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Episode: 144
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Title: HPR0144: Death Note
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0144/hpr0144.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 12:24:49
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Hey, it's Steve Geek. Welcome to a short episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Today I want to give a review for you. I want to review Death Note for you.
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Death Note is this wonderful Japanese anime. It was so good it became so popular
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that they also made it into an action film, a live action film, which is unusual.
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And something I really like in this Japanese animation was that it deals with an incredibly adult thing.
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I'm a fan of Japanese anime, but I don't like the ones that are really obviously made for children.
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I don't like childish plots. But the really wonderful thing about the animation industry in Japan is that they make both,
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they make some for children, some for adults. They have a history.
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I mean, one animation I watched was about war orphans from a fire bombing raid,
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raids, performed, ordered by Le Maze and World War II, not for kids.
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But back to Death Note, it deals with an incredibly adult thing.
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It's a psychological and supernatural thriller.
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I'm not going to give you any spoilers, but I have to give you some kind of plot synopsis.
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And the story centers around a character named Leto Yagami.
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And he finds a dropped death note, and the death he finds his note and picks it up.
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And it says, whoever's name is written here, he sells, he sell, shall die.
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And now, you know, this prep school kid is like, yeah, sure.
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But Kiriyoshi gets the best. He tests it on a pretty bad guy.
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And it works, guy croaks.
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So he decides to try to use this death note, this power of death he was given,
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the supernatural power of death, to build a perfect world, a world of justice without crime.
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And, you know, it deals with vigilanteism, so he becomes naturally hunted by the police.
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But they can't catch him because all these murders are done remotely.
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You know, there's no physical evidence left.
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They can't use normal police methods.
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Now, I've talked about this note, this supernatural note, but it's a supernatural as well as a psychological thriller.
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So let me give you a little example, again, without a spoiler of a plot twist.
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We're kind of plots evolved from this.
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In one case, in one of several things that happened, you know, a lone retired FBI agent suspects Lido
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and begins pursuit of him, of course, trying to interrogate him.
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But suspecting that the names, my people's names might be a factor, uses an alias.
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And, you know, Lido can't defend himself by writing the name of the death note because he's got a fake name.
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So the cat and mouse game begins and they go through generations of trying to, of him trying to find out
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the retired FBI agent's name.
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And the retired FBI agent trying to prove to himself that it is indeed Lido who is doing these things.
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So let me tell you a little about quality.
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I was very impressed with the quality.
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The anime series, some of the scenes were rotoscoped to give it that realistic look.
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And the main characters, you know, looked like they had real life miles to me.
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I mean, I saw them and they weren't just like drawn out of imagination.
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They looked like they actually were drawn after real people, which really was fantastic.
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Now, like I said, death note is both an anime and a movie.
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So the movie, I saw, the dubbing was perfect.
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You know, you remember the old Kung Fu movies and the mouse would move and then later on the English force would come out?
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Well, no, it looked like they were really saying their parts in English.
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It's very impressive.
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Now, while we're talking about the quality of some of the characterizations, I have to tell you about two characters.
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And his name is Ryuk. He is a death god.
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And he begins having relationships like him.
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And so, you know, he's a very fearsome looking character.
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And in the anime, he's fantastic.
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He has a very warped sense of humor as some great lines and moves the plot along wonderfully.
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But what's really amazing is that when they made the real life action movie counterpart,
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you know, all the characters became human actors and actresses.
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But Ryuk became a CGI character.
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And so, you see real people and the CGI death god next to them, fantastic, fantastic.
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And, you know, I also have to tell you about, you know, we all had a whole herd of the stereotypical anime babe, you know, the big eyes, the figure, etc.
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Well, the anime series has what has to be the quintessential anime babe.
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Misa Misa Amani, a teen model in Japan.
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Absolutely gorgeous.
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As a matter of fact, the anime character Misa Misa, the actress for the real, for the action movie counterpart, does not do justice to the animated girl.
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It's fascinating, fascinating characters.
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So, if you get a chance to take in the death note series, I highly recommend it.
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I hope you've enjoyed today's episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Hacker Public Radio is, of course, community radio.
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So, please do consider recording your own episodes and sending them in.
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We'd love to get them out there.
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Thank you and have a wonderful day.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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HPR is sponsored by Carol.net, so head on over to C-A-R-O dot-N-E-C for all of us in here.
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Thank you.
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