How come there hasn't been anything similar to Death Note?
Over a decade after airing, it still remains the only anime normalfags like, it's still the most popular anime on MAL, beating SnK, SAO, OPM and Naruto by a large margin.
It's strange that nothing else has caught on like Death Note has, or that nothing similar to it has been produced, even by the same mangaka.
It's just good.
Death Note
>good
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I always thought that death note had yaoi type art
One of the few anime any of them can seriously entertain. Real world setting, crime thriller, supernatural elements are limited to the shinigami (who don't do much) and the DN itself, antihero/villain MC battling on wits instead of usual godly beam power and strength will in shonenshit, most characters are adults instead of school kids (Light starts as one, then quickly becomes a college student and is adult in second half), no comedy, no otakubait, etc.
You can get mad at this and you can stay mad, this is why normalfags dig it.
>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
Now that I think about it, wasn't this hypocritical for a guy who launched the site when he was 14?
>blatant underage contrarian
>shitty meme laugh image
God why do I share the boards with such retards.
but it's not the only anime normies like. you just listed several others
>most popular anime on MAL
The anime the most people have seen isn't really particularly important
>It's strange that nothing else has caught on like Death Note has, or that nothing similar to it has been produced
That's not true at all, Death Note and Code Geass have literally the strongest recommendation ties in all of MAL. This is actually the most solved recommendation problem we could possible deal with (at least in terms of general population taste)
Also obvious fishing for recs thread is obvious.
Promised Neverland has been compared to it a lot lately, although I prefer Death Note.
>it still remains the only anime normalfags like
That's because it's a plot-heavy anime with next to no anime trope.
Like 99% of it could be a normal televised show without changing anything (all but the crazy laughs, really).
You can't say that of many anime.
This
Tropes inherently decay any form of media
By whom?
They're not in the same league at all.
Any comparison would be made by seasonaltards. (Not implying there's anything wrong with watching seasonals fwiw, but seasonaltards think the best show of all time is a show that aired in the last season, that the best waifu of all time is a waifu from the last season, etc). These are likely the people who made that comparison.
Promised Neverland isn't bad, but 6 months after it stops airing, no one will ever mention it again.
>dn
>good
>it still remains the only anime normalfags like
Naruto.
DBZ.
>most popular anime on MAL
MAL is irrelevant, more people like DBZ and Naruto in real life
This is exactly it. Why no one responded to it is beyond me. Its grounded with gritty colors and themes and an entertaining moral battle.
The protagonists seem really smart until you realize that they're just making huge, unsubstantiated leaps in logic one after the another. If the plot didn't make sure that they came true, they would just end up looking like retards fumbling about in the dark.
Cant that be said for just about any show? These are fictional characters written...they have to bounce off each other to progress the plot
>Everyone is retarded
>Everyone but me
Kaguya Sama is kinda similar.
>it still remains the only anime normalfags like
Which normalsfags
From my experience people that like Death Note typically dabble in watching other anime. Stuff like DBZ has people that watch it even though they don't watch any other anime.
>the only anime normalfags like
Are we not counting Pokemon, DBZ, FMA, or Naruto all of a sudden?
The first arc of The Promised Neverland in manga was kinda similar. A shame that the story and everything went south. The total opposite of SnK who really succeeded in its perspective/genre shift
>real world setting
Sure it's not a high fantasy world but it's not realistic
Not with a superdetective like L existing, he might as well be batman since he operates completely outside of the law
>supernatural elements
Shinigami world, all the bullshit rules, shinigami eyes
>most characters are adults
Light is a child, Misa isn't but behaves like one, L as well, Mello, Near, Sayu
>no comedy
Really? Ryuk is laughing his head off half the time, L and his constant consumption of sweets, fucking Matsuda
>no otakubait
Light is one of the most flagrant cases of a self insert characters ever, he has a harem, multiple hot girlfriends, weird yaoi undertones with L, Misa is a gothic lolita idol
>gritty colors
That's just Araki making it grimdark and edgy and it being released in the mid 00s
>themes
What themes? Hurr durr killing is bad?
>moral battle
That is beyond pointless because neither L not Light care, they care about winning not the morals
Death Note is beloved BECAUSE it's anime, not despite it, it embraces over the top bullshit and goes all out with great music, a fast pace and fun twists
Sure after L's death is takes a complete nosedive in quality but it's still pretty good all in all
Choke on Zeke's cum lmao. It's like Linkin Park. You have an edgy phase when death note is the best thing in the world, then you "outgrow" it, then you actually realize it was great
And the camera angles, and the overstylization, and the top tier voice acting, and Ryuk not looking hilariously fake, and the OPs, and the EDs, and the dramatic color shifts, and the mental battles
Honestly I could go on for a while
It'd be nice if anime wasn't so full of shitty tropes. You've got shows like LotG that are perfectly watchable but contain almost none of the usual crap that comes with most anime. I wish there were a few more serious takes on the medium that doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator.
don't forget tokyo ghoul for all the edgy 15 year old goth girls
Yeah, remember all that Tokyo Ghoul merchandise being sold left and right at every convention for years and years? All those youtube "celebrities" making parodies and references? TV adaptations and translation on every civilized language in the world? Hell, I think the only thing more popular is Ao no Exorcist!
Most people who watch Death Note like it, user.
>How come there hasn't been anything similar to Death Note?
Code Geass is very similar retard.
>it still remains the only anime normalfags like
Anime is mainstream.
>Light is one of the most flagrant cases of a self insert characters ever
t. retard
Light is intentionally written to be as unrelatable as possible.
It's kinda hilarious how, in order to relate to him, some people just outright ignore the fact he was successful in everything and liked by literally everyone around him, and turn him into some kind of nerd who finally gets to conduct his revenge on the world.
Bullshit, he's a classic anime self-insert
>generic Japanese highschool dude, short dark hair, high and slim physique
>comically good at what he does
>intelligent, nihilistic with a wicked sense of humor
>supernatural artefacts literally falls to the ground next to him
>girls flock to him
>no personality except for wanting to be the best and so defeating all his opponents
That's Netflix Light, anime/manga Light is just Kirito with lighter hair
If you're doing some kind of joke, I can't see a punchline.
It's not a joke, Light is just a self insert
MAL
It's pretty impressive considering MAL is biased towards long running Shounen and franchises with multiple seasons.
>muh justice
Just mindlessly repeating it's not true doesn't make it not true
FMA isn't near as popular
>FMA has 85% as many members on MAL as DN.
There hasn't been anything similar to Death Note because over a decade after airing it's creators sat on their asses and did absolutely nothing with all the money they made, as is the habit of people trying to write sly parables about real world subconcious conflicts instead acting upon them, or worse simply paying these people to work for them. I guess we'll have to wait for the Netflix adaption with Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd for a proper gamer generation hot topic take on this pressing issue of non action.
No ha habido nada similar a Death Note porque más de una década después de la emisión, sus creadores se sentaron en sus culos y no hicieron absolutamente nada con todo el dinero que ganaron, como es el hábito de las personas que intentan escribir parábolas astutas sobre conflictos subconscientes del mundo real. actuar sobre ellos, o peor, simplemente pagarles a estas personas para que trabajen para ellos. Supongo que tendremos que esperar la adaptación de Netflix con Tom Hanks y Dan Akroyd para un tema candente de la generación de jugadores adecuada en este tema urgente de no acción.
>>Death Note n’a jamais été similaire à Death Note, car plus d’une décennie après la diffusion de ses créateurs, ils s’assoyaient sur leurs culs et ne faisaient absolument rien avec tout l’argent qu’ils gagnaient. agissant sur eux, ou pire, payant simplement ces gens pour travailler pour eux. Je suppose que nous devrons attendre l’adaptation de Netflix avec Tom Hanks et Dan Akroyd pour que le sujet brûlant de la génération des joueurs appropriée aborde ce problème urgent de non-action.
Above poster won't admit when they need help.
Are you fucking stupid? Bad question, yes you are.
He's obviously delusional and not meant to be sided with. Who the hell has a self insert character die in the end?