Death note - angry teenager finds notebook and kills quater of the population

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I thought it was pretty good. Clever way to use the book without actually using it. I mean, the Death God had to create a whole new rule because of it. The “this is why Light would have been caught in modern times” but was fun too.

 

[Tism the Return]

I didn't watch it from the perspective of "Light as a good guy" but rather "oh wow this nigga's crazy and everyone's making funny faces while interesting shit goes on". Kind of like if JoJo was all about fedoras.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I thought it was pretty good. Clever way to issue the book without actually using it. I mean, the Death God had to create a whole new rule because of it. The “this is why Light would have been caught in modern times” but was fun too.

Yeah it was quite interesting and I enjoyed the premise of what would happen if someone tried to auction off the Death Note

 

[mr.moon1488]

Light was a gigantic piece of shit and a simple serial killer. There's no question, even if L was doing this out of some devotion to a game and not out of empathy, it didn't really matter. You're talking about a morality vs. deliberate action, killing anyone who stood in his way for whatever reason, even if they were just. He tested it at first, then clearly enjoyed the killing with the God-Like power associated with it. The guy even killed his own father without giving a fuck. There is absolute no doubt he was a total sociopath from the beginning.

The problem is Death Note sort of craters once L is killed through sheer bullshit which is the main problem with Death Note. The cat and mouse game between Light and L was basically the entire series. What happened doesn't feel organic and the writers realize what a problem they are in. So they fiat it in. Then the last part they sort of just stumble through.

Matsuda is so awesome because Light gives this grandiose speech about some bullshit and monoluging, and thinking he's an unkillable Godlike villian, when he just got fucked ten ways from Sunday and Matsuda just fucking fills him with holes. The Ryuk just writes Light's name in and he ceases to exist, his soul consigned to oblivion. He dies so pathetically, its great

I've always hoped they would make a sequel, and find a way to bring L back, with him using the death note. It wouldn't be too hard to write in. Maybe as some sort of divine problem unfucking created by a new batch of death notes entering circulation.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I've always hoped they would make a sequel, and find a way to bring L back, with him using the death note. It wouldn't be too hard to write in. Maybe as some sort of divine problem unfucking created by a new batch of death notes entering circulation.

The live action movies changed L’s fate, didn’t they? As I recall, he wrote his own name down to die like a month or so in advance right before Light “killed” him, then faked his death and caught Light that way. He then died at the time he wrote his death, happily eating sweets.

Still dies, but on his own terms and beating Light.

 

[Dom Cruise]

So, is the one shot just that, a one shot? Or testing the waters for a potential continuation?

Because I got the vibe from the ending that it was leaving it open for more.

If not though it still gives us an idea of what became of that world and serves as an interesting coda.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Not sure why anyone thought Light was a good guy. Even when I was 12, he seemed more like a villain protagonist than anything else.

 

[kūhaku]

What do you guys think about the theory that Light got reincarnated into a Shinigami? I forget what it was from, maybe the movie, but the shinigami that asks Ryuk for his story and brings him an apple is very similar to Light in design and a few other elements. Would be fitting, the shinigami realm seems like neither heaven nor hell, and Light certainly was a worthy shinigami.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

What do you guys think about the theory that Light got reincarnated into a Shinigami? I forget what it was from, maybe the movie, but the shinigami that asks Ryuk for his story and brings him an apple is very similar to Light in design and a few other elements. Would be fitting, the shinigami realm seems like neither heaven nor hell, and Light certainly was a worthy shinigami.

It was the movies that condensed the show into two films, yeah. It implied at the very end that the Shikigami that wanted to hear the story from Ryuk was Light sans-memories.

 

[Cryogonal]

Pretty good read, but the final two pages fell flat on its face.

 

[Soap Sniffer]

L never wore shoes, he just walked around all over the place barefoot. Which is very stupid.
Fucking foot fetishists, ruining everything.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

never watched the show or reed the manga but over the years i have heard it being talked about since the mid 00. its one of those shows i kinda regret not getting into when i was younger. the edgey emo memes and the yaoi between Light and L is what kept me away from it.

god, this just screams early-mid 00 to me.

 

[Rungle]

Read the oneshot, it was very good until that fucking bullshit plotdevice ending.

Since when does the shinigami king give a fuck about selling the death note, he was pretty ok with mass murdering people with the death note but selling now seems a bit too much?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Read the oneshot, it was very good until that fucking bullshit plotdevice ending.

Since when does the shinigami king give a fuck about selling the death note, he was pretty ok with mass murdering people with the death note but selling now seems a bit too much?

Maybe he just didn’t appreciate the idea of using loopholes to cheat the system, so to speak. Meaning, if you’re going to claim ownership of the notebook, you’re going to face the reproductions that come with it and fuck you if you think otherwise. Like Ryuk said, “anyone who owns the notebook will face an unfortunate end”. The new rule was added specifically to counteract the loophole.
Basically the Shikigami King is a sore loser.

 

[Aria]

 

[samuraicrack]

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the fact that everyone on twitter thinks the only thing that makes you a communist/socialist is giving away a bunch of money for any reason at all is really telling about the economic/political knowledge of most 20 and 30 somethings nowadays

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Since when was it socialist to be able to pay off the national debt?

 

[Secret Asshole]

The fucking hilarious thing is it wasn't done for any 'noble' reason, but to hide his own identity. Much like today's communists, its all done for selfish reasons, in the vein of 'the people'.

Read the oneshot, it was very good until that fucking bullshit plotdevice ending.

Since when does the shinigami king give a fuck about selling the death note, he was pretty ok with mass murdering people with the death note but selling now seems a bit too much?

I felt it ended that way for 3 reasons:

1) Its a one-shot, so it doesn't want you to get attached to anything

2) They want to see if Death Note is popular enough to make a direct sequel to, so they're testing the waters with this one-shot and they wanted to set up some ground rules before the next iteration.

Spoiler Reason

3) If the series WAS resurrected, it would have to deal with Minoru in some capacity. So it doesn't want to be bothered doing that, and solves the problem ahead of time by just killing him.

 

[samuraicrack]

Since when was it socialist to be able to pay off the national debt?

apparently since illegally selling WMDs to foreign governments was seen as a benevolent act of socialism

 

[God of Nothing]

If there's one good thing that came out of this, it's that we got to see Matsuda again and Near, the asspull, get fucking bitch made before Minoru gets asspulled.