Death Note One-Shot (2020): Taking It Too Far…?

• Posted by jennifer calderon May 11, 2022 Filed in Entertainment #Death Note  218 views
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  The fact is that Death Note has always been pretty global, but it has never had an existing political figure...until now.

   

  
  For the most part, Scott's post in this one-shot (and the things I left out of my comment) are what inspired me to write this post, so drop by if you want a second opinion.

   

  I guess before I get into the meat of this post, I should explain my own history with the series (because I don't think I remember it all, so it's better to put it into words). It seems like it would fit right in with all the other mysteries I profess to like, but as with most series from that era, I was pretty late and just cut it by sitting in a library after lunch, though I don't. I think I tried to finish it in other libraries first and used this library to fill in the gaps. Visit here more about this or a similar article.

   

  The anime I first met through a cousin who made it torrent and then gave the computer to my family without wiping the data so when it was time to explore what was in it I found an episode of Death Note , opening memes and all. (I've since bought a disc of the first few episodes from the charity shop, so I'm trying to fix that.)

   

  The thing that comes to mind most about Death Note, aside from the oft-praised cat and mouse chase, is the fact that part of the series was novels. Normally novels don't make it to English unless the series is huge (see also: Boku no Hero Academia School Briefs), so getting access to the Los Angeles BB Murder Case light novel was, as far as I can remember, my induction. . to the light novels without explicitly knowing it as such. (Also, I won't forget there's the Akazukin Chacha scene in that novel, which is so disjointed in the book's outline that it gets weird.)

   

  Well, with all of that out of the way, this one-shot is a valiant effort to bring Death Note into 2020 and into the real world (admit it, it's probably worth it simply because Trump and not Abe show up, plus I don't think diets apples existed 10 years ago), but at the cost of not really understanding Minoru and seeing him develop as a character like Light did. In a series packed to the brim with plotlines like Death Note, there's a lot that can be done in 87 pages and something has to suffer, so I understand why there's no development. The page limitations also mean that Minoru comes to an end and then all of a sudden the whole one-shot stops, which is a huge whiplash.