Heres your guide to death notes crazy ending decider. It began as a manga series, and since then, there have been several adaptations, notably the anime series from 20062007, the liveaction japanese film series beginning in 2006, a television drama in 2015, a musical first performed in 2015, and a liveaction. However, if the headlines weve been seeing about the first movie are any indication, this may be the end of wingards liveaction adaption. He then decides to use the notebook to kill criminals. They just added a part to the final battle, but the ending there remained the same. Plus looking at what choice i believe l makes in the finale. Desu noto is a japanese manga series written by tsugumi ohba and illustrated by takeshi obata. On february 20th 20, a fifteen year old girl leapt from the th floor of an apartment building in yekaterinburg, russia. The final act of death note starts at a school dance that mia and light are attending. So, i just watched the end of death note and i cant help but be extremely displeased by the ending. If you thought the world of death note was done, then think again. The concept of death note, the manga and at least start of the film, is simple. Light escaping the warehouse and seeing what his life once was and still could be if he never got the death note was powerful.
Spoiler alert well there are two endings one of manga and other is of anime. Everyones attention is completely towards light, who is making unsuccessful attempts of proving his innocence. Death note already had not one, but two liveaction japanese movies, as well as a more recent liveaction tv series. Manga ending was superior death note discussion moviechat.
Aside from a completely tampered with ending, death note 2. Why death note is guilty of whitewashing indiewire. In short, the ending of the movie is up to usand were right either way. It features the new opening and closing themes by maximum the hormone in the tv size format. Maximum the ryo eternally depressed on this one page a fleeting strategy in those eyes without even an appeal, evil becomes law and will connect to prison. Im going to assume your not talking about the movie i never read the manga. From the director of blair witch, a new vision of the hit manga by tsugumi ohba and takeshi obata. In the summer of 2001, i was eagerly awaiting a film.
At the end, light quotes his father, saying sometimes the only options are all evil. Directed by benny and josh safdie, the film follows ratner adam sandler, a charismatic and eccentric jeweler in the big apples diamond. If you havent seen the film and wish to remain spoilerfree, please turn back now. This movie musings article is going off the assumption that the reader, has seen the film a.
Heres how light yagami wields the death note in death note. Death note 2nd ending theme zetsubou billy words of. We get gevannis sleight of hand with death notes performed like a stage magicians prestige. Since the rest of the anime follows the manga fairly closely it doesnt make sense to have changed the ending in the anime to a much inferior ending. Death notemost pathetic death scene since boba fett. Ff7 remakes ending explained and what itll mean for part. This portion of the ending discussion contains spoilers for the original ff7 story, which are beats that could appear in later final fantasy 7 remake installments.
The boy admits he orchestrated the amusement park ordeal to save. The last name embraces its title and surpasses the original film in many ways, even if it strays further away from its source material. The uncut gems ending comes almost as a sigh of relief, relinquishing the audience from two hours of unnerving and unrestrained stress courtesy of its main character, howard ratner. At the beginning of the special, ryuk is talking to another shinigami. If wingard is following the typical death note story arc which he largely seems to be the 2017 death note ends about halfway through the light and l. The series was directed by tetsuro araki and animated by madhouse. I personally liked the ending, though a lot of people dont. The fanfavorite series might have closed its cover some years ago under creator takeshi obata, but death note has more to.
At the films end, fans learn from light that his coma wasnt what it seemed. But if you havent heard about any of these other adaptions and were thinking of checking them out, you. Now, before we can understand the ending, one needs to knowwhat is death note. Thats when the blame games really kick off, and a year ago this week, it was death note in the frame. An ending like death notes would have been illserved by haste or frugality. An ending flashback reveals the truth there is no heaven or hell, just cessation of existence the relight special of the anime makes this more ambiguous. This article contains major spoilers for uncut gems.
The ending started out strong with a watered down heres how i escaped bit like oceans 11, but then just sorta ended. In the anime, he merely wanders off and may have been eventually killed by ryuk from a distance. Spoiler alert well there are two endings one of manga and other is of anime anime in the anime, yagami light, near, matsuda and all the squad are in a sort of warehouse. A young man comes to possess a supernatural notebook, the death note, that grants him the power to kill any person simply by writing down their name on the pages. Death note, desu noto is a shounen series created by writer tsugumi ohba and illustrator takeshi obata in 2003. The liveaction adaptation of death note has finally arrived, but for fans of the anime that may surprise with how many changes were made. Warning if you dont want any movies that you like to be ruined, then please dont read this. Peronsally, i thought it was funny how, even though light thought he was no criminal and that he was a god, in the end he acts just like any other normal criminal.
A boy named light turner finds a book dropped to earth by a shinigami, a japanese death demon somewhat akin to the grim reaper, named ryuk, voiced in the film by willem dafoe. But when its suicide, then the tragedy, anger and guilt go into overdrive. The anime series is comprised of 37 episodes of about 20 minutes each. The mock execution is a secret test of character barred from the afterlife this is stated to be the fate of any death note user. Also during the yotsuba arc when light has lost his kira memories and the knowledge that l is his enemy, youd still think hed be a bit upset with l for confining him for 50 days and making his father carry out a mock execution, yet when l ends their. The film stars nat wolff, lakeith stanfield, margaret qualley, shea whigham, paul nakauchi, jason liles and willem dafoe, and follows. Later light has to remind himself that l is not his friend. Death note, desu noto is an animated television series adaptation of the 2003 manga series death note.
Light yagami and hideki ryuuga appear to be friends but l is kiras enemy. In an attempt to figure out ls real identity he assumes control of watari via the death note and. If you are wondering what happened in the end, how kira gets naomi to kill shiori. But light did it with the help of an idiot shinigami and because l didnt use the notebook himself, which he could have since he knew the names of everyone there so if he could write fast enough or get into another place with the notebook, he would have won. Death notes ending explained through matsudas theory as. Adapting death note into a featurelength american movie was always a colossally bad idea tsugumi ohbas manga ran 108 chapters, and theres a good reason why the only decent riff on. And his final moment of death beautifully animated. Light turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class. When light tries to get the piece of paper of his death note from the watch. The lyrics in the booklet say kila instead of kira.
The dark knight rises 2012 meanwhile, the ending to nolans dark knight trilogy isnt as vague as inception. Instead ryuk writes lights name in the death note, resulting in lights death. I am joined by a very special guest, kihokai1994, where. Death note original soundtrack ii was first released in japan on march 21, 2007. Theres always been something a little off about events in the yellow box warehouse, wherein was staged death notes climactic scenes. Something about the ending i still just didnt quite. Followers of the manga or anime are probably already aware, but the american adaption of death note wont actually be the first liveaction treatment the story has received.
The story then cuts ahead a few years, and theres an epilogue. Director adam wingard breaks down the dizzying finale of his netflix anime adaptation death note. Death note leaves plenty of doors open for another movie or three. It should have ended with lights dad picking up the death note from the hospital bed, writing down ls true name which he learned from that fbi debriefing just below where his name is written, and then collapse from a heart attack. If youve heard of netflixs new movie death note, you probably have some questions. Discussion in anime discussion started by animefan217, nov 20, 2019. This is a forum dedicated to death note and a place where everything about this great series can be discussed. In this video, i bring about this question and discuss it with you guys. After some long speculation, a sequel to netflixs death note liveaction movie has been confirmed instead of a big, official, announcement, the confirmation of death note 2. The tracks 121 were composed and arranged by taniuchi, while the tracks 2228 were composed. The third cd, death note original soundtrack iiiwas released on june 27, 2007. Read the topic about did you like the ending of death note. Staying true to his goal, the action in death notes finale begins at a high school dance, much like in his 2014 thriller the guest. In both the anime and manga light doesnt seem to care about anyone who wont help him progress in becoming the god of the new.
Why death note is guilty of whitewashing, and what we can do to prevent more movies like it. I just finished death note, and i looked up a lot of people who watched it, and a lot of people didnt like the ending. The story follows light yagami, a teen genius who stumbles across a mysterious otherworldly notebook. How different are the anime and manga versions of death note. The true hero of death note discussiontheory youtube.
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