Death Note Episode 19+20

Hey Tim, sorry this particular journey is coming to an end, but I've thoroughly enjoyed watching you discover the world of Death Note. For future consideration, my vote on the sub vs dub question is leaning towards dub. It's a little hard for me to say since I do speak Japanese, but I think for someone completely new to the show, it's going to be difficult to follow all of a) the show itself, b) the subtitles, and c) your reactions. I think a significant majority of those following your reactions here, or in AoT or Arcane are already fans of the show, so they're really only having to keep track of one of the three, which leads us to underestimate the challenges for a newcomer. Anyway, back to the show - I mostly agree with Lupe's take on Light having a strong moral compass, but there's a little nuance there that's probably lost on a non-Japanese audience. There was a moment in the musical, actually, where Light says that his personal moral judgement should be superior to that of society, and that's actually a huge no-no in societal norms in Japan. A Japanese person is always supposed to subordinate their personal views for those of the community - so from that perspective, Light is (I keep using the word) a sociopath. But so is L - in fact they've been becoming more and more similar as the show progresses. Both oppressively intelligent, opinionated, relatively friendless and prone to going their own way. Which leads me to the question I've been pondering this week: Would L use a Death Note? I don't think he'd use it as much as Light has, but L seems perfectly at peace with courses of action that will lead to people's certain deaths. Wouldn't he find it consistent to use a Death Note to solve an investigation?

I hope you get to come back to this one day. However, I know you mentioned on the Helluva rewatch that the subtitles can pull attention from the show. While there is debate in the anime community about loss of original context when the original japanese gets dubbed into english, there are a lot of pros to watching in english from the talent of the english actors, being able to focus on the animation and subtext beyond keeping up with the subtitles, and even added jokes or word plays into the translated show. So if for any of your future anime watches you'd prefer to focus on the show, reactions, animation, without being overwhelmed with keeping up with the subtitles, I don't think anyone in the community would take it negatively. Many of us do prefer english dub for that reason. But I know you've said you love the multilingual exposure so just wanted to say, there's no pressure to original versus dubbed. Can't wait to see what you have coming next. Hope to see you come back to L and Light later though too but you've got to follow the views. Thank you for continuing as far as you are

Tim, first off, thank you so much for thanking me, even though I don't think I did much, and for remembering me throughout the video... Secondly thank you for contacting me yesterday, it was nice of you and I feel better in general regarding the things you may have to drop or not, I don't know why I got so down at the moment. I see it more positively now. Regarding Death Note, the group of 8 (7 now), we yet don't know what Light left prepared or set up before deciding to forget about the death note and all that. We have no clue of that, so we don't know who is "Kira" at the moment, why they lended their Death Note to these guys, or how the communicate with them, but someone is clearly in charge somewhere, I don't want to spoil much. All L is doing with Misa is mostly manipulative for two reasons, 1, to know how she acts towards Light, to reinforce his theory that she was working with Kira (who he still thinks is Light), and 2, to put Light and Misa one against the other so Light would work his side and not with his father and other detectives. L is now fed up with other people's ideas and wants to do things his way, so he's recurring to dirty techniques, he told Light he's desperate so... We can conclude he rather have people die now but find out who Kira is than saving some people and then have Kira continue killing more. Anyways, thank you again for thanking me, making me feel included and considering me, I feel bad about feeling left out, thank you, you made sure I was okay and I value that over any other content decision so... Yeah, I'm staying and I'll try to join in some other new content I don't know about to watch with you. Thank you! Lupe.-

Death note is one of my favorite anime, sad it's gonna end, but I get it.. Thanks for doing your best to serve your community , (which is so diverse in tastes), even wherever is overlap, I'm sure it doesn't always translate to views. Like I said, I do totally get it. Thanks for doing your best with what seems like an ever expanding balancing act Tim.. It shows and I appreciate the hard work