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Finally, my favourite character in the series has appeared.
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8927/mikamivh3.jpg
Mikami has arrived. <3
Okay thats all the fangirl-ing you'll get from me at the moment.
Oh, he's your favorite character? Interesting. I'm very fascinated by him as well, & I hope the anime does him justice. (That's a great screencap, for sure.)
Hahahahaha... That felt so much like the first episode right there at the end, and the colors were amazing.
Though I can't help but lol at the karate moves Mikami busted out there. Seriously, did you see that? He was jumpin' all over the place!
Boris Moskovitz
2007-05-15, 22:08
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2141/1179278506080ly3.gif
Yeah, you wish you could write like him.
cyberduck
2007-05-16, 06:56
LOL. Mikami's seiyuu made my day. :D
They are taking host club members' voice actors on purpose or something?
They are taking host club members' voice actors on purpose or something?
No, not really --- check out his ANN page (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=8090) to see what roles he's done in the past.
So yeah, you are right a little bit. :3
Ryuuzaki
2007-05-16, 09:12
Aw man, they didn't show any Matt, and Mello only appeared for like...10 seconds...
But other than that, Mikami should make a pretty cool character, except he won't be appearing in many episodes if it ends with 37 episodes.
Aizawa and Mogi's little moment at Misa's place was great. xD
Setsuchan
2007-05-16, 10:08
Finally! Mikami! I waited soo long for him! His seiyuu is awesome,love his voice and I can't WAIT to see more of him *__* he's definetely one of my favs.
-waits forsubs-
does mikami have the shigami eyes?they really look like it in that spoiler...
Blackage
2007-05-17, 03:22
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2141/1179278506080ly3.gif
Yeah, you wish you could write like him.
Rofl, honestly he has the best penmenship I've ever seen. :)
Light got his penalty for the careless move he made at the end of ep 30. But with him sending the notebook to Mikami things might take yet another unexpected turn, this series doesn't cease to amaze me.
Mikami certainly looks interesting (and his penmenship too of course :heh: ), I'm looking forward to what he'll do with the notebook and to what extent he'll cooperate with Light.
Interesting. Even though the episode was just as long as the others, it felt like it was like 30 minutes long.
That new character seems very cool.
Oh my god, I love this episode. With everyone saying this arc sucks before it started, I didn't expect much at all, but now... wow.
Boris Moskovitz
2007-05-17, 08:42
^^^Well, in the manga, Light acted rather retarded, as were some of his... erm, latter plans, which was quite out of character (he's supposed to be Jap's #1 =/ ). A lot of fans were disappointed by Death Note's resolution because of that. Hopefully, the anime will sort things out, but I'm not getting my hopes up, seeing as how it's been rather loyal to its source so far.
Kinny Riddle
2007-05-17, 09:04
LOL. The way Mikami eliminates his targets was even more exaggerated and choreographed than Light.
Someone really ought to do a Mikami version of this below. Since he is a prosecutor, maybe have the judge tell him off for signing his reports. :heh:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/Wahhhhh/338c784211f3f35cf11253d0fcccccf7-1.jpg[/QUOTE]
Out of pure boredom.
http://206.51.231.26/~poolfana/sasuke_noto.jpg
Great episode btw.
Oh my god, Mikami is perfect --- absolutely perfect. I've been waiting a long time for this man to appear, and he finally has. Having Matsukaze Masaya as his VA is a work of genius --- his "Eliminate" is wonderful. <3
/me ends fangirl mode
-waits forsubs-
does mikami have the shigami eyes?they really look like it in that spoiler...
nevermind...he does ><
ive just watched it.Before i thought he was against light when i watched the raw XD
but i read wikipedias profile on him...and read a spoiler,i was quite upset :upset:
Can I also add ...why do shinigami's like it when they do the eye deal...is it because they have a longer life or something if they do the deal?
Can I also add ...why do shinigami's like it when they do the eye deal...is it because they have a longer life or something if they do the deal?
(how do you delete posts?)
Jerseykid
2007-05-17, 11:46
Wow, a new character was the last thing I expected and then boom.
Deathkillz
2007-05-17, 11:58
holy crap!
turn those tables turn!!! :D if this series is a game of chess then its like resetting the game everytime the king has been put into check...for a new character to show up and with insane writing skills such as the man himself mikami is like a kira clone :heh: ~ misa :love:
Out of pure boredom.
http://206.51.231.26/~poolfana/sasuke_noto.jpgShouldn't Sasuke be writing his brother's name in the book instead of Chouji's?
hi everyone, i lurk here a lot usually, just reading but first time post ^^;
had a strange question i thought was kind of a hole in the plot...
wouldn't the investigation team find it suspicious that Ryuuk suddenly went missing? ._. (he was with mikami at the end right?)
other then that it was a pretty good ep and im expecting good things^^ (havent read manga yet)
Ashlotte
2007-05-17, 14:49
Where in the world does misa find these outfits at. :naughty:
Ah but putting that aside the new characters pretty damn cool. The guy writes even more psycho then light...Maybe thats one of the requirements for a truely successful kira. :heh:
Show still feels alittle weak post-L, but still one the better anime series ive seen in recent memory.
All right, Light has gotten a little smarter again. He can't fight Near and Mello directly, but he can always rely on the burden of proof.
Mikami is just the type of person he needs in his struggle, and he still gets to keep Misa for other purposes. ^^
mikami killing those guys was so awesome , it looked like a well drawn fight scene
Man, this is the only anime i've seen that makes some of the most boring things look AWESOME! lol.. that 3rd eliminate was crazy, I couldn't help but laugh lol.. Mikami's officially the man now.
-waits forsubs-
does mikami have the shigami eyes?they really look like it in that spoiler...
He does. If you watch him during one of the elimination scenes, there's a brief cut to the TV screen he's watching, and the lifespan and name of Demagawa's follower floats over his head. Also, he has no other way of knowing the followers' names, since they start dying before Demagawa has a chance to introduce them.
Samurai Edge
2007-05-18, 05:51
Mikami rocks! *getting fanboyish* Anyway, the way he writes rocks. BTW, can someone give me a slight summary( in spoiler tags in case there are people who don't want to see it) on what happened to all the death notes that appeared until ep 31. For all I remember the DN with the english rules is taken back to by Shido, the two belonged to Rem and Jealous? One is with Mikami, the other one?
Kinny Riddle
2007-05-18, 11:04
Mikami rocks! *getting fanboyish* Anyway, the way he writes rocks. BTW, can someone give me a slight summary( in spoiler tags in case there are people who don't want to see it) on what happened to all the death notes that appeared until ep 31. For all I remember the DN with the english rules is taken back to by Shido, the two belonged to Rem and Jealous? One is with Mikami, the other one?
The other one is under safekeeping with the Japanese investigation team. Though it is now out of reach for Light, it doesn't matter much since as long as he has ownership rights over it, that's why his memories' still intact. (I reckon he must have "reclaimed" ownership sometime after his dad died believing him not to be Kira. )
Remember a few eps back when Kira/Light "sent" the team his DN (along with Ryuk) in order to "assist" them with recovering Shidou's DN from Mello? That's the one.
Ryuuzaki
2007-05-18, 11:20
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2141/1179278506080ly3.gif
Yeah, you wish you could write like him.
Dunno if you made that...but could I use that for forums?
Ok episode since they missed so much stuff that happened in the Manga.
Setsuchan
2007-05-18, 14:48
Matt wasn't in this episode...but he WAS supposed to right? So why did they cut him out of this episode?? Are they going to cut him out entirely?? It isn't like he is a minor character. Ok..wel..he IS..but he DOES do things that are important so they can't cut him out entirely.
aahhhh,i'm confused.
Eliminate scenes were put together really well. The look of the faces of the followers as if looking at Mikami himself, the quick exagerated writing movements as if cutting them down with a scythe. Really makes the notebook actually feel like a weapon with actions like that. Good episode overall.
darkjester
2007-05-19, 03:29
this was a seriously PIMP episode.... i gave a 10!!! a freaken 10!!!! i stil got wood... :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh:
lol man and what an un-expected twist....
srsly.. that new guy was pimp, especially with his fancy ninjutsu writing style... HAZAH!!!! Eliminate!!!!
k thxs....
Psychotic_Virtue
2007-05-19, 16:13
An interesting episode, I love it how they got the VAs of Tamaki(Light) and Kyouya(Mikami) now from Host Club then you got VA of Haruhi(Misa) from Melancholy Of Suzumiya, i'll give it a 9.
P.V.
A butt-load was missing / or completely changed, but the episode was alright.
Only complaints (aside from no Matt and Mello tracking Misa), is the animation quality seemed a bit sub-par in parts (some characters faces weren't even drawn in some shots), and I didn't think the blue and red lightning bolts shooting from Mikami's pen strokes were really necessary (unlike Light writing in the notebook in the first episode, which was less.... "magical"..).
Anyhow, ok episode.. but it is the first episode that made me worry about how well they will cram the last 25 chapters into 6 episodes (I hope they don't go Gonzo and Hellsing it up!).
Quite funny , I saw the Mikami writing gif before I saw the episode.I thought it was a fight scene from a new shonen anime :P
I noticed that when Aizawa and Moji were talking with Misa at one point they didn't have any eyes..I think they were concentrating more on getting Near's plan animated right and missed the no eyes thing.
Guys honestly for someone who has never read the manga, therefore being an anime-only watcher, I cannot tell how you feel they managed or treat the material for this episode.
Maybe for some of you the episode was alright while for others it was subpar and mediocre compared how the chapters fared in the manga.
For my case it was good, but I am appalled for the sub-par quality consistently shown at some shots paricularly for scenes involving Misa, Near, and Aizawa. The faces were drawn shabby and lanky.
There was this particular shot of Misa showing her look retarded sitting while wearing that two-piece, pink costume.
Near is made to look more physically alike to L in each episode. He now has inherited through means of animation magic L's trademark eye, somber bags.
My favorite scene was the escape. That was clever thinking and a quick one for Near to rain down the money upon the savage mob. That people was only using Kira for their ends to justify their senseless violence.
They supported Kira due of fear, but once free money came literally from th sky onto them they throw Kira to the trash and stated fighting for greed.
If Light intends to create his perfect kingdom of justice, then it would not be enough for just to kill the criminals. Anyone can become one.
The point here I am trying to make is that because the mob got so easily swayed by the temptation of their selfish desires, then Light's ideals crumble to dust.
Humanity is the only species to give itself hell by coming up rules to suppress their desires and instincts for the sake of building a sustainable civilization, but at the same time taking advantage of the system to indulge on what the society has expressedly forbidden.
Therefore, Light has two choices then to fix that issue: A) Conditioning the population through use of threats by selecting random sacrificial lambs as a means to warn the worldwide to deter from acting selfishly, but by doing so he will opress the free will of the people; B) Assigning agents to carry their will, that is people selected by him who deems worthy to share the same feelings and principles like him.
I am just frustrated and dissapointed that Mikami Teru was introduced too lately in the storyline just about six episodes before the whole series ends.
I guess they do not want expand too much upon his character and background, because regardless how you see him on one or the another he looks exactly alike to Light, and I am not only meaning their shared Kira ideals but also their looks as well.
With respect to Teru's introduction. No matter how I watched him he was cool. I love the drama effects when wrote all the names of the hypocrites and the fatass Demegawa in the note with light effects.
That remains still cool to me.
The shot that made laugh the most was Misa...
throwing a tantrum like a pampered child at Demegawa for paying attention to the money instead of keeping the camera focused upon the building's entrance.
Money cannot buy love and peace.:heh:
ThisIsDream
2007-05-20, 01:47
I doubt those people support Kira due to fear lol, People need to separeted what 2nd Kira did and the original Kira did.
Sinestra
2007-05-21, 16:55
I think Nears's strategy of attacking Kira/Light from within is brilliant. Sow the seeds of doubt and sit back and watch what happens. And poor Misa this girls life will never be the same at least now she has no memories of the deathnote or anything else but Light will still treat her like shit. This new hand of Kira guy seems interesting and kind of psycho cant wait to see more about him.
I found this episode good, simply because I stopped reading the manga before Makami was introduced.
I noticed when Misa lost her memories of the Death Note, it was as if she looked miserable, even though she was smiling in one scene(I would take a screenshot, but I forgot where exactly I saw this at, and well, I'm too lazy to look at the moment). But of course, I believe she was portrayed like this purposely, or I could be wrong entirely.
selkis_9
2007-05-21, 18:28
I really like this episode, this serie just doesn't stop surprising me. I like the way Mikami was introduced, and yes..i had never seen anyone write so fast before...not even Light...I love the music of the death note, i find it completely perfect for the writing moments. Light was definetly getting a little dull, since Near arrived in the show, fortunately he deviced some plan now (i feel bad for Misa nonetheless, she seems to have been replaced by Mikami - not in the love aspect though). Mikami seems to be a cool guy, i find his "eliminate" really amusing...yet, i have not stopped wondering why am i on Light's side, he is a killer after all...anyway, i hope Death Note continues to be good...a war of intelligence and strategies...
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