Meanwhile Del Toro can't get funding for a tv drama of Naoki Urasawa's Monster. There are a bunch of other manga that would make far better tv series but they went with Death Note because "muh popularity"

Why not? Homer's Odyssey has been played and shot for centuries, why not this?

The question in art is not "what", but "how".

New writers if good can probably say something new through the lens of this decade's flow. Also Del Toro's funding might as well coexist with this.

Because i feel that there are literally other manga that would translate to live action better. Stories that can be just as gripping but with more emphasis on the development of its characters, which is what live action does better than animation, amd less emphasis on supernatural elements, which is what animation does better imo.
The aforementioned Monster is the perfect example. It is a crime drama with an incredibly high quality of writing, with a similar killer/detective dynamic. But it was written to appeal to an older, more mature audience than death note was.
I'm not saying that death note can't be good as a series, just that I think there are better options.

is this going to be the last airbender all over again

Light is not supposed to look like a "troublemaker". He is suppose to look like a smart perfect kid that is first in his class so no one would expect him to be a kira...

ok i'm interested in this Monster now, i don't think i can take watching the og death note anyway for more than 5 minutes since i'm not a 13-year old anymore

the best we can expect from this show i think is Heroes first season level

Surgeon saves a kids life instead of the mayors. Kid grows up to be a serial killer and the murders frame the surgeon. Go check it out.

this isnt a series its just a movie which means the plot will be rushed to shit l0l

and the only happy moment is when a kid gets a kaiser roll

probably gonna be ass but the anime adaptation of death note wasn't perfect either. still enjoyable though

You mean the animated series? Because i don't read manga. And i am kind of a retrofag nowadays and can't take most of millenium's art style like this Mad House studio.

chihaya is beautiful. take that back

ok not all of it, i haven't watched a lot but i think they started to hit a very original level at 2006-2008 god damn why i am discussing anime here it wasn't my intention at all

light looks 30 years old

b4nny should play the role of kira and write the names of all the idiots

The cast isn't Japanese?

why would they be its an anime the characters aren't meant to look Japanese

anime is still cartoons

It's set in Japan, and the characters have Japanese names. They're definitely Japanese.

Use the GITS method: Just change the names and the setting.

aren't meant to look Japanese
and they have Japanese names because the show was made with a Japanese audience in mind for instance L (Eru Rōraito) and watari have Japanese names despite being from europe

this gonna be straight ass lmao

if you talk to people in japan, they don't see those characters as being white a majority of the time fyi, that's just western perception

western population is drawn totally different in a lot of series compared to major characters like samurai champloo, yakitate!! japan, eyeshield 21, steins;gate, etc..

there are europeans in death note most notably the protagonists from the second arc

i don't have really high hopes for this series, but probably will watch it anyways when it's released just for willem dafoe ryuk

tbh i'm surprised they didn't try really hard to try to get zac efron, his high school musical look was pretty much a spot on light lmao

http://i.imgur.com/TC5CSpB.jpg

I kind of wish they explored other possibilities instead of taking the existing characters and placing it in the US. Like, a completely new character was presented with the Notebook and how their reaction to it would be, and how it would play out compared to the narrative in the original series.

Other than that I am excited to see Willem Dafoe as Ryuk.

what the fuck im sure hes behind some deaths now

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o69/xvocab/1182982591710.gif

ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

http://imgur.com/gallery/vlSI2
the character are Japanese but many many artist do not model there characters to look like Japanese people or supposed to look white the character looks how the artist thought they should look or what would be interesting
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki
some shows do intend to make characters look japanese or look white I don't think death note is one of those shows

for the most part, characters in anime generally don't look like people you would naturally find irl (for the most part) in the first place
a lot of shows have characters with naturally dark blue/white/crimson red/green hair or incredibly unnatural physical traits

like you could argue that the physical characteristics of characters in shows aren't inherently japanese, but you could also say they don't necessarily resemble anyone irl as well, there's so many shows that have blonde hair/blue eyes characters that aren't actually white

even in that interview you linked to had them saying that the characters just looked like anime characters until they got to the end of the interview where they were directly asking them about japan's perception on whitewashing from a western standpoint

you could also debate about the characters not looking japanese because of the entire harajuku fashion area lol
if you've ever actually walked around harajuku, you really wouldn't be surprised by any of the characters in anime looking the way they do