Uncut Death Note 35
Added 2025-03-17 15:36:10 +0000 UTCComments
As AoT, the devil is in the details ahaha 🍫 I'm pretty sure Mello does not in fact eat the chocolate this episode, which is a hint to his mental state and foreshadows his death. He picks it up and goes to have some, but decides to just put it down instead, because he's depressed about the knowledge that he's going to die soon without having beaten Near. In this way he's very similar to L in his last days. 🕵🏼♀️ The anime didn’t really explain this, but the manga reveals that Agent Lidner, the blonde woman working with Near, was acting as a kind of double agent. She leaked information to Mello from Near’s investigation. I believe, in her mind, she just wanted Kira caught. Whether it was Near or Mello doing it didn’t matter to her so she helped both sides. Given that information, it makes sense that she would go along with Mello’s plan. I believe Near was also aware of her actions but also didn’t care. He was never opposed to working with Mello. 👩🏻 I felt so bad for Takada when it dawned on her that Light, in the moment of her captivity, cared more about her executing his plans than her safety. I believe she realizes, when she sobbed and distress is heard in her voice, that she’s insignificant to Light. Her death is particularly tragic to me because she genuinely cared for him - differently from Misa who used the death note willingly, whereas Takada unknowingly did Light’s biddings without knowing it cost her eternal life. Light screwed with her in more ways than one, and he smiled when the building burned - brilliantly vicious! 📖😈
Mickael Landry
2025-03-18 12:52:05 +0000 UTCThis may be copium, but my take on Light getting sloppy near the end can be analogous to the statistics of people dying while skydiving. The vast majority of deaths while skydiving are from veterans, and it’s almost always a small, easily preventable mistake they just overlooked one time. Doing something that dangerous for that long, you eventually lose the fear of it that keeps a person sharp. I see Light in that situation, since it’s been 5 years now, and L’s been dead too so he hasn’t really had any challenges. So he’s gotten cocky, and used to just always winning. Can definitely still complain Light was nerfed a bit near the end, but I can copium up a decent in-universe answer as to why haha.
Kevin
2025-03-18 05:09:37 +0000 UTCThis episode really goes a long way to show how Light does not actually care about anybody. That was the death he gave to his Goddess of the new world.
Midnight_Kitty
2025-03-18 02:11:45 +0000 UTCYes, i was going to delete the comment hahah
ML Snow
2025-03-17 22:59:34 +0000 UTCI think as well that when you're faced with having to wrap the show up in such a short space of time you can't properly depict his downfall because you need a lot more space to see that process in play than 12 episodes! It's why it's so jarring and out of character because we've not seen the progression to that point :')
Sophie Anders
2025-03-17 18:04:48 +0000 UTCThe little rules they give in the middle of an episode also happen in the manga but because there are 108 chapters there are quite a few more than in the anime. I believe one of the ones that didn’t make it over was that a sketch is not enough to count as knowing a person’s face because no matter how detailed it is, it isn’t enough to be able to have a truly accurate picture of that person in your mind. Regarding some of the criticisms you’ve had about the series post time skip (and some you made in the first half as well), I would encourage you to check out the original two-part Japanese live action Death Note adaptation, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name. There were quite a few changes made to fit the story into two movies, and while I haven’t seen them in something like 15 years, I remember those changes being almost universally good, and two changes in particular that I won’t mention I will defend to my dying breath as flat out better than the original. I believe you would view some specific critiques you’ve made of this show as being addressed or solved in the adaptation. Hopefully I haven’t already made this comment before, lol
Mike Carpenter
2025-03-17 17:56:32 +0000 UTCI'm just remembering a few episodes ago when Takada announced on the National News "we should assume any human alive is now a viable target"
Dagmar Makara
2025-03-17 17:50:22 +0000 UTCI was joking
Sophie Anders
2025-03-17 17:38:57 +0000 UTCTotally agree on the power dynamic. It feels to me like it's "peace through fear & totalitarianism", if you can even call this fragile societal structure as peaceful
Dagmar Makara
2025-03-17 17:23:20 +0000 UTC"Maybe he does really like Misa" well.. I don't think that
ML Snow
2025-03-17 17:14:41 +0000 UTCTo add onto this, it really feels like the author had to rush Kira's loss, which don't get me wrong, Kira should lose, just he ran into the common problem when writting genius characters like Light. He made Light TOO smart, making any loss due to his stupidity, no matter how minor, seem unfaithful to the character.
ProudWararar
2025-03-17 16:45:17 +0000 UTCI got to agree, I don't really like the second half of the show, and for me it ended when L died, mostly because so many characters act completly out of character. i.e. Light, Misa
ProudWararar
2025-03-17 16:28:26 +0000 UTC
