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Death Note Reviews
Jamie's back with his review of the Death Note series. I remember receiving an email request to review this so apparently there are die hard fans out there.
Death NoteI ran across a Japanese movie called Death Note it was the most successful movie ever in Japan. I found out it was based on a Manga comic then was made into an Anime series. I looked up the series on hulu and checked it out. I then watched the 3 live action movies that came after the Anime.
Death Note Anime - Well this series is 14 hours so if you got some free time to kill this is a good way to waste it. I am not an expert on Anime and many people said in the Hulu talkbacks that there were much better series out there. Of course it dragged it a little and was many things that needed to be cut. Any crime detective story relies on the 2 antagonist. This story had it in spades. So young Light who is about 18 finds the death note and with it he can write anyone's name in it and they die. Once he tries it out he realizes he wants to be the God of the new world and rid the world of evil. So of course killing all these criminals brings in the police and the number One detective in the world "L" who is also 18.
It soon becomes a chess game between Light and L of who can get to each other first. On Hulu it was divided into 37 - 23 minute shows and the pacing of each show worked, most of the times they left me hanging wanting to know more. Since it is an Anime you may ask how the animation is. Again I am no expert but I think it was done well. Many times when someone died or was tricked you could see it in there eyes before they died. I was happy with this and did not think my 14 hours was wasted. Check it out.
Well both together are almost 4 hours so they had to cut a lot of material. Did they pick the right ones? They also added a few things. Overall they did a good job and liked the pacing of the movie it nice to guess what they were going to keep. Again the main power is the 2 stars L and Light. Casting was great for L and light was just ok. I'm not a big fan of this guy. If you had seen Battle Royale he is one of the kids that survive. I think someone who has not seen the anime would get into it. I would say check them both out since they're one long movie.
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Japan took a note from Hollywood's book. When death note 2 grossed way more then part 1 they said "hey we should take advantage and continue the story even though they ended it." So now we get the continuing adventures Of L which are pretty boring and weak since it was not based on anime or comic. You can do without this one "special note". If you watch the death note movies and do not have time to watch the anime send me a message on this comment with your email and I will tell you what happened on the anime.
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