It’s official: I am L’s number one fan! March 21, 2007

Death Note is great and L/Ryuuzaki is brilliant! Finally finished the second part of the movie and do I have to say that I love, love, love it?

L/Ryuuzaki is perpetually slouched and looks looks like a walking question mark. He sucks his thumb and he has childish mannerisms. He loves sweets so much and I can imagine how challenging it was for Matsuyama Ken’ichi to portray someone who has to act weird and eat so much in one movie.

Homer-san, pinagpuyatan namin to! Ika nga ni Kuya Germs, walang tulugan! Shet, ang ganda talaga. Bakit parang gusto kong bumili ng eyeliner na black?

Actually, yun na lang ang kulang, pwede na akong maging si L. I slouch (but not as bad as he does) and I love sweets. ^_^

I Googled (so that’s now a verb, Google? Googled? Googling?) some of his (Matsuyama’s) pics and I think I already know who he was in Gokusen. Very forgettable, this guy. He wasn’t particularly good-looking in Gokusen and he was just a bit player. But in Death Note, he was a revelation. At least for me. He sure succeeded in creeping me out, at the same time, awing me with his tactics during his mental battle with Fujiwara Tatsuya. 格好いい!

For those who haven’t seen this one, by all means, please watch Death Note. If you have the money, get the anime and manga as well. That’s what I’m going to do. Har-har-har. So the next couple of paydays will be dedicated solely to DN! Kidding.

是非見て下さい、デズノート！

Death Note デスノート March 15, 2007

Finally got to watch the first part of this live action movie. For those who do not know, Death Note is a manga series about a high school boy (named Light Yagami) who receives a notebook called “Death Note” from a shinigami called Ryuk. This notebook empowers him to kill anyone just by writing down a name. Light eventually becomes known as Kira (Killer).

Ryuk has written the rules inside the Death Note. Interestingly enough, he wrote it in English because it is the most popular language in the world. Cute.

The Death Note rules:

• The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
• This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject’s face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
• If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subject’s name, it will happen.
• If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack. (In the crappy subbed version I have, it says ‘heart paralyse’)
• After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.