Death Note E8
Added 2023-06-20 16:27:23 +0000 UTC
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Yo on your own time you should check out “I’ll take a potato chip, and eat it” in dub, absolutely iconic from when I was first getting into anime
Gilles Dubois
2023-06-22 04:52:58 +0000 UTCThis episode is one of my favorites and not just for that famous "I'll take a potato chip and eat it!" line. So many cool things happen here. I love how casually cool Watari is, both in handing out the ice cream early and then in saying how quickly he can set up the cameras in the house - and being aware enough to set the paper back because he noticed it fall out. I love the back and forth between Light and L where Light is perfectly predicting how L is going to act. I love the comic relief with Ryuk and his push-pull relationship with Light. And, like you pointed out, I love how dedicated Light's dad is as a character that he's willing to go through with stuff that clearly makes him personally uncomfortable for the sake of catching Kira. For the question about why Light talks about the 1500 investigators, he's just trying to act "in character" as himself. He's getting ready to study criminal justice and helps the police with cases, so if he didn't talk about the news bulletin it would be unusual for him. Like L says, it's kind of odd that the Yagami household is super clean, like, suspiciously clean, so Light had to bite into that broadcast like he would normally if he was innocent. I also love the irony of Light saying that L "has no limits" because L put a death row inmate up for be killed by Kira during the first broadcast while at the same time killing two extremely minor criminals - a purse snatcher and a *suspected* embezzler being questioned. That Light is so caught up with his own sense of justice that he doesn't see that his actions are at least as limitless, if not moreso, than L's is peak dramatic irony.
Twig5
2023-06-21 17:38:03 +0000 UTC
