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   Weeble (weeble@bungle.online)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:43:52 JST Weeble

   Day 20: An Anime You Dropped
   
   Death Note
   
   So Death Note is one of those animes that got big just as people worldwide were becoming weebs for the first time. I had heard of it, seen the memes, and if you were a weeb in the late 2000’s - early 2010’s it was somewhere on your list.
   
   With that reputation I decided to give it a try and I only lasted 3 episodes.
   
   Now at first I thought I had been punked and people only praised this anime in an ironic “My favorite anime is Seinfeld” sort of way but no they’re serious.
   
   I was baffled. Was I missing something? Were my subs wrong? Should I have watched the dub? I just couldn’t see it.
   
   The whole anime just came off as corny and cheesy. Like ok this dude has a magic book that can kill people and becomes an egomaniac. But he’s so exaggerated in his self-righteousness that I can’t really relate to him if this is meant to be a story about how power corrupts.
   
   And I can’t enjoy it as a story of a man named Light because I just get angry and frustrated by his decisions. These characters don’t feel like real characters that I can either relate to or find interest in. I can’t suspend my disbelief long enough to tolerate some of the bullshit put on my screen.
   
   I don’t necessarily think it’s bad and I can see why people liked it but it definitely doesn’t deserve some of the praise it gets and massively warps expectations.
   
   I can’t really see myself finishing it but I don’t regret giving it a shot. #30DayAnimeWeeble

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:43:50 JST Sexy Moon

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     @Weeble I don't know the extent to which the most successful manga are the creative product of one artist but death note always felt by the numbers to me and I read some things that seemed to confirm to me that it was made essentially by a guy in an office trying to decide what would be popular.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:52:14 JST Sexy Moon

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     @Weeble perhaps I am being uncharitable and it just was not to my taste but I definitely get turned off when I find out the guy making it gets told what to make. like I said though that's probably more widespread than I notice.
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     Weeble (weeble@bungle.online)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:52:15 JST Weeble

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     @Moon@shitposter.club I don't think it really comes off that way. I'd say the opposite. Like you have to a be specific type of person to unironically enjoy it.
     
     Like it's not "mainstream" but I wouldn't be surprised if he was just aiming for a speicfic demographic.

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     smug@smuganimeavatar.xyz's status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 11:03:39 JST smug

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     Which is funny because both artists of 'Death Note' also made 'Bakuman', a manga about mangaka that are trying to become big, so you got a lot of that "We need X votes in the survey to not get canned, readers like Y" stuff in there.

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