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The Death Note Club

Dewgong said:
No, he really had green hair. The fans made his hair red, because the manga was released before the anime and there were no color pictures. Matt is very minor, but I'm pretty sure that's what made his popularity.
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I've seen art of him. His hair was brown/red. However, I've lost it :( I once used it when requesting a Matt/Flygon sprite, since they are similar. It might've been fake, but it looked very very like the production art they use.
 
It wasn't /fake/, it was someone else's art. The fans draw him with red hair, because of how I already explained it. HE HAS GREEN HAIR, BELIEVE ME.

Lots of people draw like production art btw, I've seen some very talented people.
 
Yep very talented people indeed :O I still think it's more of a yellowy brunette, but I guess Matt just likes looking odd. xD
 
...Don't bring yellow in the discussion. That's just dumb.

So am I aloud to start Misa hatin' whenever I want in here

I mean we don't have any Misa lovers right
 
Misa starts out annoying as fuck, then she becomes somewhat tolerable bordering on likeable, then she becomes slightly annoying again, and then she becomes unimportant. :(
 
She was annoying all the way through.

(Also, good, Dannichu, because you'll have to put with me screaming everytime I hear the word 'Misa'.)
 
I was annoyed by Misa the moment they revealed who the second Kira was :) She really only did one thing useful in the series and then she became utterly useless.
 
Haha, that Bet on It vid was hilarious X3 Death Note/HSM is the best crossover ever.

I read somewhere (although I'm almost certain the rumours are false) that they're planning to make a western Death Note movie, and that they're considering casting Zac Efron as Light. The idea makes me laugh, but I know there's at least one facebook group protesting it X3

I hated Misa because she was weak, needy, stupid and obsessive. Her only vaguely redeeming feature is that she has some seriously cool clothes.
 
Okay, I can watch that vid now. Lol wow xD

Oh, they are planning a western Death Note movie. The screenplay is being written by Vlas and Charles Parlapanides (as revealed only by Control + F'ing Death Note), but Zac Efron has not been cast. They haven't even done the screenplay yet. However, I don't know if they are good writers or not, as I don't think I've seen one of their films, so I can't really judge.

As an independent producer, Lee began importing films from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and the Philippines to be remade in the United States. Together with partner Doug Davison, Lee founded Vertigo Entertainment in 2001, where the producing pair recently produced "The Strangers" (a suspense thriller starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman and directed by Bryan Bertino), a remake of the supernatural thriller "A Tale of Two Sisters" (starring Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn and Arielle Kebbel and directed by Thomas and Charles Guard), and "Assassination of a High School President" (a noir teen comedy starring Bruce Willis and Mischa Barton, directed by Brett Simon). Vertigo is also in various stages of production and development on a multitude of projects, including "The Host" (a remake of the monster movie, which was the highest grossing film of all time in Korea), "Confessions of Pain" (a crime thriller to be written by Bill Monahan and to star Leonardo DiCaprio), "Old Boy," and a remake of the hit Japanese franchise "Death Note" (written by Vlas and Charles Parlapanides).

Taken from here. Not sure if it's true, but it just seems likely.
 
Ack! Discussion has taken place! XD

By the way, there'll be spoilers in my post, and I can't be bothered to keep using the tags, so yeah. Stay away if by any chance you haven't finished the manga or something.

I don't think there should have been a female member of the investigation team. I think it would have been more unrealistic; I really can't see that happening high-up in the Japanese police. I'm sure there are many females high up in the Japanese police, but I don't think it's too unusual for there not to be any in the investigation unit, and I really can't see it happening in a shounen manga. And considering that it's a shounen manga, I think there were enough female characters. Takada and Naomi were strong people; I didn't like Takada much at all but you can't deny she was strong, especially near the end with Mello. I didn't like Naomi much either, but she was strong too... if there hadn't been a female Shinigami main character I would have been annoyed, but we had Rem, so...

And I really liked Misa; I think if she had had more development she could be almost as interesting as Light to analyse. She wasn't that useless, we just didn't see her being useful - we know she continued killing people when Light couldn't, and she was very intelligent considering she seems like she's just a dumb blonde idol. She was a great character and the series really would have been so much less complete if there was anyone else in her place, I think. That's just my opinion though, I tend to disagree with most people's opinions on Death Note characters. =P

I really hate it when fans say Light is unintelligent. It's so ridiculous. And I also hate it when people call him evil, a sociopath, etc. Argh. If anyone's interested, I've got a link to a good analysis of why he ISN'T a sociopath, and it's really awesome (I won't go dig down the link if nobody wants it, 'cause I'm lazy XD).

Matt fans annoy me a bit. The really heavy ones anyway. There are seriously better things to focus on in the series than Matt who was a really minor character. Even Watari had a bigger role...

Dannichu, you really don't ship anyone? D:
 
Weeeeell I might have a tiny weakness for one-sided Light/Matsuda (the one-sidedness obviously coming from Matsuda) and I think I read a Misa/Sayu once, but the Big Fandom Pairings like Light/L and Matt/Mello never really appealed to me for some reason.

I think it would've been cool if Near or Mello were a girl, especially since they were supposed to be complete opposites. And everyone I know thought Mello was a girl when they first saw him anyway X3

I guess the thing that annoys me is that every single female character in Death Note is used as a means to an end by a male; Light uses and manipulates Misa, Takada, Rem, Naomi and, apparently, his slew of admiring fans (like the one he went on the bus with when he killed the busjacker), Wedy is used by L and the Detectives, Sayu is used by Mello, the woman whose name escapes me from Near's team who becomes one of Takada's bodyguards is used by Near; I realize there are tons of males who get used and manipulated, too (but not every single one of them), but it's almost always because of misguided loyalty or a desire for power; never because they're hopelessly, irrationally in love.

Mini non-DN-related rant: It really bugs me that cool foreign things have to be Americanised before people en masse can see them. A Tale of Two Sisters, for example, is an absolutely amazing film that absolutely does not need to be remade for any reason.
And it's one thing to remake something in a different language, I guess, if only because some people just have serious issues with subtitles (though you could just dub it rather than remake it), but when companies start making things like The Office (US Version) and Queer as Folk (US Version) it just really gets on my nerves. Heaven forbid people might actually learn something about a culture outside their own!

Light is fantastically interesting and not a sociopath at all; I absolutely adore this analysis because Plato is awesome and I love him:

First we have the Platonic "Gyges' Ring" scenario--in a discourse in Plato's Republic, the integrity of mortal justice is questions and sequentially deemed fundamentally flawed by sinful, finite capacity of man and their deeply ruooted sense of pride and self-righteousness. The lead character Light is the incarnation of this discourse, a once seemingly flawless character driven to obsession over the notion of becoming like a god.
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(from here)

It's deep, man.
 
Yeeeah, an Americanized-the-fuck-out-of Death Note is probably going to be pretty annoying. I think the guy who's directing the movie is the same guy who did the remake of The Grudge. It's probably going to end up being a forgettable movie that people go see expecting it to be scary and then get pissed when it isn't. :( Although I guess we'll see when it comes out.

I thought Wedy was pretty cool (the whole cat burglar "I can break into anything!" archetype is pretty awesome), but we didn't learn a whole lot about her and she was only around for a little while. :[ Same with Aiber.

Light is a very interesting character. I don't think he was psychotic or a sociopath, but rather an example of what the Death Note does to someone. Analyses of Light's psychological state are always fun. I should read the ones that are being posted. :p

I used to like Light/L a bit but now I don't care any more. I kind of like Light/Mikami that's at least one-sided. :p
 
Light is a very interesting character. I don't think he was psychotic or a sociopath, but rather an example of what the Death Note does to someone. Analyses of Light's psychological state are always fun. I should read the ones that are being posted.
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This. I think the series was pretty good at showing how absolute power corrupts absolutely, what with Light and Higuchi (Mikami was already corrupt, and Misa's just too dumb to be corrupted)

I always find it interesting to see the transformation Light undergoes through out the whole thing. I always figured he started becoming the cocky bastard he is around the time he deals with Raye Penbar. If they had kept it in, the deleted scene would have really proved who Light really was (it would also have made the ending more powerful). Maybe it's just because I've only watched the anime (and read the manga ending) and he was portrayed that way. Or maybe I'm just mixing up madness with evilness.

I thought the American version of the office was funny.
 
Death Note 'shippings scare me. o.o I mean... I dunno, it's just... not a 'shippable anime, you know? Romance just doesn't come into it at all, at least not for me.
 
...um. Yeah. Let's 'ship some random character who has little to no importance. That... makes perfect sense to me. o.o
 
Meh, I hardly do any shipping beyond porn seeing a pairing and being like "oh hey that's pretty spiffy" and maybe reading some fanfics that catch my interest; I can see the appeal in it for other people though. And where there are characters, they will be shipped, so I'm not surprised that DN has such a huge shipping fanbase despite the fact that the plot itself is srsbusiness. :V I mean, if people ship the Magic School Bus characters...

Matt/Mello definitely has eyecandy value, I'll say that.
 
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