WEBVTT - 114: Death Note 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:13.280 Hey, everyone, how you're doing? Huh? How you feeling? It's 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.920 another episode of Nerdificent And if you heard, if you read, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.160 you read the title, then you already know what it's about. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:23.840 And if you if you haven't and you went in blind, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.560 let me let me give you a little taste. Uh. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.320 Sugumi Ohba and Takashi Abada's Death Note hit the Pages 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.319 Have Shown and Jump in December of two thousand and 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.600 three and became an instant sensation. The manga industry keeps 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.640 the identities of the writing duo a secret, even after 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.519 nearly twenty years of popularity with twelve volumes in a 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.360 single season of an anime. Fans have been begging for 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.479 new original material from the franchise for years. Earlier this year, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.360 they got it. Today we're talking Death Note with the 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.640 anime expert coming off the heels of Funnimation con host extraordinaire. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.480 You're gonna see her on TV. You're gonna read her right, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.279 and you're gonna know her everywhere. My Nigerian c ST. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.040 How you doing? Hi, I'm doing great. I like that. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:11.440 That's that's okay, let's go. Oh yeah, I'm feeling I'm 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.080 feeling all that Nigerian energy. I just watched Hamilton's last 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.280 night and we had a bro in there. I was like, oh, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.880 who was our bro? Oh, you didn't know. He's the 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:25.400 one who was with Madison the Big I forget his name. Yes, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.440 he's Nigerian. Yeah that's I know. Now. When I first 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.319 heard the musical the soundtrack, I thought it was a 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.360 white dude, and then I watched and it's a black dude. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.479 And now I'm learning that he's a Nigernigerian. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:49.240 he's uh, let me see, I got oh no that one, Okay, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.120 but he goes by Oak, which is probably the hardest 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.640 nickname anyone can have, you know, like a treat. Yeah, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.800 but yeah he's Nigerian. And I'm blown away because, like 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.880 is theater credits are? And if he knew the fight 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.320 I had to fight to get my dad to let 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.760 me act. I'm like, who who? But I'm still fighting 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.160 like this, how did he tell me your secret? Oak? 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.960 For you to have this long laundry list of theater experience? Wo, 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.560 we love to see it, Yeah, we truly do. But yeah, 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.480 speaking of which, while we're on the subject, what are 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.280 you nerding about? Nerding out about this? Week, What am 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.840 I nerning out? So this week I watched so obviously 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.840 I just you know, we did Fundimation con so I 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.920 got to see the first two episodes of fire Force 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:41.240 season two. So that's that's my girl right now. Like 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.880 fire Force is literally everything to me right now. And 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.600 then and then speaking of Nigerian's hello, we got our 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:54.480 boy Oguon Montgomery. Who Yeah, I know, mom a mama, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.880 hit up Zeno and be like, let me let me 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.760 tell you something real quick. I'm these notes. First, you're 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.600 gonna sit down with me, get a little bit of 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.840 an accident in there, and like, yeah, I can eat 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.880 some food food though I send him some more more 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.200 like eat on that first. I'm gonna before his next recording. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.799 Oh my gosh, it's so funny because, um, you're you're 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.360 talking about fire Force. I just finally saw pro Mayre 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.560 and I was watching it with Lisa Lisa wallin Friend 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.920 of the Pod, uh Kawaii five ozone, and she kept saying, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.440 this is basically fire Force, this is very similar to 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.200 fire Force, and I didn't, Oh, oh my gosh, you 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.560 know it's you know, studio trigger already. Yeah, yeah, look, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.000 I'll even I'll even drop off because I think I'm 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.720 gonna be in with your your hood because I need 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.720 to drop this one piece off to Crystal. But I'll 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.840 drop my blue ray off so you can keep it. 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.120 It's s gorgeous. Yeah, I don't actually, I don't think 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:53.960 me and Crystal live in the same really. I mean, y'all, y'all, Okay, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.360 we'll talk. We'll talk off. I ain't gonna dock you 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.680 on the thing, but based on what she said, you're 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.800 well you did move. Okay, all right, we'll talk, but 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.760 I'll drop it off to you because I need everyone 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.160 to see it because I'm a studio trigger head. But 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.800 I mean, this is the perfect kind of combo to 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.960 let us jump up into death note which I knew 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.640 you watched it. I was. I was doing I do 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.360 a dumb thing where I asked questions I know the 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.520 answer to because I remember geeking out on the on 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.960 Twitter when they did the news like they did a 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.599 new manga chapter, right, yeah, that which is like, how 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.680 are you going teeth like that? How you like you 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.840 don't leave us hanging for like ten years and just 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.520 give you a one shot. I just give us a 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:41.279 little one shot, you know, I mean, oh yeah, I 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.560 mean I didn't read it. I did not read it. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.640 I got Look it's it's back here. I got a 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:53.359 huge backlog of stuff. I look. I surprised Lisa didn't 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.640 like you know, well, that's why I'm watching killer kill 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.440 right now, because because the time she was like, you 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.000 just need a watch kill kill you, because I guess 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.320 there's a lot of likes to kill a kill in 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:08.400 pro maer So she's got you on quality that look. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.000 I would look, I'm working through so many That's why 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.400 you know, when Christmas asked me about one piece, I'm like, 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.719 I got getting tom I gotta bust out through and 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.200 then I'm rewatching big Oh, I already did my gore 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.159 in London, and watch it and run with the Wind 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.200 is back there too. I got the box set of that. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.560 Wait did you did you start one piece? Or like 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.839 I did not yet, but you're returning you're returning it 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.360 to her. But you didn't start. No, no, no, no, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.279 no no no no, I no I when we went 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.159 you were here with me when we saw gold together. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.080 You know how they gave us that one piece blu 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.920 ray this joint right here, Um, I have to so 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.720 I'm giving Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm gonna 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.440 go through One Piece because I used to watch it 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:52.880 religions religiously um back when it was on like the 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.279 two Namine Adult Swim, but then I then I stopped. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.760 So it's so I'm pretty like I know most everything, 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.920 but it's like very early stuff. So that's why I'm like, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.080 I know I'm gonna get there. But it's nine hundred 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.040 and twenty eight episodes is daunting. Yeah, I mean it's 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.039 gonna be going off. I see it lasting for like 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.240 another three years, so don't even worry. Don't like that 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.839 anime is not going nowhere. Yeah you see. I mean 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.520 why when you get to nine, you might as well 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.279 be like, we own this train till they tell you 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.680 One Piece. Fans are going to be fifty sixty still 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:37.000 wondering if Lucy's about to become king. Okay, So so 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.320 let's jump into the story of of of Death Note, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.720 and you know, it's it's a story that I think 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.120 even if you if you're an anime fan, you know 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.720 of Death not Death Note, whether you watched or not. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.880 It's just it's one of those things. It's it's it's 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.960 on the mount rushmore of animes with your dbzs, your 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.560 Sailor Moons. I think Death Note is definitely one of 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.200 the newer ones that are just on there, that are 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.560 in the zeitgeys. You don't have to really explain the premise, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.159 but for those who may not know, a high school 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.720 student discovers a supernatural notebook that has deadly powers. He 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.280 can kill anyone he wishes simply by inscribing their name 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.800 within its pages. Intassicated with his new power, he begins 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:22.560 to eliminate those he deems unworthy of Light as he should. Yeah, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.840 it seems like, you know, the main character is kind 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.920 of like an anti hero or you know, than the 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.080 then like someone who's good. Can you explain that more 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.240 for the listeners. Yeah, so, Light Yeogamy is the main character, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.640 and he pretty much his thing is he thinks he's 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.720 serving justice. He's serving like a big old heap of 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.200 justice every time he commits a murder. Uh. And so 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.400 basically I guess he's somewhat of an anti hero with 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:58.760 a god complex. Yeah. So he thinks by limitating people 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.760 that he, like you said, deems is unworthy, he's cleansing 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.160 the world and making it a better place for everyone. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:11.160 While also killing everyone. So um, but yeah, that's that's 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.240 light man. Like, so who else does he deal with? 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.480 You know, because he's being someone's trying to figure out 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.400 who's doing this, right, Yeah, so he has to deal 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.720 with well, at first he's dealing with the police force 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.400 and like every country right as first he's dealing and 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.160 then all of a sudden, everybody backs out and so 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:36.040 he's just dealing with Japan. So so l L who 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.640 is this like mastermind, detective legendary. Um, he's the one 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.439 that narrows down that Kira which is which is like 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.120 Yakimi's nickname, that's like what the Internet basically has called 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:50.760 him is Kira um, which also means killer. But like 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.960 they've you know, transformed into Kira. But um, you've seen 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.719 have you seen death? Note, I'm about to slap you 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.520 want to you want to get that slap even harder? 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:10.000 If it's right here, it's right, forget one piece, forget, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.760 it's right. Sick is right here. In is still in 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.080 the cellphone. I'm ready to I'm ready to jump in. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.640 I'm ready to jump in. And I was gonna jump 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.800 in this weekend and then uh, just there was just 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.800 lots of Fatherhood that went down. I'll say, because there 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.959 there are some animals I'll watch in front of Naomi, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.839 but there are something that I won't. And it was 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.040 ever since one time I was watching Attack on Titan 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.600 and it was when she was younger, and I thought, oh, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.000 she's like baby, she doesn't know and then like a 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.320 titan like grab someone and watching her face, I was like, oh, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.520 she knows exactly what's going on. So like so like 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.640 the creepier anime stuff, I won't watch in front of her, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.520 but like, you know, i'll watch, Like I'll let her 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.839 watch Gorn log On, I'll let her watch you know, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.640 I'll probably let her watch, you know, run the win 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.920 with me. But Death note, I think it's just too 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.120 hard and I have I don't watch Death not Yeah. Wow, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.760 I'm sick about that. Yeah, you gotta forget one piece 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.680 for the end of the week. I'll probably bust through Death. Yeah. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.959 It's like it's like seven episodes, I think, So it's 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.920 right there. Whenever I hear that magic number of those 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.480 twenty six runs, those go to the top of the list. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.280 That's why I was like, killing kill, Okay, twenty six, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.000 I'm gonna bust that out. I'm gonna bust that out. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.400 And then I just pushed back these longer ones. But 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.679 then also, you know, your weeklies come up, like I've 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.120 been watching um Tower of God and so, which I 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.559 think did the season just ended because the last episode 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.400 felt like that was I don't know, I haven't started 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.280 that one. Okay, now now it's time for me to 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.800 tell you to jump no no, because death not his 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.360 legendary legendary. But I feel like you're gonna be bopping 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.080 the way because you know, who do you know about 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:53.120 the opening? Who does it? The Yeah? Some kids, great kids. Yeah. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.720 A friend of mine tag me and it on his 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.360 instant story. He was like, you better watch this. I mean, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.920 that's what I'm saying you. You you out here sleeping 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.720 on an anime that has a K pop band opening. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.719 I'm like, that's not the Chyenne I know, all right, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.240 I'm that's that's what we're doing this week. You watched 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.840 Definite this week, and I'll start Time of God. Okay, okay, 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:17.679 but yeah, so l this like mastermind detective that everybody 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.880 knows of who was like secretive for a while until 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.640 the Cyre case. Basically, he I don't want to spoil 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.000 it too much because I really want you to get 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.360 like the Yeah, also for everyone to this is a 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.280 episode we've done, you know, anime that run longer and 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.960 you know cool, We'll spoil that because you probably this 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:41.440 one everyone wants listening. It's activity meet me on Twitter please, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.760 that's your homework. Yes, But anyways, to cut it short, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.080 l is basically his arch nemesis, and he's the one 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.040 that's trying to take down Kira, and it just unfolds 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.079 and gets crazy from there. That's all I'm going to 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.800 say about that. I mean, and that, Yeah, that totally 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.560 makes so much, so much sense of why like that 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.199 kind of cat and mouse chase. That's like a classic 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.200 you know convention, which makes uh, which makes this series 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.920 so like interesting, you know. Before we even dive even 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.280 deeper in the series, I really do want to talk 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.640 about the the duo that writes it, because Oba's real 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.840 identity is a closely guarded secret. Like the the duo 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:29.360 have cited Shotaro Ishnamoru, Fujiko Fuji uh Fujiko Fugio and 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.640 Fujio Akasuta as like manga creators who they're heavily inspired 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.520 and as stated by the profile, place at the beginning 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.760 of each death note. Manga Oba collects teacups and develops 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.679 manga manga plots while holding their knees on a chair, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.920 similar to a habit of l so so like so, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.920 you know, I don't know like Oba, you know, holding 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:58.360 it down, being very very sneaky, you know. I I 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.600 like that, But what what do you know much about 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.760 the the oba and and that? Because I feel like 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:09.280 it's hard to follow someone who is going under who 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.440 who doesn't give their real identity, you know, I always 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.640 do that, like the identity was a secret, but I 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.680 didn't know any of this, Like I didn't know. Yeah, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.959 you know, anime fans, you can't keep anything from them 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.240 too long. They're gonna try their hardest to like put 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:30.240 pieces together. I know, I know, Oh my gosh. I 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.679 think that's like part of the reason why, like a 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.679 cure to Yama was like okay, no more pictures, no 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.800 meeting grades, no nothing like yeah. And then you also 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.240 had like one who who who just went by one 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.320 and kept his identity pretty much a secret until like 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.800 he uh um he like he had like received a 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.400 reward and that's when he kind of like kind of 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.600 ran um ran as well. I mean I would do 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:03.560 the same thing. And have you met, yes, absolutely, like 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.320 I would do the same exactly. Yeah, it's like, oh, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.240 we're we are so good. I mean, you know, even 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.720 though the you know, we were we had a diskiddeing. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.079 I think this is the perfect time to, uh call 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.440 for a break. But when we come back, we're going 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.760 to dive into the manga and its development. Uh and 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.560 then after that talk about the anime, and then just 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.640 go into an open discussion of Death Note and other 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:40.400 spinoffs for it. So see you right after this and 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.800 we're back. Welcome back to Nerdificent. We're here with Chen 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.120 and Hulu, Colude good good, good, good friend, good good, good, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.440 all around anime expert. You. If you follow anime online, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.600 then you probably already know who I'm talking to. Let's 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.080 let's be real. Let's be real. Probably not we get 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.560 a naview with my three followers. If you went to 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.600 if you went to Funny Con, you saw that facing 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.480 You're like, who that? What all that hair? Let me go? 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.800 Let me go people, you know, let me go look 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:12.120 at this this uh this Japan vlog video that you know, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.000 if he totally doesn't watch over and over jealously because 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.160 he was planning on going to Japan right about now 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.600 and then the pandemic. Hap it. You'll get your time. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.880 It's all right, a problem, You'll get your time. So 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:32.320 I'm just like sick. I'm sick. Oh man. Look, cheyenneknew best. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.640 She's like, let me do it now, let me not wait, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.000 oh man. So with the manga, the series had ended 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.040 with a total of a hundred and eight chapters, and 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.680 later the individual chapters were collected in the twelve separate 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.080 tanko ban um. In April two thousand and five, Death 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.160 Note was licensed for publication in North America by none 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.080 other than Viz Media and which is one of the 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:01.360 major kind of manga uh you know pubs, and the 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.440 first English English volume was released on October t which 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:11.320 is a great time to release Death Note. Spooky Spooky time. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.280 And then in February two, a one shot special was 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.880 released set two years after the manga's epilogue, and it 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.360 sees the introduction of a new Kira and the reactions 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.000 of the main characters in response to the copycats appearance. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.800 So did you read the manga and if you, if so, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.280 did you read it before or after you watched it. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.640 So I read the Death Note manga, but I only 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.520 read half of I never got to the end of it. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.880 Um but I ended up skipping to the end just 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.160 to like see like how different it was from the anime. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.480 But yeah, I only read like a chunk of it. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.640 I never like finished. I ended up reading trying to 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.520 get into it after I watched the anime because I 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.440 was like, I want to see the differences, and like, uh, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.880 but yeah, that's that's kind of what I was doing 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.400 with my hero as I was starting from the beginning, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.560 and people are like, why are you doing that. You're 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.439 gonna have so long and there's so much ahead of 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:05.880 the anime. But I was like, I want to see 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.879 the differences. But then eventually I was like, actually, I 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.359 want to see what's happening. I want to know. If 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.120 I want to know right exactly, I know I need 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:13.600 to I need to pick that. I'm tired of this 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.760 discourse that's going on about what's happening in the manga 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.520 while we're waiting with our thumbs twiddling for them to 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.920 animate the new season. I'm saying, wait a whole year, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.320 oh man. Yeah. Uh. And for those who don't know 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.520 I've talked about this on the pod before, viz specifically, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:31.919 I think it's like five bucks a month and you 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.520 get access to all the Shoonen Jump Um manga so 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.240 you can watch you know you. Death Note is also 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.640 on there. You can watch you know dragon Ball, I mean, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:47.480 you can read dragon Ball, DBZ, my Hero uh, demon Hunter, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:52.360 Demon Slayer, Demon Hunter, de Hunter, Fire Force, like all 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.320 the Shoonen Jump of mangas and all of probably like 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.160 the hottest ones right now you can read. And it's 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.000 only five bucks a month, So definitely check that out. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.560 They need to give me a promo code and a 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:09.760 free copy. Yeah, let me get it. Uh So. As 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.520 of April two thousand and fifteen, Death Notes twelve Tackle 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.560 Bond volumes have sold over thirty million copies. The series 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.720 is on is one of the most celebrated mangas of 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.720 all time, and on i c V twos it's one 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.080 of the top ten shown in Properties of Quartertooth two 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.399 thousand nine, and Death Note was This was the third 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.040 best selling manga property in North America, the series one 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:37.920 the two thousand period period. The series won the two 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.320 thousand and eight Eagle Award for Favorite Manga as voted 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.840 by UK fans, and in two thousand seven the Ministry 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.320 of Culture of Japan occupies the tenth place among the 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:55.080 best Manga of all time place. It also receives several nominations, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.240 such as Best Manga at the two thousand sixth American 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.280 Anime Awards, the two thousand seven to Zuko Sama Cultural Prize, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.320 and official Selection of the Anti goldmey Uh International Comics 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.240 Festival two thousand dight and Obada was nominated for Best 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.639 Penciler Inchor at the two thousand and eight Eisner Award. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:16.000 So this is a heavily decorated This is heavily decorated 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:23.560 issue like period. Yeah, just the the the design also, 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.480 like I think that's one thing that people don't talk 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.000 about if you go and look at the manga, just 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:37.040 the design of just the different characters, the the shad, 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.400 the shading. We have some in the dock that we're 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.240 looking at right now and some from the from the 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:47.400 one shot, and it looks just too too too creepy 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.160 and good like I know, it's it has that good 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.480 horror field but like but like not like typical like 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.000 like let's you see like today, but it's like I 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:58.800 don't know it gives It's like I don't know, I 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.840 don't know how to describe it, Like just something about 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.840 the arches, like DAWs drew me to it. I was like, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.280 you know, I might how to put this in my 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:10.920 back pocket and stand, Yeah, yeah, there we Someone would 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.200 say we have no choice but to but to stand, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.280 you know, so, but to stay. You really don't, you 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.680 really honestly, and you would know that if you just 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:24.360 watch the DVD like it's sitting here, it's waiting, it's 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.239 waiting for me. I'm gonna crack this thing open. You 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.760 know it's all right, I know where you live. It 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:32.720 has to look visit as the viz on the back 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:36.080 that they want me. It's it's also this is like thick. 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.359 I haven't opened it, but it's heavy, and I believe 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.040 it's like one one DVD. You're gonna hear some live 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.240 crinkles and crackling of me opening this up for the 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.159 first time unboxing, because this has weight to it, and 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.280 I want to know what that weight is, because it's 0:20:54.720 --> 0:21:00.800 the weight of the whole. Anime could be on its back, 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:06.040 just a giant reuke just pops out of the box. 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:11.280 I'm like, oh, well I'm dead carrying the weight of all. Yeah, alright, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.359 because yeah, this has some weight I want to look into. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.440 Oh oh oh no, oh oh, I just found out 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.080 that I've ever delivered it to me. This is definitely 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.920 a oh yeah, it's creepy. It's it's shredd. I should 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:29.520 have kept the plastic on, I should have kept the blossom. 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.640 And no, it's it's it's heavy because it has five 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:40.440 Okay that makes sense. Um oh no, okay, So this 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.120 is the saddest day. It's you know, ups, you win 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.520 this time. This thing is crunched up. But I'm glad 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.520 we did it live so that people can experience that, 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.520 so people who know people know exactly what we what 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.080 were doing here. So speaking of this destroyed piece of 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.960 blue Ray that I just opened right now, uh, let's 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:04.280 talk about the anime. So you know, how did it 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:07.359 come across? Did you watch when it first started dropping 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:11.119 or is this something kind of caught later? I caught it. 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:13.600 I don't know. I don't even know if I'm allowed 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:15.399 to say this, but like I caught it a little 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.840 bit later, so like I think I ended up watching 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:24.520 it ten years ago. I want to say, yeah, like yeah, yeah, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.040 So it finished in two thousand and seven, right, and 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.560 so I think that's I think that's when I started it. 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:33.239 I think that's when I started it, and I was 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:37.560 watching it back then we didn't have like those streaming services, 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:39.359 you know, when it wasn't airing on TV, So I 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:44.960 was like, you know, finding ways we used to watch. 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.800 You know, we love you Funny, we love you Crunchy Roll, 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:52.800 but the ways we used to watch the way the 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:57.399 FBI has entered the chat, uh so? But yeah, So 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.600 like I was like downloading episodes and that's like how 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.080 I got into Death Note, like towards the end of 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:05.479 two thousand seven, and then since then it's just been history. 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.600 Like I even I watched I think I watched it 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.600