Death Note Episode 2

Showdown
Light finds out that anyone who touches the Death Note will be able to see the highly amused, death god, Ryuk. He devises a mechanism in one of his desk drawers to keep the notebook safe. Meanwhile, Interpool notices the mysterious deaths brought down by the Death Note and calls in an expert to investigate. “L”, the expert, hatches a plan to find the whereabouts of the killer. A slipup from Light narrows the search tremendously and “L’ and Light set off a battle of wits, to see who can find the other first.

Phew, I feel better now that Light actually has someone after him. I couldn’t stand the lack of consequences involved with the storyline of the first episode. Of course, I have mixed feelings of wanting Light to win or lose. I’m not sure which I should root for. Right now the coin is in the air, at least for me.

I’m not sure if I like Ryuk anymore. Sure, he’s an antagonist towards Light, but sometimes he seems a bit too antagonistic. He crosses the line to just plain malicious and I don’t particularly care for it.

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Keiichi receives tickets to go to the beach from his sister, Megumi. Her plan was for the happy couple to go alone, but, as usual, Belldandy’s sisters tag along anyway. Urd and Skuld continue their tug-of-war game with their sister’s relationship and annoying antics occur.

This seems to be the standard silly beach episode, compleate with swimsuits and bathhouses. Every anime has to have a simliar goof-ball episode somewhere along the way. It’s one of those staples.

I can never figure out why Keiichi acts like such a pushover all the time. He needs to grow a backbone. This tendancy, coupled with Belldandy’s utter ignorance would be my only complaint and major pet peeve of the series.

Death Note Episode 1

Rebirth
Let me just tell you, I’ve been told to watch/read this anime/manga by many people and so, like a good little sheep I downloaded all the available episodes. There are five of them right now, I think? As soon as the first one was done downloading, I was watching it.From the first episode, this anime is not what I expected at all. Not even a smidgen of what I expected. There are no indicators from this first episode that people would rally behind it screaming, “It’s so good!” I suppose I have to continue on.

An unusually bright kid named Light finds an interesting notebook. Baring a black cover, this notebook is mostly blank, save for its title on the front cover and a page of instructions. The notebook claims that any person who has their name written in it will die either by a default heart attack or the manner of the writer’s choosing. Light tries the notebook out and finds it works. Instead of shying away from sucha dangerous power, he decides it would be best to kill everyone he considers scum.

I think this is the first time the “with great power comes great responsibility” or “there is a large price to pay for these powers” cards have not been played. The main character is not harmed, nor does he keep the powers in check. He uses them as he sees fit and wishes to become something akin to the ruler of the world. So far, I do not like Light. He doesn’t even come close to having any of those likable villan features and, instead of being good or somewhat human, he is just there, doing these things as he sees fit. Hopefully the other characters will make up for what he is lacking or perhaps Light himself will become more three-dimensional.

There is still much to be learned about the seperation of worlds and the death gods themselves. Ryuk is an interesting character. Looking much like a disgruntled clown, he sends the Death Note into the human world and watches the havoc it causes when Light gets ahold if it. He also likes apples, finds them juicy. Most of what he said about Light using the book made little to no sense to me. Oh, of course I understood the stuff that he said plainly, but much of his innuendo was lost on me.

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