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View Poll Results: Death Note - Episode 37 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 208 | 44.26% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 79 | 16.81% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 55 | 11.70% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 37 | 7.87% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 22 | 4.68% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 7 | 1.49% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 10 | 2.13% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 9 | 1.91% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 4 | 0.85% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 39 | 8.30% | |
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2010-06-28, 19:10 | Link #481 |
Anime Noob
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Connecticut, New England, USA
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This last episode was pretty awesome, in my opinion. While I wouldn't give it a perfect 10/10, it was still a very good end to the show.
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2010-06-29, 02:58 | Link #482 |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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I just realized something.
I'm not sure if you guys already know this. Remember the part when Light suggests that both of the notebooks are fake? He's definitely bluffing! One of them has to be real, because, if it wasn't real, Near wouldn't have been able to see Ryuk.
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2010-09-30, 08:40 | Link #487 |
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I know that this thread was opened three years ago but I must write my thoughts down. Last year, a friend of mine lent me all his Death Note mangas. I read them and was touched by the story in a way I haven’t been by any other manga or animé. You have already discussed whether Light was right or wrong, whether his motives where noble or not, which is why I don’t want to discuss that again. I just have to say that I like the character Light Yagami who wanted to make the world a better place, no matter whether he succeeded or whether his means where evil ones.
What do I think about the different endings of the manga, the animé and the life-action film? The manga ending was unbelievably hard to accept for someone who likes Light. The fact that Ryuk actually seems to not regard Light as a friend despite their time spent together, and Light’s pain and begging were, well, I can’t say. On the one side, the ending fits the dark image the entire series has, on the other side, it destroys Light completely (which obviously was the author’s intention). The animé ending however is much better in my opinion as the whole begging part was cut, and Ryuk wasn’t shown as the merciless bastard he is in the manga. Instead, he feels sorry for Light in a certain way. In the film version, Ryuk is portrayed more like in the manga but Misa-Misa and Light’s father who hasn’t died are present which makes it easier to accept Light’s death as two people who love him are at the scenery. The fact that L was there as well, and not Near, is also a positive point I have to mention. Why I am writing this now? Because I watched the film yesterday, and it brought back all my feelings. After reading the manga, I was depressed for one week. I have to write this down. I also have to mention this: the hardest fact I and a lot of Death Note fans have to cope with is the absence of an afterlife. I mean, I am not talking about the real life but about a fictional universe where Shinigami, their realm and death notes exist. So it would also have been possible to say that people in this Death Note universe have souls and continue to exist after death. This would have made it much easier to accept Light’s and L’s deaths. Unfortunately, the author decided that the readers shall not have an easy time by clearly stating that there is no afterlife in the Death Note universe, meaning that Light and L simply have ceased to exist. THIS surely is the hardest fact to accept. |
2010-10-01, 04:11 | Link #488 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: my house
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I really enjoyed the ending. I kinda liked and hated Light at the same time (most of the hate was for killing L, most of the 'like' was because he was so intelligent and calm) so part of me wanted to see him be exposed but the other part wanted him to succeed. As I watched Death Note, I had a feeling Light would die, but watching the finale made me feel a bit sorry for him because all those six years of trying to achieve something had gone to waste and that he had lost touch of who he was along the way. I especially enjoyed him going totally psycho when he realised he'd lost, it was so unlike him.
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2010-12-25, 20:35 | Link #492 |
Black Knight
Join Date: May 2010
Age: 32
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While I often hate where endings go like they are foretold to be in the beginning of an anime series, I'd say Death Note is in exception. (Ok, it wasn't like Ryuk said it was gonna happen for sure in the near future, but still :P)
I found the ending fitting not because Light was "evil", but rather cus an ending where he won would feel kinda boring - because it's too typical the hero (well, arguably in this case) wins, imo. The ending is part of what makes Death Note special - compared to other big shonen animes - in two particular ways: 1. The (anti)hero does not win 2. The ending comes fast (makes the story stay on topic and go fast - which imo is great in Death Note's case) Seconded. I would've liked to see some more of his childhood, or what made L the one he was. Rest In Peace, sweets-loving mastermind
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2011-01-15, 00:05 | Link #493 |
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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I have rewatched this series so many times by now, and the last episode always gets to me. It is mainly because of how sad Light's death is to me, from the part when he begins to run along the fence-side and there are brief glimpses of his past shown. That part always stuck with me from the pure fact of how successful and impressionable he was. He was truly a one-in-a-kind guy with his intelligence. He had a bright future ahead of him, and his life went to hell after finding that Death Note. When he finally passed by his younger self before having the Death Note, I thought—I don't know how to quite describe it—it was very poetic. Am I the only one that felt choked up about that scene?
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2011-01-16, 02:06 | Link #495 |
Silver, the Second
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Argentina
Age: 28
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It's so sad... the background music still gets on me...
Although Light only said the psycho killer words after realize he failed. On the run at the sunset, you can feel which he is thinking. Since the moment he got the Death Note it possesed and ruined his life, he was a good person and only wanted to help desesperately, but the only "help" that he got was a tool to kill that converted him in an assasin. I may be the only person that thinks in that way, but I think that Light was a good person in all its means and the DN was the one that made him evil.
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2011-01-16, 14:15 | Link #496 |
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I love that ending. Even though she was introduced, she was a happy person with a sad background. I love that she actually survived. It was sad that he died, but you know, no matter how friendly he was presented to us and no matter how noble his means were, he was meant to die. Ever since he had decided to kill everyone who would oppose him, he had been doomed. I also like L. He was actually a nice person, weird, but also pretty likable. He was actually pretty funny and serious at the same time. His death came sudden. I was really surprised.
SkyFlames, the DN did not make him evil. A common proverb is that you learn about a person's true character when you give him power. Many people who are sneaks and actually submissive just act that way in order to survive as part of our society. In fact, we're all just animals, mammals. We get power and in the beginning we think that we can use it for the good, but at length that power changes us and we use it for our own means. We get corrupted by our own desires and emotions, not by the power itself.
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2011-01-16, 15:37 | Link #497 | |
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