Official Death Note Thread

[QUOTE=]Originally posted by stickman618
the death eraser was a stupid idea and is not cannon to the main series.
and besides, Light was a great character and can't be replaced, heck, when L died the show kinda lost it's flare so i agree that they shouldn't continue this series, or restart a new continuity

and are the pages really infinite? i thought Ryuk said he either had to wait for the note to finish or for Light to finish. i was thinking, maybe it becomes blank and refills every time it changes user [/QUOTE]

I think they are. I mean, it makes sense, because a Shinigami's life span depends on how many people they kill, and no one knows how Shinigami are created (they cannot sexually reproduce, as said in one of the Death Note rules) so if there were a limited number of pages in the Death Note, then that would probably be the end of Shinigami.

[QUOTE=]Originally posted by Nemesis X
Are we gonna end up breaking our televisions if they make a series all about Misa? [/QUOTE]

I'd probably smash my television with a sledgehammer in rage if that ever happened...I hate Misa.

I hate Misa too. I only brought up the idea because I'm still wondering how they would make a new Deathnote (if there's gonna be one). If they did have a series about Misa, I would cut my TV in half with a chainsaw and burn the remains with a flamethrower.

Since everyone likes Ryuk so much, how about he gets his own series?

They wouldn't possibly be able to make a new series of Death Note. Even if Ryuk was the main character in this one.

The creators even said that it was over, so that's that.

And a series about Ryuk just wouldn't work out well.

As for more Misa-hatred, I first picked up Death Note when it first was being released in English, but I stopped reading it because of Misa. Then, I started liking it again after I heard about it becoming an anime.

didn't Misa commit suicide at the end of the manga and suggestively in the anime too??

I really haven't finished the Manga but I did watch the entire Anime and I don't recall that crazy chick ever killing herself.

Originally posted by stickman618
didn't Misa commit suicide at the end of the manga and suggestively in the anime too??

They don't say it outright, but they suggest it. Plus, with all the times she did the eye trade, she could have just died from a heart attack or something.

But yeah, she did die in the end. According to the thirteenth volume, she died a little more than a year after Light died.

So that means that the only survivor of this huge mess is Near...stupid bastard.

and the other detectives

here's a question, if someone legally changes their name, do you have to right their new name or their birth name??

Originally posted by stickman618

here's a question, if someone legally changes their name, do you have to right their new name or their birth name??

Hmmm...I'm not really sure. I assume that it's your birth name. I mean, you could have put Matt's name (Matt) in the Death Note, but unless you put his real name, he wouldn't die.

Of course, that was just an alias, and he didn't (not that I know of) legally change his name. Neither did L or Mello or Near or Watari.

So it might be the birth name, I think. I'm pretty sure, but I can be disproven.

Death Note was so intriguing, it had you at the edge of your seat with both Light and L trying to get one step ahead of each other. But, after they killed off L the show and manga became boring since Light didn't have a real challenge, and Misa was showed way too much.

A little off topic (just a little) but I got a blind-box Death Note figure, and it came with a little piece of gum.

Does anyone know how the two relate?

I finally just saw the whole anime series. I was hooked! Boy, was I shocked at that twist at the end too!

I was mad when

Spoiler:
L died

Now I've been wondering, this would be a good case for an Ace Attorney game. I've been thinking about how can Phoenix Wright or Miles Edgeworth can solve the case without getting killed.

I always think a Death Note/Case Closed crossover would be interesting too.

What would you do if you had the death note? I found some fatal flaws in Light's plans, or in the way he carried them out. One is when he decided to kill Lind L. Taylor, the impostor who was sent to broadcast in pace of L. This gave away his location. The Kanto region of Japan. Also, Maybe not quite as crucial, he showed himself to Ray Penbur as he was dying, leading L to believe that Kira was on the train. That is one of his biggest flaws, the fact that he reveals that he is Kira just before the victim dies. That was how Neer captured him. What would be your perfect plan?

Not write in the Death Note directly because it drives people mad.

Originally posted by kazewol
What would you do if you had the death note? I found some fatal flaws in Light's plans, or in the way he carried them out. One is when he decided to kill Lind L. Taylor, the impostor who was sent to broadcast in pace of L. This gave away his location. The Kanto region of Japan. Also, Maybe not quite as crucial, he showed himself to Ray Penbur as he was dying, leading L to believe that Kira was on the train. That is one of his biggest flaws, the fact that he reveals that he is Kira just before the victim dies. That was how Neer captured him. What would be your perfect plan?

I think his biggest flaw is that he was kind of evil. Killing Lind L. Taylor wasn't just a bad move, it was pretty damn villainous to kill someone just because he insulted him and said he was going to try to catch him. And ironically, if he'd just left L alone, I doubt L would have ever been much of a problem. A lot of the time, L's biggest wins were just capitalising on Light making mistakes. If Light didn't keep slipping up while trying to throw L off, he'd be unable to so accurately pinpoint Light.

That said, if I had a Death Note I'd probably try the exact same thing Light did.

Light actually only made a couple mistakes. L got so far because Light purposely let him get information (he has access to the police, his schedule resembles a students, he can control when death happens).

Lind L. Taylor was a mistake though. But given everything I think Light killing a person who dares challenge a guy with the power of a god, however innocent, is understandable. Horrible to be sure but if you had that kind of power would you really take lip from anyone?

God I love Death Note.

Yeah, and those were mistakes imo. He gave info to L in order to get closer to him so he could kill him, but as I said if he just left him alone L wouldn't really be an issue. Light just really wanted to kill him since as L said, he's a childish person who hates to lose. L calling him out and making him look dumb pushed him to it really.

Well this was pretty early in the series, its the first really bad thing Light does. Its kind of unreasonable for how early it still was for Light to get that conceited.

I'd say another mistake was him showing off for the cameras when L has him under surveillance. That was imo the thing that made L really peg him as Kira.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Yeah, and those were mistakes imo. He gave info to L in order to get closer to him so he could kill him, but as I said if he just left him alone L wouldn't really be an issue. Light just really wanted to kill him since as L said, he's a childish person who hates to lose. L calling him out and making him look dumb pushed him to it really.

Well this was pretty early in the series, its the first really bad thing Light does. Its kind of unreasonable for how early it still was for Light to get that conceited.

I'd say another mistake was him showing off for the cameras when L has him under surveillance. That was imo the thing that made L really peg him as Kira.

If they're intentional I don't think it would be proper to call them mistakes. But that doesn't matter. Light messed up in the long run lol.

By this point Light has killed hundreds. Killing people has slowly but surely become a casual thing for him. And if you read him as a sociopath from the beginning based on his actions then it makes perfect sense that he would not care.

But even if you take Light at his most idealistic based on some of the things he says(I'm here to save the weak and create a perfect world) then one could still justify it. Light is trying to stop crime and force people to think "if I do this bad thing I'll get killed" and here is L telling him, in front of the entire world no less(as far as Light knew), that he is evil and by extension wrong. I would not call it a stretch to assume that an idealistic Light would see this as fanning the flames for criminals to stand up against his actions and commit more misdeeds. From that perspective L seems like a villain because, in going against what Light sees as a perfect way of keeping justice, he is advocating crimes. Shouldn't he be punished for that? Wouldn't it be fitting that the man standing against justice be struck down for all the world to see? That would send a stronger message.

And it is framed so that Light doesn't have to think about his actions since...he didn't kill an innocent man. He killed a criminal on death role. This is no different than what he had been doing so why think on it?

Edit: The cameras thing was a bit of a tricky situation but yeah one could call that a mistake(I'm assuming you mean the whole figuring out L was lying about sending in like 1000 agents) but he only did it, I would imagine, so he could get closer to L. At the very least playing dumb or acting uninterested would seem out of character with Light's background. But that was a trickier situation that I'm not remembering as well as I could.

Light's problems were a couple fold. One, he was proud, and wanted to not just accomplish goals but *win*, opposing him alone was enough to get on his list (aside from L, remember the women investigator who found him early. He actually told her, and were it not for the mind-control powers of the DN, that could've sunk him, and personally I was incredibly surprised that she didn't leave some clue behind despite that). Two, and this sometimes helped, sometimes hurt, is he tended to go for the elaborate, sometimes needlessly complex plan rather than the simple. It makes him unpredictable, but it also puts him in more danger and leaves openings. There was normally a safer, more methodical route to doing things.

Originally posted by Q99
Two, and this sometimes helped, sometimes hurt, is he tended to go for the elaborate, sometimes needlessly complex plan rather than the simple. It makes him unpredictable, but it also puts him in more danger and leaves openings. There was normally a safer, more methodical route to doing things.

I read a book this semester that talked about naval tactics in WWII between the Japanese and American forces. The author seemed to suggest that this is a trait of the culture(whether he is right or not I can't be sure since the history of strategy is not my forte) but it did make me think of how Light's plans compared to L(who is English I believe), Near(either English or American since that is who he gets support from) and Mello(who is probably the same as Near). Not saying that was a conscious decision but I do wonder if it is part of the popular subconscious.

Light's biggest failing was his pride.