Death Note

Finished with the TV version of Death Note. An excellent piece.

There are of course many hiccups in the detail. By the end of the story, Light had obviously no direct possession of any Note - that's why his father Soichiro (夜神總一郎) could see the date of death over Light's head and believed that Light was not Kira. In the last scene, however, Teru Mikami (魅上照) could tell who Kira was by just a look - a serious flaw.

The final plot was also disappointing: Light himself could predict that his opponent - if as good as the original L - would see through the trap and spot that the Note was a fake. (Light was right. N was a bit thick and did not see the trap; the success was largely luck.) What Light should have done was to ask Teru Mikami to secretly keep a few pages of the real Note - saving all the trouble to ask Kitomi Takada (高田清美) to do the actual killing - and let N go ahead and steal the real Note. On the day of combat, Teru Mikami could then write on those secretly kept pages, just like what Light himself loved to do.

Well, as Philo Vance used to say: "and nothing flawless, my dear fellow, is natural or genuine."