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12-30-2009
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Obata-sensei's art rocks, L keeps things interesting until he dies, and Light is definitely gay.
An interesting cop story that sadly failed to make any real commentary on the discussion of justice and ethics that was set up as the basis of the story. Ultimately, Death Note fails to reach true greatness . . . mostly because none of the characters play children's card games. 3 / 5 dark magicians. [/end] Last edited by ChouToshio; 12-30-2009 at 10:47 AM. 
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01-11-2010
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01-19-2010
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I just finished watching the anime a few days ago. I loved it! I don't how I didn't discover Death Note sooner. Now I'm going to read the anime.
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01-20-2010
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02-22-2010
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deathnote is stereotypical black-white (like how all criminals are ugly, and all criminals are men
) to a ridiculous extreme, to top it off it's very sexist, most women are retarded barbie dolls who can barely speak right"Death Note" is also a synonym for unrealisticness, especially later in the series all the tension gets lost after L dies but I already wrote that, heh
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02-22-2010
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As for this, black-white, where do you get off, sure the unimportant criminals are stereotypes, but if you bothered to think about it, rather than just offhandedly disliking everything which is popular, you would realise they did that for a reason, think about it, it is a kid ([SPOILER]for all intents and purposes, as too far gone by time grows up[/SPOILER]) who is foolish enough to believe he can/should be judge/jury and executor of justice, who is going to kill, generally anyone who has these believes is going have narrow view of justice and so it will be the stereotyped villains he goes, the writers simply intensify this, so as to add effect =With the rest of the characters, they are hardly bad and white, hey mostly very conflicting in themselves:- Light=Has very high sense of morals and justice, smart, handsome, kind (which shown quite extensively in points, especially in the middle of the first season) and yet thinks murderer is ok, so long as its his murderer, also very manipulative, curl, heartless and even as evil the evil he wishes to fight in places, he both ends of the extremities of fundamentalist belief to the point, he circles them both in on each other, in way only insanity of fundermentism can. However the most telling thing about light is that whether you consider him, good, bad, gray, hero, anti-hero, villain...etc (all of which he can be considered depending on your stance and position,) he still causes a lot of good in this world, he just does it at expense of lot of pain and so from this, you can take what you will, however me personally, from fictional view, I find him fascinating character to point of being one of my favioute in any form of media, however from realist view, well he proves just why I am against things like death penalty and that injustice will never create justice. L=Now on face of it, he is simple good guy detective with insane skills, Right? Wrong, dispite all of his skills, he has so many mental problems, he could be his own case-study and dispite generally fighting for what seen as good side, he admits from start, he only fights people like kira because he finds it fun and he is very vindictive and petty character at points, he just shows in far less overt way than Kira. Also he more than once crosses that line between fighting justice and injustice, making him just the same as kira, a person who believes injustice will create justice, all be it, he far less extreme. His love of sweet things could mean a range of things, but I think it is there to be mentor for him as person, sweet on outside, but will rot teeth if like too much of him. Mello=He is another who fights on the supposed good side, yet he does for very selfish reasoning, he simply wishes to prove himself, however this never ascertained as to whether he simply that sort of person or if be in the shadows of others all his life made him that way. Matsuda=He is the embody of normal man, not perpetually strong, smart, skilful, cunning, and most of all good or bad, simply neutral guy caught in the middle of everything, which is why his involvement in the help is so symbolic in my opinion. And So with this, he shows both the hypocritical and self conflicting idealogy that societies often hold, he fights Kira because people around him tell right thing to do, however [SPOILER]right to the end, he holds the idea that kira was not the bad guy and often supported huis aims[/SPOILER] how does this work, theoretically and morally, it doesn’t, but sense when did the mob which is society think on that level? =People hate murderers, so we kill them, people believe that terrorists restrict human rights, so what do we do, restrict both our own and their rights……etc Our History’s blood is written with the failings of our own jus-opposing ideals, and matsuda is meant to show this. =I could go on, but think point is proven enough, Now with the sexism thing, yes the characters are generally sexist I would agree and in places I would say by general western standards (of course our standards are now massively out of wack as shows like Married with single other, prove) it is sexist, however I think this while not always right, generally it comes down to exasperated state this anime takes on life, it makes everything extreme and ALL the characters other than lights father and sister are generally very damning views of people and society, however because of our societies modern fixation of anything which is in anyway shows woman non-girlpower is sexist, we will notice it more in female characters, but characters like matusda and Demegawa hardly make male population look great. While do not forget both Wedy and Naomi are strong characters and lights sister is only one intended to be considered an alround good person, so the idea that woman are portrayed negatively in this anime is wrong, generally everyone. =However generally I agree with your last point in the anime, but I think the manga is better anyway and while second half will never be as good as first, I still found it engaging. =I seriously think for all your talk of hating cliches...etc, you really take things on massive facevalue stance, and unless a point is completely in your face, you seem to miss it or demiss it way too quickly
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02-23-2010
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Didn't know that.
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02-24-2010
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02-26-2010
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Death Note is awesome. What I cannot stand is the people who are all like "I stopped watching the seires after L died boo hooo" damn that is annoying (when people only watch a seires because of a character) L is ok, but the plot is still golden when and after he dies. Well, that is my opinion anyway...
Sorry, I had to say that.
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