Is Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai mindless moe or an awesome anime?
First of all if you would rather watch the video version of this you can click this link --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yltDivxYEd0
To answer the question if Chuunibyou is good we'll have to look at the story of this anime and the character of course. Just stating the obvious here but when we're talking about slice of life anime we're pretty much talking about the characters too when we talk about the story because the story can only be interesting if the characters in it are engaging because we're looking at the daily lives of these
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people instead of having them transport to an interesting parallel universe or fictional world or the past or future or whatever kids these days are doing. So to state the story of a slice of life anime is good almost automatically means stating the characters are interesting ones to follow that leave you wanting to know more about them. So does Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai succeed storywise and character wise?
The beginning.
We start off following Yuuta, a boy who used to suffer from something called chuunibyou also known as eight graders syndrome. This means he was living in his own delusional world referring to himself as Dark Flame Master. He had a bandage on his arm to protect the world because if it'd come off it'd perish everything and he wears weird clothes and make his own swords. When he's finally done with middle school and gets a new chance at a new school he's determined to get rid of his chuunibyou and have a normal school life fitting in with the rest of the class. Just thinking back on his own chuunibyou makes him cringe now. Because he's now getting one step closer to being an adult and that means cringing over our past mistakes and leaving them behind never looking back. He walks into this cute girl named Nibutani and he crushes on her. When he gets to class he finds out she's in his class too. So for him this feels like a fresh start and things couldn't be looking any better right now especially when he immediately makes a new friend, Isshiki, who sits behind him and they have a completely normal conversation. Everything seem to be going well so far until Rikka starts talking to him in class saying her Tyrant's Eye is reacting to his presence. He recognizes her behaviour in a blink. The dramatic way she talks, the way she describes herself, the way she's wearing an eyepatch just because, the way she's obviously lives in her own little world… it has to be chuunibyou.
He wants to make sure he doesn't have to put up with her in order to have his normal school life the way he pictured it. The one thing he doesn't want is for people to associate him with the crazy girl in class. But of course after getting invited to a party and getting an opportunity to get popular he ends up walking Rikka home because they live in the same building and she doesn't know how to get there being new there and all. I think this was an important event because maybe if this didn't happen this whole anime could not have existed. This one event determined the rest of the course of this anime like a butterfly effect. Maybe if he would've gone to the party people would have liked him and he would've gotten cocky and shunned Rikka to keep his status or build on his image for the other people. Because people have a tendency to try to keep their status no matter how nice of a person they used to be. He would've probably avoided her altogether by focusing on his new friends. Then again if he would not have been liked by people he might have been the one to be shunned and then he would have lost his confidence in himself and there would've never been a club that they start later in the show because that would have just been plain awkward. Yuuta keeps treating Rikka like a child telling her she's a dummy and playfully hitting her on the head. Which makes it obvious to us just how innocent Rikka is if even the main character sees her as a child pretty much. By the end of the first episode he helps her move her stuff into the apartment and we see the start of a bond forming between Rikka and Yuuta even if it's just a little at this point. Near the end of the episode Rikka tells him the powers of Dark Flame Master is real and gets emotional when Yuuta keeps telling her it's not real and it's all made up as if he's denying his true self. For her he does his signature chant one more time which proves to us Rikka doesn't leave him cold even though he tries to hard to project it that way. The first time you watch this scene it's sad but the second time you watch the anime and you realize why Rikka has chuunibyou in the first place it's so sad how she's trying to hold on to this idea, this delusion. And how he's just shoving the fact that it's all not real all up in her face.
Story.
Rikka and Yuuta share a weird connection from the start. Even though they've only known each other for a day Yuuta understands Rikka in a weird way because he has gone through the same phase as her. Like this example where Rikka finds a cat and wants to keep him but she can't and he asks her why and she replies with: The priestess of the Unseen Horizon Overseers displays immune hypperreaction to chimeras. And Yuuta replies with: Oh so your sister is allergic to cats? So even though he doesn't want to give in to the chuunibyou he still thinks in a way it's easy for him to understand the language of it. Sometimes he even slips up doing his old routines without thinking it through. Rikka clings to Yuuta nonstop not giving Yuuta room to develop distance and steady his place as a normal guy. She follows him around even when he's trying to make the moves on Nibutani. When Nibutani is told about the cat Rikka found she directs them towards Kumin who might be the cats owner. She's not the owner of the cat but it does make them befriend Kumin who'll turn out to be the sweet and sleepy one of the bunch. When she finds out Yuuta used to have chuunibyou she doesn't get weirded out or act mean about it even more she acts like it's actually a really cool thing. At school Rikka is always being the loner being true to her own world so when other people try to approach her she just stays herself and starts talking about her delusions and scare people off. She pretty much has this huge wall around her for almost everyone. Even to her closest friend, Dekomori. In the third episode Dekomori gets introduced which will be the last important character that's introduced in this season. She plays as Rikka's servant seeing her as her big example and master. She also has a severe case of chuunibyou. She ends all of her sentences with desu. But she pronounces it like the english word death at least that's how japanese people will hear it. She's pretty "special" as well. Dekomori is obsessed with this book written by Forrest Summer which is basically a guide for chuunibyou sufferers and their world building pretty much. Truth is Nibutani wrote this book way back when and is also desperately trying to cover up her chuunibyou and hopes they never find out it was her who wrote it. She joins their club to make sure no one finds out.
Characters.
So now we know all of the main characters. We have Rikka, who has chuunibyou and clings to our main protagonist Yuuta. We have Yuuta who used to have chuunibyou and tries to be a normal guy at his school and fit in. We have Nibutani who is popular and one of the prettiest girls in class but also secretly used to have chuunibyou. We have Kumin who we don't know that much about other than she's really sweet and not judgemental and very very sleepy all of the time and is pretty much there for the convenience of some of the jokes. I think she's really cute but doesn't add much to the anime and could've been left out completely. I really wish the anime had either focused a little more on her so I'd be able to tell you more about her than just those really obvious traits even if they would've showed it in a subtle way or just left her out because it's a waste of screen time like this. Then have Dekomori who worships Rikka and is coo coo bananas and also has chuunibyou. They all join in a club. Then there's also Isshiki who's friends with Yuuta but never seems to be a real important character at one point even forgotten about by not only the viewers but also the main cast. He wants to be a cool guy but he fails by trying a little too hard and all in all he's not very memorable even though he does become a member of the club later on for a bit and has this ne heroic act where he shaves his head in order to save the others in class which was kind of dumb and I don't know why they added that part.
Usually Dekomori and Rikka mess around and make the delusions as real as possible, Kumin sleeps on the ground or wherever she can and Yuuta is the one keeping them all in line. Meantime Nibutani is worming and sliming her way in to getting her magic book back before anyone finds out she wrote it but gets found out soon anyways. Dekomori is the only one who doesn't believe she was the one who wrote it because she'd been admiring this person for so long. Thus Dekomori and Nibutani constantly get into fights from this point onward. And they get this running gag going. Which I think is also a nice touch. Even if you don't like the joke itself which most of the times isn't even funny just having something return again and again makes it feel like something familiar. It's like what they say about being lonely. Once you're so used to being lonely even when you do feel better you have a tendency to look up that loneliness in order to get back to a state you're familiar with because that has become something comfortable for you whether it feels good or not. And I feel like this also applies with bad jokes. When someone in your family always makes the same joke and you get tired of it at on point it just becomes a part of the family's image and when that person dies that'll be one of the stupid little things you'll miss about them. When you watch an anime with running gags that make you roll your eyes all the way back in your head and never even laugh about it and then you go back and watch the anime again after a year and you see the same jokes you get into it right away because that has become a weirdly cosy place all of a sudden. Maybe that's just me though. Or maybe that is one of the reason character tropes keep reappearing even when everyone has grown tired of it.
Nibutani and Yuuta are struggling to get out of that phase while Rikka and Dekomori are having the time of their life with their chuunibyou and Kumin is just asking them questions like why Nibutani and Yuuta are not just giving into it and having fun so again Kumin is just there for the convenience of asking the questions we want answers to. The thing is that we can relate to these characters. It's tough growing up and letting go of your fantasies and innocence. For some people it's harder than others and some people choose to always be true to themselves even if a little childish. All of these characters have different ways of coping with growing up or stubborn feelings for something that has happened to them. Yuuta and Rikka are developing their friendship into something more than just friendships as they make each other better people because Rikka is always anti-social and doesn't really know how to talk to people normally but Yuuta helps her overcome it by being somewhat harsh on her but talking to her in a way she understand by using his chuunibyou experiences. She makes him a better person to by having him be himself more. Even if he tries to be different or tries to grow up he should stay true to himself and Rikka kinda forcibly makes him do that. Nibutani's charactr could have been more fleshed out in my opinion as to why exactly she had chuunibyou and decided to give up on it after being as passionate about it as she was even writing a whole book about it. Dekomori's character could've been better if there was more depth to her than just her being obsessed with Rikka. Because apart from that we don't really know what she likes or what she was like before she had chuunibyou or even why she likes Rikka as much as she does. She's an enjoyable uplifting character but sometimes it feels a little artificial. So as far as characters go I'd say Isshiki and Kumin were not necessary and it's kind of aggravating to have them in there anyways and the other side characters could've maybe used more background but the main focus of the show, Rikka and Yuuta were done really well in my opinion.
Reasons.
Later in the anime we find out Rikka's reasons for acting the way she does. I'll be spoiling some of the show now so if you haven't seen the anime I highly recommend skipping to the "Art." section in this review. Bleep Bloop Blob. Oh you're still here? Rikka's father suddenly died two years ago and because it was so sudden for her she was never able to accept it. Ever since the beginning of the anime she kept talking about wanting to see the unseen horizon in her chuunibyou talk and we never really know what it means until we find out the whole reason she has chuunibyou in the first place. Unable to accept the fact that her father died she build up this imaginary world around her. She saw Yuuta doing his dark flame master impression on the day she lost her father and it inspired her to create her own delusional world. Being in her own world protects her from the reality that she's pretty much all alone except for her sister and her grandparents she never goes to see. Unable to cope with her feelings, the unseen horizon, to Rikka, is the place she thought to see her dad after he died. She said that she was one day watching the horizon and she was sure her dad was there beyond the horizon. Her sister wants what's best for Rikka and keeps trying to pull her into reality but it's just too hard. I think a scene that most beautifully displays Rikka's thinking is when she goes back to where her old house was and in her mind it is still there but her sister keeps talking her into reality and we can see the house slowly vanish from around her. As the house is slowly crumbling so are Rikka's delusions and it keeps getting harder not to face the truth.
Falling in love.
The way Rikka falls in love with Yuuta is really pure. She doesn't understand what exactly it is what she's feeling and it's overwhelming for her. It's hard for her to face these emotions and she shows that by literally running away from it in episode 9 making me ball my eyes out. She deals with it in her own childish ways not owning up to it even when Nibutani suggests she might have a crush on Yuuta. Nibutani then makes it her job to act like Rikka's wingman. Rikka's clumsy attempt to follow up on Nibutani's from shoujo manga extracted advice is very comedic to see and was in my opinion one of the funniest things in the show. Because we already got to see how clumsy Rikka is on a daily basis which caused for some laughs this was only to be expected but doesn't make it less entertaining. When Rikka faces the fact that she likes Yuuta she is determined to confess her feelings to him. Being a fairly shy person myself I can relate to the slow build up to the actual confession. It doesn't just come out like that. She goes places with him not really telling him what she has to say until they're outside and she doesn't have to look at his face while confessing to him. The satisfaction of seeing that scene it indescribable. When you're shy or have to say something that makes you very vulnerable it's so hard to put it into words but when you're able to do it it feels all the more satisfying you were able to. Giving you some sort of adrenaline. If you can connect to Rikka and you can place yourself in her shoes this scene is so much more than just pleasant to watch even if she hides behind her umbrella and behind her chuunibyou. Instead of declaring each other boyfriend and girlfriend they make a contract which basically means the same thing but it's their own special thing. In real life relationships are kind of like contracts as well. When you're with someone you have this unspoken contract consisting of deals you're okay with and what things you're not comfortable with. Like some people are comfortable with having their boyfriend or girlfriend spending a lot of time with friends of the opposite gender and other couples refrain from doing so because that doesn't make them happy as a couple. Every couple has their own reasons for feeling the way they do and if you can't understand and respect each others values and feelings there's not much of a relationship to speak of. I think chuunibyou does a great job at portraying the importance of understanding in a relationship and how much that adds to how well a relationship really works.
Normality.
Near the end of the anime Rikka gets confronted with her mother who she's been avoiding because she's still angry at her for not telling her that her dad was going to die. Rikka's sister asks Yuuta to make Rikka stop hiding behind her chuunibyou and running away from her issues. Yuuta then convinces Rikka to stop wearing her eyepatch and to just behave normally. It's hard to like this part because we get to see how sad it makes Rikka to refrain from behaving the way she wants to. It is important for her to face up to these feelings because if she doesn't she may never get rid of these feelings inside. She will never be able to see her father again and that is something she'll just have to deal with. This of course initially make Dekomori angry and then sad because now she's the only one left living in her fantasy world as if she is being left behind which is heartbreaking in itself. You don't want to be that person left behind and the one that takes the longest to grow up. It's okay to take your time to grow up but society makes you feel like you can't and when all your friends are moving on it hurts deeply to be the one unchanged. Rikka starts blossoming and becomes friends with other girls in class. Although it is a good thing she's trying to be more social in my opinion it happened a little too fast. I don't believe in change overnight for someone so socially awkward as Rikka. You can't just take off your eyepatch and BAM you're a social bee. If this would've taken a longer time to develop it would've been heart-warming but it missed the mark for me because it didn't feel real. The thing about Rikka's change that bothers me the most is that she's not allowing herself to like the things she's passionate about. She's trying to be more mature and fit in more to what other people see as normal but she's turning into a whole different person letting go of all that she holds dear and makes her unique. She's not just focusing on overcoming her knack to hide er feelings but she's getting rid of her personality as a whole. Yuuta loves Rikka and he thinks it's better for Rikka to face reality so she can overcome her traumas but even for him it's a little heartbreaking to see.
The End.
Rikka goes to her father's grave together with her mother coming to terms with the facts. I think this development was very important for her so she can finally move on. The problem is that she's moving there altogether so she's not only abandoned her true self but also all of her friends and Yuuta. Yuuta then takes his bike and decides to get Rikka back. I loved this scene because it reminds me of old movies where the guy always ends up making a big gesture towards the girl near the end. Kumin is waiting for him with a message telling him that Rikka had known Yuuta way before he knew her and had always thought of Yuuta and the chuunibyou as her savior. This gives their bond so much more meaning from her side and it explains why she was so fond of Yuuta from the beginning. It's refreshing because most of the times in anime we just get to see characters who like each other for nothing other than the convenience of it and the fact that people like to see romance rather than the characters actually having a reason for liking each other as much as they do having them grow towards each other naturally. Especially in harem anime this is a re accruing thing where girls falls in love with the mc for the sole reason that he is the mc. Sometimes even in ridiculous amounts like in to love ru where every girl who comes into contact with the main character falls for him like he had some sort of love potion. The ending scene is both visually as story-wise a beautiful and big ending.
Art.
Oh the beauty of this anime. The character designs and the animation is just superb as expected of kyoto animation. The character design is very smooth the blushing of their cheeks is blended out so nicely it doesn't look like something's just been splashed on and the rounding of the eyes and face makes the characters look so much sweeter and more innocent which fits this show so well. The colour pallet was also very beautiful and fitting so much it doesn't even stand out in any way. It's just pleasuring and relaxing for the eyes. Even if it didn't have a story at all and it was just this animation with some music slapped on I'd probably still be enjoying it. I particularly enjoyed seeing the bouncy hair going all over the place. It wasn't too overly done so it wouldn't be anywhere near realistic anymore but it wasn't stiff like the hair was glued together. It felt like if you were too close to the screen you might get slapped in your face with the hair. Tiny bit exaggerated but everything in this anime moves so realisticly well even though the characters designs don't look very realistic at all. I also like how a lot of times in the anime we see reflections of the faces whether it is in windows or tablespoons. I don't know if it has anything to do with their inner self not always being what's being reflected on the outside but if it isn't symbolic I still found this a very nice touch. Also I like drawing and even though I'm not very good at it I enjoy it quite a bit and there is always this one thing I can't ever seem to get right and those are the hands. In this anime there are so many scenes emphasizing on the hands and feet it's amazing to see. Once I started noticing it I was in awe every time I looked at it. And the fact they made them move so easily was simply brilliant. The chuunibyou battles are fun to watch because you both get to see what's really happening as well as what's happing in their heads. Seeing this contrast drags us more into the story and into the minds of the characters as well.
Cliches.
There's some obvious cliche's in this anime. I'll briefly mention a few because I do think it makes the show stand out a little less. You have the highschool where they form a club which is okay because it was fun to see this club and the activities I just wish they would've chosen another setting that was more refreshing because this just seems the easy way to go about it. There's also this milk joke I get really sick of seeing. And I know I said I like running gags but come on having a character dislike milk to get some moe moments out of it doesn't do anything for me anymore.
Conclusion.
I don't think Chuunibyou is mindless moe but I also don't think the story is overwhelmingly good. The development of Rikka and her character as a whole is in my opinion the best thing about this show and is really well done. I myself found this anime to be very appealing and liked it very much. But if nothing I said in this video made you slightly interested in the show I wouldn't recommend it from a perspective of how good the overall anime is counting every aspect of it.
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Jul 17, 2016
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If you rather watch the video version of this review click this link --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyzYW3LtJA When Marnie was there is a Ghibli movie from the year 2014. This review will not be completely spoiler free but I'll do my best to keep the spoilers as few as possible and I will not reveal the ending obviously. I will review this movie for the movie it is as if there are no other Ghibli movies to exist because I don't think it's fair to be comparing it to other works. Now let's get to it! Animation. I'm in all honesty ... not sure where to start with this review so I'll just start with the animation. At the very beginning of the movie I already noticed that everything is moving. The background characters are moving and throughout the whole movie we get to see birds or butterflies or any kind of animal or sidecharacter in the background moving without it being bad awkward looking CG. This sells the show to you as they make you believe the characters on screen are living beings, not just the main character but every single character has their own life and is doing their own thing. It isn't done in an extend that it would distract you from what's going on but just enough to add to the natural feeling of this movie. I should also add that the movement is very fluent and realistic as in the blinking of the eyes being slow and natural and the wooshing of the hair in the wind feels like it's actual hair that you could comb through with your hands. This also applies to the water. It is animated in a way you feel like you can take a cup of it with your hands and drink it. When Anna, the main character, is in a boat and bumps into the shore it doesn't look comedic having her boom fall of and splash water everywhere. The way the boat moves from left to right and back is like it actually would in real life. This also makes it seem like gravity applies to the objects and characters in this anime. All of this makes it feel like a real world. To add to that the characters proportions are all like real human proportion bodywise and also their faces not having eyes the size of coconuts and noses the size of a bacteria. Even the shadows are overly realistic especially when you look at the scene when Anna is walking under a tree and you can see sunlight on her from the gaps between the leaves of the tree but the shadow from the tree and leaves itself. All of these little details make one masterpiece of artwork. The close attention they paid to details in the background is admirable as well as you can see things like peonies in a vase in the background that if you would zoom in on that and print it out would be good enough to be a painting on the wall. And these peonies don't even return they're in there for so short yet there's so much love that went into making them look so beautiful. Literally the only bad thing I have to say about the animation is the way they expressed the clothes. Which is not bad by far it looks more than just okay but in comparison it didn't look as good as the rest did. There's a word in my mother's tongue that is called: stofuitdrukking. It is a technical word used for drawings that have an object with a sort of texture like clothing and it basically means the way the fabric is expressed or the way the texture is put into a drawing. What I'm trying to say here is that I would've loved to see that done in a more impressive way like they've handled the rest but I'm just nitpicking here. The animation is overall gorgeous. Characters. When you read a book and it says: there I walked in the dark to this creepy looking house with a creepy looking garden you will most likely not be spooked by it. If a book however tells you and describes to you what the house looks like and the garden in a creepy manner they don't have to tell you it's creepy you will know it's creepy because this way your imagination has more of an image and form of what it looks like. This pretty much goes for everything in stories. If you're told someone is a sweet character it doesn't really feel that way unless you have a reason to believe that. In the movie When Marnie was there we get shown that Anna, who is as I mentioned before the main character, is an introvert and kind of a loner way before the show tells us she is. In the very first scene they already get the message across loud and clearly by having kids playing around and having Anna sit on a bench and drawing a fantasy world. This tells us she has to make up her own world and finds relief in drawing. This isn't too subtle but not too blunt either. In the hospital when children come visit Anna's mother asks them if they can get along with Anna and the awkward reaction tells us she's not very liked and if anything is being bullied. Another thing made clear to us without having to explain too much is that Anna's foster mother is very caring of her and loves her very much. When Anna leaves for the summer because her asthma is bad and she needs some fresh air her mother gets very dramatically sad for her leaving while Anna herself is thinking “Such an annoying goat”. The fact she finds it annoying probably means it's not the first time her mother has ever been this dramatic and probably holds her very dear. Then we get to see the people she will be staying with in the summer and we also get their personalities laid out before us from the get go. When they pick her up from the train station their car is packed with unnecessary stuff and Anna barely has any place to even sit and they laugh making us think they don't take everything so seriously and they're a place to feel warm and home like you're immediately part of them. The children in this anime are also a lot like real children since they make comments without thinking it through. Like when Toichi is just sitting near the water and he's known for not saying much. The children make mean comments about and laugh because of him not saying anything which is so typical for children. Most of them have not seen a lot from this world and they don't understand if someone is different from the norm so it's only normal they would react in a mean way toward someone they don't accept as being normal. Then the only character I want to also give a mention since she's a key person in the plot her being in the title and all, Marnie which brings me to my next point. Friendship. Before I'll dive into Marnie I'll give you some background about Anna and her relationship with others and the world. Anna has asthma and she doesn't have her biological parents anymore. She has a hard time making friends as it is hard for her to trust people. She feels as though even her foster mother has been betraying her and no one truly loves her. This gives her a reason for her to despise herself. This is different from a lot of anime characters I've witnessed in the past. Like mostly male main characters have a tendency to be loners or depressed but there's hardly ever a good reason for them to act this way. Mind I'm mostly referring to light novel adaptations. This makes the characters whiny, superficial and artificial. But with Anna we get to see right away why she acts the way she does and why she created distance between her and other people. It kind of reminded me of Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion in a way and the Hedgehog Dilemma discussed in NGE as you have to choose to either get close to people and get hurt by their spikes or remain distant from everyone around you isolating yourself. Because Anna chooses to remain distant from other people she tends to be rude and antisocial towards people reaching out to her. And we can't blame her for that. Even in real life it's so hard to trust people because every time you put your trust in people they will betray you and every person you ever loved will break your heart at least once. When you ask people what true friendship means they are prone to say stuff like being able to fully trust someone and always being there for each other. If that is the meaning of friendship you will know how rare friendships can be found. There will be people in your life telling you over and over again how important you are to them but they won't stay, there will be people telling you they love you but their love will fade, there will be people you spend time with thinking it's the best time of your life and you will be friends forever but years later you'll be looking back at those times as if they were a snap of the fingers and it never really mattered at all. What I'm trying to say is that friendship means pain and trust does not come easy especially with a background like Anna's. People often confuse having friends as it may look on the oustide as not being lonely. So when someone appears to be shy and doesn't have any friends they tend to think if they'll just get some friends they'll be okay and they won't be lonely anymore but that's far from true. Having friends that don't understand you will only make you feel more different from the rest of the world and make you feel like an alien. And if you do find someone who seems to listen to you who is to say they'll always be there to listen and won't just go away taking your secrets and innermost thoughts with them? Anna hasn't had any proof yet that people can be trusted so of course she would be on the defense for any new person to try to get a place in her life. But then she meets Marnie and that changes everything. Marnie is different just like Anna. They're not alike but they understand each other. They're both alienated from the rest of the world around them. Marnie shows Anna what friendship is like by letting her talk and talking about her own life creating a bond and never judging the other for the person they are. We can see how new Anna is to having friends by the petty jealousy she experiences when Marnie dances with a boy at a party. Marnie is social and much more lively than Anna and she helps Anna to get more out of her shell. Anna makes so much progress by simply being with her. She does however seem to have some mental condition where she keeps forgetting important things and spaces out. I will not get too much into it because I would be spoiling the best part but when illusions are shattered sometimes that makes it easier to see the truth and maybe it makes you able to let go of the past and become a happier person. In the ending everything ties together and it's a brilliant ending to a brilliant anime movie. Conclusion. If you can't already tell I absolutely love this movie and I have come to the conclusion this movie is awesome c:
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Death Note.
Death note, one of the most popular anime ever. There are an incredible amount of people saying it is a masterpiece and declare it as the best anime ever, others say it's proper shit and a waste of time. So today I'll be talking about some arguments from both points of view. This review is not spoiler free but I will tell you before I get into major spoilers if you don't want to hear them if you have not already been spoilt to it already. This is the Youtube video version of my review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7kIMEew30 Beginning. The great thing about Death Note is that ... you don't have to wait 5 episodes before it get's interesting and all of your questions from the beginning regarding how the death note ended up in Light Yagami's, our main character, hands and why are answered immediately. A shinigami got bored and dropped his notebook into the human world to get some amusement out of it. The names that are written into it will be killed when you picture their face whilst writing it. Shinigami are in some ways just tools for the plot that is proven by the fact that the writers of the manga originally designed the shinigami to be a goodlooking guys with wings but changes that to not distract the viewers and readers from who the real main characters are. At the beginning of the series when Light picks up the Death Note he pretty much doesn't know much more than we do at this point so for us this is very convenient because we're finding out what this death note really is by him finding out and asking the shinigami the questions we as an audience are also having. Sometimes I think it's better to let the story do the telling instead of having this Q and A between characters but in this story it works out in it's favour because they're presenting us with this game. The facts are given to us, you know the rules now let's play. The story. Even though Light turns into this self proclaimed god of justice and turns into a power lusting maniac he doesn't start out this way. Once he gets how the notebook works he starts killing off all the big criminals shown on tv. At the beginning he shows remorse in some ways or at least he's not entirely sure if what he's doing is really okay. He still had some standards and morals that made him unable to eat or sleep and made him have nightmares. But he quickly gets a change of heart when he starts looking at the world and his actions from a different angle self justifying what he has been doing and will continue to do. He genuinely wants to make the world a better place. But you can ask yourself can the world really become a better place when it's coming from one person's perspective? I found it interesting that Ryuuk tells Light: Once all the criminals are killed off in the world the only bad person left will be you. When Light gets a taste of praise and finds out people are worshipping him as a God and savior he gets even more into it. People call him Kira which comes from the word Killer only Japanesed up. In the meanwhile the police are wondering why all these criminals are suddenly dying. They have no idea why this is happening or even how or whom. This is when they decide to rely on the best investigator ever, L, who solved countless seemingly impossible to solve crimes. It's then announced that L had already noticed all of this and was already looking into this himself. L is never seen by anyone and no one knows his full name. He only works on investigations he's interested in. We already knew the rules of the games but now we know the players too and it's time to get started. L has a hunch that Kira is from Japan so comes up with the idea to broadcast on Japanese tv only in different regions at different times while making it seem it's a global broadcasting. So that he knows when the person speaking in front of the camera is killed where Kira is from. Light falls for this and kills the spokesperson who is pretending to be L's real identity. At this point Light seems to be an amateur but he wasn't careful enough because he didn't have to be yet but L added fuel to his tank by saying that he will find him and kill him. Light's father is working on his case which is both beneficial to him as dangerous as he gets certain classified information about how far they are with the investigation and how close they're getting to him but this also makes him more suspicious by using this information. Light however, is ready to kill his family if he has to. L and Light play with each others minds as they keep provoking each other as to say just come out and play just one misstep and I'll have you. They tend to not only think one step ahead but think a whole march ahead. Instead of bending the plot to the convenience of the story we always get to see beforehand what the set in stone rules are of this Death Note. Like this one example when Light tries out different ways of killing people with it we find out what exactly is possible and where the Death Note is limited. When Light gets pushed into a corner he starts killing off innocent people as well when absolutely necessary and we see his personality slide down to a darker and darker state. We're never really sure if L or Light will win because it's not clear who's in the right or wrong because Light might be a maniac for killing so many people without as much as blinking an eye, fact is crimes are getting fewer. This anime and manga chooses to pay more attention to suspense than flashy action sequences. This is a bold move by the mangaka's who wrote this since it was published in Shonen Jump that has an audience that mostly consists out of younger boys around the age of 15, at least that's what it's aimed at. This story is a lot more mature than most stories in it and may seem boring for people who just read it to see action sequences without having to use their brains. Light is a smooth operator manipulating people whether they are close to him or complete strangers he always gets out of the bad situations and suspicions because he always tries to solve his problems by looking at it from every possible angle while L is very blunt but still a genius who thinks everything through deeply. L starts suspecting Light to be Kira after he comes to the conclusion that Kira probably has some close ties to the team working on the Kira case and he starts to keep track of the movements of two of the families of the people working on the case. Light figures out they're watching his every move and tricks them into thinking that he's a perfectly good student while still killing new criminals. L finds the suspicion in him being a little too perfect. So then L decides to reveal his face to Light and ask him to help work on the Kira case. Light agrees to it to an extent since he has no other choice if he doesn't want to be found suspicious and it holds some benefit for him as well as he gets more inside information and could get to mislead them. L of course benefits from this because if Light is Kira he's bound to mess up somewhere along the line, no matter how small he's sure to notice it. And on the other hand if he isn't Kira he's brilliant enough to help them getting closer to the real Kira and help with the progress of the investigation. More Kira's. Another Kira shows up. This one is a lot more amateurish though. Second Kira finds a way to contact the real Kira and shows up at his house one day. Her name is Misa and it turns out Light had killed the murderer of her parents no one cared to take care of. She's so thankful she would literally do anything for him even die. She asks him if she can be his girlfriend. Misa made a deal with her shinigami. She gave away half of the span of her whole lifetime to get shinigami's eyes. This means she can kill people by just seeing their face instead of having to find out their names because she can already see them. Light finds an opportunity in this and he agrees to play the role as her boyfriend only to use her as a tool to realize his own twisted dreams. He also plans to kill her once he doesn't need her anymore so she doesn't get in the way. Light thinking to himself he can't develop any feelings for her tells us Light is not completely frigid. Killing her might prove to be more difficult than initially thought because Rem, Misa's shinigami claims she'll kill him if he kills Misa. Misa is personally my favourite character of the whole series. I see why some people hate her guts because she's obnoxious and tends to get in the way a lot but she has a moodlifting personality and she gives it a lot more colour. She's very pretty but also a lot smarter than she looks. She may not be a genius on the level of Light and L but she's certainly not stupid by any means. She may have developed an obsession with Kira in the time she wasn't able to put a face to him yet but once she's met him in real life and find out he's young too she really seems to love him. When Light tells her they're trying to make the world a better place she even tells Light he is more important to her than the world. Her love for him is out of the ordinary but beautifully loyal. Right when Misa has finally found out L's true name and it would've been easy to kill him she gets captured because of some evidence she left by some slip ups she made, making it clear she's the second Kira. She then gives up on the ownership of her death note and loses her memory of all that comes with it. So even if they keep questioning her she can't possibly give them an answer because she simply doesn't know any of it anymore. Light then reports himself and says he may be Kira on some subconscious level and wants to rule that possibility out by being in a cell with strict surveillance for a while. While he's in confinement he makes Ryuk dispose of the death note and then he also doesn't remember a thing. This makes him have a clear conscious as well. Meanwhile Rem gives the death note to a third person to make sure people will still be dying in the meantime. Light and Misa get released after a long while but still aren't completely in the clear. They however still have no memory of the death note whatsoever. By this we get to see the contradiction of Light after receiving the death note and after. When L asks Light to get close to Misa to gain more information Light refuses because he doesn't want to play with her emotions like that. Then follows a part in the story where the death note stays in the hands of the other person who's actually a business man and uses the death note for his own profits. He's also bribing the government so that the government demands the police department to stop investigating the Kira case. Light is working on the Kira case together with L genuinely wanting to solve it and the team keeps helping too even though they were told to stop and are no longer getting paid. Aizawa is the only one who steps out because he can't afford to quit his job because he puts his family first. So then we're left with only Mogi, who hasn't really been in the spotlight very much, Matsuda, who is basically the clumsy and dumbsest one of them all, Light Yagami, the evil genius himself, his father, the goodhearted trustful leader and L the brilliant detective working on this case together with the occasional interruption by Misa. Two con artist come and help too. To me this was just irritating like it were fillers and I was just waiting for the death note to return to Light's hands. It was like they wanted to show us that when you give a man power they become a monster but to drag it out like this really isn't necessary. In the beginning Rem states that humans are ugly beings. I think that statement was enough to make that point. People will do a lot to have people look up to them and get influential and rich. Eveything that is going on is all in Light's brilliant plan and they go through a lot of trouble to have the notebook landed in Light's hands again. I do appreciate the effort and thoughtfulness and tight writing that went into this idea even if it's hard to be considered believable to me they could've come up with a way more simple solution like have Rem give the death note to someone who was going to die soon anyways and then have him return it to Misa and have Light dig up the other note. Instead he had to go through a lot of extra trouble because when they capture fake Kira a lot of others touched the notebook resulting in them being able to see Rem. I will now get into majoy spoilers so feel free to leave or skip to the “ost” part. Now Rem has to be killed. The only way to kill a shinigami is have them fall in love. If a shinigami ends someone's life to extent the life of the one they love they die giving the remaining time of their life to the one they love. Light sets everything up in a way it's likely Misa will get captured if L stays alive. Because Rem can see L's name it's easy for her to kill him. And then Rem does kill L. Which is kind of heartbreaking since Light causes L's death and even though they're each others enemies Light was L's first friend ever. L's death. The thing about L's death is that it was right on time. It was still in a point of the series where you're still curious for what's going to happen next in this battle between L and Light. Even if the whole arc of Light not remembering the Death Note was somewhat boring it did serve a purpose and it felt all the more satisying to have him regain the death note. If L's death would've happened any later in the show it would have felt like it had dragged on for a little or like they milked it. When a show gets boring and one of the main characters dies it tends to feel unnatural and unrealistic. I know this is an anime about people killing other with a notebook and that's not realistic either but you can either take the aspects of a fantasy fiction and make it dull by making it too unrealistic so that it's not even relatable for anyone anymore at one point because you can bend the show any way you want it to and label it under plot armor but is basically plot convenience or you make a show with fantasy aspects but you convey them in a way that you almost start believing it could've been a real thing, so much that you start rooting for certain characters as if you crawl into their minds and connect the dots they haven't made yet for them. Getting back on the subject of L dying if he would've died in a later stage of the show when it starts getting less interesting, like, even if the writers didn't run out of ideas there's only so much you can do to a plot to make the people who already like it keep liking it without it getting either repetitive or too different than the start. If L would've died later on it would feel like the writers were like: Oh this is getting boring there's no need for this character anymore let's just kill him off. Luckily they didn't go for this option. The downside of L dying is all the fangirls shipping L and Light are dying as well on the inside. No seriously I don't care about them I mean you have an anime full of ideas and reflection of society and the fine line, the tiny barrier between what is right and wrong and all you can think of is what a great yaoi fanfiction could be born out of this? I would be lying if I said I wasn't kind of sad about L dying. Light is an arrogant prick but I found him interesting because of his ideas and his outlook on the world if a little twisted. It made me wonder what made him to turn into this person and if he just was this way because if a man gets the power to control the world by killing off bad people or people that are bad in his eyes or the media he turns into a monster. Or are there deeper lying emotions in him a deeper sense of justice or maybe a twisted judgement that has grown into his heart. So if I were to choose sides between L and Light I would've picked Light's side because to me this was the most interesting one to follow but in terms of overall personality my personal preference was with L because I really liked his personality as a whole. The fact he likes cake and other sweets and playing with his food and sits in his chair in an oversized shirt thinking. The manga of Death note was actually written by a team. According to the creator of the art of this manga the writer is always sitting in his chair the way L does for a long time while thinking deeply and making up stories. I don't know if this directly means the character is loosely based on this mangaka but thinking so makes him an even more interesting character since no one knows what this mangaka looks like since he keeps his face, real name and even his gender although assumed male private. Even if it wasn't based off of a real person, these characters feel real. L may be a genius in an unrealistic way his humanly traits make him a real person instead of an overpowered machine, like Kirito. So when L died it was really saddening and felt like an actual loss. Life after L When L dies it's so easy for Light to manipulate the remaining members of the investigation team because they're so eager to trust in him. It's almost too easy. Light kills the two con artists with the death note. Light takes L's place and Aizawa joins heir team once again and Ide who's been working with Aizawa on the Kira case on their own when Aizawa initially left joins the team too. Light then continues to rinse the world of evil and many people start to actually stand of Kira because they think the world is in fact becoming a better place. Crimes are lessened and people start being friendlier towards each other as a result of the fear of getting the punishment of death. Then L's successors come into play. Near and Mellow are both chosen to be L's successor. Normally L would've been the one to choose one out of the two but since L isn't alive anymore they are both chosen and they are told to work together. Mellow doesn't agree to this because ever since he's known Near and him had always been competing and had always been on the losing end. So Near gets a team of investigators to help him and they start looking for Kira. Mellow on the other hand goes into more illegal grounds and also tries to find Kira using somewhat unorthodox methods in order to beat Near to it. So now it's a game of three. Kira, Near and Mellow. I must say this is way less exciting because L was presented to us as an incredible mastermind and got so close to revealing Light as Kira so whoever would've taken his place would be a downright weaker version of him. There are some things in the second half that I do find interesting though even if the show as a whole kind of disappointed me by the second half. Like at the beginning of this new arc Mello kidnaps Chief Yagami's daughter. He'll give her back to him if he gives him the death note. He now has to decide to either save his daughter and give the notebook to an unknown person which could possibly resolve in thousands of innocent people dying or let his daughter die with in mind that the person who wants the death note only needs it for research. So he has this inner battle of what he should do if he should act like a man, a police officer or as a father. There comes a point in this anime where even Light's father owns a death note and tries to kill Mello. At least that was the plan. He has the shinigami eyes an gets the chance to kill Mello but instead of listening to Light he then asks Mello to drop the bullshit in exchange for not writing his name in the death note. His sense of justice and the desire not to kill anyone gets the best of him as he gets shot in the back and Mello stays alive. Light was willing to sacrifice his father but the fact he didn't write Mello's name in the death note is what really angers him. He doesn't even pay mind to what his father says to him at his death bed. He doesn't even care his father is happy because he thinks Light is not Kira. No remorse whatsoever. I must say this part got me pretty emotional. Another thing I found interesting was when Matsuda starts doubting if Kira really is all evil. If Kira is fighting evil he can't be that bad right? When on the other hand people he cared about died to solve this case so he has to be against Kira. Other than that the plot becomes a little shaky and very chaotic and overall just not as interesting. The ending. The more we get to the ending of this series the more people actually support Kira and start worshipping his as a god. At the same time some of the people who are close to him start suspecting Light to be Kira and together with Near and Mello they slowly start closing him in. Light passes Misa's death note onto Teru someone he has especially chosen. We get to see Teru's reason for worshipping Kira and we understand his motives for wanting to support him and carry on the work of Kira. He had always been one to fight for justice ever since he was little but every time he did he got many people against him, beating him up and justice was never gained. Up until Kira came into the picture. Unlike the first time there was a fake Kira this is makes for an interesting development since this person also has the Kira ideals so the plot could go anywhere instead of it being doomed to fail from the start. He's also very OCD which makes him very systematic but that also leads to his downfall because the patterns in how he lives his life become predictable which makes it easier to find a hole to catch him. Because Teru is always carrying his notebook and bringing it it would've been to obviously stupid and was merely bait. When Teru wrote down his names he contacted someone else to do the actual killing. Near figured as much and figured there had to be a real notebook too. So then he takes that notebook and changes the notebok pages with normal pages. Then Near tells Light he wants to meet him face to face in real life. Light agrees and tells Teru to secretly come as well and write the names of the whole SPK team as well as Near and the investigation team he has been working with all that time in the real notebook he never used before. With that he would've killed everyone who knew about the notebook that were opposed Kira and he would've been able to keep on being Kira without having them all on his heels. Light assumes Near replaced the pages of the fake notebook while Teru brought the real notebook. So when Near tells them to not pay mind to Teru writing their names because they won't die Light thinks Near stepped into his trap. When the 40 seconds are almost over Light declares that he has won with an evil smirk but then no one dies and they capture Teru. It is then shown that Light is the only one who wasn't written down by Teru and Teru refers to him as God so all of them know that Light is in fact Kira. Then the desperation begins. I think it's not very cool how Light is found out by Near who's a far lesser version than L but it's forgiveable sine Teru is the one who messed up by not noticing the difference in the notebook. Light would've noticed it for sure. Other than that I absolutely love the ending more than anything in this series. We get to see someone who's always keeping his cool and is as cold as ice when it comes to killing hundreds and thousands of people screaming in desperation. We see him begging for help. He tries to convince the others the world is better with Kira in it. People are rotten and the only way a new clean world can be achieved is by Kira taking care of all criminals. And the criminality has reduced 70% since Kira started killing. But on the other hand Light has become nothing more than a self righteous cold blooded murderer who is feared by people. People would always have to live in fear of Kira. And one person would never be able to change the world by himself. History of human reigning has already shown us just that. When Light takes the little piece of notebook he has inside of his watch at all times out to write Near's name in it it is Matsuda who stop him by shooting him multiple times. Seeing Matsuda do this is something that seems right out of character especially since Matsuda had never really been sure if he was 100% against Kira. But the fact that Light let his own father die in cause of finding Kira when Light himself was Kira was all Matsuda needs to see the bad in Light. Even Teru turns his back on him saying he's not god but just scum. Everyone turns his back on him, even Ryuk. Ryuk writes Light's name in his death note because Light has lost the game and it's time for him to die. Light screams out that he doesn't want to die as he dies. In the manga we see Misa together with a lot of people walking up a mountain like pilgrims lighting candles and praying to Kira their savior. In the anime we don't really get to see what happens next to Misa and it is open for interpretation but it seems like she's about to commit suicide. The music used in the last scene those last minutes give you that lonely feeling as if you're the one losing. Plot holes. Okay so I'm gonna go into some spoilers but before I do that I must say that the script is pretty tightly written so even if there are a few things that don't make sense that is inevitable. Although it sometimes seems too unrealistic too be believable Ohba's ability to remember everything he's written down so far and tying all those knots together is very admirable. Now let's get to the plot holes supposedly plot holes. In the beginning when Light gets his notebook he can see Ryuk. When he comes into contact with Misa he can only see Rem by touching Misa's notebook because a shinigami can only be seen when the notebook owned by the shinigami in question is touched. Later we find out Ryuk didn't give Light one of his own death notes but it belonged to another shinigami named Sidoh. So how can Light see Ryuk? Maybe Ryuk touched Light with his own Death Note but that still doesn't explain how Misa would see him after touching Light's Death Note. Something you could also ask yourself is why does Light when he doesn't own the Death Note ask someone with the shinigami eyes his life span so he'd know when he'd be killed and worm himself out of it. But a shinigami's eyes can only see the original life span not the one effected by the notebook and since Light is using the notebook on pretty much a daily basis it'd be no use to know. I know that's not a lot but it was all I could think of. Ost. The first opening is okay. It's nothing too flashy but the visuals really give a true impression of what the show is like and the song had the ability to be stuck in my head for a good while which might be considered both a good or a bad thing. The first ending is okay too nothing too impressive, nothing earbleedingly bad. The second opening of this anime though… I don't have any words for it to be honest. It was like it was trying to be a metal but it didn't sound like actual metal but more like Japan is in serious need of anger management. Like seriously what's is it you have against white people? I much preferred them to stay with the first opening with different visuals but others think it's a good way to cue the audience that shit's about to hit the fan. The second ending is less bad but it still feels like it's trying way too much. The ost used in the anime itself is incredibly good though. The dramatic vocal choirs and classical music attached to it give the scenes a lot more emotional depth and sometimes help keep you on the edge of your seat. Art. The manga and anime mostly rely on conversations and monologues so we'll see a lot of talking. In the manga the artstyle that goes with this story fits perfectly. Even though there's a lot of dialogue it's never the case that the drawings aren't of any importance this is also proven in volume 11 chapter 97. There's about 8 pages without any dialogue or monologue going on at all it's just telling the story by showing us. The dialogues are always interesting and sometimes it feels like reading a novel instead of a manga but it would never had the same impact without Obata's drawings. He's amazing at drawing and the different angles he uses all the time even in dialogues is impressive and makes it more interesting. He doesn't show off how amazing he is by drawing unnecessary details that would distract us from the story but it's not overly simple either. It's a pleasure for the eyes to say the least. The anime adaptation was done by studio madhouse who have produced some awesome anime over the years. Lots and lots of them. The dark themes in this anime go well with the dark colours used in this anime. The scenes are done overly dramatic but it's not a bad thing. Despite all the talking in the anime the art never gets boring making everything look mysterious or epic. Up to the point that even eating chips seems like the darkest thing you could do. Even though I personally prefer the art in the manga madhouse never changed too much. I thought Misa was a little cuter in the manga but my judgement could just be clouded since I couldn't really stand her squeeky voice in the anime. Dub. The dubbed version is okay. For me to say that is kind of a big deals since I always think art is supposed to be enjoyed in the language it was created in. If a book is written in german I'll read it in german, if a book is written in dutch I'll read it in dutch, if a book is written in french I try my best to read it in french and if a book is english I read it in english. That's how I learnt to speak english in the first place. So I like my anime in japanese. But in all honesty I think that L's voice was better in english. Light's voice however was just aggravating for me to see in english. The Japanese version is done by Miyano Mamoru and he's brilliant at it especially if he goes nuts and laughs. No one in the world could do it like he does. The way he changes his voice on different occasions is brilliant. Bakuman? There was a murder case with a copycat murder of murders in death note and in belgium was one of them. The killers wrote “Watashi wa Kira des” on a piece of paper. The desu was written wrong which is really stupid. And that also gives us a hint that these murders weren't committed out of passion for the manga or anime itself. Later on they confess it was something that happened after they had words with someone and after they failed to dissolve the body or couldn't hide it they went with this cheap solution. They hoped t would distract them to find out how and why the person was killed so they probably didn't have a very high IQ. It reminded me of what happened to the characters of bakuman. Bakuman is a manga written by the same artists that wrote and drew Death Note. It gives you a look into the world of making manga. We can assume that some of the aspects in the manga also happened to these mangaka's themselves. So let's assume they also used this particular incident in their Bakuman manga. In the manga Bakuman the main characters come up with a detective story called PCP and this gets a series. At one point people start copying the crimes in the manga and it shocks the main characters and depresses them a little because they're bringing something bad into this world instead of just being entertaining. They then make a good solution by using the next chapters to write about a copycat criminal but then inform it could only be a fake because the real ones would never do something that is an actual crime an always keep it innocent. In Death Note when a second Kira appears they start killing innocent people too and the manga reassures us that it has to be a fake because the real Kira wouldn't do that unless he really had to. The authors probably felt bad about the copycat murder but they didn't actually influence the murderer to do this crime so it's all good. In some places of China Death Note was banned because students started altering their notebooks to look like Death Notes and they would write teacher's or other student's names in the book because they wish they'd die. But that could hardly be considered a real crime even if a little harsh. Conclusion. All in all Death Note is not a bad show. It might not be to your liking, you may find it boring but it isn't bad. I wanted to put all the bad and good things next to each other more clearly but I didn't have enough bad things to talk about other than my own preferences. Death note was not my favorite anime ever. And yes there is a lot hype around it but for once the hype isn't around something mindless like Naruto so I'm okay with the hype. If Death Note is the only anime some people know it's a lot more acceptable to me than having them just watch Attack on Titan and think they know everything about anime. I dislike it when simpleminded anime get way too much hype for their own good. Ohba and Obata are people who really deserve this hype though. They've worked hard on making a tight plot that is easy to understand for everyone but still make it complex and bring out themes to think about. I actually went in making this a negative review because the last time I watched it I remember not really liking it for it's second half and thinking that it's a great concept with poor execution but upon rewatching it, reading it and reviewing it I have come to the conclusion Death Note is good!
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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