death note and other stuff
Feb. 19th, 2008 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
antpowerI am sick. I think I am clearly dying of fic-withdrawal. Only three days left!!! My to-read list is now absurdly long and I will need some sort of awesome superpower to ever get through it. Obviously, my life is very tragic and complex XP
Anyway, so I watched the Death Note live action movies.
Things I liked
*Misa was awesome.
*Raito and L were both hot, though not so much like I pictured them. Still, hot is good!
*Matsuda was FREAKING ADORABLE!!!
*So was Ryuk!! He was perfect, really.
*The Chief didn't die. That made me happy.
*The last bit with L, where he had the chocolate and the picture of Watari. SO SAD!!!
*I liked that it was L who outsmarted Raito, though I have other issues with the ending (see the next section for further details). I guess either way, it was really Raito's arrogance that got him in the end.
*Takuda was way less annoying than usual.
Things I didn't like so much
*There wasn't really any relationship/friendship between Raito and L, they seemed more like casual co-workers than eternal rivals. To me, Death Note is about different ways of seeing justice, and those ways are personified by Raito and L, so without their bond it seemed to be missing the heart of the story to me.
*No handcuffs!!! That's probably really a part of the previous point, but still!!! Also no tennis and no "you're my first friend" and so forth. I'm repeating myself, aren't I. I think basically this point should be 'NO BL!'
*I don't believe that Raito, no matter how crazy he got, would purposely kill his father. He didn't kill Sayu when it was logical for him to do so and it seemed a little OOC.
*I didn't like that Ryuk basically betrayed Raito in the end. In the anime when he wrote Raito's name in the Death Note, it was to save him from a life in prison, and I loved that, I loved that Ryuk cared enough about Raito to do that for him.
Overall though, I liked it.
I've also started watching Cowboy Bebop and Prince of Tennis, because I couldn't choose which to watch first. My to-watch list is nearly as long as my to-read list!!! I don't really have anything to say about either as yet. I don't have the instant OMGLOVE for them that I had for Naruto or Death Note or whatever, but I like them both.
Later, I will post memes. Right now, I need chocolate!!
Anyway, so I watched the Death Note live action movies.
Things I liked
*Misa was awesome.
*Raito and L were both hot, though not so much like I pictured them. Still, hot is good!
*Matsuda was FREAKING ADORABLE!!!
*So was Ryuk!! He was perfect, really.
*The Chief didn't die. That made me happy.
*The last bit with L, where he had the chocolate and the picture of Watari. SO SAD!!!
*I liked that it was L who outsmarted Raito, though I have other issues with the ending (see the next section for further details). I guess either way, it was really Raito's arrogance that got him in the end.
*Takuda was way less annoying than usual.
Things I didn't like so much
*There wasn't really any relationship/friendship between Raito and L, they seemed more like casual co-workers than eternal rivals. To me, Death Note is about different ways of seeing justice, and those ways are personified by Raito and L, so without their bond it seemed to be missing the heart of the story to me.
*No handcuffs!!! That's probably really a part of the previous point, but still!!! Also no tennis and no "you're my first friend" and so forth. I'm repeating myself, aren't I. I think basically this point should be 'NO BL!'
*I don't believe that Raito, no matter how crazy he got, would purposely kill his father. He didn't kill Sayu when it was logical for him to do so and it seemed a little OOC.
*I didn't like that Ryuk basically betrayed Raito in the end. In the anime when he wrote Raito's name in the Death Note, it was to save him from a life in prison, and I loved that, I loved that Ryuk cared enough about Raito to do that for him.
Overall though, I liked it.
I've also started watching Cowboy Bebop and Prince of Tennis, because I couldn't choose which to watch first. My to-watch list is nearly as long as my to-read list!!! I don't really have anything to say about either as yet. I don't have the instant OMGLOVE for them that I had for Naruto or Death Note or whatever, but I like them both.
Later, I will post memes. Right now, I need chocolate!!
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Date: 2008-02-19 04:33 am (UTC)AND YOU MUST SO WATCH BATTLE ROYALE NOW. Though his character there is like, Raito's polar opposite so half the time I was watching Death Note I was all, "OMG SHUYA WHAT ARE YOU DOI- oh, wait. Nevermind"
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Date: 2008-02-19 04:46 am (UTC)I AM DOWNLOADING IT RIGHT NOW, YAY!!!
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Date: 2008-02-20 08:34 am (UTC)Guess who I got. ;___;
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Date: 2008-02-20 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-20 11:01 pm (UTC)Wtf, Kabuto? You totally aren't Kabuto at all!!
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Date: 2008-02-21 03:07 am (UTC)I know, right, I'm nothing like Kabuto!!! It's kind of offensive for me!! I retook it and got Kisame, which is much better.
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Date: 2008-02-21 03:12 am (UTC)...somehow I've always gotten ENTP when I do this test. I am going to try it again.
I bet Kabuto secretly looks for all of Orochimaru's chewed chewing gum and stuff like that and keeps them in little Ziploc bags. :|
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Date: 2008-02-21 03:55 am (UTC)OMG KABUTO TOTALLY DOES THAT!!! HE'S SUCH A FREAKY OROCHIMARU FANBOY!!
I am so not Kabuto. I reject this idea completely!!
ROFL, YOU'RE LIKE AN OROCHIMARU-SASUKE HYBRID!! YOU'RE OROCHISUKE!!!
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Date: 2008-02-21 04:01 am (UTC)Kabuto is kind of hot but creepy. God, can't he have chosen a better person to fanboy?
Don't worry, you are nothing like him at all!!!
OH MAN MAYBE I AM SASUKE AFTER HE PWNED OROCHIMARU. SCAAARY. *checks tongue in mirror*
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Date: 2008-02-21 04:18 am (UTC)I think there must be something wrong inside Kabuto's brain, because he clearly doesn't get that Orochimaru is A CREEPY FREAK-MAN! Or maybe he does and he likes it. EITHER WAY!
IS YOUR TONGUE NORMAL OMG??? YOU HAVEN'T STARTED COUGHING UP HEAPS OF SNAKES AND SWORDS AND THINGS HAVE YOU????
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Date: 2008-02-21 04:24 am (UTC)I THINK KABUTO LIKES OROCHIMARU BECAUSE HE IS A CREEPY FREAK MAN. EW SCARY.
IT LOOKS NORMAL THANK GOD BUT I THINK I AM HEARING THIS WEIRD HISSING SOUND OMG WHERE IS IT COMING FROM?!??!
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Date: 2008-02-21 04:42 am (UTC)OMG HOPEFULLY IT'S JUST A GAS LEAK AND NOT THE ARMY OF SNAKES LIVING IN YOUR BELLY!!!! YOU AREN'T WEARING A GAY PURPLE BOW, ARE YOU???
Just randomly, I am very tempted by this, only Itachi is taken. Orochimaru isn't though!!!
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Date: 2008-02-21 04:46 am (UTC)HOMG SOMEBODY THOUGHT OF THIS? AMAZING STUFF, first the cupcakes and now the fashion! Cracky minds think alike!!
LOL GO ON, TAKE OROCHIMARU. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. I suppose Sasuke is taken too?
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Date: 2008-02-21 04:55 am (UTC)Yeah, Sasuke is taken, but Neji is free! I kind of do want to be Oro, but I kind of spend enough time faffing off as it is XP Plus, it looks more serious and less cracky than I expected. I shall think it through carefully!!!
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Date: 2008-02-20 03:16 am (UTC)Two more days until I can read fic!!
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Date: 2008-02-19 06:25 am (UTC)And both your posts and AMV Hell 4 have made me want to watch the Death Note anime something fierce, aghk.
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Date: 2008-02-20 03:24 am (UTC)You should watch Death Note!! It's awesome!
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Date: 2008-02-19 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-02-21 02:59 am (UTC)I don't know, it was like random things were changed for no reason at all.
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Date: 2008-02-19 08:39 am (UTC)I was mostly pissed at L and Raito's relationship being so platonic.
~no tennis~ that was just sad :l
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Date: 2008-02-20 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-19 10:26 am (UTC)I didn't like that Ryuk basically betrayed Raito in the end. In the anime when he wrote Raito's name in the Death Note, it was to save him from a life in prison, and I loved that, I loved that Ryuk cared enough about Raito to do that for him.
Uh, you might want to prepare for a(n unpleasant for you) surprise if you read the manga. :/ The reason I don't like the anime ending is, among other things, the fact that they changed Ryuk's characterization. And that's about all I can say without throwing different sized spoilers around.
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Date: 2008-02-20 03:33 am (UTC)I'm thinking when I read the manga I might stop after... I think it's volume 7? It's too sad otherwise!
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Date: 2008-02-20 12:16 pm (UTC)It's a lot better than the anime: more plotting and more characterization for the supporting characers. I noticed that they left out several rather important plot-points and twists in the anime.
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Date: 2008-02-20 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-19 10:15 pm (UTC)... I feel like I should watch Death Note again. I sort of dropped it after the halfway point and L, and never actually finished it. Hmm.
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Date: 2008-02-20 05:27 am (UTC)Yeah, it's totally not as good after episode 25. Though I did live in hope of him popping up from somewhere all like 'SURPRISE, NOT REALLY DEAD!' right until the end XP
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Date: 2008-02-20 08:14 pm (UTC)I didn't know the anime ended like that though, it sounds quite different from the manga ending. I need to go watch the anime now too see what is different.
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Date: 2008-02-21 03:00 am (UTC)Yeah, from what I've heard I think the manga ending is quite different. I must read it!!!
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