Death Note

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:38 pm

Fullmetal Hottie wrote: maybe River and Bullfighter made some sort of sense in Japan
(River kanji-->Hiragana-->bullfighter kanji??).....but probably not.

I think the moon/Light thing gives the people that superinterperet things something to do, other that try to figure out a "deeper motivation" behind Light and L's plans(JK .......but I really think it's there for the interperetation though, since Deathnote is one of those intricate series)

I haven't given it much thought, really... The moon shines, but only in the dark. That's about as far as I felt the need to go, because it's hardly an importsant part of the story and I was satisfied with that answer and thinking that such a name was chosen on a whim.

Spoiler :

And just to put it out there, what does everyone think about the OST? I really liked the BGM, especially L's theme. It's good background music for drinking vodka and playing chess (and you really haven't lived until you've played drunken chess).

Fullmetal Hottie · Post by **Fullmetal Hottie** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:23 pm

That's what Deathnote needs........Drunken chess

Dramatic Cellphone Talking, Dramatic Potato-chip Eating......And Drunken Chess

L:"Ish yerr turrn Laiiht"
Light:*passes out*
Misa: *randomly walks in*
L:"hey dere beaudifuuh"
Misa:"...hey there ugly." (lame, I know

)

Spoiler :

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:50 am

Vo!D · Post by **Vo!D** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:56 pm

In my own oppinion death notes story line scenario is not good why ?

because for starters their current state of civilization would have not been acheived it would be in chaos because there are these death gods that can control the life of a human being. Lets take it to the point of view as like "L" would rate it there are at least 5% of a deathgod being jelous 5% of them being bored = to at least 10% in total so lets say at least there are 10 death gods with an average of 10% each of dropping a death note to the 2 only given reason and im sure there are more reason like gambling & love and stuff so 10% x 10 death gods = to 100% drop rate of a deathnote. So overall the world scenario at first ipisode of death note would have not accured it would have been in total chaos.

This occured to me when I first saw L, what would L's oppinions be when he would watch the death note anime ?

answer
BAD anime (sorry guys)

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:33 am

you're overanalyzing it, stop picking apart every little flaw and try to be entertained.
I don't really care if you like it or not, but you didn't really give any solid reasons for disliking it.

the Shinigami don't go around killing everyone left and right, and there is no evidence of a death god altering the course of society
(and probablilities don't add up like that. if you have a coin and flip it you have a 50% chance of it landing on the "up" side. if you have 2 coins and flip them you have a 75% chance of at least one of them landing "up", not 100%)

Vo!D · Post by **Vo!D** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:42 am

quite right they are not the ones who is killing left and right but...

they are like guns with the ability of randomly choosing a person from which it can be used. Lets give it an example in the time of wild wild west there are guns without a hard law and what we got... many many deaths right ? no progress actually people in that time live in fear it was not until a hard law was implemented before real progress was made. What bugs me most is that deathnote is much much worse than the wild wild west because they randomly drop the "gun"(deathnote) who ever finds it kills that is all to it right ? to kill. In deathnote there are no laws only kill no other oposite power to stop it by supernatural means i mean. The only good thing about it is that it has a good detective plot to it.

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Sat May 12, 2007 2:47 pm

Actually there are two ways to counter the Death Note, one was shown in the movie, and the other was the pilot story.

The creative way requires 2 Death Notes. Lets assume Light wanted to kill George W, and George W knows that Light is going to kill him soon. If George W finds another Death Note, and writes his own name with a date 20 days later, then George W will die 20 days later. So if Light tries to kill him today, it will not work, because Light's Death Note can not override George W's Death Note, since it was written first. The eventual outcome is the same, but it cancels out someone else's actions with a Death Note.

The other way to reverse a death already written in a Death Note is to just erase the name out of the note book, and the person will miraculously revive.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:16 am

Psygnius wrote:The other way to reverse a death already written in a Death Note is to just erase the name out of the note book, and the person will miraculously revive.

I think one of those extra rules from the anime eyecatch says that this method doesn't work.

@Vo!D: You're creating sttistics and behavioural patterns in your own head that don't quite work in the real world. That's because

A) not everyone who finds a Death Note will believe it's true or test it, in fear that it is true
B) not everyone who effectively used a Death Note would do so in a global scale, maybe just for personal vendettas and such. In fact, that would represent the great majority of DN users, in which case the notebook would be no different from a gun, knife or crowbar.
C) law or no law, people are killed and the police doesn't crack every case. Most Death Notes would go unnoticed.

I'd also like to point out that your math for "100% droppage" is completely and utterly forced. You're manipulating the train of thought to reach an erroneous result with the avail of "rationalizing". Also, "10% times 10 death gods" isn't 100% of all death gods, but one death god. Your formula is wrong.

You do have a point that the Death Notes could have altered the course of History, but History has been changed by death of important people enough times for that to be assimilated. Maybe someone wrote down Adolf Hitler's name that one cold day in the bunker?

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:11 am

hm... I really don't remember a rule about removing or erasing names, but I could be wrong. I just remember that it worked in the original story pilot.

And Gepetto is right, Vo!D. 10% of 10 DeathGods = 1 dropped Death Note, not a percentage.

And on another side note, I still believe L is autistic.

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:41 am

Gep, you're right, once a name is written, it can't be erased to revive.

Full Death Note Rules

It's under the 11th set of rules, "How To Use It XI"

15th set of rules is pretty interesting too (XV for your people who don't know your numerals). It's possible to cancel the death of the name written in a death note if it is written in another death note within 0.6 seconds.