Death Note

paizuri · Post by **paizuri** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:20 pm

This is the official Death Note discussion thread.

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angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:19 am

Now since Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni ended, I guess this series should give me my horror, mystery fix, right?

Quite of bit of hype is going on with this. Not surprising since this is in fact part of the Shounen Jump (or in America, Shounen Jump Advance), and it's actually something really compeling and stimulating unlike your other shounen action series. Staff info is found here:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=6592

...and the first episode should premiere around tommorrow.

Ivvan Cain · Post by **Ivvan Cain** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:11 pm

Aw...but before the anime I want to see the liveaction movie...I heard the CGI death god was awesome.

hikaru101 · Post by **hikaru101** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:35 pm

you think ryuk looked cool, he looked kinda weird to me. well i hav read the books 1-7.

Ivvan Cain · Post by **Ivvan Cain** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:10 am

hikaru101 wrote:you think ryuk looked cool, he looked kinda weird to me. well i hav read the books 1-7.

Nonono, I think he looks good in live action movie in full CGI...otherwise in the manga he just looks freakishly disturbing...in the good way.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:51 am

is this new series and full length manga in any relation to the oneshot the same author originally did back around the time of Hikaru no go? I heard it was the popularity of the one shot that caused him to make the full length series, but I wonder if the story is in any way related to that of the oneshot, or if its something completely different.

The main character was a small boy in the oneshot, from what i've seen in pictures and such, looks to be alot older in this one.

In anycase, this seems to have alot of popularity surrounding the manga, probably close to that of bleach, so I'm interested in checking this out.

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:07 pm

I've read the one-shot story as well as all of Death Note. The stories have the same general idea, but they are not related. The boy in the one-shot isn't the same person that finds the Death Note in the manga, nor does the one-shot boy ever make a cameo in the manga either.

Ivvan Cain · Post by **Ivvan Cain** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:46 pm

I still find it odd that Death Note had a cameo in Full Metal Panic!! The Second Raid.

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:20 am

I just finished watch FMP: 2nd Raid for the second time now, and I really didn't see a cameo from Death Note. Are you talking about Mr. Gates kinda acting like Mello from Death Note in some scenes?

I wouldn't even really call it a cameo, since he really ISN'T Mello. Their personalities are really that close, nor do they really even look alike. It's more like a very slightly hinted homage. I think there was only one scene where Mr. Gates was even eating something.

Other than that, I really can't think of anyone else acting like any other Death Note character.

Psygnius · Post by **Psygnius** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:20 am

EDIT: I meant to say "Their personalities really are NOT that close"