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[Liamv2]

Well i've managed to do a good job of avoiding Clannad spoilers so far or anime spoilers in general come to think of it. Perhaps it's too make up for having persona 3 and 4 spoiled for me.

[CrazyRah]

Not watched this many episodes in one day and i'm not done for the day either but i am done with Death Note and as i said will write something more detailed than the little post i did before. Quite conflicted on some things and actually not sure at all what i would give Death Note in score. Either way even though Death Note isn't the newest of new animes i'll still write everything under a spoiler tag, if anything that will let me avoid making a post that will make mouse wheels catch fire.. that would indeed be bad!

 

Spoiler

Death Note is an anime with two incredibly different sides. The first 25 episodes or so are all absolutely fan-effin-tastic and at this point Death Note was wying for top 3 position of my favorite animes just because everything was going the way i liked. I had a protagonist that i actually had opinions about that ranged from good to bad which i really don't often get to have. Too often dull protagonists have to be saved by an otherwise excellent cast. Death Note had a protagonist in Light that could carry himself. It did help to have a very solid cast at the side with characters like Misa, Watari and of course the ever so awesome L. The cat and mouse play between Light and L was absolutely a blast to watch and what they did was making their actions seem reasonable in a situation that was easily classified as unreasonably crazy and that i got to commend the writers for pulling off. A lot if not the majority of Death Note really hangs on L, he's a character that can be described as many things all ranging from an evil criminal to adorable little genius and so many other things. His quirks and way of acting was the icing on the cake for Death Note and as long as L was in the image everything else really didn't have to be at its very best since he stole the spotlight that well and this became so terribly obvious later on. Now Misa i actually do like quite a bit and it might just have something to do with her being quite the airhead. I have a tendency to like them and she did perform some rather remarkable things while being the second Kira and that she also is smarter than she's given credit for. Not that much smarter but still she most likely will win over a potato in jeoperdy and for that i will always adore Misa 

 

So far everything is just great about Death Note and i'm loving it! However the storyline between Light and L obviously can't continue forever and Light pull off an interesting scheme that end up with L dying and i'd say that the magic died with L. Death Note in the coming episodes and to the end goes from quite amazing to decent to alright and more and more mediocre. At some points i even ended up thinking that i've read fanfiction that was better and that's just not something that i would've believed after watching the first 25 episodes but that's just what happened. Near and Mello are just not even remotly interesting characters and especially Near bother me the most. There are so many scenes with him that his reasoning and deduction felt too perfect and that he reached conclusions on his own that not even L would do as easily as Near and where as L would consider other options Near went with what he thought and every single time it was the perfect deduction, so flawless and everything became dull. To make matters worse Light went from being a very intelligent character to just abysmal and made mistakes that just are so blatantly silly it made it a pain to watch at times. You'd think he would learn something from his battle with L but nope.. and in the end this leads to him being defeated in a rather boring way. Had hoped more from the last third of Death Note but it never really did do much to make me find it worthy of being part of the first 25 episodes. It was very much as i was told that once L died the anime was not the same and not nearly as good which is really a shame but now when i'm done not at all suprising.

 

Death Note got an interesting art style which grew on me over time and now when it's all over it's hard to imagine any other style. Same goes for the soundtracks. I would not say that it's amazing by any means but it do contain several great tracks that are played rather often throughout the anime and i've posted some of them in the anime music thread over the last few days. Death Note's first opening track might be my favorite but it got some competition from both L and Misa who both have rather good tracks. The cast of characters once again recive a mention because they do a great job at making the anime feel alive.

 

[CrazyRah]

Aye bro! I'll probably end up pretending that everything after episode 25 isn't as weak as it is or that it just didn't happen. Might even make up some stuff and float around in a dream world where it just worked out better.

 

Spoiler

And yes that scene when everything becomes obvious to Light that he has lost, that everything is now over for him and his grand vision was quite something to behold and it really did look like a guy that has ruled the world for 5 years had everything come crashing down on him in just a few seconds. The anguish and the fear in his screams are still ringing in my ears and that's pretty remarkable!

 

Alright moving on!

Did watch Akame Ga Kill's first episode and at first it looked decent but midway through it suddenly got VERY interesting and towards the end i was hooked so Akame will be one of the animes that i will look forward to each week. More or less done now with picking what animes to watch each week and what animes to leave until they are finished, might add one more to the mix. Will decide tomorrow if i'll add Tokyo Ghoul since i've heard enough to peak interest.

 

and moving on one more time to actually figuring out what anime that will succeed Death Note. Got ungodly many to pick from. Animes like Code Geass, Fate/Zero, Angel Beats! and many many more. Picking is haaaaard!

 

[Khayness]

Code Geass - another 'god tier' anime.

 

You've seen the spinoff stuff?

 

 

2am here, gonna go to bed.

 

What, you CET too, damn.

[CrazyRah]

Went with Code Geass and managed to watch the first two episodes. So far so good and i'm really in the mood for some mecha so this will absolutely be interesting to follow. Would watch more but i suppose when closing in on 4am that i might need to find my bed. Might be a hard task but i shall try!

[SlottsMachine]

Just got past episode 20 of Evangelion. It's definitely one of those shows that starts out alright and picks up in it's second half. There's a lot of ideas swimming in my head about what's going on, but I'm just going to watch the episodes to see what's up.

 

I guarantee you will not see that ending coming. Hahahahaha..........Hahahahaha. 

[Dominus]

@Nobody: Yeah. The pacing is a bit sluggish in the first half, but it does pick up. Anno and the team did a great job at sprinkling hints over the episodes that there's more than what you initially see in the first few episodes. The first half tends to focus more on character interactions than any major story arc beyond "blow up dem alien things". The second half is where the lore and crazy stuff kicks in.

In other news, about halfway through Death Note. It really does gets nuttier the farther you go. Light is one serious psychopath.

L is awesome.

[TheChris92]

I wonder if you watched the 'extra' episode after the ending where Tomoya summarizes all his experiences to Ushio. It does seem that he remembered everything but isn't really sure if it was real or not.

I have not, actually -- I'll try to look for it. I feel like there's more to talk about in regards to the ending so I'll do that later today.

[TheChris92]

Went with Code Geass and managed to watch the first two episodes. So far so good and i'm really in the mood for some mecha so this will absolutely be interesting to follow. Would watch more but i suppose when closing in on 4am that i might need to find my bed. Might be a hard task but i shall try!

You should totally watch the dub -- Because Adachi-Yu is Lelouch and its got Laura Bailey & Troy Baker and pretty much all of the cool-gang English voice actors in it.

[Liamv2]

I've had that problem with kissanime before when watching the persona 3 movie. A good way to fix it is to download the video from kiss anime using this site.

www.tubeoffline.com/download-KissAnime-videos.php

 

It fixed the problem for me.

[Seraphim24]

I see a lot of Death Note convo. <Some spoilers> I would just throw in my random opinion also in that I found Death Note to generally be much more compelling in first 1/3 with the taut battle between Light and L, but after that cool FBI agent girl died I lost a ton of interest (episode 8).  I didn't really enjoy the Misa and Light interrogation mini-arc thing from like eps. 16-23 or so very much either. I basically enjoyed the series less and less as it progressed, with the exception of 24-25 which were very suspenseful and intense. By 36, it felt like an insanely uneven experience on the whole; and I've never re-watched the series past episode 15 or so more than once or twice or episode 8 more than a handful of times.

 

Anyway, definitely agree on Code Geass though, probably one of my favorite anime ever, it has a killer beginning and ending.

[Dominus]

His initial quest for justice had been decaying fairly long before that, in my opinion. It was probably the maniacal laughter that did it for me. Misa is a bit of an anomaly in the roster. Through the all-too-serious dialogue for everyone else, you get the overly attached kira. Almost reminds me of Harlequin o.O Haven't gotten far beyond episode 17, so can't really voice much on that.
 

[Liamv2]

So I watched the first episode of Aldnoah.Zero.

Spoiler

 

Best anime of 2014 potential right here.

[Seraphim24]

His initial quest for justice had been decaying fairly long before that, in my opinion. It was probably the maniacal laughter that did it for me. Misa is a bit of an anomaly in the roster. Through the all-too-serious dialogue for everyone else, you get the overly attached kira. Almost reminds me of Harlequin o.O Haven't gotten far beyond episode 17, so can't really voice much on that.
 

 

Eh yeah.. you know I was actually editing as I was thinking about it, it's definitely true they could of done more to round Light out to make him more sympathetic probably even close to the beginning.

 

Oh and Aldnoah.Zero, I definitely have my eye on that one since it has Urobuchi and Madoka was so cool to me. I think I might try and do the whole, wait until it's.done and watch all at once though. 

 

Also isn't it interesting that Hiroyuki Sawano has done the music for like so many majorly popular anime now? Attack on Titan, Kill la kill, Guilty Crown, and potentially this one also. 

[CrazyRah]

So I watched the first episode of Aldnoah.Zero.

Spoiler

 

Best anime of 2014 potential right here.

 

We told you!