Guess what? Death Note is now an anime! First there was the manga (which I highly recommended). Then the movie came out (live version). I have yet to see it, but am waiting for the dvd with subtitles to come out. Now they’ve decided it’s good enough to be an anime.
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I have no idea how long this series will be, but since the manga’s already done, hopefully they won’t screw up. I’ve seen the 1st 2 episodes so far and they’re good, although they make Light seem crazy and evil off the bat, while the manga slowly converted him from a top of the class student to a crazy person.
I also found this interesting article: Death Note Stirs Controversy in China
Imitating events in the manga series Death Note, Chinese school students in the city of Shenyang have take to writing death notes. The students buy special stationary and follow instructions such as “Write the cause of death and the person’s name backwards and the person will die in 40 seconds.”
A middle school student told the Shenyang Night Report, “Many of my friends have Death Note. When they are tired of studying, they have fun by writing down the names of teachers they don’t like.”
Some Shenyang schools have banned the manga and related stationary, the newspaper called Death Note, “Poison, creating wicked hearts.” Others however, including one major Chinese newspaper, feel that the ban is an over-reaction and is inappropriate. Some have suggested that overreactions such as these are what stifle creativity in China.
Death Note is currently serialized in Shonen Jump.
It appears they’re redoing Kanon. They had a version a couple years back, but now it appears that another studio is doing a remake of it. I’ve also seen the 1st 2 episodes so far and all I can say is ~uguuuuuuuuuuuu~. Belldandy is so into it that he even counted the # of uguus in each episode. Although it’s a remake, the storyline is somewhat altered. It seems that Yuuichi has an idea of who this girl is already and Ayu comes out saying they’ve met before, while in the other version, it wasn’t until the last episode, everything came back to Yuuichi.