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Death Note movie (2006)
Tue, Feb. 27th, 2007 04:16 pmSoon, I will spam all of you with posts on books read during vacation, so be warned! Also, hopefully there will be a more detailed food post (or two, or three) to come.
Anyway, I watched the first Death Note movie on my last day there, as I fortuitously had a day to myself after flight mishaps.
First: was Light a college student in the manga? I so don't remember that. Also, I was a little iffy about the change for his motivation; I completely don't buy Light from the manga being righteously angry about the sorry state of the judicial system. But then, maybe he was in the manga?
I fear my writeup is going to have a lot of these questions, as I don't particularly remember the first few volumes of the manga very clearly.
I similarly didn't buy Light's affection for Shiori, who Wikipedia helpfully tells me was a movie addition.
The part I missed most was watching Light figure out all the rules of the Death Note, since that insane logic was what attracted me to the series in the first place. On the other hand, watching someone sit and think really isn't great movie fodder.
Other changes: Naomi and Raye are Japanese, not white. Probably other stuff I don't remember.
I feel that if one hadn't read the manga, the addition of Misa and Misa's assault would be confusing, as it doesn't really go anywhere in this movie.
All in all, I wasn't too satisfied with the movie, though I will note that CG Ryuk is awesome. And the final twist in the end was rather nifty and justified some things. But in general, the movie removed my favorite parts about the manga, which are the largely unfilmable thinky bits.
Anyway, I watched the first Death Note movie on my last day there, as I fortuitously had a day to myself after flight mishaps.
First: was Light a college student in the manga? I so don't remember that. Also, I was a little iffy about the change for his motivation; I completely don't buy Light from the manga being righteously angry about the sorry state of the judicial system. But then, maybe he was in the manga?
I fear my writeup is going to have a lot of these questions, as I don't particularly remember the first few volumes of the manga very clearly.
I similarly didn't buy Light's affection for Shiori, who Wikipedia helpfully tells me was a movie addition.
The part I missed most was watching Light figure out all the rules of the Death Note, since that insane logic was what attracted me to the series in the first place. On the other hand, watching someone sit and think really isn't great movie fodder.
Other changes: Naomi and Raye are Japanese, not white. Probably other stuff I don't remember.
I feel that if one hadn't read the manga, the addition of Misa and Misa's assault would be confusing, as it doesn't really go anywhere in this movie.
All in all, I wasn't too satisfied with the movie, though I will note that CG Ryuk is awesome. And the final twist in the end was rather nifty and justified some things. But in general, the movie removed my favorite parts about the manga, which are the largely unfilmable thinky bits.
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To be quite frank, I don't remember much of vol. 6, and I'm not very tempted to reread. The business arc that's been going on bores me to death. But luckily, things get more exciting in vol. 7!
( Spoilers for vols. 6-7 )
( Spoilers for vols. 6-7 )
I started reading Death Note after hearing a lot about it on LJ and after I found it in the library (I suspect most of my manga entries start out this way). I had actually expected something rather on crack, given that all I knew about the series was that there was a very odd doujinshi with much sex and men in black suits, and that it inspired a rather rabid following.
It is actually one of the least on crack manga I've read. Granted, the premise is somewhat wonky -- there are various shinigami (gods of death) that go about on earth and kill people by writing their names in the Death Notes. When a shinigami loses his or her Death Note and a human picks it up, the human then can kill anyone by writing their name in the Death Note and specifying a means of death. There are even more rules regarding the use of the Death Note, and one of the fun parts of the series is seeing how detailed the rules are and how Ohba works them into the series.
Yagami Light manages to find himself a Death Note one day, and he decides to kill criminals. After a while, the police notice that there's a serial killer on the lose, and they put the legendary detective L (who is a teenager who cannot sit with his feet on the floor, something I completely empathize with) on the case. What follows is a series of cat-and-mouse bits between Light and L, both of whom are geniuses.
Although sometimes, the turns of logic make me roll my eyes, I have a huge intellectual interest in the manga. I was particularly surprised by that, given that most of the time, my attachment to manga is purely emotional. But it's a smart manga, and even though some scenarios seem a bit improbable, I really enjoy watching Light and L trying to outsmart each other. I was afraid that this would quickly grow stale, given that there's only so much one can do with that, but just when I think Ohba has taken all the fun out of one scenario, he quickly throws in something else and complicates the plot yet again.
Also, I really like what I saw of Obata's art in Hikaru no Go, and I continue to enjoy it in Death Note. He's just got this wonderfully clean style that I really like.
Anyhow, I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep reading this; it's not a series I'd buy. I like it from a more intellectual level, but nothing in it has hooked me emotionally yet.
It is actually one of the least on crack manga I've read. Granted, the premise is somewhat wonky -- there are various shinigami (gods of death) that go about on earth and kill people by writing their names in the Death Notes. When a shinigami loses his or her Death Note and a human picks it up, the human then can kill anyone by writing their name in the Death Note and specifying a means of death. There are even more rules regarding the use of the Death Note, and one of the fun parts of the series is seeing how detailed the rules are and how Ohba works them into the series.
Yagami Light manages to find himself a Death Note one day, and he decides to kill criminals. After a while, the police notice that there's a serial killer on the lose, and they put the legendary detective L (who is a teenager who cannot sit with his feet on the floor, something I completely empathize with) on the case. What follows is a series of cat-and-mouse bits between Light and L, both of whom are geniuses.
Although sometimes, the turns of logic make me roll my eyes, I have a huge intellectual interest in the manga. I was particularly surprised by that, given that most of the time, my attachment to manga is purely emotional. But it's a smart manga, and even though some scenarios seem a bit improbable, I really enjoy watching Light and L trying to outsmart each other. I was afraid that this would quickly grow stale, given that there's only so much one can do with that, but just when I think Ohba has taken all the fun out of one scenario, he quickly throws in something else and complicates the plot yet again.
Also, I really like what I saw of Obata's art in Hikaru no Go, and I continue to enjoy it in Death Note. He's just got this wonderfully clean style that I really like.
Anyhow, I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep reading this; it's not a series I'd buy. I like it from a more intellectual level, but nothing in it has hooked me emotionally yet.