Pure kino.
Pure kino
Chase Hall
Justin Rodriguez
Genuinely one of the best-directed anime of all time that isn't something like a Studio Ghibli film.
Isaac Miller
it's a good premise that turned to shit
Robert Powell
>you could use the book to get ahead and save people
>I WILL BECOME GOD
yikes
Nathan Harris
it was kino and should have ended when kira bested L
Ryan Adams
>save people
>death note
Jace Johnson
first thing he does in the anime
Colton Adams
It kind of fell apart after the Kira vs L kino ended
Kayden Fisher
>kill off best character like 5 chapters in
>somehow still salvageable
>kill off 2nd best character which is also a perfect stopping point
>nope let's keep going
>everything falls to shit
when will people learn, 0 likable characters = garbage
Tyler Myers
>remember it being an amazing 2000 IQ cat-and-mouse game with mind-blowing gambits every episode
>rewatch it
>there're only like 3 actual smart moments
Kevin Wilson
The part where he kills the bum by making him 'see a monster' by tricking him into touching the Death Note page is so funny in retrospect because he didn't need to be clever about it at all, the Death Note literally controls people's actions either way
John Adams
trapping the door with obvious and subtle nuances is genius.
watching a portable tv in the potato bag is genius.
tricking the fbi agent wife, getting the bus criminal to see ryuk, forcing rem to kill L, giving up the notebook and arranging to get it back while amnesiac,
Daniel Sanchez
But Light is at the very least entertaining as a protagonist. Who is this best character? The FBI agent's hole?
James Bell
L must've known he was Kira the whole time so why did he let himself just die like a bitch.
Wyatt Peterson
if rem didnt kill l would light have lost?
Jaxon Jones
he couldn't prove it
Aaron Perez
So? He knew it was him you can't convince me otherwise. Even if he was curious about the method he should've just taken him out rather than being a stupid moral fag.
Jonathan Collins
he probably would not be able to prove how he did it even if he could prove it was him. if he killed or arrested light early.
Light tricked him with the fake rule too.
James Morgan
Who is literally Light Yagami here?
Josiah Perez
He knew the second he talked to him in the classroom. The point of the ENTIRE cat & mouse game was L getting PROOF that it was Light.
I feel like Obata had the ending and beginning premise planned out, then filled in the details and accidentally wrote himself into a hole where he had to kill L. Hence deus ex Near.
Nicholas Walker
yes, seems pretty obvious
that is precisely the gambit is it not?
rem needed to save their asses