death note

death note: episoed two


After last week’s introduction to the world of Death Note, the story starts to move forward, as this episode introduces us to Yagami Light rival, L. From the moment the letter L appears on Watari’s laptop screen in front of the police national representatives, one can’t help but get the felling things are about to get interesting very quickly. Even though this episode is to introduce us to the beginning of the rivalry between Yagami and L, it’s good that we are shown a glimpse of both of their high intelligence in this episode, as it will give us a taste of what will occur in future episodes.
Despite this episode mainly being the introduction of L, the scene in this episode where Yagami explains the booby trap he created for the Death Note was very intriguing to me, as it displays Yagami’s willingness to reach his goals. At present I’m looking very hard to find a fault in Death Note, but I may have found a small minor fault in this episode.
In this episode when Yagami gets outwitted by the real L, there’s a 180 degree rotation shot in Yagami’s bedroom room, which I found a bit distracting. Even though I’m not against using 3DCG in anime, and using different presentation techniques, I felt that while watching this, it felt a bit out of place compared to the detailed and beautiful static 2D artwork. My only guess of why it was used is this episode, is because the director may have thought, since we have useing a bit of 3DCG in explaining of how Yagami booby traps the Death Note in his desk drawer, let’s use 3DCG again for a scene in this episode. Even though I felt it was a minor error in this episode, everything about Death Note still oozes class.