"Believe Bridesmaid"
"Quarter Queen"
"Backyard Bottomslash"
"Beyond Birthday", but this one sorta kinda makes sense.
Death Note
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Yup beat me to it Sniper King. Some funny names but hey it's good so far. (cept for Mello narrating, hate him.)
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Ahahaaa, Backyard Bottomslash!?
That may be one of the best fake name I've ever heard.
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Those weren't fake.
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I know, I meant fictional names.
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What a fkn series! This anime was insanely good!
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If you liked Death Note, you should check out their follow-up series, Bakuman. It lacks the Supernatural element of Death Note, and is more a slice of life series, but it's entertaining, and has some great characters (Fukuda, Eiji, and Hiramaru are chief amongst those). All of the manga series in it are parodies of popular series, and original ideas altogether (there's one about an Otter who can turn his fists into rocks to punch people). Plus, the interaction between the editors and the authors is great. It's a must read/watch.
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Same with Liar Game…If you like deduction-style psychological stuff, Liar Game is extremely similar minus the supernatural element.
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I also recently watched the Death Note anime.
It was pretty good, but..
! For some reason, I really wish Light had won in the end, but I guess it wouldn't have felt like a proper end if he had.
Other than that tad-bit, I overall enjoyed the series.
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@Fire Fist:
If you liked Death Note, you should check out their follow-up series, Bakuman. It lacks the Supernatural element of Death Note, and is more a slice of life series, but it's entertaining, and has some great characters (Fukuda, Eiji, and Hiramaru are chief amongst those). All of the manga series in it are parodies of popular series, and original ideas altogether (there's one about an Otter who can turn his fists into rocks to punch people). Plus, the interaction between the editors and the authors is great. It's a must read/watch.
I'm gonna check that out
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Apparently there's some sort of Death Note project commemorating the series' 10th anniversary. No idea what it is, but here's a link to the web page, saying "coming soon". Perhaps WSJ has finally manufactured a real life Death Note, and is now in the consumer testing phase.
Can anyone translate?
I have no idea what it could be. Don't really know what they could do for the 10th anniversary that they haven't done with the franchise already. Unless its a continuation of the original story in the form of a serialized manga? crosses fingers
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After i read the manga, which was pretty intense and enjoyable, i wanted some friends to try that series out. No one wanted to read it, so we watched the anime instead. Was also "new" for me, but the anime was crappy and utter annoying. I couldn't believe that they made such terrible work. Misa Misa is the shitiest character ever made in Anime. The portrayal of "L" wasn't even half as good as in the manga.That were my complaints, from someone who read the manga.My friends said, more or less, good start and was a good series till "L"death. After that it gets a bit downhill and doesnt change the curse untill the end. Last scene, after Near drove Light into the corner, was just painful to watch. Misa Misa was always a pain to watch…I actually wanted to show some more people the anime, before i watched it, but i sold it after i watched it. Since that day, i can't understand why the Anime of Death Note is so popular and how it receives "very good" ratings, or higher. Cryptic...
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While i agree the manga is superior to the anime, I still felt it was a well done adaption and stayed mostly faithful to the manga, What in your opinion made the anime so bad?
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While i agree the manga is superior to the anime, I still felt it was a well done adaption and stayed mostly faithful to the manga, What in your opinion made the anime so bad?
Well, i think i am not able to do that. I watched it like 2 years ago, i have forgot so many details, names, scenes and happenings, that it would painful to read my explaination :D. In my previous comment, i had pretty much everything said which i remember. I can remember that Misa Amane was annoying, that scenes weren
t as good as in the Manga, that i felt disappointment, L wasn
t that cool or good depicted, that i didn`t found anything impressive or well done scenes, i can also remember some facepalms i had to do :D etc..But you are right. The adoption is mostly faithful to the manga. And it is a good series, but everything that i don
t want to watch/read/do at least twice, is crappy. The Anime don
t has that Level of enjoyment/entertainment, for me.That would be it. After i watched the Anime, my excitement for Death Note vanished, so i moved on.
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Maybe it's gonna be an animated adaption of BB Murder Cases?
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Well, i think i am not able to do that. I watched it like 2 years ago, i have forgot so many details, names, scenes and happenings, that it would painful to read my explaination :D. In my previous comment, i had pretty much everything said which i remember. I can remember that Misa Amane was annoying, that scenes weren
t as good as in the Manga, that i felt disappointment, L wasn
t that cool or good depicted, that i didn`t found anything impressive or well done scenes, i can also remember some facepalms i had to do :D etc..But you are right. The adoption is mostly faithful to the manga. And it is a good series, but everything that i don
t want to watch/read/do at least twice, is crappy. The Anime don
t has that Level of enjoyment/entertainment, for me.That would be it. After i watched the Anime, my excitement for Death Note vanished, so i moved on.
The anime was a shot for shot remake of the manga without any filler and reasonably high production quality. Misa was annoying in the manga, and the second half after L died wasn't very good in the manga either… not sure why you'd expect those elements to be different in the anime.
About the only difference is the pacing of the monologues being done in real time instead of on the page where you read at your own pace?
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Don't forget the amazing overly dramatic normally mundane scenes!
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@RobbyBevard:
The anime was a shot for shot remake of the manga without any filler and reasonably high production quality. Misa was annoying in the manga, and the second half after L died wasn't very good in the manga either… not sure why you'd expect those elements to be different in the anime.
About the only difference is the pacing of the monologues being done in real time instead of on the page where you read at your own pace?
They also changed the ending. Honestly, it would've been pretty cool to see Light begging for his life animated.
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@Purple:
Don't forget the amazing overly dramatic normally mundane scenes!
Still a classic
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Attack On Titan was the first Tetsurou Araki series I watched and I enjoyed it and the source material, so I ended up watching Death Note. The mundane overly dramatic scenes are occasionally more funny than dramatic (hey, Attack on Titan had that, too, in that case the art doesn't help), but most of the time there's some great direction in his series. Death Note is pretty great for the L and Light rivalry, but it sort of started to lose it's luster for me around when Misa showed up, and everything after ep. 25 is a bore even if the ending is satisfying. I have no desire to watch High School of the Dead or Guilty Crown considering what I've seen and heard of them, though.
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Raging flair and overly dramatic presentation seems to be this director's quirk.
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@RobbyBevard:
The anime was a shot for shot remake of the manga without any filler and reasonably high production quality. Misa was annoying in the manga, and the second half after L died wasn't very good in the manga either… not sure why you'd expect those elements to be different in the anime.
About the only difference is the pacing of the monologues being done in real time instead of on the page where you read at your own pace?
Yeah, but it is still different. Moving Pictures(Anime) and a "snapshot"(Manga) are two different things. Add to that the BGM, Voices, Colors etc. and what you have is a interpretation from the producers, while in the Manga you have some "leeway"(is that the right word?) for your own interpretation. Anime version "forces" you to take their, the producers, interpretation. Whether you like it or not.
Obata made it better, at least in my head :D. Misa wasn`t annoying for me in the Manga oO. Well, at least not as much as the Anime version. -
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No matter the voice/animation etc. Misa is still a bad character. She's like a terrible Mikasa or Homura. Unless of course, her character is completely different in the manga, which from what I've gathered isn't really the case.
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It really isn't. Misa Misa is just as annoying in the manga.
Frankly, I enjoyed the anime pretty much the same as the manga for whatever Robby listed. Literally pretty much a shot for shot remake of the manga.
…but with potato chip eating to the max! and laser pen writing!
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People who didn't like Death Note shall die in 40 seconds.
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People who didn't like Death Note shall die in 40 seconds.
What if we only liked half of death note?
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Actually I felt Death Note was only good in its first fourth honestly anyways? Even before L dies, as they're tracking down the business dude fake Kira nd even times before then, it's stuck in neutral squealing.
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The whole fake Kira arc felt like it was spinning its wheels though the climax with the helicopter sniping was pretty badass.
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My favorite part was the look on Light's face when he got his memory back.
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The second opening forever cracks me up to this day. I love that song!
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My favorite part was the look on Light's face when he got his memory back.
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I wonder if Bakuman's rather abrupt ending, and the theme of the final arc in which they want to end their series on their own terms is a sort of the authors commenting on the fact that Death Note should have ended after Light beat L.
Curious thought.
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I wonder if Bakuman's rather abrupt ending, and the theme of the final arc in which they want to end their series on their own terms is a sort of the authors commenting on the fact that Death Note should have ended after Light beat L.
Curious thought.
Plenty of series went on longer than fans wanted them to, not just Death Note
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I wonder if Bakuman's rather abrupt ending, and the theme of the final arc in which they want to end their series on their own terms is a sort of the authors commenting on the fact that Death Note should have ended after Light beat L.
Curious thought.
Always seemed like fairly obvious commentary on their own history
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I'm with the side of the editors on this one, making the story of Death Note continue! If it was to end around L death than the title would have around 58 chapters and would only take a year. Were the authors really expecting to enter into a Magazine like Shonen Jump and only do a popular series for 1 year? And if the thing with Bakuman is right, they wanting an anime series of Death Note, than is even worse. If is true that they didn't want to do the second part than is totally their fault for planning a series too short.
About other titles, I understand why the editors and the magazine ask for more, and theoretically they are right. Is not all about money, but giving more to the title and to the author. Is the same thing a coach for a sport team would do with one of his athletes. Certainly the coach would try to convince the athlete to stay a little longer and give it more to his career, because the important is not only ending in a high note, but giving the maximum possible. Unfortunately in practice the authors normally(for what we know, we only really notice the failure cases. Certainly there is a title that would end earlier, but the editors convinced the author to continue and the story stayed very good or even improved) "destroy" all their work with retcons, bad pacing, uninteresting stories and all that bad stuff.
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Woahhh woah woah. The death note anime is a classic, don't disrespect :o
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Well, I haven't found an anime more addictive than Death Note.
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Woahhh woah woah. The death note anime is a classic, don't disrespect :o
I'm not disrespecting the anime. I'm saying that given that normally Shonen Jump waits that a series makes around 2 years to make their anime and it hopes the title in the manga is still running while the anime is airing, they should have planned for more than 2 years. Well it seems that they wanted to have an anime but end their manga in 1 year.
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Well, I haven't found an anime more addictive than Death Note.
If your into big robots, and awesome fights this one.
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Putting things in pedestals and expecting people to not criticize just because it's the basis of the problems of religion in the modern world. Not questioning things, and coasting on past glories just shouldn't be done.
Also, on the point of the manga ending, the business is about long series, but they proved that the series could have been better as a short one. Toriyama did it a few times, and the series in the begining of the magazine used to do it, giving the option for that to younger authors could very well work better, as they get practice over the building of series with different themes and styles, not just focusing in a giant ninja pastiche for 16 years, stagnating. Also they get practice with good starts, but have very little experience on good endings.
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If your into big robots, and awesome fights this one.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Giant_Robo_-_The_Animation.jpgYou have good taste.
Some seriously good taste.
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I'm not disrespecting the anime. I'm saying that given that normally Shonen Jump waits that a series makes around 2 years to make their anime and it hopes the title in the manga is still running while the anime is airing, they should have planned for more than 2 years. Well it seems that they wanted to have an anime but end their manga in 1 year.
Sorry, this wasn't aimed towards you, it was just a general statement in the tone of "this is one of my favourite animes and I didn't see anything wrong with it"
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The 10th Year Anniversary Project for Death Note is announced; it is the collaboration with Real Escape Game (popular even in Japan). But, it said part 1, so there going to be more projects coming-up.
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What?????? …. 16 chars
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I really liked this manga but havn't watched the anime but I don't like all the crucial mistakes light made in the second half. Like relying on his dad to kill Mello, relying on mikami to do it right, didn't have better backup plan(he did have a slice of paper in his watch but he or mikami should have ripped off a whole page so he could fill all names), trying to use his slice of paper while being watched(he probably could have conceded defeat and told the truth and use the paper as soon as he could and then they would think there were another kira out there…) and that he didn't remain calm until the end.
I hope that they could continue with this like light finding a way to be reincarnated as a shinigami but then accidently drops his book...
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So umm… Shane Black is not involved with Hollywood version of Death Note anymore?
IMDb now lists Gus Van Sant as the director.Definitely an admirable director, but will he be good for Death Note: The Movie..??
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Who really cares at this point though, lol. Same with bebop movie, or video game movies like asscreed, splinter cell, bioshock, mgs and so on. I hope some of them come out and are good, but till then I don't care one way or the other.
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It is announced that Death Note going to have live-adaptation drama which going to air on upcoming summer.
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Didn't it already have one of those?
With an ending that was better than the manga's?
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It had a set of movies, but evidently it wasn't dramatic enough