Let's talk about Death Note

[GunbladeKnight]

The only anime I actually have liked...and even then that might have just been in contrast to all the other anime I've seen.

I've yet to find an anime I like, are there any animes that aren't full of over emotional scenes and characters (or at least little of it) and a little bit of fighting in it, plus no kawaii stuff in it? Also the plot must be good and the episodes I hope don't drag on for too long...

Edit: In another thread someone suggested One Piece to me, I watched a little bit of that, most of it seems good but it looks a bit childish. I might watch it though.

Go watch Cowboy Bebop. It revolves around an ex-mafia member with a deathwish and complains that there is no meat, an ex-cop who lost his arm and leg, a woman who has huge gambling debts and steals, a dog that has been engineered to be smarter than those three characters, and a super genius 12 year old girl who hacks for fun and seems to have ADHD, all trying to catch bounties in space. Only really emotional part comes at the end, but that is also my favorite part of the anime.

OT: Death Note had a good swing, but poor follow through for a ground out to first. It was an interesting idea, but the anime was a wall of text and the manga should have been a book. I stopped caring after the first book and second episode, but skipped ahead to other parts without missing anything because they explained everything that had happened. Three times a book. And then they had flashbacks, with explanations of what had lead up to that point in the flashback.

Light was too perfect, he had no flaws until he began to develop insanity at the end.

L was alright, if a bit weird.

Misa was annoying and an idiot. It's a wonder she still liked Light with how he treated her.

Near was L, simple as that.

Ryuk was awesome cause he stayed silent most of the time.

The rest were alright, but that may only be because they didn't have the time to grate on you. It focused almost exclusively on Light and L for the most part, even mentioning L quite a bit after he had died. And not to mention how they explained everything they did, as well as the deus ex machinas.

 

[Gasaraki]

I liked Death Note, the manga was fairly good and the animation in the anime was amazing. It also kinda got me into seinen manga like Naoki Urasawa's Monster and (my favorite manga evarz) Eden: It's an endless world.
(I know DN was shonen but it was still more mature than the the typical shonen stuff like Naruto and One Piece)

 

[Gilhelmi]

I don't want to see it. I never want to read. And I want absolutely nothing to do with it EVER...I have my reasons...(I never knew my friends could have such twisted fantasies.....) T_T

If I may ask what do you mean by reasons. I always looked up to L the one who fought against Light (the corrupted). I do agree especially the second season was quite dark when L dies in the fight against light but it was a brilliant allusion to the sacrifice of Christ (L washing the feet of the sinner Light).

If you do not wish to answer me that is fine, you can ignore me or answer me in a PM. It is your choice.

 

[Beryl77]

After a certain person died I stopped watching it because it got boring.

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

Got me back into anime after seven years of generalization and being dismissive. There are a lot of shows out there that are better, but Death Note holds a special place in my heart. I heartily recommend at least one half of it.

 

[Wereduck]

There's certainly a strong similarity between Death Note and Code Geass but DN keeps itself together much better in it's second half. The interest-drop in DN is mainly a measure of how great a character L was. I thoroughly enjoyed both series but Geass really has a major personality change when things start to scale up in R2. To be fair, Geass makes up for this by having a truly heroic villain and lots of hot mech-on-mech action - neither of which are present in Death Note.

Also, Death Note was good in anime and manga but the live action was a travesty. The sole redeeming moment of the english dub was when L offered Yagami a skewer covered with pastry and asked if he wanted dough-kebob. There; now you don't have to watch it.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

it started out fine but by the end it boiled down to, "I knew you were going to do that." countered by, "Well I knew that you knew that I was going to do that, so I did this." and I lost all interest...

Is it just me or was Naruto filled with plenty of such nonsense moments as well?

I might add that such situations repeating themselves also turned me off Naruto after the hundred and twentieth something episode (manga as well as anime).

 

[DocBalance]

I love Death Note. I love everything about it. In fact, I think I'm going to go watch some Death Note now!

 

[kwagamon]

I freakin' loved Death Note, except the ending. I didn't like the ending not because of HOW it ended

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(Light's downfall etc. I have no problem with), but WHY it ended that way. Mikami's actions as a solo act that led to him doing the exact same thing as Light at the exact same time as Light that led to the discovery of the notebook seems like a somewhat cheap excuse because the writer had finally run out of ways for Near to screw with Light's plans. Also, I take issue with the fact that Light was the only person besides Mikami and Near to not bring a gun to that meeting. I figure that being a super-genius as well as a professional detective who is licensed to carry firearms means that he should've realized: "Hey, maybe I might need something beyond a scrap of Death Note paper in my watch."

 

[Levitas1234]

I'd much rather read deathnote in the form of a 20 minute consuming short story rather than 23 episode anime.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Huge deathnote fan, loved it.

But in the end it rubbed me the wrong way and I got tired of the halfbaked ending.

 

[anthony87]

Death Note was ok but you should totally read One Piece because it is better. I would not have mentioned this had you not mentioned One Piece.

Damn straight One Piece is better!

HEAR! HEAR!

(Goddamn 4 week wait for the next chapter!)

 

[WorldCritic]

I thought it was pretty good, but Light eventually got on my nerves and I hated Near. Also no offense but I'm just wondering, why are we talking about it now that's been finished for years?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Death Note was ok but you should totally read One Piece because it is better. I would not have mentioned this had you not mentioned One Piece.

Damn straight One Piece is better!

HEAR! HEAR!

(Goddamn 4 week wait for the next chapter!)

But heck it will be worth it!

 

[Lullabye]

I'm sorry, anytime someone mentions Death Note I just think of this:

But seriously, One Piece is better. And has at least another decade ahead of it.

 

[Jumplion]

Death Note, for me, was a pretty damn good anime, one of the first I've watched. Looking back on it now, I can safely say that it's still a pretty damn good anime, though maybe not as great as I remember it.

The premise and the overall story was damn good, I think. A classic tale on how "absolute power corrupts absolutely". The animation was damn good, the pacing was damn good, basically everything overall was damn good.

Though you can't spell Death Note without contrived....well, you could, but you get the point. The story, particularly around the halfway point, got really confusing and all that, basically going "I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew that I knew that!" and the like. Towards the end I had no idea what the hell they were doing to prove who was Kira.

But overall overall, it was a damn good anime. I just recently watched the live action movies, and those were...interesting to say the least, though obviously just cash in's.

EDIT: Though apparently One Piece is better. I haven't seen it, but from what I have seen it looks in the same vein as Naruto I.E. pointless filler after pointless filler. Though that could be 4Kids castrating the show at the time.

 

[Jast]

I don't want to see it. I never want to read. And I want absolutely nothing to do with it EVER...I have my reasons...(I never knew my friends could have such twisted fantasies.....) T_T

If I may ask what do you mean by reasons. I always looked up to L the one who fought against Light (the corrupted). I do agree especially the second season was quite dark when L dies in the fight against light but it was a brilliant allusion to the sacrifice of Christ (L washing the feet of the sinner Light).

If you do not wish to answer me that is fine, you can ignore me or answer me in a PM. It is your choice.

Oh no no no no. You're actually reading way to much into what I said. Half of everything I say I am just joking around but since this is the internet I'll admit it is hard to tell.

What I was really talking about was that during my senior year in high school was when Death Note got really popular. I had never read or watched it but my friends did. I should note that all my friends are girls and that I am the only guy in the group. ALL of them were obsessed about it. Death Note didn't really seems like something that would interest me so I just never felt like checking it out. (besides I already know everything that happens because my friends wouldn't shut up about it.) Anyways back to my story. For like two months every conversation we had (and I am serious when I say EVERY) Death Note would ALWAYS be brought up. So it just got old real quick especially since I was the odd man out. But the MAIN reason I never looked into Death Note was because my friends were constantly talking about all this yaoi crap that involved Death Note. I just assumed that was what it was all about. It was just yaoi. I could go on...but I'm sure I don't really need to. Course now I'm guessing Death Note isn't really yaoi...I guess.

 

[Always_Remain]

Let's just say it's the anime that restored my faith after that abomination Naruto almost put me off anime for good. (Although Shippuden is a bit better. Still gave up on it.) The Death Note manga has better pacing though.

With all this talk about one piece and my own eager-ness about it I think ima have to watch it after I finish Clannad.

 

[Sacman]

it started out fine but by the end it boiled down to, "I knew you were going to do that." countered by, "Well I knew that you knew that I was going to do that, so I did this." and I lost all interest...

Is it just me or was Naruto filled with plenty of such nonsense moments as well?

I might add that such situations repeating themselves also turned me off Naruto after the hundred and twentieth something episode (manga as well as anime).

I dunno, I stopped watching Naruto after episode 10...

 

[nelsonr100]

Deathnote's a great series and has some great twists and turns in. And imo has a satisfactory ending! One of my fav's tbh and i'd recommend it to friends to get them into anime.
I like how its not TOO fantastical, there is only one leap of faith to be made, that these books exist. Otherwise its set in the real world which reacts as though this book shouldn't exist.
Also it shows quite well light's descent into madness.