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That was an EXTREME dick move on the shinigamis' part. Someone actually managed to find a way to use the notebook for good, and you go and kill them in return? Not cool. t
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Feb 3, 2020 21:01
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"A-Kira" is the most hilariously on the nose thing I love it
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Feb 3, 2020 21:05
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I kinda hate the ending. It's after the fact, shouldn't have effected him.
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Feb 3, 2020 21:48
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Given Ryuk's personality you'd think he'd be approaching apple farmers instead of Japanese students
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Feb 3, 2020 22:01
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Crain posted:I kinda hate the ending. It's after the fact, shouldn't have effected him. I think it's important to drive home the series' moral that there's no world where you're smart enough to try and mess with the Death Note and not get hosed in the end.
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Feb 3, 2020 22:07
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Blockhouse posted:I think it's important to drive home the series' moral that there's no world where you're smart enough to try and mess with the Death Note and not get hosed in the end.
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Feb 3, 2020 22:29
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The only way to win the Death Note game is not to play, just look at not-Trump there, he survived because he's a scumbag and a coward.
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Feb 3, 2020 23:47
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Angry Lobster posted:The only way to win the Death Note game is not to play, just look at not-Trump there, he survived because he's a scumbag and a coward. I think you mean a saint who would never use a Death Note even when it is absolutely, 100% in his possession.
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Feb 3, 2020 23:58
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Did I just read a manga where Donald Trump obtained the Death Note?  I also love the irony of Near talking about how smart the new Kira is, and then the manga ends with New Kira having been killed.
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Feb 4, 2020 00:11
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:Did I just read a manga where Donald Trump obtained the Death Note? No, you read a manga where Donald Trump was offered the Death Note but didn't take it because it'd get him killed. Also, to be fair, neither Near nor Minoru had any way to see his death coming. That was out of nowhere.
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Feb 4, 2020 00:36
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Well the ending to that one-shot sucked. I'm kind of amused that Near spent this entire chapter just doing his best Speedwagon impression and talking about how smart A-Kira is.Darth TNT posted:Agravity boys is stupid. And I keep reading it, because it's a good kind of stupid. Also a two parter! The creature facts corner in this chapter was extremely on-point.  If this were to ever get an anime, I'm not sure how they could replicate this or Chris' "SEND LETTERS TO THE AUTHOR" page.
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the plan was perfect considering the pieces in play that a-kira was aware of. the problem is that outside of every game board there's the whole rest of the world, waiting to gently caress poo poo up.
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Feb 4, 2020 07:27
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Brought To You By posted:To be fair, the kid knowingly sold a super weapon to a global super power who would definitely abuse it. So I can see why the author drove the knife in, but adding a new rule just to do it equally feels like a cheap method of accomplishing it. That's not what happens though? Ryuk just decides to kill him at the end because he's an rear end in a top hat.
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Feb 4, 2020 16:46
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Rohan Kishibe posted:That's not what happens though? Ryuk just decides to kill him at the end because he's an rear end in a top hat. He does it because the King made him change the rules and he couldn’t warn the kid to not withdraw the money since he told Ryuk to never appear to him again.
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Feb 4, 2020 16:51
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The way I see it he was going to die anyway (it'd be too convenient he was just withdrawing the money otherwise) and Ryuk just "stole the kill" to make a poetic parallel with Light or something. Still stupid that the end amounted to "and then the admin got pissed and banned the guy who found the exploit in the game, the end".
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Feb 4, 2020 17:03
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Honestly, the kid probably found the way to pass on the Death Note in such a way that it would cause the least destruction. Even before governments got involved, anyone who could have won the bidding war can hire a hitman and buy a suitcase nuke. Scale up to armies and missiles, what's one more weapon actually gonna do?
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Petiso posted:The way I see it he was going to die anyway (it'd be too convenient he was just withdrawing the money otherwise) and Ryuk just "stole the kill" to make a poetic parallel with Light or something.  From chapter 71 regarding how ownership and memory loss applies. But that's just a nitpick because there were a bunch of rules shoved into the manga I can imagine nobody kept track of a decade later. Story was still interesting if basically a "what if" type of story.
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Feb 4, 2020 17:24
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What I liked best about the story is how he acknowledged that what Yagami did would be a lot more difficult with current tech.
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Darth TNT posted:What I liked best about the story is how he acknowledged that what Yagami did would be a lot more difficult with current tech. How's that?
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Mraagvpeine posted:How's that? Like it was mentioned in the chapter. Light wouldn't have been able to kill the FBI agent as easily and any internet use would get easily tracked.
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Elfface posted:Honestly, the kid probably found the way to pass on the Death Note in such a way that it would cause the least destruction. Even before governments got involved, anyone who could have won the bidding war can hire a hitman and buy a suitcase nuke. Scale up to armies and missiles, what's one more weapon actually gonna do? Petiso posted:Still stupid that the end amounted to "and then the admin got pissed and banned the guy who found the exploit in the game, the end". Yeah, this is what I feel too. The kid acknowledged that if he didn't do anything and gave Ryuk the Death Note back, Ryuk would just try and find someone else who wouldn't hesitate to use it. The kid found a way to get rid of the Death Note while doing something good, by erasing Japan's debt and giving other people enough money to live comfortably. The ending sucked because it can't leave that one ray of optimism well enough alone.
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Feb 4, 2020 20:04
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Presumably like the President Ryuk would have told him about the change in rules and that withdrawing the money would mean he would have to die. But in an entirely unforeseeable way, he screwed himself by telling Ryuk to never appear before him again.
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Kemono Jihen is one of my favorite comics now, check it out.
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Sharkopath posted:Kemono Jihen is one of my favorite comics now, check it out. The influx of chapters this past week have been a delight. I am glad the series got a proper objective to work towards after the arachne arc.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Presumably like the President Ryuk would have told him about the change in rules and that withdrawing the money would mean he would have to die. But in an entirely unforeseeable way, he screwed himself by telling Ryuk to never appear before him again. Still for something like death note that was "letter of the law no matter what" going ahead and changing a contract on someone after the fact is completely against the idea that everyone is told point blank all the rules for using the death note and then left to tie their own noose. Ryuuk could've handed off the note to another shinigami who then returned it to the kid with the "hey terms of service changed agree you understand" and have some other tragedy happen related to the massive influx of wealth to Japan.
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Let me understand something, Ryuk only used the Death Note on the new kid when he put his hands on the money, is that right?
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pentyne posted:Still for something like death note that was "letter of the law no matter what" going ahead and changing a contract on someone after the fact is completely against the idea that everyone is told point blank all the rules for using the death note and then left to tie their own noose.
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Mraagvpeine posted:Let me understand something, Ryuk only used the Death Note on the new kid when he put his hands on the money, is that right? Yeah, the new rule explicitly said the seller dies when they receive their payment, and I guess having it in an account under his name wasn't quite enough.
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Feb 7, 2020 21:33
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I feel like the result of that kid's plan would just be "Tokyo rents increase 1000%" lolRatHat posted:Like it was mentioned in the chapter. Light wouldn't have been able to kill the FBI agent as easily and any internet use would get easily tracked. I'm pretty sure that it would actualy be very easy to use the death note without anyone ever finding you. The only reason Light was ever caught is that he hosed up really early in the series and only used it during times that allowed them to narrow the search area to Japan (and IIRC he also let them narrow the search to his neighborhood when he killed some guy out of anger, but I forget the details of that).
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Elfface posted:Yeah, the new rule explicitly said the seller dies when they receive their payment, and I guess having it in an account under his name wasn't quite enough. I'm just thinking that if the kid were aware of the rule, he'd stick with credit cards and ordering online for the rest of his life.
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The kid's plan is kind of weird because I don't get the intent of it. If he didn't predict the new rule that would be added, then what he did is objectively ridiculous and awful - giving the Death Note to Donald Trump in exchange for giving a random group of several hundred thousand Tokyo residents a million bucks. Like, at the very least split the money among all people in the country/world or something. If he did predict it, it makes sense as a plan to remove the threat of the Death Note through keeping it "inert" in Trump's possession. But then it doesn't make sense that he withdrew the money and pointlessly killed himself.
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The point was to get paid enough to live comfortably, and the only way to make that untraceable is to obfuscate it in a large enough manner, lots of other people benefitting as well is just a side benefit.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I'm just thinking that if the kid were aware of the rule, he'd stick with credit cards and ordering online for the rest of his life. The real moral of the story is that the world should go cashless.
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If he had managed to get the money out before sending Ryuk away and him changing the rules after getting in trouble, do you think he still would have died?
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Hypocrisy posted:I like Samurai 8 but that might be because I am fascinated by the massive amount of body horror it has. Also the sexism is offputting and completely needless. In fact I think Daruma's master is a lady?
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Samurai 8 feels like it should've just been a seinen title or something to have a harder edge
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Spiderdrake posted:It's a really weird creative manga that feels both chained to shonen and yet also not shonen enough. But yeah, there's no place for female characters in that manga. The whole "Princess" system is so lame and feels like a last minute addition to the world after Kishimoto realized he forgot to add any female characters.
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Nanashi got fuckin robbed And their personal arc would have tied in so well with the whole 'world and yourself is what you will it to be' theme drop we just got from Acala. The manga is competent but consistently drops interesting threads for the most boring and predictable outcomes it can.
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Mulderman posted:https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1006371 Trump spending 1 quadrillion yen on nothing, but acting like he's a genius because he can just lie about it is about the most in character thing ever tbh
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