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

[kotoshin.livejournal.com]

I've only recently STARTED reading DN, (eng vol. 1 & 2) and went and DL'ed all the scanslations I can find today, so I'm missing a BIG chunck in the middle (most of the stuff you'd read).

I DESPISE Light and keeps wanting to rip up the book while reading it due to his smugness.

Frankly, L himself + his two successors (Near & Mello) attract me more.
Near most. There's one scene in the later pages (90+, I believe) where Near illustrates what's going on with LEGO figures that's ... ADORABLE. XDDDD

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

You can find scanlations here for the whole thing (if the downloads aren't working now, try again in a day or two, the site comes and goes.)

Light fascinates me, but then I have a thing for the brilliantly manipulative evil ones, especially when there's a certain unacknowledged tragedy to them. If you missed the middle then you probably missed the time you see what Light would be without the Note, and it really is, well, tragic...

I didn't care for N or M at first, but I'm becoming increasingly fond of Near - the bit with the finger puppets? heee! and then there was the motorized rubber ducky...

[kotoshin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I managed to find a chinese scanslation site I'm robbing now (and now am fully caught up with one piece too! Hurrah!)

So give me about 48 hours and I'll probably be able to talke more coherently.

Power CORRUPTS, and Light with the note = me want to stabbity stab him.

I mostly like Mello for the dynamic that he HAS with Near, where Near is (IMHO) the more fitting successor to L as he's trying to defeat Kira using L's principles, whereas for Mello, it doesn't matter if he becomes closer to Kira as long as he defeats Kira.

But, at the same time, Near also recognizes the limitations his morals/legitimate methods puts him in and admits to the results Mello has gotten by illegal/immoral means. While Mello might still be miffed at him for NOT using them, Near recognizes the fact that Mello's free to MAKE HIS OWN CHOICES AS HE SEES FIT and that he couldn't have gotten as far in secondL=Kira=Light Yagami WITHOUT Mello.

I believe Near's going to use his life as bait to draw out Kira and let Mello finish the rest, if worst comes to worst. :O

I'm mostly "Meh" at the author since he seems to be UNABLE to deal with multi-viewpoint battles of intellect a nd keeps "dropping" characters to get it back to one-on-one.

Lastly, not the fingerpuppets! The lego figures and the painting and the pop gun shooting over L-Kira and X-Kira. XDDDD That was so cute, as was the tub full of rubber duckies. (Other M&N highlights for me were: Shidou going "Chocolate is good!" and Near asking Lester to 'babysit' him since he'd never taken a long plane ride by himself. XDDD)