[JAPAN] Misa Misa and Death Note Cosplayers
May 7, 2008 by KNDY · 2 Comments
After seeing one awesome Misa Misa cosplayer from Japan, I decided to see what other ladies have done in Japan ala Misa Misa or other Death Note cosplay. The following images are linked from the Japanese cosplayers websites. Among the many I have seen (outside of the one I posted earlier), these are my other favorites.
How sweet! Holding a little doll of the shinagami
Image linked from gogatunosakura
Image linked from EGOIST
Images linked from BLUE NOTE
Tags: Death Note[OFF-THE-HOOK] I’m so hooked on “Death Note”…
Such a wonderful opening theme!
I’m actually quite curious of other good Misa Misa cosplayers out there!
Maybe we’ll have a Misa Misa cosplay contest on J!-ENT…or maybe hmm…not sure yet…
Tags: Death Note, Misa Misa[ANIME] NPR’s John Power reviews “Death Note”
April 29, 2008 by KNDY · Leave a Comment
NPR’ John Power reviews the anime “Death Note”. Click here to listen to the audio:
April 28, 2008 · In the Japanese anime series Death Note, high school student Light Yagami is in possession of a super-powered notebook that allows him to kill anyone, simply by writing down the victim’s name. Light tries to use the book to rid the world of evil, but he’s not the only one with an interest in the notebook.
Based on a comic series by the same name, the show airs during Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Volume 4 of the series will be released on DVD Tuesday. Critic-at-large John Powers offers a commentary.
Tags: Death Note[JAPAN] More info. on the next “Death Note” film - L change the WorlLd
February 8, 2008 by KNDY · Leave a Comment
In a recent article on Daily Yomiuri, writer Saori Kan wrote, “Leaving his underground investigation headquarters, the unflappable, seclusive detective takes the train, takes imperiled children under his wing and even makes a dash to jump onto a departing airplane during the last 23 days of his life in the Death Note spinoff, L change the WorLd.”"The big box-office hits of 2006, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, which raked in 8 billion yen at the box office, was attributed largely to the original manga’s inventive story about an unholy notebook whose owner can kill people by writing their names in it.”
“In Death Note, Kenichi Matsuyama gave a strong performance in the role of L, a super-smart private detective fighting a psychological war against a serial killer who uses the notebook to kill criminals in a misguided effort to cleanse the world. And now, there’s a spinoff, L change the WorLd.”
“The movie portrays the last 23 days of L’s life, which were not depicted in Death Note: the Last Name, and focuses on his very last job, preventing a bioterrorist plot to use a deadly virus cooked up by a virologist working with a terrorist group.”
“In Last Name, L determines his own destiny with the notebook by writing that he will peacefully die 23 days later–the Death Note’s maximum period for controlling people’s deaths–as the only measure to protect his life from the serial killer, who tries to find L’s real name to kill him with the notebook.”
“[In L change the WorLd] I wanted to portray L’s human side, which was not shown in the Death Note series,” director Hideo Nakata told The Daily Yomiuri.
[HK] Edison Chen Scandal - “Death Note” reference - Kira strikes back with message
February 7, 2008 by KNDY · Leave a Comment
UPDATE: The Edison Chen scandal continues as the mysterious Kira has purportedly release the following message to the media. According to online sources, HK officials has enlisted the assistance Interpol. :
Rumor: video will coming out soon, and also the 4th pic is fake
32 mins video of E & G.
Coming out soon.
believe it or not.
I am not in hk , so i dun give a sh*t.
the 4th pic is fake, she is a Jap AV
here u are
the video clip is in media’’s hands,
the co-worker alrdy got the copies,
cannot get thu it now, be patient just wait
According to an entry on Wikipedia:
“Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vincent Wong Fook-chuen said the source of the pictures had been traced, but he would not confirm reports they had been taken from Chen’s computer. He added that the authenticity of the photographs was no longer a line of inquiry. Wong also said of the six women found in the photographs, four were local celebrities; two were not known to the police. None of the women were named. Wong said he was certain that no overseas artistes were involved. In clarification, he said that people who had only transferred the obscene picture files to friends had not violated the law, but those who had posted them to internet web pages would be in breach of the law.”
“On 5 February 2008, as another one of the suspects was released on HK$50,000 bail, six more photographs of people resembling the actresses surfaced on the internet. In the early hours on Chinese New Year’s day, several hundred more photographs appeared on the internet, as promised, in a cock a snoot to the Hong Kong Police.”
Tags: Death Note, Edison Chen, Kira[MANGA] Manga review: Death Note
January 18, 2008 by KNDY · Leave a Comment
Daily Yomiuri’s Saori Kan recently reviewed “Death Note”.
Kan wrote, “If you were given the power to decide who lives and who dies, would you use it? If yes, how?”
“For the young and intelligent Light Yagami, the main character of the manga series Death Note, the choice is clear: Eradicate the world of crime and corruption. Using an unholy notebook that allows the owner to kill somebody by merely scrawling their name in it, Light–who goes by the name “Kira,” the Japanized pronunciation of “killer”–hopes to cleanse the world and become its god.”
“Despite being filled with its own types of horror, it is not a horror story, but much more akin to a mystery novel. Readers are privy to the serial killer’s identity from the very beginning, but the inventive story, which focuses on the psychological and intellectual warfare between Light and the world’s top detective, simply known as L, and his successor, Near, will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Much like L, Light himself works with the police, first as an advisor to investigators, then later as a National Police Agency official.”
“The story was first carried in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from 2003 to 2006, during which time it was compiled into 12 volumes in Japanese and translated into English, as well as made into both a two-part live-action film–starring Tatsuya Fujiwara and Kenichi Matsuyama–and an animated series.”
Tags: Death Note
