Death Note Forum

 "I'll make you the goddess of the new world." Hmmm... I should try that line some time.

Misa’s mind is wiped again? I’d make a joke about nobody noticing the difference, but nah… that’d be too easy. Mello’s speaking for the audience when he says he can’t believe the second Kira could be this stupid girl. Then again, she agrees with me about Aizawa’s ‘fro, so she can’t be totally dumb. I might pity her now that Light’s cheating with this Takada chick… but she’s so hopeless, she’s really beyond pity.  As with Light’s breakdown at his Dad’s deathbed, I can’t say whether he genuinely misses Takada or if it’s just another ploy. Given his track record, I’ll say it’s most likely the latter.

 So THIS is who the guy in the new opener is.

There’s a fourth Kira, now? Sheesh.  Anybody who think this isn’t a horror story needs to think twice, because the notion of some twitchy freak like Mikami suddenly getting kill anybody he thinks is lazy is terrifying. The guy even killed his own mother for telling him to mellow out!  His appearance also makes me wonder if it’s ever going to be possible to stop Kira. Even if they stop Light, the death note will just keep falling into somebody’s else’s hands and they can’t even destroy the thing (that’s one of the rules, right?) This could go on forever.

Near’s escape was pretty clever. Maybe I should comment about this commentary on human nature, with this rabble getting so swayed by money, but I just find it amusing that they could have just easily been placated by funny money. I find it doubly amusing how Light’s dilemma with L was having a face but not a name, while his dilemma with Near is having his name but not his face. That's ironic inversion for you! And I’m triply amused by the black comedy inherent in how every new host of Kira’s Kingdom gets gacked just as soon as he steps up on TV. Makes me wonder if Japan has its own equivalent of televangelists.
 
Anyway, watch these episodes, "Transfer" and "Selection" on Hulu, here and here, and read my comments on the previous episodes here.

-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABL for Arcana Studios and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. HYBRID BASTARDS! is available  here and UNIMAGINABLE is available here for pre-order on Amazon.com.  

" @sickVisionz:  I agree. Even the female agent that worked for Near was infatuated with Mello a little more than normal. She was okay as a female character though.  It was hard for me to believe Light was really broken over his father's death. He was much more concerned with getting Mello's name than his father, and Light has lost any semblance of a compassionate character.  The scene with the money was funny to me. I shows just how weak people are and that a lot of people are just followers looking for something to excite them. The money easily washed away the demands of Kira to take down Near's group.  I was also disappointed at the appearance of Mikami's character. Once again, I felt that I would do the same thing in being a prosecutor, and if given a Death Note I would probably want to write some bad people's names (at least from my perspective) in the book. Mikami was quickly realized to be just as flawed, if not more flawed than Light though.   I dunno if Ohba was just trying to make it convenient to the plot, but the only characters that did not act negatively with the Death Note were the police force. Everyone else that touched it (Light, Misa, Mikami, Higuchi) killed for negative reasons. I would have loved to see a character who had good intentions come into the series and fight against Kira with a Death Note. Although, that probably would have stretched the series far too thin considering everything else that was going on. "

" @Tom_Pinchuk:  well yes, but their are times when I want to do just that *shrug* but then I'm pretty much a tea party member so I'm probably way more conservative than most of the people here.  Yes light has a god complex pretty early but even with a god complex his intentions were to prevent crime and do remember that we find out crime IS down under his rule.  End justify the means??  Maybe.. "

" @zaldar said:

" @Tom_Pinchuk:  well yes, but their are times when I want to do just that *shrug* but then I'm pretty much a tea party member so I'm probably way more conservative than most of the people here.  Yes light has a god complex pretty early but even with a god complex his intentions were to prevent crime and do remember that we find out crime IS down under his rule.  End justify the means??  Maybe.. "

The ends didn't justify the death of poor Naomi Whatshername. "