Death Note

[xparrot]

So. Yeah. I am the last manga fan on the planet to finally get around to reading Death Note. And I gotta love a manga that can do this to me.


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was hyperventilating from holding my breath for about three chapters before 53, because you know what's coming, you know what's coming and it's still as brutal as a backhand from a lover, to see Light's smile.

And yeah, I had ch.58 spoiled for me when it happened last year, the meltdown on the flist was hard to miss. Didn't help much. You almost want to stop reading, because you know exactly what's going to happen, like a horror movie when you're screaming at the girl, Don't go there!!!, except it's not a ditzy dumb co-ed but L, who is more brilliant than anyone, except the one person he needed to be. And what could he have done, anyway, when even Light wasn't smart enough to figure himself out in time?

But you don't even get to hear his real name for yourself!

Even Light doesn't get to hear it.

I wonder if that ever bothers him...

Comments

[ex-naye320.livejournal.com]

WAAAAAAAH! Yes. Absolutely. Well discribed, the emotions right there...

When I saw the original from that page at JF, I... I couldn't stop staring. Stop thinking - how does it feel to draw something like that? How is it possible to spend so much time lovingly developing a character - a PAIR of characters - and then do THAT to them. Owww... pain.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh you saw those pages? With Light holding L? waah *JEALOUS* Holy shit I love the art of this manga - what it lacks in spontaneity it more than makes up for in detail and clarity. You witness the moments like they're being projected direct onto your cerebellum. When L drops the spoon - if/when they make an anime of this, it better have a movie-high budget, because otherwise it won't have a chance of matching what's already played out in the readers' heads.

You know, as bad as L's death was, I think as bad or worse for me was the moment that Light first touches the Note again. There might be one instant there that he really understands what he's become, and then the memories murder the Light L became friends with, as surely as Rem murders L...

[ex-naye320.livejournal.com]

Yep. Those. I think they were the only DN b/w originals they had up. There were a bunch of the color images too (from covers and such), but fewer manga originals. And... it was kind of cruel to have it all big like that, up on the wall, because it was kind of a shock when I first saw it!

Mmm. Obata is really something special. When I visited the originals with my friend lalala_zombi, who's a really good artist herself, I asked her which art she thought was best, and... yeah. It's hard to surpass the quality. (Let's leave Oda aside for now, because you can't really compare the two series anyway, and so it only makes sense that their art is so... different.)

That really was what got to me. That Light... that he lost what he had found, and I actually liked him for a while there, with L. Because he seemed to be developing into a... non-psychopath. And for a moment I thought I saw remorse and horror and then he was just triumphant and I wanted to slap him! It makes me sad. :(