I like Light in the sense that he makes a great villain, but that's about it.

My favorites from the manga are L, Mello, Ryuk, Watari, and the ever inept Matsuda.

Speaking of Mello, do you think that he and Near will even be in the anime? I've heard it's going to be 37 episodes long. That sounds like they'd have to either cut the second arc entirely or make it a lot shorter. I hope I'm wrong.

I heard somewhere that they aren't shortening the story at all, the anime is too faithful to the manga.

thats good. though its interesting when the anime is completely different than the manga. kinda like the second half of Fullmetal Alchemist.

I doubt that would be a good idea for Death Note

I just remembered, I wrote an essay on death note for a stupid standardized test. I hope they don't mind that it's not an actual book.

Haha standardized tests.

They should rot in hell.

agreed.

Yeah...this was an anime that I knew was going to eventually hit it off.  A friend introduced me to it when it was only a manga.

Looked coo'. Liked the manga but couldn't get too addicted to it.

I want to make an American Deathnote movie that does the lighting and visual style in the anime some justice. Lets see how that goes in about 7 years?