I used to not be fond of the Near arc and I couldn't figure the Exact cause. I knew it was because Near seemed 10 steps ahead of Light every time without push back that I felt SHOULD be there for the story to work. Then, last year, it clicked. While watching a RU-vidr reacting to Death Note for the first time, it got to the episode where Aizawa decides to meet with Near to discuss whether he personally suspected there was any chance Light was Kira. It was too sudden. If there was just 1 episode after that, where Aizawa was going back and forth in his mind before finally deciding to talk with Near, it would've been perfect. But, because it happens so suddenly, it feels off, like there should have been a conflict in Aizawa that never happens and it leaves you waiting for it, only to get slapped in the face by what feels like Aizawa doing an abrupt heel turn. Aside from that 1 glaring issue, Death Note was perfect
THANK YOU for this!! I couldn't agree more. I always felt the Near arc was quite jarring, causing me to "come back to reality" while I was otherwise able to lose myself in the imagination of the storyline up until that point. Very well-written comment. ❤
I saw the whole anime and it was great. Are we ever going to get a sequal to this where the death note is in the future and someone wants to continue Light’s work and somehow takes the death note into cyberspace that would be intresting. Also we need to see if Light is in the shinigami world and has become one himself.
We did get a short manga sequel(it was a one shot special so it was one chapter)where Ryuk decides to throw the notebook back down to someone similar but that person is smart enough to know that with everything being known about the Death Note and modern Technology he would get caught quickly
Technically, there already is. Visions of a God is a follow-up where Ryuk recounts up to L's death to a Shinigami that many believe is Light, suffering from a memory wipe after having become a Shinigami. It's mostly a recap movie, but does include several new clips unique to Visions of a God
Happy you mentioned Re: Light but what no mention of Death Parade showing Light to be unjudgable or the Japanese only Death Note sequel revealing a suspiciously familiar new god of death interacting with Ryuk
Light Yagami reminds me of a true crime story I once heard about. Supposedly two college students who were rich and had confirmed genius intellects, thought too highly of their own minds. They hypothesized that they could successfully get away with murdering a child if they wanted to. They tried and almost did get away with it. Almost.
