death note

Review: Adam Wingard’s DEATH NOTE Breathes Life Into To A Bittersweet Conversation On American Adaptations

Admittedly, I’ve avoided promoting Adam Wingard’s latest manga adaptation, Death Note, largely due to my own distate on the count that in small, but no discountable terms, the film was made on behalf of a falsehood. The notion made public several months ago by co-star and producer, Oka Masi, that the production couldn’t find Asian actors who spoke good English hasn’t sat well with me for months leading up to the film’s release, which made it all the more bittersweet watching it. The director of You’re Next brings something slightly derivative, albeit stimulating to this newest cinematic treatment of the hit manga by creators Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi, telling of a mysterious book that falls into the hands of a brilliant high school kid named Light Turner, giving him conditional powers to kill people with the stroke of a pen. Balancing between his consultation with the notebook’s donor – an […]

Please Cut The Crap And Enjoy The New Teaser For Adam Wingard’s Netflix Thriller, DEATH NOTE

Lee B. Golden III

Netflix Never mind that actor Lakeith Stanfield is playing socially awkward, yet intellectually sturdy and agile L, you needn’t look long on Twitter to find people complaining about Adam Wingard’s treatment of the hit manga and anime property, Death Note, which now has a release date scored for August 25 on Netflix. SYNOPSIS: What if you had the power to decide who lives and who dies? We suggest you obey the rules. Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life. The concerns being, obviously, that most of the casting […]

Carnage Consumes Japan Once More In The New Teaser For Manga Adap, DEATH NOTE: LIGHT up the NEW world!

Lee B. Golden III

My own consumption of anime this year led me to the throes of the paranormal with world presented in the Araki Tetsuro’s treatment of Death Note, as inspired by Ohba Tsugumi’s 2003-2006 Shueisha manga. Needless to say, Light, the main character of the story, pissed me off the most with a purpose that was far from noble despite his intentions, and the occult he drew from it. Point in fact, I have a look on my face anytime friends tell me how much they sympathized with Light as I somewhat come to liken him with typical religious charlatans of today. He’s a quiet menace shrouded in promise, good looks and intellgence with an occult that has driven society to the brink of its own moral imbalance when it comes to dispensing justice in the face of evil. Such was the quagmire that was eventually illustrated in Kaneko Shusuke’s 2006 live-action […]