Apology to anyone who is reading this journal regularly (there seems to be one person who does, at least) – at the moment I’m crazily addicted to Death Note (manga, anime, movie), so you’ll see plenty of DN entries here. (Actually, I’m just crazy, period).
Death Note 25
Madhouse, realizing full well that anime is in many ways a different medium from manga, decided not to merely carbon-copy L’s death from the manga. They employ visual gags instead – flashbacks, scenes ending in silence, and blurry, seen-through-handheld-cameras images. L’s final thought (“So I wasn’t wrong…”) is erased, as if to maintain that he, too, ends his life in silence, without the chance to articulate his discovery about Kira even to himself. Watari’s death is one of the creepiest parts in the episode, what with Rem fading into the background and the music. The blackout before L falls out of his seat is another fitting visual gag.
On another note, if Mamo keeps screaming like this, they’d encourage him to be the next Seki Tomokazu.
