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I was a little late for the Death Note train, but despite my inability to follow the story at the same time the rest of the country was, I nonetheless got on board and thoroughly enjoyed what I read.  Really loving L and the team of police, like many of the other fans, I decided to watch the live-action films made in Japan as well, to complete my Death Note triangle of manga, anime, movie.

What I found most interesting after watching the first of the three films was that I preferred the movie’s approach to how Light joined the investigation verses the manga’s.  While the manga was full of, “oh my god, he did not just say that/do that” moments for me, especially at the college speech when L first offers the position to Light, the movie’s dramatics intrigued me more.

I was confused at first about why the film was focusing on a girl who wasn’t important enough in the manga to be mentioned by her name in detail, but in the film she was, Shiori Akino, Light’s girlfriend.  I wasn’t comfortable with this rather large change, even up till her and Naomi’s meeting in the live-action, but once I realized where the finale of the movie was going, I began to change my mind.

What had always bothered me about Naomi’s character in the manga was how she was written out.  It was simple and I bought it, but for all the hype and the danger she created for Light, it had felt very anti-climatic that she ‘hid herself away where no one would find her.’  The movie’s rendition of her death, while incredibly overly dramatic, did, I feel, write out her threat much better, as well as create a much more sympathetic situation for Light to join the team with L.  What the movie did do because of this scene, was make Light even more evil than I had originally felt about him and by the time credits were rolling, I had a few choice words to say about him.

Of course, a film has a much more limited window to tell a story than an entire comic, so I can see, for the sake of a gun-fighting, heartbreaking conclusion to move an audience to see the second film, their reasons for taking artistic liberties worked.  If the climax of the film had simply been L introducing himself at the college and merely taking Light off guard, it would have stuck truer to the source, but wouldn’t have been nearly as interesting on screen.

Sure, the movie is a little campy and doesn’t have an enormous budget, but I still enjoyed it.  I didn’t really like the introduction of Misa Misa, I felt that should have waited until the second film, but overall I can’t complain, minus the fact that her hair isn’t blond!

On a side note, is it worth mentioning that I was terribly confused by the presence of a female officer on the investigative team, when in the manga there was none?  That was a change that made no sense and had no point.  I mean, why go to the effort of putting her there, to say two lines, other than to make it less of a man’s night out, I suppose.