Death Note - Episode 36 Discussion / Poll

[poolfan]

just a word of warning. if you recieve a private message from this chap GetALife, don't read it. it reads "where to find next episode" but contains spoilers for next episode. He's been banned but if i haven't read the manga already, it's so gonna ruin my day.

[azn_mick]

This episode is incredible. During 40 minutes, my heart is pounding very strong !!! I can't wait too see the next episode !!

[Eisdrache]

Seriously I hope that Matsuda dies in the next episode. For me its just an useless character through the whole series. The only thing he did was getting Misa into Yotsuba and that would have been possible with Mogi in a similar way too. He had some action when they took out the Mafia but replace him with any other police man and nothing changes. Other than that he was just annoying and useless, especially in ep36 :\

Ide also had very VERY few things to do, even less than Matsuda. But at least he wasnt annoying. Driving the car to Sakura TV and being close to Aizawa. Aside from some random "AAAHH Im so surprised" and similar appearances I cant remember him doing anything at all.

[mycen]

I view Matsuda as a form of comic relief.. much like Ryuk. This is always nice to have in an anime series. I hope to see more of Ryuk in the last episode ... he has been very much MIA in the lst few episodes.

[Auro]

~Thanks for the warning poolfan, I had the same message but lucky didn't even read it~

Its hard to find any love for Matsuda - I think he's cool.
And yeah, I agree with mycen - he's like a comic relief character, but at the start was used as a newbie. He answered our questions about the death note world-setting like "who is L?"

During the first arc of Death Note my friend referred to the Task Force as the nobodies - just cause to her they never did anything except be shocked or surprised. I swear though Mogi had the smallest amount of dialogue (a few sentences) through that arc.

~ Well hahah, at least Matsuda and Aizawa had their 'thinking colours' - (Mat) yellow and (Aiz) green, usually it was only the main characters ^_^

[kazune-kun]

I think Near did something else, and is about to screw over Light. Yah wheres Ryuk and his "hehehe" they better show him in the next episode

[Lordshin]

WOW.... Best. Episode. EVER!!!!!
Had me at the edge of my seat (literally)

and the Previews dont necesarily show EXACTLY what happens....
I forget what episode it was but the Preview implied that Mikami was killed... which didnt happen of course :P

[mycen]

Originally Posted by Lordshin

I forget what episode it was but the Preview implied that Mikami was killed... which didnt happen of course :P

I believe it was the preview in episode 34. They has a screenshot which looked like Mikami was falling down (which implied death) but turned out to be his totally insane eliminate dance.
1 more day to the conclusion!! Then the hangover will start ...

[cwolz]

fantastic episode.. ughh but the english VAs are going to mess it up so bad...

[kaoruky]

Originally Posted by poolfan

just a word of warning. if you recieve a private message from this chap GetALife, don't read it. it reads "where to find next episode" but contains spoilers for next episode. He's been banned but if i haven't read the manga already, it's so gonna ruin my day.

too late for me,
oh i'm so sad, the asshole spoiled in the first line,

;_;

[Guido]

The penultimate episode was magnificient. Stylized, noir-like animation. Light return to his grandeur evilness from episode one.

Ladies and gentlemen the countdown starts down for the ultimate closure to Death Note. Tomorrow everything will be settled...

Is Light going to reign as the God of the New World? or will Near demonstrate that he has already surpassed L by bringing down Kira?

Spoiler:

The adrenaline rush and the wait made me highly anxious.

The wait at the warehouse was without a doubt the most poignant and dreaded silence sequence of this decade.

The symbolism used was how the camera focused on the blades of the fan, as they looked like were spinning on the same motion to the hand's of Light's wristwatch.

Mikami lost his sanity in exchange to become his God's agent.

The animation made the white flashes, black undertones, and the red hues of the eyes totally creepy and macabre.

But why is that Light became too overconfident even to reach the bursting point on snapping and laughing like a nutcase once he developed the counter to Near's sabotage with the notebook pages?

There must be more to Near than wha Light would meet him with eyes. He's after all L's heir, and I do not think that Mello just died out for nothing.

There must something else which warrants that Near would have the true, last laugh.

The importance of the thirty-minutes wait prior to the last confrontation, played a purpose. It finally revealed to Near with his very own eyes the solid proof that Light is Kira at 100%
Why is it?

Recall the manipulation rule which grants a 23-days period: Near ordered Giovanni to touch the note while Mikami was away on the 5th. He wanted to test that rule for two things:
1) To realize that Mikami's copy of the note was indeed the fake one, as Near I believe suspected.

Why is that, you may ask? Recall on the episode where Giovanni followed Mikami to the train. Mikami supposedly passed judgement on the molester that was harrassing the girl. The first thing that Giovanni saw what Mikami was doing, which he reported to Near, was taking a picture of the molester with his cell phone, then writing his name later.

Someone of Near's caliber should had realized right away that Mikami was using a fake copy of the note. On that time, Light instructed to Mikami to send some pages of the real note to Takada in order to have her pass judgement.

2) Near arranged that wait to follow on L's manner of doing things. L could not prove Light's innocence to be Kira, unless he had scored the 100% of proof.

Near did so, because Giovanni did not die at the moment, which I believed was the deadline for the 23-days rule that says a person will die once touches the note; obviously a fake one made by Light.
This in turn disprove the 13-days fake rule.

Did you see Near's creepy expression of joyous gloominess once he takes off the L's mask after the 30-minutes passed?
This is because he proved at last L's suspicion rate to 100% that Light was always Kira.

[seiji_kun]

really poundering if I should watch the next episode. Cause like a lot of people I was to anxious to know the conclusion.

It's a shame that this series is comming to an end. It's one of my favourite all tho I find the ending to have a way to big of an anti-climax.. But that's like with 50%+ of animes anyway.

I'm gonna miss this series, Light defenitely became one of my favourite chars ever or at least one of the chars I was most fascinated bye ( can't compare Luffy with Light I guess )

[aedai]

u_u bleh..
as i said this episode was really good,mikami's eye was kinda scary and he was going like..mental XD I also thought hed have a heart attack!!

[Shiroth]

aedai: Its been mentioned a number of times already, no spoilers for episode 37 --- even if they are in spoiler tags.

Please edit and delete.

[HyugaHinata]

Originally Posted by mycen

I view Matsuda as a form of comic relief.. much like Ryuk. This is always nice to have in an anime series. I hope to see more of Ryuk in the last episode ... he has been very much MIA in the lst few episodes.

I agree. A show like Death Note would be extremely slow and boring without some comic relief. Matsuda is necessary. Without something to break up the monotony, I'd probably have given up on the manga during the Yotsuba arc.

[Spitfyre]

I really wasn't satisfied with the ending, for several reasons. One being that Mikami wrote Takada's name, and Effed it all up for Light, another being that Near is just some asshole, And that Mikami should have made sure it wasn't a fake, also, he flippin' called Light "God" that's way to obvious. Another thing that pissed me off is that there's only 37 episodes.. And even after his death, woudln't it be possible for Light to be a Death God/Shinigami? Ryuk said it himself, he would be a better Shinigami, and when Light dies from Ryuk, he neither goes to Heaven or Hell.. They should have made another episode in which he's a Death God.. not much of an episode, but more like the ending for episode 37, rather than him dying. Last thing.. in the end Light did stop criminals, and since he, himself l was a criminal, he died. It was his faith, he just didn't think of himself that way. But in a way he kind of does "Eliminate" all criminals.