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Honest question: why do people like the characters in Death Note despite being goofy and ridiculous?

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miela583 1 year ago

Despite might be a key word there- my answer would flat out be be "because they are goofy and ridiculous," for the whole thing overall. Please take this with a grain of salt, though- I have pretty serious issues with the pacing/padding, especially in the interminable second half, but think "wow, this is bonkers and not as smart as it repeatedly, confidently declares" to be the appeal.

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digital-devil 1 year ago

Because matsuda and L are great, and objectively the best.

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pagespages 1 year ago

@miela583 @digital-devil Both sound good, thank you. I will prepare to reevaluate Death Note in a little bit.

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pnnamerica 1 year ago

First half of the series is amazing, top 5 anime all time. Second half is the worst thing I have ever seen.

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sakana 1 year ago

Because it's an anime with a notebook that can slay people and death-gods - even though the story itself is pretty serious I think it's easy to suspend disbelief. I never had any trouble believing extreme eccentrics like L, Mello, Matsuda etc existed in this world. Most of the strangest characters are also super-geniuses and I think there's already an established trend in media conflating "super genius" with "weirdo"

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sakana 1 year ago

Extra context is that I was there as the Death Note anime was airing (feels like an age ago now) and was a teenage girl, and so were a huge swath of my fellow fans. Most of the characters having quirks A) led to them being really memeable with lots of lighthearted, fun, jokey fan content made and B) a lot of people found certain characters oddities genuinely endearing and attractive.

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sakana 1 year ago

A lot of guys around this time took up the habit of sitting like L in chairs, wearing eyeliner and eating sweets because he was so ridiculously popular with girls lol.

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sakana 1 year ago

Late addendum: I own the full manga, full anime, both of the light novels, the "how to read" extsinsic materials, played the DS game, watched every single live action adaptation and the Broadway musical (which is... so, so much better than it has any right to be, maybe the goofiness of Death Note's premise made it work as a stage musical).

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pnnamerica 1 year ago

"I'm kind of an expert."

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sakana 1 year ago

Less an expert and more a piggie eating up the content slop that is the endless reboots and adaptations, even though almost all of them are objectively bad.

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pagespages 1 year ago

[Sad Netflix sounds]

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4K!DS has the best version of One Piece. All other versions get boring fast. (Also Oda has consistency problems with the manga nowadays).

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pnnamerica 1 year ago

How. Dare. You.

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I saw you sequence MIDIs, and you have a collection of old websites. I like the colour scheme too, looking forward to seeing future updates.

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polyna 1 year ago

Hi Rhi! Thanks, never expected that anyone would like my peculiar colour scheme. I have even more MIDI files sequenced, mostly of national anthems, but I’m still building a website to put them on.

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