another great episode. this show just keeps progressing at an incredible pace. as to be expected, L came up with a pretty good plan to test the rules of the Death Note, but ran out of time in the execution.
another great episode. this show just keeps progressing at an incredible pace. as to be expected, L came up with a pretty good plan to test the rules of the Death Note, but ran out of time in the execution.
Wow, L's death hit me like a ton of bricks...even though I wanted him to go away, AND I knew he would die. The scene was very touching, made more so by the blatantly duplicitous nature of Light's responses. Now (In theory) Light is the one most likely to catch Kira and the team will probably look to him as they did to Ryuzaki. However I think that L might make a comeback in some form or another (some type of recording or he faked his death) to make trouble.
Light on the other hand will likely try to use L's attempted test to prove that he must be innocent. He has another Death Note now, so he could organize this prisoner writing thing and then just pencil in the guy's death for 13 days after he wrote in the other Death Note.
@Foomanchew24 kuro-hana does a good enough job that you understand what's going on and I haven't been bothered by much watching them. If you want the story ASAP there's no problem with them. If you care about 'better' quality, whatever that means then just stick to waiting for Animanda.
I really liked all the suspicions and the glimpse of L's past. Light being smart enough to manipulate the Shinigami (even if Rem is a simple fool who quickly informed him of her weakness...) is very cool, but still makes him an absolute bastard. I love what L says to him after their talk on the roof, where Light lies to him, "I guess that's why you're popular..."
Misa is so fucking ugly looking now. Goth is such a waste of hotness... L should be even more suspicious of her... even if the rules supposedly say the user will die, the fact that murders started up right after she got released can't be conicidence.
Matsuda had the right idea. Bring the existence of the notes to light and destroy them!
the massage scene was yaoi-licious. I don't recall that being in the manga, but it did ultimately make the final scene more moving. and man, it still makes me so sad to watch that scene where L looks up into Light's eyes. And then I'm just filled with rage when he starts acting upset. This is what sealed my never-ending hatred for Light.
as for the next episode.... Well, many things could be reincarnated... and who knows in what form?
Last edited by masamuneehs; Wed, 04-04-2007 at 08:03 PM.
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
I'm gonna go out on a limb here like a few others have and say that L isn't really dead. Not in a denial sense, as I've been rooting for Light the entire series so far and I want him to succeed, but just because I feel like L is too clever to die so easily and may have had a backup plan in place.
I don't know, an identical brother, a fake name, SOMETHING. We all know Rem can be tricked and manipulated, maybe something isn't right here.
And was Rem always supposed to be female? I'd always just assumed it was a "he", not only for the voice but also the feelings for Misa, seems a little weird that a female Shinigami would have feelings for a female human in terms of general anime themes, you don't see that kind of thing all that often.
Also, I don't particularly care personally, but I'm surprised at the lack of comments regarding seeing Misa topless this episode.
I think I know precisely what I mean
when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
Rem was a female. She was in love with Misa. Trans-life/death lesbianism...
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
You don't need to love another person in terms of wanting to be in a relationship. There can be feelings of love that sprout from wanting to protect, as in of kin or of family. Anyways, the moment L closed his eyes was weak. In the manga, right as L died and he was looking at Light's face, there shoulda been a comment that was like "It was you after all" or something along those lines, that was in the manga.
Right! He says "I knew it/was you" or something along the lines of that. And I was hoping he would say it, but he didn't. Obviously you could tell by his eyes that's what he was thinking, but I'd've liked it if he actually made that clear.
I still hate this scene, but right after my last input of yesterday eve, I remember it strongly reminded me of a biblical scene...Originally Posted by masamuneehs
The atmosphere, bels, references to churches were certainly echoes to ruyzaki's past... but may also be a set up for that particular scene that reminds me of:
Mary Magdalene washing Christ's feet.
I agree the scene was not purely mimiced (hopefully), but to me it clearly was that...And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
With that assumption, you have Light entering the Semi-God world...
I took the Mary angle, but it could have been Christ whashing Disciples feet... and then
Light would be Judas I guess
I wonder what you think about this.
Cu
PS: I'm not very into religion thing, it's just that it happened to reming me this, and the show
does play around those themes...
David75 I totally agree with you on your way of thinking. I think it was mimicking where Jesus washes the feet of Judas.
Anyways, the episode started off stupid with Misa's song, as if the director of the anime wanted to piss everyone off by doing something he wanted to see, but he knew full well that the rest of the episode would make people forget about how stupid the singing was. Then came the washing of the feet scene and that was just too akward.
And at the end, I'm pretty sure Rem was thinking that by killing Watari maybe he/she (never been too sure, always thought it was a chick) wouldn't die for directly changing Misa's life span. And then I think once Rem started fading away, she tried to write other names in the book but to no avail. I'm sure Rem would have wiped out the whole team of people trying to hunt down Kira if she could, not solely L. So in all, I think L just did the smartest thing to do. Fake dying by Kira, and either really die or play it off. At least L could work on the side.
P.S. With all these manga readers giving their 2 cents in, they keep pointing to the fact that L is really dead, which kinda pisses me off cuz it feels like they spoiled it.
P.P.S. I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT 10 EPISODES!
How can you not think he's dead anyways. It's common sense, his name was written in the Death Note, along with Watari's. No one has survived a Death Note death.
Last edited by masamuneehs; Thu, 04-05-2007 at 08:09 AM.
The concept of jesus washing judas' feet, L hearing the churchbells for his funeral which light couldn't hear.
L knew, he even said he was sad. Personally I'd think the "So it was you" line would have cheapened the moment to be honest.
<rant>
And I fully agree with stratosthegeek here, I'm not fully convinced that L is dead considering the amount of trickery and subterfuge going on in this series, but you manga readers are doing a good job of saying he is.
It's hardly "common sense" because Rem was standing behind Watari, not L, and did you see whose names got written? No, you did not.
Maybe this is some kind of trick from Rems side, who the hell knows? This is death note after all.
Manga readers should play more nicely and try (if anything) to only point out differences in the anime/manga and not facts that haven't been verified by the anime yet.
</rant>
Rem, did not disappear after writing Watari's name, but only after L, because killing L prolonged Misa's life and went against a Shinigami's rules. Also, why would L just keel over, directly after you SEE Rem writing someone's name. Sure it could've not been L, but it was. A trick by Rem? You must not be very perceptive. A pile of dust in the same manner as Jealous, and a Death Note from that pile of dust, picked up and recognized by Light. Sure. A Shinigami is not a Shinigami if they lose their own personal Death Note. And only a few have ever been lucky enough to get a second.
Edit: Hah, I love it how some cockbag negative repped me and wrote "anime not manga forum" due to my comparison on how L did not say "I knew it was you afterall" as his dying words. Obviously, this is an anime that is based on a MANGA, meaning a direct adaptation. Being a VIEWER, and having read the manga, it's only plausible if I compare the two to see if the adaptation is good or accurate.
Last edited by animus; Thu, 04-05-2007 at 10:13 AM.
I meant a trick in the sense that Rem died, but did something to oppose light with her final move. It wouldn't surprise me since she knew the truth about Lights plan before she followed along with it. But she wasn't the smartest of people though, so might just have done it. I never said she didn't die, that's something I don't doubt.
L could have decided to fake his own death when he got the "signal" from watari, the deletion of all the data. Obviously shit was going down.
I'm just saying that there is quite alot of deception in this series, it wouldn't surprise me if someone was pulling a fast one.
Personally I'd love it if L was dead though. Very much looking forwards to next ep.
Oh, and for the record I don't use the rep system.
It probably wasn't you since you didn't respond to that comment I made *shrug*.
Calm down all of you...before the MOD beat stick comes out
Note: the MOD Beat stick can be a fate worse then the Death Note
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I beleive L is indeed dead, this series made both, L`s fan and light/kira`s fan if one side wins the loser end will feel bad (for lack of a better word), so this give a nice clousre to this "war" L fans will always beleived L made the final step to solve the case wich proves he was smart enough to uncover Lights true intentions, Light fans will say that well... he killed L thus he won
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
Ruyzaki is Dead, it seems there's no doubt about it.
It's just I'm a bit sad they didn't use the double name writing rule (writing the name of the same person on two DNs with a very smal time difference...)
Maybe they'll use it for some more subtle move in the series, that would have been too easy at that time...
c u
what double name writing rule?
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
that rule was in the middle of some chapters...
i did read the manga... so it was no surprice for me... yet the animation was expectacular (i dont really know how to spell it in english xD)
So sad.... I cried when he died.... Damn that Light. I hope he will have a painful death.
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