"I did this so I win."
"....damn...."

I did like how Light went Psychotic at the end however I thought it was a good contrast of his original appearance of being calm and kool to when his back was against the wall revealing his true self.

[Cin]

- It was Obata who made that comment about Near thinking L ugly. "And I don't think that Near liked L all that much, so he made him ugly....I guess. But he liked Mello so worked hard on that one." (How To Read 13 Page 180 - How To Create: OhbaxObata). You forgot that Near has never actually talked to L, but grew to like him alot after a question and answer session at Whammy's via video link (L chose Mello and Near to succeed him during that session because both just observed) and even after 9 years of L's death he still has the finger puppets of L, himself and Mello (Chapter 109).

- L showing up at school was a major risk, but it was also an insurance move, he knew that Light wouldn't 'attempt' to kill him because it would give him away, especially since it would have killed Hideki Ryuga instead. It also annoyed Light because he couldn't tell if 'L' at that point was really L or just a proxy like Lind L Taylor had been. It shows how far L is willing to go to solve the case.

- Near didn't use direct action to Light because he believed that L in exposing himself to Light got himself killed, so keeping a distance kept him safe, he wasn't sure if any one of Kira's side had the Shinigami eyes so revealing himself might have been a death wish also Mello's actions meant he didn't have to. The second arc was more of a two-pronged attack with a race to the finish for the Whammy's House (former for atleast Mello) #1 and #2. If you consider them as unit Mello and Near balanced each other out and operated as L would have. (Even though Mello showed more remorse that L did in regards to innocent victims, he felt guilt that he'd got Matt killed and never wanted to kill Soichiro, L's remorse centred more around Naomi and Watari)

- Near actually didn't start with the same information as L had. He had to spent 3 years collecting it given that Watari deleted all the data apart from L's voice modulator when Rem killed him. I do wonder how much data was left on the machine that sent Roger the text that L was dead. L trusted that his successors would be smart enough to found what he'd found through other means.

- By the point that madness caught Light, he thought he'd once again escaped the noose, only to find that he'd miscalculated the importance of Mello's actions towards Mikami's own. He still believed that Ryuk would kill them for him, forgetting that the Shingami had said he wouldn't take sides. The Death Note had long since made Light delusional, in making the world free of crime, he'd robbed it of free will and the Death Note had robbed him of his sanity, power does that thing to people who think they're invincible.

[Ghoulish]

that's a good summarization i agree with it totally, If they made another season with another min characetr but if they don't it's dissapointing that it ended, oh well as u said better to end on a high note then at a huge fall *cough* DBGT *cough*

[Cin]

I don't understand why do you want it to continue? Chapter 109 should be enough to prove that you probably will never find someone who will use the DN and not feel dreadful after Light, Ryuk sounds like he tried several times.