Anime and mange endings?

[serria]

After watching the series for the nth time (I'm embarrassed to estimate even to a community of fans), I find it easier to examine the finale more critically and refrain myself from screaming at a certain character, guess who. So, let's compare the endings of the anime and the manga.

Comments

[viola_canina]

I don't like the anime ending all that much because of its atmosphere. Light's death is not humiliating enough, Ryuk doesn't get to mock him properly and Teru doesn't say his you're not God! line (damn, I love that scene, and Teru has such cute fangs). I also really hate Teru's suicide because it seems to be there just for the sake of being there, and while it's more visually impressive than his off-screen death in the manga, it's also too grotesque and ridiculous and... just honestly hard to imagine. Now that I'm done rambling about the unethical treatment of my favorite animal prosecutor... I'm also upset about the absence of Matsuda and Ide's final conversation in the anime. I like their dialogue a lot, and for me, it's a good example of actual character development. Ohba-sensei may say all he wants about the lack of human drama in his story (ha! - sorry, I just don't buy that), but he has some really powerful and emotional scenes in his manga. Sadly, we never see this particular scene in the anime, which is a shame. Oh well. Just

[serria]

Lol @ Mikami's fangs

[el_plato_sucio]

I actually finished reading the manga not too long ago and, having seen the ending of the anime first, I was really surprised that it was different

[serria]

Yeah, I agree that both portrayals of Mikami didn't feel out of character to me. Though, not gonna lie, I about peed myself when Mikami did it in the anime because I totally wasn't expecting it, but in retrospect I like that his part was concluded like that.

I do think Near did it, because Near never struck me as being particularly moral. I think he did it to ensure that Mikami would go completely batshit and not interfere with the final showdown, as well as refrain from checking the Death Note for authenticity after Near's switched the real one (which I think Mikami definitely would've done, especially since he knew he was being spied on). I think Near really wasn't interested in Mikami. Light's the real goal. But there's not really any proof either way, and it's definitely an issue open for interpretation. ^^;

It was interesting that the anime chose to alter, but I think it's understandable. As you said, the manga is a different medium - it wasn't able to be as artistic as the anime is.

[el_plato_sucio]

Well, I guess it's one of those things where the interpretation varies depending on how much you happen to like Near. He says that killing Kira and X-Kira would be the easy way out, but that it wouldn't be the way that L would do it (and therefore not the way that he would do it) and I'm inclined to believe that he would do just about anything outside of murder in order to catch them. I just... don't see him as being capable of it wanting to go down that route, not sure how much bias on my part is involved in that though. The best thing for Mikami to do probably would've been to keep the Death Note with him instead of leaving it there, but I don't think he thought of it (he wasn't a genius and couldn't be expected to think of every possiblity (ie. the possibility that Light would be carrying a scrap of the Death Note with him that he could use to kill Takada), and it wasn't like having him go insane was completely out of left field... hell, maybe Near knew that there was a strong possibility of that happening; he *does* seem to have

[liam_sensei]

I actually saw the anime ending first. I was following the tail end of the anime on Adult Swim last year and that got me curious about checking out the manga. By the time I saw the anime ending I think I was going into volume 5 of the manga and I read the manga ending a few weeks later

[serria]

I agree with basically your whole comment, minus the part about disliking Light. XD; As far as the story goes on an idealistic, philosophical level, of course he had to lose, but as a fangirl who thinks he's adorable when he's being maniacal, I wanted him to kick Near's ass. ;D~

[banana_cave]

I do like the anime ending in that Light sees an apparition of L standing over him while he dies.

I don't think I've seen it as many times as you, so I can't compare in that detail. I did like the manga ending and hearing Matsuda's theory of what happened in the Warehouse. It gave me more to think about for sure. But the anime ending was beautiful.

I'm partial to the live action movie portrayal of Light's death, how he and Ryuk are laughing, and then Light sees his name written in the Death Note. I know it's a completely different ending, but I love the crazy laughter and then Light's face when he realizes he's going to die.

[the_gabih]

ignoring completely the fact that how the fuck could it be sunset when they met at 1 pm

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was struck by that being odd. Misa's 'suicide' was also a bit jarring- why was she throwing herself off a building before Light had even died?

On the other hand, I did prefer the anime ending. I'm a Light fan, so the lessening of the brutality was welcomed. Seeing him lying on the ground asking what he should do given he's lost was heartbreaking enough on its own (he sounded like a little, lost child, and in a sense that's all he ever was).

I liked your point on the colours though. I'd never really noticed that before.