DEATH NOTE -RANT REVIEW 

I mean is anyone shocked you hated it. You are the same person who disliked Berserk and dropped it after ONE volume. Definitely not a man of culture.

I think death note has a great ending.

Is this why western comics and cartoons have no story and virtually no endings? They just reboot stuff when it becomes stale and the cycle continues? It's rather subjective whether the ending of something is "bad" or not.

i like how every1 used to hale Death Note as some masterpiece when it came out but years later it obviously didn't age well and people now realize the many issues it had and that it is overall not a very good story.

next Kingdom (manga) not K-drama.

That got an actual laugh out of me.

@@DanielGreeneReviews Dan check the manga, it has a different ending, and 3 is too low man, if you rated every aspect if it alone it will get higher in total, as in some aspects its way high

@@aymanayssa9085 Different ending? No it doesn't.

@@aymanayssa9085 It's strange of you to say that his opinion of a 3 is too low. Lol It's his opinion.

@@TheAsianDude888 Sounds like it’s his opinion that Daniel’s opinion is wrong. Seems pretty okay to me.

I don't think the death note had any power of that sort. I think the show is sending a message about human nature: that power corrupts people. The note didn't corrupt Light through some ability, it corrupted him by simply giving him power. I mean, who wouldn't try the Death Note if they had the chance?

@@madnessoverload7824 agreed

When I was watching I thought that the plot would go in a direction where Light basically had to uncover that he used to be Kira and when he did regain his memories he would've had this internal conflict about it since he just spent so much time fighting against himself. I feel like something like that would've been way cooler than what actually happened tbh

Bakuman is such an amazing manga and definitely needs more recognition

Bakuman is in my top 5 stories of all time. They deserve to have that one outlast Death Note.

Well they wanted to end it at L's death, Danies clearly has issues with it far before that moment, so I don't think this is fully it honestly, at leasdt for him, for the general fanbase, yeah, L's death is where the actual drop off is considered.

@@darekpower When L died there was threads still hanging though which is part of why it is so surprising when it happens. I think for it to end there more would of had to of originally been different in the lead up to that moment. If that makes sense.

Wait hold up. BAKUMAN is by the creator of death note????

Personally, I think Near & Mello are actually much more likeable than given credit for (Matt too!) - it's just that a lot of people kind of just automatically get biased against them because they're not L; and I think a lot of the people who were into Death Note were not exactly fans of the whole "kill your darlings" / "main character death" type approach, back then...and the fandom was almost even split, some faved L while others faved Light(except for those who liked both, or neither). _But maybe that's just me.. ._

@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 L and M grew on me in later rereads once I developed a better understanding of their personalities. I like that despite being younger and calmer, N is arguably more of a sociopath than M. Both characters' actions lead to collateral damage, but M's mostly limits his to hardened criminals, he puts himself in the line of fire, and actually seems to give a damn about people. N, on the other hand, sees people almost exclusively as game pieces. I did like N more in the follow up one shot

@@PainCausingSamurai ^^ Fair. / True. Lol

I love Monster and Claymore, I second this!

Also add Madoka Magica to that list. It's not too long.

Steins;Gate is a classic

Hunter X Hunter: great overall but the magic system what really puts it over the top. Dorohedoro:the show is good but incomplete, the manga is a grimdark urban fantasy with a distinctive art style and it's finished.

I'd add Moribito. I think he'd really like the world building, and the fact that everyone actually acts like rational adults.

I second this one. I loved monster. It’s also one of the only anime I think could have an absolute BANGER of a live action show.

@@tristanb7183 I agree! It's so grounded in reality that it's one of the rare anime/manga series that could very easily translate well into live action. I'm honestly surprised that it hasn't yet!

Hell yeah, it's also probably one of the best anime for people who arent a fan of the usual anime tropes.

@@tristanb7183 Been thinking about that for ages, its the one anime I could see being really well adapted by the west as a live action show.

@@heroluka7088 Right? It's also set in the Europe so it would be really easy to find locations that mimicked those in the series. (If a western company was doing the adaptation.) And, you really wouldn't need to change the plot much. It just needs a little streamlining but the first draft is all there.

First half was outstanding!

It went from a case study for any writer for its positives of the part you are talking about to literally its opposite after that, and for me, it became a show to binge watch in my free time

@@DanielGreeneReviews Just so you know, even the authors don't like what they did with the story. The issue is that the magazine this story was published is Shounen Jump (which is focused on teens and older kids), the publishing model at the time basically forced every manga to keep on going for as long as possible, very much like most american TV in the older days. Because of that, Death Note wasn't allowed to end when the authors wanted it, so they had to keep things going. Also, even though I know I may be creating an excuse, Misa Misa's characterization was pretty much on part with most "heroines" found in the magazine, so it is more question of something considered the "norm" than the authors going out of their way to create a bad character. These authors created another manga (this one ended when they wanted) called Bakuman, which is a story about two teens trying to publish manga at Shounen Jump (it gets really meta), in that story the two teens create a massive hit manga that reaches its narrative conclusion quite fast and there are several chapters with the characters debating whether they should end the story or if they should keep going in order to capitalize on their anime adaptation... It is clearly the authors giving a not to what happened with Death Note (it only ran for 110 chapters or so, which was very short for non-cancelled shounen jump stories, L dies much earlier). Particularly, I think Bakuman is a much better story overall, despite its outdated outlook on romance (something very common in Japanese media, specially if it's geared towards a younger audience).

I agree. I love first half and second half is just waste of time.

Man yeah I dont like how death note is flaunted as one of the best anime out there when it really, really isnt. If it kept up the quality from early on sure it would be that, but unfortunately it's not.

True that.

Spoilers... Are you talking about mikami. He dies right there, suicide. Not random prison. He couldn't take it that his god didn't acknowledge him when it didn't suit him. Yeah manga implied that Near used death note for that.

@@tusharjoglekar Mikami commiting suicide is an anime decision, in the manga he just surrenders and rejects Light after seeing him freak out and come off as a petulant child rather than the all-powerful God he thought he was

@@tusharjoglekar that's anime, he's talking about manga.. IIRC in the manga Mikami went to jail and he's just disappointed that Light becomes so pathetic and a god shouldn't be that.

When did this happen?

How good is the manga compared to the anime?

I simply stopped watching after L died, and I absolutely believe that this was the right decision

@@archlectoryarvi2873 the anime is a pretty faithful adaptation.

@@MassiveEffect Not really. They took the last half of the manga and turned it into the last third of the anime.

Does the manga do the post-L part better?

I don't know. Light constantly loses ground and gives stuff away because of his overconfidence and his expectation that he'll always be in control of the situation, and gets real whiny when something catches him off guard and puts him on the defensive. His downfall is just one more manifestation of this, where he basically confesses by accident with his "I win" because he was so confident everyone acted out exactly like he expected them to. Basically, he loses because he buys his own hype and thinks he's God.

@@thegodofalldragons that’s totally true, the show would basically never happen if during the second episode light was so conceited as to try to kill L, if he just let someone opposing him go with the confidence that he won’t be found out than L would never have found out that kira was in japan, if light didn’t constantly try to flex his superiority, another example is with ray pember, he confronts ray himself when there would surely be a work around but light always has to let his enemies know that he is better, not to sound like i’m praising this as the best character design and the im 14 and this is deep stuff but i think his hubris was still a potent factor in the story up until it…well it wasn’t i guess 🤷‍♂️

typical ending

He did lead to his own downfall. Because he killed Lind L Taylor he lost. I'm pretty sure there's other moments too.

It's literally what the Death Note (2006) and DN: The Last Name did, it's clearly superior than both the anime and manga with a phenomenal ending. Possibly the best anime live-action adaptation ever made.

Same

Fax

L dies and Light wins

Ah so you prefer the musicals ending?

Yup.

Good storytelling avoids writing itself into a corner.

@@DanielGreeneReviews I've tried to watch this show like three times, never was able to continue past episode 18 or so. Don't understand the obsession some people have with it, still have some good memories discussing the plot with friends though. There are many better anime with better writing don't think this is a pinnacle the medium has to offer (I'm sure you know that yourself but still)

@@jossecoupe446 Honestly, I think people have a mixture of nostalgia/rose tinted glasses vision and... the fact that a lot of people were in their edgy teenager phase and this show is beyond edgy. Plus, I think most people just remember L and forget the show continued after his death.

@@DanielGreeneReviews Tolkien begs to differ haha

@@DanielGreeneReviews Spoilers: the reason for the horrible second half is that the author had planned to end it after Ls death but the publisher forced him to continue writing.

There's also the fact that the editor's set an "etched in stone" deadline for the manga to end at some point, such that the authors wouldn't have enough time develop/finish the story the way they had planned. Essentially, the editors fucked up a perfectly good story.

Psycho pass is extremely underrated… he needs to watch the first season

Monster also has an amazing OP

@@jamesadvincola9687 ya lol

Psycho Pass is pure gold.

@@lukeyost7566 psycho pass is pretentious bullshit with characters that don't do shit and ideas that have been done to death... shit. At least in my opinion

Upvote on Code Geass

Idk man it is epitome of bad writing and tries to do all the stuff to drag it on. It is carried by lelouch himself but sometimes his intellect is unrealistic as he had no prior military experience and somehow able to outsmart those who do. Still it had a good ending.

Well, genius in-universe.

Terrible recommendation. Daniel hated Death Note for specifically its writing and convoluted themes. The worst thing he could do is watch Code fucking Geass next which is the KING of nonsensical writing and convoluted themes. Lelouch is a decent character, sure, but he's at the very least not superior to Light and/or L. Code Geass is the epitome of a turn-off-your-brain show, and even in that sense it fails because the mech battles are shit and boring and the big moments lose part of or all of their weight once you think about them for a bit. I do kind of respect the show for how bombastic it is and how it's kind of an enigma (and yeah, there's nothing quite like it), but it's still utter dog shit. I don't mean to be too aggressive, I just really hate Code Geass and I don't think it's a good choice for him.

@@jakel4316 Yeah people think that if they enjoyed something that everyone will enjoy it.

Agree! I've been saying for years that Monster > Death Note.

Monster. Yes! There's also Parasite, on the "interesting" side.

Monster might be my favourite seinen

He'd have to read it since there's nowhere it streams

@@kyleledermann2473 You can just find it on RU-vid, lol.

The manga is great. One of my favorites. I sometimes feel like I should stop at the L portion when I read it. I don't and the 2nd half always disappoints. I will say most of my favorite manga have sh*t endings. I guess that is the nature of weekly serialization.

@@GorbonM one piece never disappoints in falling action or just climax sequences, despite immense buildup and it has been doing it for 20+ years. I think it’s definitely possible to just plan things beforehand and have a more clear layout of your story. I think it’s more about if the authors think they have a good ending and you disagreeing with their opinion.

@@musabs5848 I was talking about Death Note not one piece. The authors actually agree with my opinion, and they wanted to end the series earlier, but editors wouldn't let them. I have a lot of respect from Ohba and Obata, and they are one of my favorite mangaka pairs (second only to One and Murata ofc) In terms of Mangaka in general Oda is the GOAT and One piece is the manga that gives it's reader the best experience overall. (Yasuhiro) Kano is probably my personal favorite mangaka (but I understand why his works aren't as popular)

@@musabs5848 Its extremely unfair to compare any other mangaka to Oda when it comes to build up and payoff since most other mangakas are totally under the heel of their producers and editors. Theres not much point in planning far ahead and building up to it when your editor can just go "no" and suddenly all your plans are in the trash, this is why most mangaka make it up as they go along with only vague plot points planned in the future. One piece however is by far the most popular manga right now and Shonen Jump know they cant push Oda around too much, which is how he gets to plan so far ahead and is able to focus on build up without worrying about the payoff being ruined.

Yes I was about to say this, the manga has twice the number of logical reasons, the Near HALF of the manga isn't RUSHED down to a third, and the alternate ending hits DIFFERENT.

😀👍 Agree!

Nen is ok. But yeah, it has my second favorite antagonist and character arc of all time.

Facts. Can't hate an ending if it will never have one.

@@Broke_AF_FR There's a host of great antagonists in HxH. I don't think any other show compares in that aspect.

@@Kobi_89 meruem stands above all Shonen villians by far... As a character tho... As a villian... Big 3 villians are better

Amen. I feel like anime and manga is mostly absurdism stories in one way or another, or for the better animes it isn't to the character level of books. Don't blame them, those are two different medias and it's different being in a character's head for five hundred pages compared to either feeling cringe when characters overexplain thing, or having the images being so personal to evoke people's emotiond

@@xaviermayi3686 Yeah. It's a hurdle for most people who haven't grown up with anime/manga I think. The huge cultural differences when it comes to Japanese stories, one can be enough to make a new watcher/reader cringe. For all my love for the medium, I think there are only a handful of series I would genuinely try to recommend to my friends. The list has narrowed even more as I've become an adult. There are some real gems, but they are under a lot of trash. And I think teenagers who enjoy this medium tend to not be able to look at their favorite series as an outsider or "normie" for lack of a better term.

@@wordtomyflag *Every medium has trash works, not just anime.* And I *disagree* when you say there is only a handful of series that could be recommended. I could *easily* recommend 100 animes that are not "cringe". Plus, regarding to recommendations, anime/manga have to be treated very different from the other mediums, *so when you recommend anime/manga to new viewers like Daniel, you have to start from bottom to top so that that person gets used to the medium little by little.*

@@xaviermayi3686 There are good written manga out there, problem is the most famous ones are the most trashy ones as well with the exception of One Piece and HxH.

@UCxpL9cokHCexTiK8-_3XctA exactly my friend. Also, I think that there are people that have watched/read *not* too much anime/manga and start to generalize like if they knew everything about both mediums and what they said was the absolute truth🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️, and clearly *that is completely wrong,* they CAN'T say those kinds of opinions if they haven't read and watched A LOT of anime/manga. I hate that kind of comments.

Code Geass is kinda the opposite of Death Note in how the quality is spread - it has slouches in between but a banger of an ending, which is all I remember it by. (even though this might be an unpopular opinion :D)

@@BakaKuma573 Exactly

@@BakaKuma573 I think I'd agree. Maybe not S1's ending, even if that's still pretty good, but S2's ending is, imo, one of the best I've seen from an anime, and probably worth watching the series even if only for that ending.

Nah he’d hate code geass more than deathnote tbh.

Code Geass has some of the same problems, but at least it manages to end really well in both seasons. There's also a lot more lore.

Ehhhh, code geass also goes of the rails in the second season, I do agree that it sticks the landing perfectly tho

Idk… I liked the show but I felt like the narrative told us that zero was a genius by having him execute all these surprise attacks but it never addresses how hard or impossible it would actually be to pull off

Can anybody tells me how Lelouch able to drive nightmare without any training 🤔

lol

He seemed to have a clear direction that he saw/wanted the show to go and when that didn't happen he just wasn't on board anymore whatsoever. It's true, the direction it took was bad but it definitely doesn't justify the crazy 180 from "I love the show" to "I give it a 3/10"

@@Screcy The downfall is pretty steep and noticeable, though. It actually makes the score tank even harder for some people (including me), because you see the quality and potential early on, only to see it become a shit show as the story progresses. I always thought of Death Note as if it ended with Kira winning and L dying. Everything else afterwards was just a fever dream.

@@LightningRaven42 The fact that you felt that way is testament to how good the character work is in the show, it starts to make you root for an evil character and makes you question your own morality for choosing to do so. However, Light was always meant to die. It was foreshadowed at the start when Ryuk states that one day he will be the one to write Light's name in the book. That said, everything after L's death and before Light's death was pretty trash and could have been handled way better. (I have seen the anime twice and read the manga thrice.)

@@thomasrad5202 Oh, I have nothing against the ending itself and how Light turned out. My problem solely lies in the execution. Another thing I didn't like at all was how misused Misa Misa was. She could've potentially been an interesting character with a good impact on the story... Sadly she was Sakura'd into obscurity and became irrelevant to the story, which is something very common in most shounen manga, specially those of the shounen jump (something that changed quite a lot in recent years).

@@LightningRaven42 I understand what you say and I understand Daniel's score and opinion as well, I don't mind if he gave it a 3/10, that is perfect, its his opinion. But giving DN a 3/10 is like you forgot *all the first half* of the series xD (chapters 1-25), that is exaggerated, there has to be a balance.

I’ve rewatch this show so many times, its great

It's not worth reviewinh tbh. Its so mediocre.

To answer your prompt from the end of the video, would not even do anything with the DN. That's way too risky and I would absolutely get caught. I'd just give it back to Ryuk, supplement him with an apple and send him back on his merry way.

For Daniel's rating system a meh is 5/10. So a 3/10 makes sense for a bad. Atrocious would he like 1 or maybe 2/10.

I loved bakuman i was staring to get into manga and it started to publish, the first manga i read weekly after the big 3.

How was the way how light lost in the end stupid?

@@lampad4549 what I mean was that it was neither a clever strategy that N enacted to catch light nor was it lights arrogance and over trust in himself that led him to make a mistake allowing N to win. Rather it was a third party character who had a very simple job, yet failed to follow lights simple instructions. What it felt like the lesson at the end was is that light was right all along, he’s deserving of god status and is above everyone else. He should not trusted someone else. In other words the mistake that made him lose was not his own hubris, but a moment where he lacked hubris.

Agreed I'd say it had one of the most iconic ending in anime for me when I watched it (I don't know if I'd hold the same opinion today, years later). But yeah worth a watch for sure.

I am guessing it would be a similar reaction. Intrigued at first, but dissapointed in the end.

nah prob. even worse review ngl :D

He did Dune, right? So he's basically already seen the original God Emperor/Zero Requiem story, and probably wouldn't like CG's derivative ending.

Ooooh, good suggestion for him to watch.

Yup, the ending makes the other meh parts of the show tolerable

Code geass is way better than death note but there are a lot of lazy writing

Code Geass meanders a bit on both seasons for trying to do too much world-building. That aside, it's pretty good, and has more interesting themes imo.

@@eduardoserpa1682 hmmm. Exactly, too much world building reduced the quality also there were literal moments where Lelouch just pulls a super iq move and you're wondering, where was the fucking build up??? Like how did you actually make this work or know about this?? I have no idea.

Code geass I couldn't finish the first season because Lelouch accidentally ordering the girl was one of the dumbest things ever. Coming from a "smart" anime. Also the chess was so bad

Nice pfp

A man of culture I see

Last guy who did something similar got Daniel to decide not ever watching the show he was promoting, so watch out

I have rewatched the first arc a few times. I always stop as soon as Light gets caught, lol.

Yeah. I feel the same way

The opposite for me lol. Cause the more I read One Piece, the higher my standard gets leaving other shows/books/mangas unsatisfactory.

Well, why do you think so many fairly mediocre anime are regarded as masterpieces for so long? People get in touch with the media while young, don't watch much else besides it or things like that, and then when once in a while something does the bare minimum that other good stories are expected to have they flip out thinking they're seeing a masterpiece unfold... When they just are really seeing an alright story. Jujutsu Kaisen being one of the most recent and obvious examples. Overhyped as hell just because a good studio animated it, while the source material is straight trash.

@@LightningRaven42 Yeah, the "it's a masterpiece" statement is straight BS unless you've seen plenty more works to compare said "masterpiece".

@@LightningRaven42 jujutsu kaisen was very well know before the anime so...... Also: please, stop talking about what is trash and what is not, your a nobody on internet

Ummm...out of stratosphere.. Id think so.

Except it is not a mess unless you are talking about the rebuilds those are the real mess but the original tv anime+end of eva makes sense if you pay attention to what you are watching. It just isn't conventional storytelling style so don't go to it expecting your usual hollywood style storytelling. It is more comparable to arthouse films and weird avant garde or postmodern fiction. No it wasn't just the director throwing some random references and religious stuff like some people think. If you have enough knowledge you can see that it references or straight up uses the philosophical or psychological ideas of people like kierkegaard, schopenhauer, heidegger, freud and jung in actually relevant ways and the infamous "meaningless" religious reference part isn't actually from mainstream christianity most of the time but it more often than not uses the ideas of esoteric parts of religion like gnosticism, jewish mysticism/kabbalah. Human instrumentality project should make that obvious. Some people as always will accuse it as overthinking and seeing shit that was not intended but i find it really hard to believe that all of those philosophical, psychological and religious ideas were combined together coincidentally in a coherent and correct manner. People always quote about how even the director said all of those were meaningless but in reality it was not anno who said those, from what i remember it was actually tsurumaki (assistant director) who said that. Not that it changes anything. Death of the author is a thing for a reason. The author may be straight up lying for some reasons like trolling for example i have seen that happen for a lot of things now. Anno is a guy who i feel like wouldn't care about defending his work by saying all of it makes sense since he already has a low esteem and view of himself. So what i am saying is theme wise the religious stuff do make sense but aesthetically, yeah it mostly works as a rule of cool. Random crosses appearing after an angel dies obviously doesn't have a deep meaning. That is the problem with those criticisms the actual substance gets ignored because people love making fun of how those little details are just random stuff. So the circlejerk around it makes that criticism get popular by people who didn't understand half of what they saw. And even most of the people who enjoyed eva doesn't have enough knowledge to defend it either so they just accept what other people are saying (mostly by people who already hate eva and use that religious references makes no sense part as an excuse to explian why they hate it) and say that they enjoyed it only for the characters and emotional parts etc. It became like a bullying at some point. They are forcing you to accept that it is all pseudo intellectual trash and you only liked it because you related to it there was nothing deep about it. When most of the time it is the opposite, people who either didn't relate to it at all or related a bit too hard hates it exactly because of that (since they don't like how it makes them confront themselves) so they try finding excuses for why they didn't like it. They don't want to feel inferior for not liking an "objectively good" but hard to understand series. I think we must be ok with accepting that some works of art are "smarter" than us. We sometimes just don't have the right background information for enjoying something and that is ok. You don't have to like something like ulysses. But don't call it pretentious and meaningless. Just say you didn't find it enjoyable and all the problems will be solved.

Money💰

My favorite show

I second this

I absolutely second this

YES

I don't think he will like NGE - too many annoying stereotype characters. Maybe he might get into the four movies, as it safes him time. /shrug

I think Anno is so focused on character psychology that it made it divisive, but I really like his show don't tell approach. The rebuilds and the manga add bit more lore though, but the characters and themes are the forefront.

Yeah I'm thinking pre-one piece daniel would've liked this better. My first was death note so i liked it till the end but now I've consumed many mangas, i think it fails in comparison.

We gotta have a balance, after L's death, it is true that DN went downhill BUT, we can't just forget about everything from the beginning to L's death or diminish it, because DN in that interval of chapters was a masterpiece imo. So no, DN is not just popular for being a gateway anime, it is more than that.

@@carlosdanielcalderonmontoy3723 I'm not saying it's terrible by any means. But I simply don't think it'd have anywhere near the popularity it does, if it wasn't something that is constantly consumed by new anime/manga watchers/readers.

@@YourBlackLocal I understand, you got a point, but DN is that popular because the first half was that good.

@@carlosdanielcalderonmontoy3723 Of course, again nobodies denying that.

Steins gate does not hold up well at all. I dont think we should recommend this to non weebs

Steins;Gate is great, but Daniel would have to push through the first 12 or so Episodes to get to the good part. Not to say those first 12 are bad, only that they're pretty slow.

he prob. wouldnt like it! ngl

@@leonardotukiman8253 Steins;Gate holds up, it's Code Geass that's questionable if it holds up, unlike Death Note that starts slow and slowly descends, Code Geass is a rollercoaster in quality, up and down, up and down.

@@gracjanlekston134 Idk i have rewatched these two with peoplr not familiar with anime. Many found hyouin annoying and while I found revelations great when I was younger, I found it to be a let down now On the other hand, people forgive a lot of the ups and downs of code geass with the ending. Just an opinion, but i would put my bet that daniel would prefer code geass more than steins gate.

Absolutely. I brought those movies after my sister made me watch them (before I was through the first half of the anime!). I almost stopped watching after L's cheap death but persevered out of morbid curiosity. To me those movies are the real story (in my little world)

Hunter x hunter good anime👍👍

@@emmanuelboakye1124 one of my favourites

He's gonna hate the narrator over explaining everything.

@@mano6117 hunter x hunter is also my top 5 .magic system is fantastic.👍👍

@@emmanuelboakye1124 yeah it's in my top 5 as well

I think that was actually kind of the point though... L actually planned on dying, just to catch Light. (So it literally WAS too easy-because that was L's final trap, for Light; because L knew that his death would compound Light's overconfidence, to Light's detriment...as well as confirm Light's identity as Kira to L, which L was literally dying to know for sure.) But maybe that was just what I read into it, myself.🤷‍♀️ I should rewatch it again, soon; it's been too long. Loll

With Code Geass, I feel it suffers from the opposite problem. With Death Note, almost every chess move is overly explained to us (sometimes to the show's detriment). Whereas Code Geass almost consistently writes itself into corners, but pulls itself back out without explaining anything about how some of Lelouch's actions are possible.

went into code geass for the supposed similar "intellectual battles between L and Kira". found none. overall show was pretty meh with buncha intolerable characters. people say misa misa was annoying. that's p much every character in cg.

@@lightlawliet3526 you got lied to bud. I've been very careful to tell people that CG is similar to DN in the sense of "super intelligent high school kid is given a supernatural power and uses it to plot world domination." The only other parallel is that the director of CG deliberately said that the ending was supposed to be a redemptive ending in response to DN's tragic ending.