Death Note 02: The Cat and Mouse Game Begins
Posted on October 19th, 2006 by CalAggie in Episode Summaries
Life for our anti-hero seems to be going the same as before he gained the Death Note, except that now Ryuk is bugging him all the time. After Light’s sister comes into his room and Ryuk tells him anyone who touches the Note will be able to see him, Light decides to hide the Note under a false bottom and sets up an fiery trap. Meanwhile, the world’s police organizations take notice of all the prisoners coincidentally dying of “cardiac arrest” and call on L for help.
Light talks to Ryuk about the websites and worldwide fame that he, under the public’s name “Kira”, has garnered through his murders of felons. All of a sudden, television broadcasts are interrupted by a special bulletin of L calling out Kira on the air. The face on the screen is of Lind L. Tailor, a criminal scheduled to be executed that day. Light foolishly kills Lind and thus allows L to confirm his hypothesis that Kira lives in Kantou, Japan.
The cheers of “Kira, good luck!” from the common folk reminded me of the film Natural Born Killers in which people rooted for the serial killer couple as they made their way across the country. Man, that was a weird movie. Anyway, it’s interesting how a faceless person can capture the public’s attention; other examples from anime that come to mind include Shounen Bat (Paranoia Agent) and the Laughing Man (Stand Alone Complex).
Light’s younger sister looked cute and it seems kind of sad to me that she’s not going to show up very often. Watari, L’s assistant, had a nice deep voice. L himself sounded good whenever the camera angle forced his voice to be heard naturally and not through a masking filter. That “I-know-something-you-didn’t-think-I-knew” voice that reminds me of Shin’ichi Kudo and his smirk when outlining who murdered whom and how they did it.
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haha well i did watch it but before u posted it. i think it was an awesom episode since L was like Shinichi Kudo. i was like WOAH when he started pwning Light
death note is very nice…i usually like 2 watch manga that were detective,adventure,comedy,
haroo….where did i can buy d.n on pulau pinang…but in case i already watch d.n v1-7 in internet only….i trully want 2 see what will happend the end of d.n …. Light is very cool & L
is cute..hehe