Death Note and why its Evil. - And why if you like it, you are evil too.

HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
The whole point is that Light goes from a fairly nice young man into a monster. He goes from killing actual rapists and murders to basically anyone whom he views as a violent criminal to people investigating him for becoming judge, jury, and executioner.

The series went on for way too long. It really should of just been the cops being able to pin him down even after L died.
I wouldn’t say it’s nihilist, more cynical. The Trump short was pretty good, Deathnote really is best when it’s like a Twilight Zone episode.
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the JP live action movies are pretty good for skipping the entirety of after L dies
 
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I dipped out of the story after he started taunting that widow right before he compelled her to kill herself. Dude went shitty evil too fast for my tastes. His death in the manga was pretty cathartic though, never liked that they made it more “tragic” in the anime.

All that being said, OP sounds like they took it way too seriously.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
They changed the ending to L surviving the attempt because he wrote his own name down to die a month later in a bid to expose Light right?
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iirc yeah that's about the gist of it, but still have the basic core of the ending of Light crawling towards Ryuk while dying and Ryuk is all "lolno, it's been fun, asshole"
 
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XYZpdq said:
iirc yeah that's about the gist of it, but still have the basic core of the ending of Light crawling towards Ryuk while dying and Ryuk is all "lolno, it's been fun, asshole"
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Sweet, might have to look that up then
 
The animated series was to me one of the worst examples of a manga-based TV show being chock full of filler and padding. Death Note's premise is an potentially entertaining concept and while I've never perused the manga simply because I never had the time, every episode I saw of the show had too many spotlight speeches where talking heads spend 30 minutes talking about how they just totally outsmarted the other guy through a retarded plot device. The main characters going through "He never has a second cup of coffee at home!" type thinking sessions where they contemplate how clever their latest scheme to outfox their opponent is but...they must be careful.

Pretty much the whole series is them telling us this Light kid is a brilliant genius chick magnet while he performs not brilliant things, which kind of unhinges the whole crux of the show.
 
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Of course you're not supposed to like light the story is a cautionary tale on how power can corrupt even the best of us.

The story shows how a normal man like light is slowly turned into a monster by the death note and how he's willing to do anything for his own perceived version of justice.i don't know how this managed to simply fly over your head.
 
To be fair for me, Death Note is about how even the people that people view as perfect can show their true colors when they are given unlimited power since Light immediately declared he was a god in the first episode and he was basically portrayed as the ideal Japanese citizen.
 
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Holy shit! I hope OP never watches Hell Girl. It's even worse, since it's about a ghost girl who can send anyone (good or bad) to Hell by request - the price for this service being that the person making the request has to go to Hell themselves when they die. The second season ends in a free for all where the citizens of an entire town are busily sending each other to Hell over petty reasons. Some of the people that get sent to Hell during the series are pretty nasty pieces of work and you wonder if getting sent to Hell might even be too good for them. Cynical works like this and Death Note are just a reminder that despite their politeness and conformity, the Japanese are just as dark and twisted as the rest of us, perhaps more so.
 
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Commander X said:
The animated series was to me one of the worst examples of a manga-based TV show being chock full of filler and padding. Death Note's premise is an potentially entertaining concept and while I've never perused the manga simply because I never had the time, every episode I saw of the show had too many spotlight speeches where talking heads spend 30 minutes talking about how they just totally outsmarted the other guy through a retarded plot device. The main characters going through "He never has a second cup of coffee at home!" type thinking sessions where they contemplate how clever their latest scheme to outfox their opponent is but...they must be careful.

Pretty much the whole series is them telling us this Light kid is a brilliant genius chick magnet while he performs not brilliant things, which kind of unhinges the whole crux of the show.
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iirc the comics actually have _more_ plot cul-de-sacs and as much as the cartoon spins its wheels it trims some of the dead weight
 
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the wall of text that op wrote is the true sin against G-d.

Dom Cruise said:
Dude, it's just a "what if?" story inspired by Japanese urban legends and Shintoism, which is a different Religion than Christianity.

You seem to take great offense at something Japanese taking cues from... Japanese culture?

I agree it has a nihilistic tone, it was never one of my favorites, it's not high on my list of 2000s anime I'm real nostalgic for (but I'm glad for anything from the decade that is still well remembered by younger weebs), but a lot of manga has a nihilistic tone and sometimes that can be fun, but I prefer stuff like Gantz which has loads of nudity and gore, Death Note feels a bit tame when compared to something like that, it's "babby's first edgy manga", it's an edgy manga on training wheels.

But you can enjoy a piece of media without agreeing with it's worldview or morals, you're like a Woke person in getting so upset that something doesn't share your views and decrying fans as "bad people" for liking something, get over yourself, pearl clutching over media is irritating behavior whether it's coming from the right or the left.

Also, a work of art can explore themes without necessarily fully endorsing it, just because a work explores nihilism doesn't mean the creator's intent is to say "yes, this is the only correct way of looking at the world", I mean look at the world around you today and tell me nihilism isn't a tempting worldview, why shouldn't art deal with it?
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wow, i actually agree with you on something for once
 
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Why should I give a frosted flavored titty fuck what is "heresy" and what the Bible thinks anyway? I was hoping this would be just a breakdown on why a popular animu is shit.
 
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Pokemonquistador2 said:
Holy shit! I hope OP never watches Hell Girl. It's even worse, since it's about a ghost girl who can send anyone (good or bad) to Hell by request - the price for this service being that the person making the request has to go to Hell themselves when they die. The second season ends in a free for all where the citizens of an entire town are busily sending each other to Hell over petty reasons. Some of the people that get sent to Hell during the series are pretty nasty pieces of work and you wonder if getting sent to Hell might even be too good for them. Cynical works like this and Death Note are just a reminder that despite their politeness and conformity, the Japanese are just as dark and twisted as the rest of us, perhaps more so.
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I think that they revealed much later that innocents that are sent to hell actually don’t end up going to hell and are freed of that curse.
 
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