Sorry, Mr Potter, but I just have to watch this musical as soon as possible, because I was suffering so much to watch it. I’ve finally watched “Death Note: The Musical”. Well, I’m not sure if it was worth watching thirty-seven episodes of “Death Note”, but since I did watch them it was easier for me to watch the musical because there’s an album in English but all productions are either Korean, or Japanese, so I had to watch it with subs and understanding what’s happening (thanks to anime) helped me a lot. Of course, I enjoyed it much more than the original. I did hear some familiar Wildhorn’s tune motives even through a very foreign language. I also enjoyed Ryuk – there was more of him than in the original and he was a little cooler (and more humorous) here. L is the best part of this show – his songs are great (probably only “Only Human” is better than “The Way It Ends” and “Stalemate”) and he looks pretty (sorry). He also tells the truth: Kira is a crazy psychopathic murderer – thank you L. The plot is differentiated from the anime (of course, you just can’t fit all that trash happening in those series for thirty-seven episodes with so many characters in two and a half-hour musical). Though, it’s pretty close to the first half of the original – the beginning, the start of the investigation, Misa’s story. The ending, on the other hand, is much shorter and happens much faster than it used to. (Spoilers!) The only person who dies is L, also because of Rem, but then he meets with Light in a warehouse (as with Near at the end) and L follows everything written in the Notebook – shoots Light in the leg and then shoots himself, saying that he predicted it. Then, Ryuk says that Light is no fun anymore and kills him. What, on the one hand, feels a little rushed, on the other hand, is anyway better than what happened in the original. And now a cherry on the cake – there’s a half-legal (I don’t know, maybe just illegal, there’s nothing about it on the “Death Note: The Musical” Wikipedia page) Russian production of that musical and do you know who’s Ryuk? Drumroll… Kirill Gordeev. You can find a bootleg of a concert performance on YouTube (here’s the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZgMMOINy4 ) and some stuff with the costumes too (here’s “Kira” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdkiCGCmB4 and “Only Human” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pJhrDQBF0 ). Well, enough “Death Note” in my life, it’s time to get back to some anime I can enjoy.
i wont have time to do all the prompts this year but i really cant pass any opportunity to at least doodle mr beyond birthday (ft L himself, as a treat)
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Okay because evidently this is becoming a thing again
In regards to Death-Note and who I side with: I side with Team Wammy (L, Near, Mello and Matt), because L and Near were doing what they were doing legally and while Mello and Matt weren’t exactly being completely legal about it they were doing the right thing. My main disagreements with Team Kira are as follows:
1) They were not checking who was actually found guilty of their crimes and who was not (or who was guilty and was just let go due to political shenanigans)
2) They were not checking the crimes, sentences or case files of those found guilty before writing their names in the death note
3) They killed F.B.I agents who were just doing their jobs and were otherwise innocent along with the worlds greatest detective L who was also just doing his job and was otherwise innocent. Along with killing two of L’s successors (Mello and Matt) and nearly killing the third (Near).
4) They did not go through the process of getting permission to do what they were doing legally. As well as committing an assortment of other crimes along with murder (arson being one of them).
5) likely did not check what was legal and illegal in the other countries that had people they killed and based it off of japanese law.
Now I will admit Team Kira did have an okay idea and initially started with okay intentions, However that completely went down the drain not long after it started and they started going about what they were doing the completely wrong way and got lazy.
