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Excited to get the shakey-cam video of HBomberGuy doing a signing at a Con only to have his head spontaneously explode when he accidentally autographs a piece of the Death Note.
HBomberGuy only ever signing his name "Light Yagami" 
It's a legit tactic in Death Note to use a celebrity's name as a pseudonym in order to make them a sacrificial lamb for if someone tries to kill you, so this also kind of makes sense.
Only works if they look similar to you, since you have to be picturing the person's face as you write the name.
Yup. Matsuda deliberately fumbled and exposed his face to not-Kira Death Note holders but didn’t die since he gave a fake name.
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HB accidentally signing his name wrong and a derpy confused little fart emanates from one of his ears.
Western war criminals be looking at each other confused about why they're completely fine until they realize the killer is from one of the US' client states.
🤓 erm actually. The client state sold the death note to the Americans.
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L gets deported back to the UK. Everyone on the Kira suspect list gets put under secret protection by NATO. The news in Japan gets blasted with media stories about America's enemies.
Light gets hbg cancelled for cyberstalking a neurodivergent minor
Why is Death Note a thing again? That shit was for the most edgy of hot topic teens when I was a kid.
It’s one of the staple anime and manga. No different than Minecraft and TF2 being a staple of PC gaming.
It is edgy, but so what? it’s a fun watch. I rewatch it like once every few years because the music is good, and my perspectives have changed from thinking Light did nothing wrong to realizing he’d kill anyone QAnon accused of being a pedophile.
I also enjoy the magical realism. Everyone acknowledges that their entire understanding of the world has been shattered, but it doesn’t matter because now they have to go back to doing police paperwork and investigations and sitting around.
And the best part is that the supernatural deity Ryuk, the most edgy gothic looking one besides Misa, isn’t edgy at all. He’s just bored and tags along a brat who thinks he’s solved the world.
Just a popular enough piece of media that a lot of people will get the reference. That said youre underselling it based on fanbase here i think. I think itd pretty good.
20 years ago it was the show for the wallet chained and that's hard to get past. I guess Limp Bizkit came back too, the wallet chained are being vindicated.
You're only understanding it in the context of how it fit into mainstream culture at the time, in the anime subculture it was firmly established as a pillar of the edgy side of anime. It sits at the boarder between shounen fans and more mature shows, having a protagonist who's simply not conventionally good, some exploration of themes, and frequent depictions of death and disturbing concepts. It may be clumsy or juvenile at times, but it's a core piece of media to anime fans, and watching at least the first season is part of the shared culture and media in that sphere.
I remember about the time death note was rising in popularity, most TV shows available to the average american teenager (not me I was below average) were "about nothing", the stories were either so basic/short/trivial/generic/for-kids you might as well say the story didn't exist or were aimless and next week's episode forgot everything from last-week. If you watched cartoon network, you get the impressed to believe that animes have long-form story telling and western cartoons are for baby children, which functionally is true-enough if that distinction matters. If you were willing to watch anime with subtitles, you basically 100x your supply of good TV shows. I still like the pointless shows like lucky star and bugs bunny, but at the time, that's literally all that was available in western cartoons. Death Note was likely one of the highest quality and earliest long-form cartoons most western millennials got to see of it's style and genre.
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because it slaps
The second half of the show was such a letdown after the amazing set up done before L's departure
They really should’ve just kept L around until near the end because Near and Mello were fucking awful lol. Literally no reason for their inclusion
Yeah, silly decision to throw away all the tension and chemistry built up between the mastermind detective and the illusive killer to do a "well the mastermind detective actually raised two orphans to be mastermind-1 detectives and they kinda hate each other but now they're on the case" twist. Addiction to twists and/or "this is successful, I have to keep writing more of it for financial reasons" after already killing off L have to be the reasons.
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the second half of death note was good
I'm proud of you, being able to stand up tall and loudly proclaim that you're wrong like that takes guts.
near and mello are a good foil for l and are both really good characters, and their dynamics with light rule
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does it? I liked it as a teenager but kinda found it mid as an adult
yeah i like seeing kinda dumb mind games being played and the music makes it work really well
sadly the composer was arrested for weed and has therefore been completely blacklisted from the industry
Probably a new generation discovering it
The first half of the show is probably my favorite anime. Yes, it's pretty edgy, but it shows such a great game of intellectual cat and mouse.
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Light is way too conceited to plagiarize. Unless it was to set up a (meta-level) trick of some kind, he would take such an action as an admission of his own inadequacy, which he would never accept.
Saying shitty reactionary nonsense is completely like him, though.
It's ambiguous, but the Death Note seems to work based on what the name-holder believes is "really" their name, which in most cases will be their legal name (though in the case of, like, a slave name, we'd expect the original name to be the one that works). Changing your legal name as a ploy wouldn't work, plus you can't legally change your name without there being a record and people who processed the paperwork having seen it and so on. In general, this is just a poor job riffing on the source material, and I say this in part because I've absolutely seen dumb, pandering meme shit that nonetheless captures Death Note's better aspects much more effectively.
The core joke here is "Hbomberguy could solve the Kira case AND intuit the mechanics of the death note" which I find very funny. But your critiques are fair.
And huh, I had always assumed that Light would have had to have find a trans person's deadname if it wasnt legally changed (for example).
I'm definitely giving an interpretation, to be clear, though there is some evidence for it. I think there ended up being an aside, for example, that L's given name was really considered to be "L" by the shinigami eyes (with his legal surname still being needed for the Death Note), though whether it was because he thought of himself as L or because others thought of him as L or something else is never explained.
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the Death Note seems to work based on what the name-holder believes is "really" their name
Why do you think this? It's been a while since I've seen the original but IIRC there's no reason to think that the name above your head that can be seen by shinigami eyes wouldn't change if you changed it legally.
The names you will see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. You will be able to see the names even if that person isn't registered in the family registration.
it's not legal name, so presumably it's the name you feel connected to
Yeah I doubt supernatural entities with the power to kill is beholden to human legal documents lol. The requirements are likely more abstract.
In the vein of “supernatural entities with the power to kill being beholden to human legal documents” this is exactly how The Vampire Diaries and its spinoffs handle things.
They follow classic vampire rules like “can’t enter a home without an invitation” and the person doing the inviting has to be the legal occupant (or someone invited by the legal occupant). Multiple times they change the names on deeds and leases to reset who can enter a building.
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New (New) Netflix adaptation of Death Note just dropped
Let me let you in on a secret: My real name is Hexbear. Mods later changed me to Hexbear2 because I was too based. Also to avoid getting death noted.
Huh, UK has way more lenient name changing laws. I did not expect that.
Never seen Death Note, but get the concept. Does the notebook honor name changes or would you now have two names that could be used to kill you?
Given everyone called L just L but it didn't work it clearly isn't nicknames, and in one of the extracanon works it was made clear someone who started a new life wasn't recognized by their old name in the note, so changing a legal name could probably do it.
GarbageShoot semi-answers this elsewhere in the thread. The mechanics arent 100% clear so some guesswork is necessary. The tumblr post assumed it operates on legal name, but GarbageShoot pointed out that isnt necissarily the case.
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