itt we're captain obvious
it's superior by shounen standards, but shounen is the ass end of anime
I know I'm not putting forward a particularly original opinion or saying anything all that new, but Death Note's so popular it confuses me. Since there seems to be a Death Note following on 4-ch I figured I'd at least try to get someone to enlighten me about what all the fuss is.
And magical girl is the ass end of anime. Shounen is just close.
Death Note had my attention for about 4 episodes and then I kinda stopped watching but yeah...Darker than Black seems pretty good.
LOL!!! you know what that was the funniest damn post ever!!!!!!!! lmfao
Oh my god, "american otaku" does not think highly of my posts! american otaku, I think you're really cool. I want to be friends. Would it help if I apologized?
i wanna be yo friend dude... I see you posting everywhere all the time.
I like to incite sometimes, just as I see you do ;)
>>7
How do you see me posting everywhere all the time if I post anonymously?
watch GTO THE BEST ANIME .... 4 me atlest
BECAUSE I HAVE SUPER POWERS
>>1 death note is good because of the investigations of the criminal, and that its not that easy to get away with murder
>that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.?
mm that's kinda hard you eliminate at least 90% of anime, i recommend Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai
>>2 true, best shounen anime
>>3 sorry but Mahou Shoujo>>>>>> Shounen (you at least get to fap with Magical girls)
>>9 it's a good anime, but i didn't like it, i personally found the teacher disgusting, lame and stupid, and there were some holes in the anime ie, one episode the the intelligent girl hates onizuka, onizuka convinces her, and the other instead of following or at least saying what happened after, starts another shit, and there isn't a major character delevopment (only the schoolkids becoming friends of onizuka)... but well that's my opinion, it's a fairly good anime, and i think everyone should watch it
Erm, he said without magic...
>>12 lol shh [spoiler]anime has everything that he hates[spoiler]
Nice try, troll.
Although I love Death Note because it almost seinen-like; it's very different from the other Jump series. In fact Jump's motto is "friendship, victory, and courage." Death Note doesn't really fit the motto, especially the friendship part. lol
Moe anime is the ass end of anime. EX: Lucky Star, Hidamari Sketch, Maburaho, etc,.
Troll, a good anime is Monster. In fact, I don't really think anime will have a lot of what you want; try manga. Good manga: Homunculus, Monster, Sanctuary, basically anything by Iou Kuroda. Basically "Seinen" stuff.
Hidamari Sketch is underrated.
>anime that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.
>Evangelion, Gundam, Haibane Renmei
>You just lost the game.
I agree, Death Note (manga ver) is a little over-hyped, but honestly, if you have the patience to sit through Light's mind wandering here and there, then it turns out to be an interesting series (I like it, though it tends to give me a headache sometimes).
I can't offer my opinion on the anime though (haven't seen it yet), but it seems like Light "talking" to himself would get old after an episode or two.
personally I don't see the appeal in death note. I know exactly where the story was heading by the 1st volume, not awful but not my cup of tea. Probably the fact that my sister in law is a weeabo DN fangirl just puts me off it completely.
>anime that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.
grave of fireflies....oh wait it does have teenagers
>anime that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.
That's everything, just so you know.
>anime that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.
Perfect Blue or Jin-Roh or Night on the Galactic Railroad or Angel's Egg
Light dies in the end anyway. Just goes to show that evil will never triumph.
>that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.?
Hataraki Man? Lupin III? Studio 4C stuff?
I read death note before it was widely popular, and i enjoyed it. I, personally, had never really seen anything like it before, and plus i'm a fan of the artist. Well I enjoyed it at least until Mello and Near came in, after that it sucked donkey balls. I've never seen such a terrible ending.
it makes fags feel like they're smart and girls jack off to thinking about L sucking Light's cock. the manga is a little better. yeah, best thing about the series is L.
But the manga totally doesn't have the hilariously homoerotic bits in episode 25! It's clearly inferior!
>anime that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc.
Rescue Wings, Bartender, Hataraki Man, Monster, NHK, Genshiken, You're Under Arrest, Ebichu, Tetsuko no Tabi, Black Lagoon.
Oh, and Area 88.
>>29
Sasahara's sister is a schoolgirl, so that removes Genshiken from the list.
>>29
NHK fails it because Misaki (who I consider to be the second main character) is a teenager. :-)
Light doesn't wave the pen around in the manga. Or at least I dun think he does....
I need ta read Volume 1 again for some hot Ryuuk-apple-eating ackshin....LOLz.
Already seen NHK and Genshiken, like them both.
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, teenage girl. Hate Death Note! I managed to read the first five books back in my weeaboo days, and I don't know how I managed to get that far.
People only like Death Note because L looks emo.
There is no Death Note manga.
Not anymore anyway, it's all finished.
>anime that doesn't involve giant robots, teenagers, schoolgirls, dumbass "romance", sports, tentacle monsters, demons, shinigamis, magic, etc
Haibane Renmei had teenagers or they sure looked like them.
Lol, I think just about all anime is focused in some way on young people. I can't think of any anime that doesn't have children or adolescents in it.
Too bad Kagami got defeated by Rena in Japanese Saimoe 2007 and you can't do a thing about it...
Lucky Star had a good run though...
I no longer like Death Note now that is popular.
>>44
Then you fail as a fan. Real fans continue to like it after it's popular, and still like it when the popularity has faded.
the manga couldn't hold my attention. never watched the anime. i don't think it's shit, but i don't think it's that great either.
That's sort of where I am. It's good... for shounen manga.
The beauty of Death Note (manga, at least; can't speak for the anime) is how FUCKING AWESOME a mystery story it turns into. If you read the manga, past the first few chapters to where Light starts to get himself in too deep, watching Light and L go back and forth playing the fool on each other and try to stay one-up really gets you hooked. It's really hard to just stop partway through, you just want to keep reading even though it totally scares the shit out of you. It really is just about the most fucked up thing ever, and you don't want to keep reading, but you can't stop—kind of like a Stephen King novel, only a hundred times better.
And by the way, the live-action movies are also a whole other level of amazing.
death note is quite nice, though i got tired after reading all those text. but i still dont really like how it end, i said "what !?" after i read it the first time.
I think that the reason so many people enjoy watching Death Note is not because of the concept of how he kills people or the relationships he has with his surroundings. The reason we enjoy this anime is because of the suspense that draws you in for each episode. Also along with the suspense, one with a more philosophical mentality would be conflicted with the ethics of man. If we were presented with the God complex, how would we react? The most interesting thing is the ending...
SPOILER
The ethics and morals of man are really low. Even to the very end of this series, Light does not hold back. He does not change his mind. He, just like the majority of man in this world has a sadistic side to their personality. What catches our attention is the fact that man is that evil. While viewing this series I feel that most of us thought he would eventually get caught or just give up. BUT! to our surprise [which in reality we shouldn't have been surprised] man is that evil and man will take ahold of that power and never let it go. I just proves that the ethics and morals of man are horrible. We may put on a facade [just as Light does with everyone else when he pretends not to be Kira] but really the hearts of man will take power and run with it.
>>1
To the original poster:
I suggest that you just get through about 5 episodes. Consider the ideas I have posted and try not to focus on the fact that he writes names in a book [which I will admit is a lame way to kill people]. Focus on the ethics and morality of man that this anime presents.
>>45
You fail at sarcasm.
But it's actually quite annoying when all these idiots like how cool the shinigami looks and disregard completely all the great aspects of the story then get pissed off at the ending.
>>48
I read about 1000 pages in one sitting. I only stopped because no additional translated scans were available yet. So I re-read it entirely the same night.
>>52
I wasn't trying to be sarcastic.
That being said it's hard not to be pissed off at the ending. I wish it ended about 5 volumes earlier, with Light winning and leaving the rest open.
to Random Anime Otaku, are you male or female??
I probably love deathnote Yaoi more than deathnote itself.
i like Jinroh.
Are you new to 4ch? Lurk a little, everyone is Random _______
I meant to ask OP
i haven't really seen the final conclusion but the other series that the artist did for Hikaru no go concludes very bad so I guess if you have seen how hikaru ends people are more aware of the strange ending and aren't surprised...but then again doesn't the ending depend on the writer.?
Of course it depends on the writer, they're the one writing it. Sometimes it might also depend on a publisher who is pressuring for more material.
She was pressured to continue Hikaru no Go by her publisher.
She continued it willy-nilly then it was only nilly, she just stopped working on it. I suspect the same happened with the Death Note manga, it became so darn silly at one point that I stopped caring and reading it.
TOO BAD DEATH NOTE AND HIKARU NO GO HAD DIFFERENT WRITERS YOU CUNT FACED FAGGOT
>>60
Lurk moar.
>>61
TOO BAD I'VE LURKED FOR LIKE TWO YEARS YOU CUNT FACED FAGGOT!
>>62 I never said they were the same writer, peabrain.
Gb/2/school.
>>o I've only read a chapter or two of the manga
>>o I've only seen the first episode
/thread
OH YOU LIKE EVANGELION? WOW WHAT A COINCIDENCE, ME TOO!
Screw whoever started this post! DN is awesome youre just not smart enough to get it!!!! Dumb idiot! ^^
(`~`)>>63
Go back in the fucking womb you waste of life.
i agree with some of the things that OP was saying... like whats the deal with with the dramatic music and him waving his pen in the air... BUT, ive seen later episodes and its pretty good. they way that he tricks people into killing their friends or colleages its makes me go OH DAMN!!!! OH SNAP!!! WHAT! YEAH!!! OKAY!!!!!
but a lil freaky on the L and masterbation thing..... i dont wanna know about that shit...
I hate to tell you this, but it's the later episodes that are completely ridiculous. The early ones are the good parts.
Yes only the L arks are good...
I don't really like the series after that.
Yes because those who didn't get Lain years ago were not smart.
Yes in particular Noah's ark was pretty lame.
the ending episodes are alittle weried but if you watch the whole series , you'll see its a great series
You can't get inside the series without brain. Go, get them from somewhere and then come to say is it bad. If it is, you may be just a moron without reasons to hate that anime, you just do.
Death note has it's bad points- boring, stupid first episode, lame waving around of pens in air with overly dramatic music, shinigami who look retarded, death of L, reduction of appeal during the last ten or so episodes, failed appeal devices, etc.
But, what good series doesn't have its share of problems like this? [ok, so maybe the best of the best don't] The amount of good stuff this eries has far outweighs the little failures listed above in my opinion, leaving it as a highly entertaining series. It's good appealing, well developed characters, a compelling storyline, the setting is more realistic than most, awesome awesome voice actors, and unusual kind of bad guy, intellectual stimulation to some degree, a good pace, highly amusing opening and ending songs, and most importantly, at some points in most episodes, most people will think 'oooh, clever! cool!' or something to that effect, and be excited to watch the next episode. that's why i say it's good. oh yeah, it's not really targeted at a narrow audience, so a really wide variety of people can enjoy watching it.
watch deathnote for 4 or 5 episodes then you can judge it
get drunk and eat ass
You should really do without the teenagers rule since whether you admit it or not most anime are created with that audience in mind. That said there are lot of interesting anime where the age of the cast means shit if they behave outside their stereotypes. I found Narutaru to be quite enjoyable and last time I checked it did not have teenagers but kids which may or not be worse using your rule
my list of series that are like death note but less shitty (from the other thread):
monster
spiral
anyone have any others?
Monster was a horrible series of an awesome manga. You should have read its 18 volumes as opposed to watching those 74 episodes. Much easier that way and pacing isn't as slow as the anime makes it out to be which is a plus to those who were intimidate with the length
Spiral is a 25 episode advertisement of an average manga you might as well read its manga up to the point you were then continue from there rather than bother with the anime. Should you for any reason want to get the series done then by all means go ahead as long you intend to read from the first chapters to remind yourself what the did the anime did a poor work explaining. There were enough subtle changes so you won't feel like you have done the same thing before
The first episode of deathnote wasn't the best ever..
Basically, they have to establish the basic plot points first; use of deathnote, shinigami (I think Ryuk turns up in episode 1) and what light is trying to do. The next few episodes, where they start trying to find who is murdering the criminals, are much better and they get better until episode 25. I can't tell you anything about the episodes after 25/26 because I didn't watch any further than that.
My guess would be most movies and OVAs because they have less time to get shitty. Short series (anything less than 20 episodes) would also count here but they aren't as often made as the other two.
stupid do-gooder.
you know that there is no such things as the good and the evil, black and white.
for me Kira did the right thing, and i would have done the same.
@Op:
how old are you kiddy? 11/12?
please be an hero, you will receive the Darwin Award.
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