Let's talk about Death Note
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Huh, I see a lot of 'No! MY opinion is right!' on this...
Anyway, I really liked Death Note, but I thought it did go down hill after episode 28. I preferred L to Near because he was funnier and reminded me of myself actually - "I'm childish and hate to lose." Plus cake and tea. Mmm.
I'd also love a Death Note... Dammit, it'd be full after an hour!
Anyway, I really liked Death Note, but I thought it did go down hill after episode 28. I preferred L to Near because he was funnier and reminded me of myself actually - "I'm childish and hate to lose." Plus cake and tea. Mmm.
I'd also love a Death Note... Dammit, it'd be full after an hour!
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Yeah. It was interesting, but there was a few things that made me think "there's something wrong here". Actually, I reckon the characters are pretty shallow and I only enjoyed DN when I didn't know what was going to happen next.
I wouldn't say it's better than Naruto because it did have it's moments of awesome.
I wouldn't say it's better than Naruto because it did have it's moments of awesome.
Do you like catgirls? Do you not mind if an anime is slightly perveted? If so, I recommend "Asobi Ni Iku Yo!", I'm having so much fun watching it. And if not, then watch Bokurano, it's an extremely underrated anime, and it's very good at screwing with your morals.Shemming said:
I disagree, I thought that Death note was a brilliant sreies untill L died, then it was a pretty good series after that but without him it just seemed less focused.Sacman said:
Never liked SE lain couldn't get into it, after getting a quarter of the way through it just seemed like random incoherent junk. Loved Paranoia agent, yeah that probably was better than death note :3
Death note turns shit about halfway through. There's no avoiding that. The ending's nice though. It seems to me that the reason you love death note so much is that you only have stuff like Naruto and Bleach to compare it to. Sure Death note is pretty good - the first half is superb - if you ask me - but there are lots of better anime out there.
I suggest you try yourself on something more mature, like Code Geass, Welcome to the NHK, or, if you're really in for an emotional experience, Clannad.
Edit: To clarify After Light gave up the death note to loose his memory of it, the series start declining. There is no suspense anymore; they are just faffing about, trying to deal with this corporation that got a hold of the death note. At that point I was forcing myself to read on, hoping it would return to its former greatness as soon as Light got the death note back, and for a while after he got it back, it did actually return to being the great series I had loved. However, as soon as L dies, the author does all this bullshit, and instead of progressing the story in a potentially interesting direction, he just returns it to the status quo, with poor substitutes for L.
My theory is this: Around the point where Light gave up the death note, the mangaka, began to loose interest in the series, and run out of ideas. If you ask me, the entire sequence where L is chained to Light is clearly written by an uninspired mangaka. My theory is further supported by the scenes after Light gets the death note back (for example, the scene in the helicopter, where he regains his memories). The mangaka had clearly planned, and scripted, these scenes before making Light give up the death note; while he was still inspired. To me these scenes are a bit like a time capsule: A window into the past, to a time where the writer was still in his prime; where he still liked the series.
Then, after this brief comeback, we take a five year leap, and return to the uninspired writing we are all too familiar with by now.
Tl;dr: The mangaka got bored with the series after Light gave up the death note. This is indicated by the sequence of events right after Light got the death note back: A sequence that it is natural to assume he had scripted before writing the part where L and Light were chained together; while he was still inspired.
I suggest you try yourself on something more mature, like Code Geass, Welcome to the NHK, or, if you're really in for an emotional experience, Clannad.
Edit: To clarify After Light gave up the death note to loose his memory of it, the series start declining. There is no suspense anymore; they are just faffing about, trying to deal with this corporation that got a hold of the death note. At that point I was forcing myself to read on, hoping it would return to its former greatness as soon as Light got the death note back, and for a while after he got it back, it did actually return to being the great series I had loved. However, as soon as L dies, the author does all this bullshit, and instead of progressing the story in a potentially interesting direction, he just returns it to the status quo, with poor substitutes for L.
My theory is this: Around the point where Light gave up the death note, the mangaka, began to loose interest in the series, and run out of ideas. If you ask me, the entire sequence where L is chained to Light is clearly written by an uninspired mangaka. My theory is further supported by the scenes after Light gets the death note back (for example, the scene in the helicopter, where he regains his memories). The mangaka had clearly planned, and scripted, these scenes before making Light give up the death note; while he was still inspired. To me these scenes are a bit like a time capsule: A window into the past, to a time where the writer was still in his prime; where he still liked the series.
Then, after this brief comeback, we take a five year leap, and return to the uninspired writing we are all too familiar with by now.
Tl;dr: The mangaka got bored with the series after Light gave up the death note. This is indicated by the sequence of events right after Light got the death note back: A sequence that it is natural to assume he had scripted before writing the part where L and Light were chained together; while he was still inspired.
I disagree with your disagreement! I really liked L, he was the one thing moving the series along, since he was the perfect nemesis for Light (which is why they were idiots for killing him off), but I agree with Sacman, it was just too much of Light going: "Oh yeah, if you do that, I'll do this! What do you say to that?" followed by L going: "This."ohellynot said:
And also, when Light came in saying "I could be Kira but I just don't know it!" I really just wanted L to go: "Light, you're smart and all, but if you believe that any of what you just said makes any sense at all, you have a mental illness and are not fit to be part of this investigation". Seriously, how did L fall for that, oh I know, plot convenience!
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EDIT: First episode link http://www.watchanimeon.com/asobi-ni-iku-yo-episode-1/
it's pretty good. i have the full manga series, however it's far from perfect. it's hard to understand for some people, personally i had to read it twice to understand everything, and later it just gets weird. like i said, i like death note, but there are way better manga's, like one piece or tsubasa chronicles. (personal opinion)
I had a hard time deciding between Death Note or Code Geas because the both had similar characters and both rubbed me the same way. Death Note was an amazing anime but believe it or not I felt Code Geas won my vote. BTW L is way cooler then stupid Nero.