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

[shayera.livejournal.com]

Oooh yes. I read it myself not too long ago (I'm in Japan, so I'm finally catching up on my manga! Due to lack of internet, though, I'm behind on my anime ^^)

I had no idea that was going to happen. I kinda suspected it would... but on the other hand I also kind of expected something to come up in the last moment to prevent it... And then it doesn't, and L dies, and the Light's EVIL smile, and L's "I wasn't wrong", and... Waaah.

Then again, I could never bring myself to be completely attached to the characters in Death Note. It's a damn good series, but the main characters are just scary...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's why it didn't bother me as much as it would've otherwise - I'm fascinated by the characters (Light as much as L, really, if not more, and now I'm becoming intrigued by L's successors) but they're too, hmm, extreme to really fall in love with. Though some of that for me might have been because I had that spoiler, I was emotionally keeping my distance, as it were...at any rate, yeah, it's an amazing scene!