Talk:Death Note

Locked from anon edits

Why is this article locked? There's no explanation box. This is outrageous. "Created in Japan by two Japanese manga artists" come on, that sentence is ridiculous. 74.241.93.249 03:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Good point. Fixed the sentence. I believe it got locked because it was vandalized a lot, but maybe we could try lifting that and see what happens? It has been a while... Doceirias 03:53, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, apparently what happened was that it now gets vandalized five or six times a day. Should we go back on, or is it not quite enough to justify it? We have been doing a pretty good job of catching them... Doceirias 03:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Depends on howmany different IP's or USER's that are actually doing the vandalism, if its quite a lot, we should consider protecting it.--Sunny910910 ^{(talk|Contributions)} 04:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Protaganist

In the charecter section it says Light is the protaganist but he is a evil mass murder how can he be a protaganist arnt protaganist supost to be good? ♥Fighting for charming Love♥ 16:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

No. He is the main character of the story, they can be evil. Artemis Fowl anyone? Dorian Grey? --BiT 17:08, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Just because a character is a protagonist doesn't prevent said character from being anti-heroic. --68.10.101.122 18:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the protagonist is simply the main character. And further more it can be very debatable wheather Light is evil or not. Just because you think he's evil doesn't make it so.74.106.182.101 02:19, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

The story does not really leave a lot of room for seeing him as _not_ evil, 74.106.182.101... Luis Dantas 13:57, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The Shinigami

Ryuk didn't explain why they're so bored with their jobs, that anyone who actually writes names in their notebook is considered pointlessly overworking themselves. He said they barely have any work to do anymore, but what could he mean by that? Surely as the human population increases, they have -more- work to do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 04:29, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Probably because they don't have to put a name in their Death Note to facilitate one's death. Perhaps the problem is that humanity has become so good at dealing death to each other that adding to Death Notes is frankly becoming a waste of time. --68.10.101.122 18:07, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

The user above makes an excellent point. Rem actually remarks on this astonishing capacity that humans have during the initial meeting that we see at Yotsuba, when she says that humans 'are ugly'... 9 09:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Two points, and then I'll shut up. 1) Wikipedia talk pages aren't for discussion of the subject, but for discussion of how to improve the page about the subject. But be that as it may ... 2) I've read and watched the whole series, and the reason the shinigami are kind of shiftless is never explained. They extend their own lives by writing names in their Death Notes, but normal human death does nothing for them. They don't have a quota to fill either. -- Boradis 05:11, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

North American Airing

I'm submitting it here due to the semi-protected nature of the page and because it perhaps needs considering whether or not it should be acted upon.

As is probably known by now, the Death Note anime is now airing in North America. It first aired in the US last night and is due to air in Canada this week (October 26th, to be exact). Perhaps the following need to be added to the network line:

Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)

YTV (Bionix)

--68.10.101.122 18:04, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

apples

Just a quick question that ive been wondering about for a long time. Whats with Death note and apples? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.123.227 (talk) 04:59, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I think you should know, for future reference, that Wikipedia is not a forum. I'd instead recommend looking for a forum on Google where you can ask this and other questions about Death Note. Hope this clarifies. ^^ Drumpler 08:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

"Realitity taking over fiction"

Hi. I just wanted to put some attention upon this (rather old) article, and I wondered if you guys think it should be mentioned somewhere in the Controversy section?: http://204.157.1.121/~n/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6483897.stm.htm 81.228.148.16 11:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure it's not an April Fool piece? The date seems just about right, and actually, so does the text. Luis Dantas 11:52, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I dunno... To be honest with you, I didn't consider that possibility (such an L I am)... *surfs off to find additional information about above article* 81.228.148.16 23:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I hate to intrude, but I believe that article has already been brought up and concluded to be a hoax. 'Twould be interesting if one could find evidence to the contrary, though. ^.^ Lithiumflower 23:19, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Also notice how the domain is NOT BBC.com ... it is a guy with a BBC spoof address. WhisperToMe 23:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Hn... And the only other reference I found was on some "Japan Today" site (http://69.65.98.239/~n/japantoday.com/jp/news/401657.htm)... You guys should pick up detectiving (and I should drop it), you've got some talent... Sorry to have disturbed in vain. Ta-ta. 81.228.148.16 23:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I think the newspaper is real but that is not actually from the newspaper site - that news article is also from a spoof domain that looks like the newspaper site. WhisperToMe 03:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Click the "Print This Article" link on that page. You'll see that the original article was about whalers in Japan. The fake never bothered to alter that page. Drumpler 12:10, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

The Rules

I am clear that the written rules of the Death Note should not be changed, but things like the anime also list other rules and facts relevant to the Death Note. Should they be included in the section under something like "Unwritten Rules"? At the very least, perhaps a disclaimer should be noted that those written rules are not the complete rules of the Death Note.

Also, the thing about the 400 seconds perhaps should be italicized, to indicate that this is a clarification on the verbatim rule rather than part of the rule itself. —68.10.101.122 18:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Too many genres

Guys, according to WP:MOS-AM#Content, we're supposed to use the most notable stylistics for anime and manga, ie, what are the most well known categories for this series? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 00:36, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Japanese DVD Figures

Since I cannot fix it, I would like to point out that DVD 12 "Includes Takada Figure" and not Matsuda. The information that the 13th DVD Includes "King of Shinigami" Figure is even more unreliable, since this character was never seen on the show, but only mentioned. Also, the description of the 2nd DS game, "L o Tsugumono", says that its story covers the 2nd arc, but it actually starts with Raye Penber's death.--200.145.157.31 (talk) 14:22, 20 November 2007 (UTC)