Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, how you're doing? Huh? How you feeling? It's
Speaker 1: another episode of Nerdificent And if you heard, if you read,
Speaker 1: you read the title, then you already know what it's about.
Speaker 1: And if you if you haven't and you went in blind,
Speaker 1: let me let me give you a little taste. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sugumi Ohba and Takashi Abada's Death Note hit the Pages
Speaker 1: Have Shown and Jump in December of two thousand and
Speaker 1: three and became an instant sensation. The manga industry keeps
Speaker 1: the identities of the writing duo a secret, even after
Speaker 1: nearly twenty years of popularity with twelve volumes in a
Speaker 1: single season of an anime. Fans have been begging for
Speaker 1: new original material from the franchise for years. Earlier this year,
Speaker 1: they got it. Today we're talking Death Note with the
Speaker 1: anime expert coming off the heels of Funnimation con host extraordinaire.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see her on TV. You're gonna read her right,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna know her everywhere. My Nigerian c ST.
Speaker 1: How you doing? Hi, I'm doing great. I like that.
Speaker 1: That's that's okay, let's go. Oh yeah, I'm feeling I'm
Speaker 1: feeling all that Nigerian energy. I just watched Hamilton's last
Speaker 1: night and we had a bro in there. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: who was our bro? Oh, you didn't know. He's the
Speaker 1: one who was with Madison the Big I forget his name. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's Nigerian. Yeah that's I know. Now. When I first
Speaker 1: heard the musical the soundtrack, I thought it was a
Speaker 1: white dude, and then I watched and it's a black dude.
Speaker 1: And now I'm learning that he's a Nigernigerian. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh, let me see, I got oh no that one, Okay,
Speaker 1: but he goes by Oak, which is probably the hardest
Speaker 1: nickname anyone can have, you know, like a treat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah he's Nigerian. And I'm blown away because, like
Speaker 1: is theater credits are? And if he knew the fight
Speaker 1: I had to fight to get my dad to let
Speaker 1: me act. I'm like, who who? But I'm still fighting
Speaker 1: like this, how did he tell me your secret? Oak?
Speaker 1: For you to have this long laundry list of theater experience? Wo,
Speaker 1: we love to see it, Yeah, we truly do. But yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, while we're on the subject, what are
Speaker 1: you nerding about? Nerding out about this? Week, What am
Speaker 1: I nerning out? So this week I watched so obviously
Speaker 1: I just you know, we did Fundimation con so I
Speaker 1: got to see the first two episodes of fire Force
Speaker 1: season two. So that's that's my girl right now. Like
Speaker 1: fire Force is literally everything to me right now. And
Speaker 1: then and then speaking of Nigerian's hello, we got our
Speaker 1: boy Oguon Montgomery. Who Yeah, I know, mom a mama,
Speaker 1: hit up Zeno and be like, let me let me
Speaker 1: tell you something real quick. I'm these notes. First, you're
Speaker 1: gonna sit down with me, get a little bit of
Speaker 1: an accident in there, and like, yeah, I can eat
Speaker 1: some food food though I send him some more more
Speaker 1: like eat on that first. I'm gonna before his next recording.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's so funny because, um, you're you're
Speaker 1: talking about fire Force. I just finally saw pro Mayre
Speaker 1: and I was watching it with Lisa Lisa wallin Friend
Speaker 1: of the Pod, uh Kawaii five ozone, and she kept saying,
Speaker 1: this is basically fire Force, this is very similar to
Speaker 1: fire Force, and I didn't, Oh, oh my gosh, you
Speaker 1: know it's you know, studio trigger already. Yeah, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: I'll even I'll even drop off because I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be in with your your hood because I need
Speaker 1: to drop this one piece off to Crystal. But I'll
Speaker 1: drop my blue ray off so you can keep it.
Speaker 1: It's s gorgeous. Yeah, I don't actually, I don't think
Speaker 1: me and Crystal live in the same really. I mean, y'all, y'all, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll talk. We'll talk off. I ain't gonna dock you
Speaker 1: on the thing, but based on what she said, you're
Speaker 1: well you did move. Okay, all right, we'll talk, but
Speaker 1: I'll drop it off to you because I need everyone
Speaker 1: to see it because I'm a studio trigger head. But
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the perfect kind of combo to
Speaker 1: let us jump up into death note which I knew
Speaker 1: you watched it. I was. I was doing I do
Speaker 1: a dumb thing where I asked questions I know the
Speaker 1: answer to because I remember geeking out on the on
Speaker 1: Twitter when they did the news like they did a
Speaker 1: new manga chapter, right, yeah, that which is like, how
Speaker 1: are you going teeth like that? How you like you
Speaker 1: don't leave us hanging for like ten years and just
Speaker 1: give you a one shot. I just give us a
Speaker 1: little one shot, you know, I mean, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I didn't read it. I did not read it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got Look it's it's back here. I got a
Speaker 1: huge backlog of stuff. I look. I surprised Lisa didn't
Speaker 1: like you know, well, that's why I'm watching killer kill
Speaker 1: right now, because because the time she was like, you
Speaker 1: just need a watch kill kill you, because I guess
Speaker 1: there's a lot of likes to kill a kill in
Speaker 1: pro maer So she's got you on quality that look.
Speaker 1: I would look, I'm working through so many That's why
Speaker 1: you know, when Christmas asked me about one piece, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got getting tom I gotta bust out through and
Speaker 1: then I'm rewatching big Oh, I already did my gore
Speaker 1: in London, and watch it and run with the Wind
Speaker 1: is back there too. I got the box set of that.
Speaker 1: Wait did you did you start one piece? Or like
Speaker 1: I did not yet, but you're returning you're returning it
Speaker 1: to her. But you didn't start. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no no, I no I when we went
Speaker 1: you were here with me when we saw gold together.
Speaker 1: You know how they gave us that one piece blu
Speaker 1: ray this joint right here, Um, I have to so
Speaker 1: I'm giving Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go through One Piece because I used to watch it
Speaker 1: religions religiously um back when it was on like the
Speaker 1: two Namine Adult Swim, but then I then I stopped.
Speaker 1: So it's so I'm pretty like I know most everything,
Speaker 1: but it's like very early stuff. So that's why I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get there. But it's nine hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight episodes is daunting. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: gonna be going off. I see it lasting for like
Speaker 1: another three years, so don't even worry. Don't like that
Speaker 1: anime is not going nowhere. Yeah you see. I mean
Speaker 1: why when you get to nine, you might as well
Speaker 1: be like, we own this train till they tell you
Speaker 1: One Piece. Fans are going to be fifty sixty still
Speaker 1: wondering if Lucy's about to become king. Okay, So so
Speaker 1: let's jump into the story of of of Death Note,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's a story that I think
Speaker 1: even if you if you're an anime fan, you know
Speaker 1: of Death not Death Note, whether you watched or not.
Speaker 1: It's just it's one of those things. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: on the mount rushmore of animes with your dbzs, your
Speaker 1: Sailor Moons. I think Death Note is definitely one of
Speaker 1: the newer ones that are just on there, that are
Speaker 1: in the zeitgeys. You don't have to really explain the premise,
Speaker 1: but for those who may not know, a high school
Speaker 1: student discovers a supernatural notebook that has deadly powers. He
Speaker 1: can kill anyone he wishes simply by inscribing their name
Speaker 1: within its pages. Intassicated with his new power, he begins
Speaker 1: to eliminate those he deems unworthy of Light as he should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, the main character is kind
Speaker 1: of like an anti hero or you know, than the
Speaker 1: then like someone who's good. Can you explain that more
Speaker 1: for the listeners. Yeah, so, Light Yeogamy is the main character,
Speaker 1: and he pretty much his thing is he thinks he's
Speaker 1: serving justice. He's serving like a big old heap of
Speaker 1: justice every time he commits a murder. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: basically I guess he's somewhat of an anti hero with
Speaker 1: a god complex. Yeah. So he thinks by limitating people
Speaker 1: that he, like you said, deems is unworthy, he's cleansing
Speaker 1: the world and making it a better place for everyone.
Speaker 1: While also killing everyone. So um, but yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: light man. Like, so who else does he deal with?
Speaker 1: You know, because he's being someone's trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who's doing this, right, Yeah, so he has to deal
Speaker 1: with well, at first he's dealing with the police force
Speaker 1: and like every country right as first he's dealing and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, everybody backs out and so
Speaker 1: he's just dealing with Japan. So so l L who
Speaker 1: is this like mastermind, detective legendary. Um, he's the one
Speaker 1: that narrows down that Kira which is which is like
Speaker 1: Yakimi's nickname, that's like what the Internet basically has called
Speaker 1: him is Kira um, which also means killer. But like
Speaker 1: they've you know, transformed into Kira. But um, you've seen
Speaker 1: have you seen death? Note, I'm about to slap you
Speaker 1: want to you want to get that slap even harder?
Speaker 1: If it's right here, it's right, forget one piece, forget,
Speaker 1: it's right. Sick is right here. In is still in
Speaker 1: the cellphone. I'm ready to I'm ready to jump in.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to jump in. And I was gonna jump
Speaker 1: in this weekend and then uh, just there was just
Speaker 1: lots of Fatherhood that went down. I'll say, because there
Speaker 1: there are some animals I'll watch in front of Naomi,
Speaker 1: but there are something that I won't. And it was
Speaker 1: ever since one time I was watching Attack on Titan
Speaker 1: and it was when she was younger, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: she's like baby, she doesn't know and then like a
Speaker 1: titan like grab someone and watching her face, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: she knows exactly what's going on. So like so like
Speaker 1: the creepier anime stuff, I won't watch in front of her,
Speaker 1: but like, you know, i'll watch, Like I'll let her
Speaker 1: watch Gorn log On, I'll let her watch you know,
Speaker 1: I'll probably let her watch, you know, run the win
Speaker 1: with me. But Death note, I think it's just too
Speaker 1: hard and I have I don't watch Death not Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm sick about that. Yeah, you gotta forget one piece
Speaker 1: for the end of the week. I'll probably bust through Death. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like seven episodes, I think, So it's
Speaker 1: right there. Whenever I hear that magic number of those
Speaker 1: twenty six runs, those go to the top of the list.
Speaker 1: That's why I was like, killing kill, Okay, twenty six,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bust that out. I'm gonna bust that out.
Speaker 1: And then I just pushed back these longer ones. But
Speaker 1: then also, you know, your weeklies come up, like I've
Speaker 1: been watching um Tower of God and so, which I
Speaker 1: think did the season just ended because the last episode
Speaker 1: felt like that was I don't know, I haven't started
Speaker 1: that one. Okay, now now it's time for me to
Speaker 1: tell you to jump no no, because death not his
Speaker 1: legendary legendary. But I feel like you're gonna be bopping
Speaker 1: the way because you know, who do you know about
Speaker 1: the opening? Who does it? The Yeah? Some kids, great kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine tag me and it on his
Speaker 1: instant story. He was like, you better watch this. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying you. You you out here sleeping
Speaker 1: on an anime that has a K pop band opening.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not the Chyenne I know, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm that's that's what we're doing this week. You watched
Speaker 1: Definite this week, and I'll start Time of God. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so l this like mastermind detective that everybody
Speaker 1: knows of who was like secretive for a while until
Speaker 1: the Cyre case. Basically, he I don't want to spoil
Speaker 1: it too much because I really want you to get
Speaker 1: like the Yeah, also for everyone to this is a
Speaker 1: episode we've done, you know, anime that run longer and
Speaker 1: you know cool, We'll spoil that because you probably this
Speaker 1: one everyone wants listening. It's activity meet me on Twitter please,
Speaker 1: that's your homework. Yes, But anyways, to cut it short,
Speaker 1: l is basically his arch nemesis, and he's the one
Speaker 1: that's trying to take down Kira, and it just unfolds
Speaker 1: and gets crazy from there. That's all I'm going to
Speaker 1: say about that. I mean, and that, Yeah, that totally
Speaker 1: makes so much, so much sense of why like that
Speaker 1: kind of cat and mouse chase. That's like a classic
Speaker 1: you know convention, which makes uh, which makes this series
Speaker 1: so like interesting, you know. Before we even dive even
Speaker 1: deeper in the series, I really do want to talk
Speaker 1: about the the duo that writes it, because Oba's real
Speaker 1: identity is a closely guarded secret. Like the the duo
Speaker 1: have cited Shotaro Ishnamoru, Fujiko Fuji uh Fujiko Fugio and
Speaker 1: Fujio Akasuta as like manga creators who they're heavily inspired
Speaker 1: and as stated by the profile, place at the beginning
Speaker 1: of each death note. Manga Oba collects teacups and develops
Speaker 1: manga manga plots while holding their knees on a chair,
Speaker 1: similar to a habit of l so so like so,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know like Oba, you know, holding
Speaker 1: it down, being very very sneaky, you know. I I
Speaker 1: like that, But what what do you know much about
Speaker 1: the the oba and and that? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's hard to follow someone who is going under who
Speaker 1: who doesn't give their real identity, you know, I always
Speaker 1: do that, like the identity was a secret, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know any of this, Like I didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, anime fans, you can't keep anything from them
Speaker 1: too long. They're gonna try their hardest to like put
Speaker 1: pieces together. I know, I know, Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: think that's like part of the reason why, like a
Speaker 1: cure to Yama was like okay, no more pictures, no
Speaker 1: meeting grades, no nothing like yeah. And then you also
Speaker 1: had like one who who who just went by one
Speaker 1: and kept his identity pretty much a secret until like
Speaker 1: he uh um he like he had like received a
Speaker 1: reward and that's when he kind of like kind of
Speaker 1: ran um ran as well. I mean I would do
Speaker 1: the same thing. And have you met, yes, absolutely, like
Speaker 1: I would do the same exactly. Yeah, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're we are so good. I mean, you know, even
Speaker 1: though the you know, we were we had a diskiddeing.
Speaker 1: I think this is the perfect time to, uh call
Speaker 1: for a break. But when we come back, we're going
Speaker 1: to dive into the manga and its development. Uh and
Speaker 1: then after that talk about the anime, and then just
Speaker 1: go into an open discussion of Death Note and other
Speaker 1: spinoffs for it. So see you right after this and
Speaker 1: we're back. Welcome back to Nerdificent. We're here with Chen
Speaker 1: and Hulu, Colude good good, good, good friend, good good, good,
Speaker 1: all around anime expert. You. If you follow anime online,
Speaker 1: then you probably already know who I'm talking to. Let's
Speaker 1: let's be real. Let's be real. Probably not we get
Speaker 1: a naview with my three followers. If you went to
Speaker 1: if you went to Funny Con, you saw that facing
Speaker 1: You're like, who that? What all that hair? Let me go?
Speaker 1: Let me go people, you know, let me go look
Speaker 1: at this this uh this Japan vlog video that you know,
Speaker 1: if he totally doesn't watch over and over jealously because
Speaker 1: he was planning on going to Japan right about now
Speaker 1: and then the pandemic. Hap it. You'll get your time.
Speaker 1: It's all right, a problem, You'll get your time. So
Speaker 1: I'm just like sick. I'm sick. Oh man. Look, cheyenneknew best.
Speaker 1: She's like, let me do it now, let me not wait,
Speaker 1: oh man. So with the manga, the series had ended
Speaker 1: with a total of a hundred and eight chapters, and
Speaker 1: later the individual chapters were collected in the twelve separate
Speaker 1: tanko ban um. In April two thousand and five, Death
Speaker 1: Note was licensed for publication in North America by none
Speaker 1: other than Viz Media and which is one of the
Speaker 1: major kind of manga uh you know pubs, and the
Speaker 1: first English English volume was released on October t which
Speaker 1: is a great time to release Death Note. Spooky Spooky time.
Speaker 1: And then in February two, a one shot special was
Speaker 1: released set two years after the manga's epilogue, and it
Speaker 1: sees the introduction of a new Kira and the reactions
Speaker 1: of the main characters in response to the copycats appearance.
Speaker 1: So did you read the manga and if you, if so,
Speaker 1: did you read it before or after you watched it.
Speaker 1: So I read the Death Note manga, but I only
Speaker 1: read half of I never got to the end of it.
Speaker 1: Um but I ended up skipping to the end just
Speaker 1: to like see like how different it was from the anime.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I only read like a chunk of it.
Speaker 1: I never like finished. I ended up reading trying to
Speaker 1: get into it after I watched the anime because I
Speaker 1: was like, I want to see the differences, and like, uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's that's kind of what I was doing
Speaker 1: with my hero as I was starting from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and people are like, why are you doing that. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have so long and there's so much ahead of
Speaker 1: the anime. But I was like, I want to see
Speaker 1: the differences. But then eventually I was like, actually, I
Speaker 1: want to see what's happening. I want to know. If
Speaker 1: I want to know right exactly, I know I need
Speaker 1: to I need to pick that. I'm tired of this
Speaker 1: discourse that's going on about what's happening in the manga
Speaker 1: while we're waiting with our thumbs twiddling for them to
Speaker 1: animate the new season. I'm saying, wait a whole year,
Speaker 1: oh man. Yeah. Uh. And for those who don't know
Speaker 1: I've talked about this on the pod before, viz specifically,
Speaker 1: I think it's like five bucks a month and you
Speaker 1: get access to all the Shoonen Jump Um manga so
Speaker 1: you can watch you know you. Death Note is also
Speaker 1: on there. You can watch you know dragon Ball, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can read dragon Ball, DBZ, my Hero uh, demon Hunter,
Speaker 1: Demon Slayer, Demon Hunter, de Hunter, Fire Force, like all
Speaker 1: the Shoonen Jump of mangas and all of probably like
Speaker 1: the hottest ones right now you can read. And it's
Speaker 1: only five bucks a month, So definitely check that out.
Speaker 1: They need to give me a promo code and a
Speaker 1: free copy. Yeah, let me get it. Uh So. As
Speaker 1: of April two thousand and fifteen, Death Notes twelve Tackle
Speaker 1: Bond volumes have sold over thirty million copies. The series
Speaker 1: is on is one of the most celebrated mangas of
Speaker 1: all time, and on i c V twos it's one
Speaker 1: of the top ten shown in Properties of Quartertooth two
Speaker 1: thousand nine, and Death Note was This was the third
Speaker 1: best selling manga property in North America, the series one
Speaker 1: the two thousand period period. The series won the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight Eagle Award for Favorite Manga as voted
Speaker 1: by UK fans, and in two thousand seven the Ministry
Speaker 1: of Culture of Japan occupies the tenth place among the
Speaker 1: best Manga of all time place. It also receives several nominations,
Speaker 1: such as Best Manga at the two thousand sixth American
Speaker 1: Anime Awards, the two thousand seven to Zuko Sama Cultural Prize,
Speaker 1: and official Selection of the Anti goldmey Uh International Comics
Speaker 1: Festival two thousand dight and Obada was nominated for Best
Speaker 1: Penciler Inchor at the two thousand and eight Eisner Award.
Speaker 1: So this is a heavily decorated This is heavily decorated
Speaker 1: issue like period. Yeah, just the the the design also,
Speaker 1: like I think that's one thing that people don't talk
Speaker 1: about if you go and look at the manga, just
Speaker 1: the design of just the different characters, the the shad,
Speaker 1: the shading. We have some in the dock that we're
Speaker 1: looking at right now and some from the from the
Speaker 1: one shot, and it looks just too too too creepy
Speaker 1: and good like I know, it's it has that good
Speaker 1: horror field but like but like not like typical like
Speaker 1: like let's you see like today, but it's like I
Speaker 1: don't know it gives It's like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to describe it, Like just something about
Speaker 1: the arches, like DAWs drew me to it. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I might how to put this in my
Speaker 1: back pocket and stand, Yeah, yeah, there we Someone would
Speaker 1: say we have no choice but to but to stand,
Speaker 1: you know, so, but to stay. You really don't, you
Speaker 1: really honestly, and you would know that if you just
Speaker 1: watch the DVD like it's sitting here, it's waiting, it's
Speaker 1: waiting for me. I'm gonna crack this thing open. You
Speaker 1: know it's all right, I know where you live. It
Speaker 1: has to look visit as the viz on the back
Speaker 1: that they want me. It's it's also this is like thick.
Speaker 1: I haven't opened it, but it's heavy, and I believe
Speaker 1: it's like one one DVD. You're gonna hear some live
Speaker 1: crinkles and crackling of me opening this up for the
Speaker 1: first time unboxing, because this has weight to it, and
Speaker 1: I want to know what that weight is, because it's
Speaker 1: the weight of the whole. Anime could be on its back,
Speaker 1: just a giant reuke just pops out of the box.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, well I'm dead carrying the weight of all. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: because yeah, this has some weight I want to look into.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh no, oh oh, I just found out
Speaker 1: that I've ever delivered it to me. This is definitely
Speaker 1: a oh yeah, it's creepy. It's it's shredd. I should
Speaker 1: have kept the plastic on, I should have kept the blossom.
Speaker 1: And no, it's it's it's heavy because it has five
Speaker 1: Okay that makes sense. Um oh no, okay, So this
Speaker 1: is the saddest day. It's you know, ups, you win
Speaker 1: this time. This thing is crunched up. But I'm glad
Speaker 1: we did it live so that people can experience that,
Speaker 1: so people who know people know exactly what we what
Speaker 1: were doing here. So speaking of this destroyed piece of
Speaker 1: blue Ray that I just opened right now, uh, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the anime. So you know, how did it
Speaker 1: come across? Did you watch when it first started dropping
Speaker 1: or is this something kind of caught later? I caught it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't even know if I'm allowed
Speaker 1: to say this, but like I caught it a little
Speaker 1: bit later, so like I think I ended up watching
Speaker 1: it ten years ago. I want to say, yeah, like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So it finished in two thousand and seven, right, and
Speaker 1: so I think that's I think that's when I started it.
Speaker 1: I think that's when I started it, and I was
Speaker 1: watching it back then we didn't have like those streaming services,
Speaker 1: you know, when it wasn't airing on TV, So I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, finding ways we used to watch.
Speaker 1: You know, we love you Funny, we love you Crunchy Roll,
Speaker 1: but the ways we used to watch the way the
Speaker 1: FBI has entered the chat, uh so? But yeah, So
Speaker 1: like I was like downloading episodes and that's like how
Speaker 1: I got into Death Note, like towards the end of
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, and then since then it's just been history.
Speaker 1: Like I even I watched I think I watched it
Speaker 1: in Japanese like eight times, and then I end up
Speaker 1: watching the English so good five times and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I know this anime is golden, Like yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's golden. Is It's one of the few anime that
Speaker 1: I will watch over and still pretend like I don't
Speaker 1: know the outcome. That's that's how good it is, Like oh,
Speaker 1: he that that person dies, Oh what happens to the Oh? Wow,
Speaker 1: have you guys seen this anime called Death note it well,
Speaker 1: you know it was directed by tetsuro U Tetsuro Iraqi,
Speaker 1: who is best known for his work on Attack on
Speaker 1: Titan and Sword Art Online. And you know, speaking, we
Speaker 1: talked a lot about Trigger. But another great, great, great
Speaker 1: animation house is Mad House, and that's the production company
Speaker 1: responsible for you know, Perfect Blue and Paprika, which you know,
Speaker 1: speaking of Paprika, I have beside me. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen this Tokyo Godfathers, which is you know,
Speaker 1: so so you know it has I It was um
Speaker 1: and that is the same director he directed Perfect Blue
Speaker 1: and Paprika. You know, I just you know, just just
Speaker 1: just gold. I have just just a side by if
Speaker 1: he's side roll roll call, just in case you were
Speaker 1: wondering Tokyo Godfathers. If you we need to do. We
Speaker 1: need to get you one too, so you can start
Speaker 1: doing Unboxed and like anime halls and stuff, prison School
Speaker 1: and out Lost Star. That's what we're doing. If he's
Speaker 1: one of those rich we Oh my gosh, do I
Speaker 1: need to show my goku to the camera again? Do
Speaker 1: I need to show I saw that. I saw that.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, I'm about to rob
Speaker 1: you it is huge. It is huge. It goes from
Speaker 1: my chest to my head. It is so heavy, and
Speaker 1: it looks so gorgeous and makes no say yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the company that did that is also the one who
Speaker 1: did that thick endeavor statue that everyone's been talking about.
Speaker 1: It's the same kind. When I showed it to Lisa,
Speaker 1: she was like, Okay, then I'm gonna buy the endeavor.
Speaker 1: If that looks that good, then yeah, you'd love to
Speaker 1: see it. I'm probably gonna get one more thing. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get a gor and log on because I
Speaker 1: realized that, even though it's my favorite animal of all time,
Speaker 1: I have no figures of it. So how much was that?
Speaker 1: You're ready? H that that goku? That that that h
Speaker 1: ran me five hundred dollars uh, five hundred dollars um
Speaker 1: of of of of straight art. Is that's an unemployment
Speaker 1: that I look, I I look. I knew it. I
Speaker 1: had the funds for it, you know um. And I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, it's it's time to do one
Speaker 1: of those investments, one of those like you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what, and you and you deserve it because
Speaker 1: you know you've been out here donating a black lives matter,
Speaker 1: so it don't even it don't even matter. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that. Yeah, that's yeah that you know that was
Speaker 1: here's the thing, you know, Shy and Nigerian's love to
Speaker 1: flex and that was really that was really it was.
Speaker 1: It was you flexing for a good cause. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that's and that's that's why I feel like I can
Speaker 1: just open That's the I can openly say I spent
Speaker 1: five dollars on a Goku statue because I also did
Speaker 1: donate two thousand dollars to Black Lives Matter. But also
Speaker 1: that's that's beyond all the other stuff. It's it is
Speaker 1: like this thing where it's like I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: if every time I buy some dumb stuff, I also
Speaker 1: try and donate to something worth worthwhile, and that's how
Speaker 1: I balance out my conscience. Yes, we love that. So yeah.
Speaker 1: Death Note began originally airing in Japan on October three,
Speaker 1: two six. You know, I was, I was, that was,
Speaker 1: I was ready. I was I that was my first
Speaker 1: year of college, you know, of community college that I
Speaker 1: would not finish and thus end up becoming a comedian
Speaker 1: and actor. But this is when Death Note was going. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it finished its run June of two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: totally in thirty seven twenty minute episodes. Series aired on
Speaker 1: Nipon Television UH on the nip On Television network in
Speaker 1: Japan every Tuesday at twenty three thirty four, because you
Speaker 1: know they run on that military time. Let me do that,
Speaker 1: Let me do that, mathe. I just realized I said
Speaker 1: I started death Note ten years ago in two thousand seven.
Speaker 1: I meant ten years ago. Yeah, I knew what you meant,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't gonna correct you. I got it. I
Speaker 1: heard you. I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna clap that math.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I look at my my
Speaker 1: anime and oh okay, so so six PM is twenty
Speaker 1: and then you go to six and so so nine
Speaker 1: thirty four? What that is a weird time? It aired
Speaker 1: at nine thirty four. Why not nine thirty that's the
Speaker 1: that's demon four uh. In North America, the series has
Speaker 1: been licensed by viz for residents of the United States
Speaker 1: to use download to own, download to rent services like
Speaker 1: a while it was still airing in Japan. So this
Speaker 1: is like also on the cusp of like simulcast, UH.
Speaker 1: You know, like you're getting those quick turnarounds in this
Speaker 1: movie is seen as significant because it marks the first
Speaker 1: time a well known Japanese anime property would will be
Speaker 1: made legally available to domestic audience too for download to
Speaker 1: own while the title still airs. You know, just is
Speaker 1: that's the smart way of saying what I just said. Basically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the downloaded episodes contained the original Japanese audio track in
Speaker 1: English subtitles, and it's available through I g N S
Speaker 1: Windows only direct to drive service. I remember direct to Drive.
Speaker 1: I remember also not using it. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that is. Yeah, it was like it was just
Speaker 1: one of those like you know, ways to own, you know,
Speaker 1: video stuff where like you know, the first draft before
Speaker 1: we got to our netflix is and red boxes, you know,
Speaker 1: they had different different services. Um, so what were your
Speaker 1: first impressions of the series, like your first kind of
Speaker 1: watching through it? Like go back. I know you say
Speaker 1: you like trying, it's like it's new every time, but
Speaker 1: like when you were first watching it, what were you
Speaker 1: feeling first watching I thought light yoaging me was hot
Speaker 1: as I was like wait a minute, who is this?
Speaker 1: That was my person impression literally, um and then I
Speaker 1: was like this is kind of unique, like what is
Speaker 1: it about this notebook that exit so special? And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this big demon re you popped
Speaker 1: up and it's like, Okay, something's happening here. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: tuned in, I'm ready. Uh, and then I just kept
Speaker 1: it was like different from what I was watching, because
Speaker 1: like back then I was watching, like you know, Full
Speaker 1: Metal Alchemists came out, and then um Or in high
Speaker 1: school host Club I think around the same time, came out.
Speaker 1: So I was like watching like a mixture of anime
Speaker 1: and I had never seen something like something of like
Speaker 1: the kind of the Horde genre almost, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I mean I want to get more
Speaker 1: into anime, so why not? And I was like a
Speaker 1: young new anime fans. I was like, why not, let's
Speaker 1: do it. So Death note I'm not even sure how
Speaker 1: I how I found out about Death not actually now
Speaker 1: that I think, oh, you know what, you know what?
Speaker 1: You know what? You know what? Actually I do know
Speaker 1: how because I think I think I was like watching
Speaker 1: I think somebody did like a like they did like
Speaker 1: a parody of it on YouTube, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was so and I was like, what is this, Like
Speaker 1: I need to know what this show is. And then
Speaker 1: when I actually watched it, I was like, whoa, this
Speaker 1: is like not a comedy. This is not a comedy,
Speaker 1: Like people are dying, like lives are in state. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was like this when people used to do
Speaker 1: like anime parodies all the time. That's when I first
Speaker 1: found out about it, And that's when I like, don't
Speaker 1: dive into like the whole Death Note thing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, hey, so you you're locked in, you you're
Speaker 1: like it's time. Yes, absolutely, I still like I'm still
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna watch it again. This like something about
Speaker 1: that show. I think. I think the only other show
Speaker 1: that I can truly say might be just as good
Speaker 1: as Death Note to me is Code Chios because it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of the same concept, kind of Have you
Speaker 1: seen Code Chios? If you say no, I swear to
Speaker 1: God you're gonna be mad because home let me see it. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: because I always mix up Code Gias with Dance because
Speaker 1: I did see dance. You watch dance, nor then get
Speaker 1: off my back if you can't watch dance. All right,
Speaker 1: I've watching what what else was I gonna watch? I
Speaker 1: was gonna watch something else? If you watch death No yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's and mine's gonna be so so easy too,
Speaker 1: because they have Dance zero, which is like a which
Speaker 1: is the it's on Netflix right now, and it's like
Speaker 1: it's one of those like CG anime too, and it's
Speaker 1: one that doesn't feel bad because sometimes you see c
Speaker 1: G I anime and you're like, this doesn't look good. Oho.
Speaker 1: Kaiji Tang is one of the voice so lots of
Speaker 1: friends in there, alright, Christina V I did. I watched
Speaker 1: it before. I was cool with uh with with Kaiji,
Speaker 1: but now I have to say, okay, all right, well
Speaker 1: look at that good job you're talking about. No dance.
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm gonna see see I don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the code code gias uh And I
Speaker 1: always in my head read it as geese, but I
Speaker 1: guess it's these are goats that you cannot just like
Speaker 1: you can't just fly by them, like you just gotta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta take a good, good two weeks
Speaker 1: to get you know, get introduced. Oh man, well dying,
Speaker 1: we'll get up, we'll get up in there, we'll get Look,
Speaker 1: we're gonna report, we're gonna report, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: so many, so many animals to discuss when we do report. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be our homework. Yeah, all right, Well
Speaker 1: we're gonna take another quickie quickie break. But when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna be talking about like the spinoffs,
Speaker 1: like the video game, and then we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the live action movie. We'll do all that
Speaker 1: right after these messages, and we're a talking about Death
Speaker 1: Note with Chyenna Hulu anime experience extraordinary. How you doing?
Speaker 1: How you doing so well? We'll talk about the kind
Speaker 1: of good versus the bed. I remember seeing this game,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't think I because I wasn't
Speaker 1: watching it, so I didn't really get into it. But
Speaker 1: there was a Death Note DS game. Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never heard of. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever heard and I definitely didn't see it see it
Speaker 1: because it seems like it never localized out here as
Speaker 1: far as I can see this release. Yeah, there's only
Speaker 1: there's only the only Japanese version is available on Oh man,
Speaker 1: they made a whole l game too, Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: looks easily they got him. Yeah, it's prologued to Death Note. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they went hard. Yeah, and DS. That's that was the
Speaker 1: rough thing about Nintendo DS. There were a lot of games.
Speaker 1: Nintendo has a lot of games that are like strictly
Speaker 1: localized to Japan that we never got to see, you know,
Speaker 1: so big, big, big on their part, not following that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Death Note Kira game. It's a strategy game
Speaker 1: from Konami for the Nintendo DS where a player takes
Speaker 1: on the role of Kira or l and the player
Speaker 1: attempts to deduce who their enemy is. Kira will try
Speaker 1: and uncover El's identity and vice versa. This will play
Speaker 1: out in three phases, Investigation where the player will discuss
Speaker 1: the case and clues with the other characters, Voting, where
Speaker 1: each members of the investigation team cast a vote on
Speaker 1: who they suspect L or Kira is based on the
Speaker 1: players performance in the previous phase, and then L Kira,
Speaker 1: where the player can either focus on there where the
Speaker 1: player can either focus their investigation on one member to
Speaker 1: see if they are Kira on Els, or force a
Speaker 1: member off the team if there are Kira. A sequel
Speaker 1: to the game, Death Note Successors to L was released
Speaker 1: in Japan in July twelve of two thousand seven. Then
Speaker 1: the storyline is based on the second part of the manga,
Speaker 1: featuring characters such as Mellow and Near. And then they
Speaker 1: did a third game, Oh my gosh, and that's the
Speaker 1: one I was talking about, the prologue to Death Note UH,
Speaker 1: where the player assumes the role of rookie FBI agent
Speaker 1: who awakens in a strange hotel and attempts to escape
Speaker 1: with the help of l who provides assistant in the
Speaker 1: game via who provides assistant via an in game p
Speaker 1: d A. And the story is set before the Kira
Speaker 1: investigation in the original series. So wow, that's that's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's that's a whole lot that we never got to taste,
Speaker 1: a whole lot Japan. Three games, three games for one
Speaker 1: of the most popular anime at the time that never
Speaker 1: came to the US. They're like, no, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: we weren't ready, and we weren't We probably weren't ready. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then um, the others spin off we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about, uh, And I think we'll go close on
Speaker 1: these thoughts and then maybe say one a few things
Speaker 1: about the one shot that came out this year but
Speaker 1: let's talk about this, uh live action movie. We're talking
Speaker 1: about Netflix? Or are we talking about this? One? Is
Speaker 1: talking about the original one, which I haven't I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: Have you seen me? The one that not like the
Speaker 1: Japanese live action? Yeah, I have the JAP I have
Speaker 1: the first movie, the Japanese live action. I think there
Speaker 1: was two, but but I have the first movie on
Speaker 1: DVD and then ump, I mean the Netflix one. We
Speaker 1: don't talk about that. We just don't. We just don't
Speaker 1: talk about that. I saw it. I had to do it,
Speaker 1: and that was just that, you know, I I I'm triggered,
Speaker 1: I'm traumatized, I am you know, I'm a lot of
Speaker 1: things because of that movie. Um, and they have the audacity,
Speaker 1: they have the audacity to make another, to be making
Speaker 1: another one, Like the disrespect is so clear. I just
Speaker 1: it was just so bad. Oh yeah, that was That
Speaker 1: was truly, truly truly it's it was. It was like
Speaker 1: I just seeing the fans react online, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is when I don't even have to check in
Speaker 1: on it's it's it's garbage. But yeah, there were three
Speaker 1: that were done, the Japanese ones, and so those were fine.
Speaker 1: It seems like since you own one. Mm. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: were good, Like it was like the first time I
Speaker 1: had seen like c G. I done like that with
Speaker 1: for you character and well not even just for you,
Speaker 1: but like all this shitting got me. So it was
Speaker 1: like the first time that I had seen you know,
Speaker 1: c G. I like that, and it actually was really
Speaker 1: good at the time. Like now I'm watching it, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, but it was good for like the time
Speaker 1: that it was. It was definitely a lot better than
Speaker 1: what I saw on on Netflix. Let's be clear, um,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know something about that movie. And
Speaker 1: then I believe the voice actor for Light played Light
Speaker 1: in the movie in Japanese. I think I don't quote
Speaker 1: me on that. I believe that's what that was. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was good, it was cute. Yeah I
Speaker 1: remember enjoying it a lot, but I haven't seen it
Speaker 1: in a long time. But yeah, oh all right, well
Speaker 1: yeah that's I mean, that's I feel like that's that's well,
Speaker 1: we'll leave it on. We'll leave it on the good,
Speaker 1: not the bad. And I think, you know, for for
Speaker 1: for those who might not have known or or might
Speaker 1: not have checked out the the the the kind of
Speaker 1: new one shot that that came out this year. What
Speaker 1: is a light spoiler free review from Cheyenne. A light
Speaker 1: spoiler free review, UM, Death Notice back and they need
Speaker 1: to continue because that character Okay, without spoiling because it
Speaker 1: was so obviously it was like a really really short
Speaker 1: one shot. But I think when you read it, and
Speaker 1: you'll agree with me after you you know, watch the series,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll agree with me that that character
Speaker 1: needed a lot more love, Like that character needed to
Speaker 1: how do I say this scout spoiling? That character deserves better?
Speaker 1: There you go? I think was his name? Okaye? Like okay,
Speaker 1: I feel that I feel that that character, yes, Minora,
Speaker 1: deserved better and yes, and it gave us like the
Speaker 1: death note feel that that we've missed so for so long,
Speaker 1: you know, like it gave us that death note feel.
Speaker 1: And then obviously key characters like for you was back
Speaker 1: and like that was great. But the way they you know,
Speaker 1: the way they switched some things up, I didn't like
Speaker 1: too much care for but it was it was a
Speaker 1: good one shot. I think anybody that is a Death
Speaker 1: Noe fan should definitely take a look at it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, relive those good times but with a different
Speaker 1: story without light. It's minora story. I'm pretty sure his
Speaker 1: name is Minora. Well then, I mean, there you have it.
Speaker 1: Then you better not miss that. Did you check it out?
Speaker 1: But please, thank you so much for coming on the
Speaker 1: pod today and just dropping that death note knowledge in
Speaker 1: your passion and letting us borrow it and get me
Speaker 1: hype to watch through this, in this crumbling blu ray
Speaker 1: that I did not know was crumbling until I opened it? Uh,
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