Death Note

Man, based on the trailer, I never would have guessed that was the same guy who did Quatre doing Light's voice. Props for being able to change his voice so much, but I gotta admit, he still doesn't sound like Light. Maybe seeing it in the actual show instead of just trailers will change my opinion, but until then I still dislike it.

I definitely think Brian Drummond can pull off Ryuk, so I'm not worried about that. But as for everyone else, I've honestly never heard of them, either because they're totally new or they've been in shows I've never watched.

And I totally forgot about that special. I doubt I'll watch it until it's subtitled, though.

Nah, they're definately new. I've always been up on the whole voice actor thing from when they did DBZ to whatever anime . Nowadays, you don't see much talent coming from Ocean Group. They were only popular for alot of classic animes. When Toonami was an actual Anime block, they aired animes dubbed by Ocean Group and them alone besides Outlaw Star and Blue Submarine (correct me if there's more). If I remember correctly the main ocean line up used to be people such as

Richard Cox (Inu Yasha)
Scott McNeil (Duo Maxwell, Protoman,Ken,Koga)
Brian Drummond
Samantha Ferris (Sally Po)
Lisa Ann Belley (Bulma, Relena Peacecraft)
Kirby Morrow (Miroku, Trowa Barton)
Ian Corlette
Saffron Henderson (Bloodberry,Lucrezia Noin)
Brad Swaile
Mark Hildreth
Dave Kaye (Sesshomaru and Trieze )



This is pretty much shocking that Scott Mcneil isn't working a character role in Death Note. If he can, he should try doing the job of Mello. Looking at Ocean's new line up worries me but it is their first time according to Animenewsnetwork. I'll wait til there's a download for episode 1.


This is all I can get for Alessandro Juliani

Originally Posted by wiki

He was also the voice of Pit (erroneously called Kid Icarus) in the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon series, and offered his voice in many other cartoons and anime including (but certainly not limited to) Ranma 1/2, X-Men Evolution (as Gambit), the three My Scene films (in the role of River) and two of the Bionicle films (as Toa Vakama). He played the voice of Nightscream in Beast Machines, he was also the voice of one of a male leads in Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, a Barbie movie based on the Mark Twain story "The Prince and the Pauper", in which he also performed his own singing; he also voiced the merman prince Nalu in Barbie: Fairytopia and Barbie: Mermaidia. Another recent role is as Koji in the English version of Ōban Star-Racers.

I forgot all about Pit in Captain N....something tells me that I shouldn't remember. However, Gambit sounded cool in X-Evolution.

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Gonna bump this since its been a week. Just a reminder to everyone that Adult Swim did pick up the anime and will start airing October 20th at 12. They revealed it in one commercial then did their own personal version to take a hint at it XD.

I forgot it was going to air and almost had a heart attack when I heard that theme play as I was typing to a friend. Someone tried to write my name.

Anyway, I must say I am satisfied with what I saw, so far at least. These people so far seem to handle it alright. Japanese music with subtitles, same bg music, good animation, dialouge was on track, no sign of horrible voices, though still speculation on how the quality of the voices are so far.

Light's voice did sound a bit weird at points, but overall was done well. His insanity voice at least was satisfying enough. Ryuk's voice I can't say is bad, but I'm trying to speculate how he'll be doing his chuckle that he often does throughout the anime.

The only character I worry about is Misa, since her voice will most probably be done horribly and overly-annoying, but I shouldn't criticize yet. L's voice I'm also wondering about, but it seems it's easier to handle than Misa's.

Basically, the First Episode overall was done well.

I feel like I'm listening to a bunch of classic voice actors who've work on gundam wing >=]. You took the words outta me, X. What I like to add to the satisfaction was that Ryuk was the best part in the episode. Who else but Brian Drummond could do it? It was only meant to be since he pulled off that kind of tone when he did Vegeta in the canadian side of DBZ. Overall, its a start and things will go well. It's OG anyway ;p.

What I'm waiting for is that subbedversion of that special that came out. I only saw it RAW but I'd really like to know what Light said when he laughed at a L's grave.

Thought I bring this to everyone's attention.

Japenese comic book rattles military school | NBC12 | Virginia News

It says that some military school senior was suspended for having a book titled Death Note with a list of people's name in it.

Too bad there's no picture around to see what he looks like. Fuckin queer lol.

weird, the 3 hour special is nowhere to be found yet!!

There was a fansub done by someone but it was available for a short period of time. I wonder why Animanda hasn't worked on it yet. Anyway, I was giving DN a watch on the Adult Swim time slot and I must say that I'm really not all into it like I used to. All I wish for is to see that Naomi and L serial killer case animated. Then I'll think about buying the US dvds someday...

Well, this might already common knowledge by now, but Viz are due to release 2 new books on February 19th, 2008:

Death Note: vol.13 - How to Read

Originally Posted by Amazon.com

An encyclopedic guide to the Death Note manga series, including character bios, storyline summaries, interviews with creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, production notes and commentaries, and bonus manga pages.

Death Note: Another Note (novel)

Originally Posted by Amazon.com

There’s a killer loose in Los Angeles and super-sleuth L is on the case. Along with Naomi, a former FBI agent, he helps the LA police solve the grisly crimes. In typical Death Note fashion, things get complicated. And there’s a big surprising plot twist at the end of the book.

Well, looking forward to the "How to Read". The novel also seems interesting so might take a look at that too when the time comes...

Our friends Kuro-hana released the HD version of the special.

Kuro-Hana Fansubs

Im pretty sure they'll release a lower quality version for some of you who can't handle mkv types. Too bad it doesn't work on the ps3. Any idea how I can convert .mkv to mp4?

I just check out the 2 hour special but I was just skimming thru some of my favorite parts, although,

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I wish they would have added a bit more to some scenes but the overall runthruogh of the first half of the series was very well done. But I was hoping they would end it with the original manga ending but the L parts were the best anyways. Best added scene had to be the end with Light at L's grave but I can't say I enjoyed the backside of Light's doggy style...
But other than that, the brutal deaths at the end were awesome

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I felt it was a bit weird :

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At the end, Ryuk told him that he wasn't god. But who the hell was that other shinigami walking down the stairs? Was that Light? or was he just talking to himself

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the shinigami walking down the stairs at the end was the same one from the beginning who gave ryuk the apple and heard his story. He just didn't stick around for the end and I assume he went to the real world

Well, just finished reading the 13th volume: How to Read. It's chock full of information and has an interesting interview with the author and mangaka. I especially liked the bonus manga that was included. It's not a continuation or anything like that. It was apparently something like a pilot story, and probably not really canon - though it features Ryuk. It does feature a special item though, brought by Ryuk that can be used with the Death Note.....

Spoiler:

....the Death Note ERASER!!! After killing people, you can use the eraser to rub out the victim's name. As long as the person hasn't been cremated, they will return to life..... LOL!!! Hilarious, but true....I'm not making this up!!!

Definitely worth to buy. Check it out!

Originally Posted by hikarub

Well, just finished reading the 13th volume: How to Read. It's chock full of information and has an interesting interview with the author and mangaka. I especially liked the bonus manga that was included. It's not a continuation or anything like that. It was apparently something like a pilot story, and probably not really canon - though it features Ryuk. It does feature a special item though, brought by Ryuk that can be used with the Death Note.....

Spoiler:

....the Death Note ERASER!!! After killing people, you can use the eraser to rub out the victim's name. As long as the person hasn't been cremated, they will return to life..... LOL!!! Hilarious, but true....I'm not making this up!!!

Definitely worth to buy. Check it out!

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Ahh the Death Eraser. There was that One Shot DN manga with Taro and Ryuk in it. They also used the eraser to bring everyone back to life. That's pretty awesome.

Actually..There's another One Shot Pilot that takes place 3 years after the manga. I'll upload for everyone ASAP.

EDIT :

Death Note - 3 years Later OSP

Originally Posted by chato

Spoiler:

Ahh the Death Eraser. There was that One Shot DN manga with Taro and Ryuk in it. They also used the eraser to bring everyone back to life. That's pretty awesome.

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Yeah, that's the one. Taro and Ryuk. Pity I didn't quite get the ending though. There were 2 death notes in the human world, but Taro made it seem like the one Miura used was the same one he used (when they explained it all to the 2 detectives, making everyone think there was only one death note). Then that death note was incinerated. So Taro still kept a death note but didn't do anything with it? He still has it seven years later because Ryuk is still with him.

Thanks for the 3 years later chapter, chato. If only they had included that in volume 13.... The end was....

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....a little meh though. Kinda anti-climatic.....and still no confirmation of Misa's death too!

Welcome, hikarub.

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Yeah I felt the same way when I read it through my first run. The second time, I thought it was pretty cool. I really wanted to see how the Otaku Kira was going to handle things but since he has the mind of an otaku and just ended up killing people cause they wanted to die, Near already saw right through him. He wanted no part of it and ended up telling him how it is. Kiling himself with the death note was stupid but it shows that he had no purpose in life nor a future. Sucks for him.

It would've been better if he told the cheap-kira to meet with him and smoke some piff to get along XD.


btw hikarub, wasn't Misa's death confirmed as suicide in How To Read 13?