Inspired by a Lord of the Rings crossover discussion, as it is established in text that the Rohirrim have no system of writing, relying on art and oral tradition. In that scenario, would the Rohirrim be immune to the Death Note, or would the writing of their name default to Gondorian? Would it depend on whether the specific person in question had met someone who could conceptualize the spelling of their name?

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I was scrolling tumblr and read some posts about whether Watari really cared about L or the children at Wammy's. Tbh after reading Another Note, I realized that Watari did have some flaws in operating the orphanage, but I also think that the hostility towards Watari stems A LOT from the translation difference from Japanese to English.

Example One:

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Here, Watari stated, "It is tedious to tend to his needs"

while in Japanese and Mandarin the sentence was actually more of "L considers everything about himself bothersome", giving more of "L doesn't care about his everyday needs", therefore making the statement more close to a neutral comment of L's habit. I also consider this more likely is Watari's tone.

I would conclude that the English version is...bad. Very bad. Defamed Watari. A better translation could be read here: [L file no.15] L ~ one day - Death Note Community — LiveJournal "To him, trivialities like this are bothersome."

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Example 2:

On HTR page 60, Ohba talks about the characterization of Watari. " Watari is an inventor who raises orphans into detectives for fun"

HOWEVER in Mandarin version, which is much closer to the Japanese original meaning, states, "his personal interest is to raise detectives." Although Ohba still admits it's a bit over the top, I think the term "personal interest" could refer to passion or more of...like how you are interested in researching a certain topic. Nevertheless, I consider it much more neutral than the English translation.

So I am now very curious, fans that read both languages, what translation differences did you notice, and how they totally changed the original meaning?

PS the dub and sub also gives different personalities to L, I have the same opinions as this post on Tumblr. So... people stating L is condescending was rather new to me, as when I read the manga in Mandarin and watched the JP sub he didn't give me those feelings.

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I am sick and tired of hearing that he is trash, yes I do believe that he is an L ripoff but the idea of Near and Mello was amazing, 2 people not smart enough to surpass L but together with separate ideologies can they truly surpass him, but I simply don't get why he is hated on so much

Sister is from dotflow btw!

In the first episode, he's in a class and having to read a religious (I think) verse, I can't tell if that was a religious class or maybe some sort of Latin/English class, that would explain how he reads in English.

Other than that, he doesn't seem to have anything that allude to him being religious or having a religion. And I don't think he would considering that he considers himself a god.

I am rewatching the anime and I will stand by it, that ray caused his own death. The way he was speaking to his fiancé. “Yeah we know you use to be a one of the best FBI agents, but now you are my fiancé” raye wasn’t Japanese and took on the attitude that she isn’t allowed to use her brain cause he wants her pregnant. She could have saved his life just as quick as she was going to catch light. Also the girl on the bus yuri she didn’t even question lights behavior. A man was just ran over after waving a gun around and you check your watch. What do you guys think? Not just that but raye gave his mark his real name, he could have just said I am a cop.

I know it’s widely agreed that Light is more intelligent than BB I’m sure. And I think that while Light got L killed, and accumulated a higher death count than BB could likely get, what I mean by BB being a “better Kira” is by creating a case L can’t solve.

While Light’s ego and motivation to change the world got in the way of his smarts, BB’s only goal is to create a case L can never solve. Which now that I think of it, would be pretty easy for BB to do with the death note.

But given how bat shit crazy BB is, and how creative he was in planning the LA murder case, I wonder what he could do with the death note. Maybe he would go even further than just creating an unsolvable case and just make L’s life a living hell, or he’d make a proper attempt in finding L’s identity to kill him?

Which of you do you like best? Who is the best of them?

Light Yagami = Lawful Evil

L Lawliet = Neutral Impure

Ryuk = Chaotic Neutral

Misa Amane = Social Impure

Near = Lawful Neutral

Mello = Rebel Neutral

Soichiro Yagami = Lawful Good

Teru Mikami = Lawful Impure

Rem = Neutral Moral

Tōta Matsuda = Social Good

Naomi Misora = Neutral Good

Minoru Tanaka = True Neutral

Mail Jeevas "Matt" = True Neutral

Sayu Yagami = Social Good

Quillsh Wammy “Watari” = Social Moral

Kiyomi Takada = Lawful Neutral

Shuichi Aizawa = Lawful Good

Raye Penber = Social Good

Reiji Namikawa = Social Impure

Merrie Kenwood "Wedy" = Chaotic Neutral

Aiber = Chaotic Neutral

Kyosuke Higuchi = Neutral Evil

(Sorry in advance for this bunch of text) I first watched the death note anime back in like 2021. I enjoyed it a lot, but ended up moving on to other stuff. In comes 2024, and out of nowhere i get this MASSIVE hyperfixation for this anime again. More specifically a Mello/Near hyperfix, since they were always my favorite characters....mostly Near. No clue how to draw this fucker's hair tho.

I read the manga as well, because i heard there was more content for them there....did not dissappoint. I am now 10× more mentally ill than i was before. I also read the LABB novel. It was a lot of fun...🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Basically i'm just enjoying my time in the fandom and injecting all of its content into my bloodstream until the hyperfixation goes away.

Did Naomi just kick L down a flight of stairs and scolded him for sexually assaulting her? What on earth happened?