Stay with me readers, I’m going to go all geeky/nerdy/anime on you with my thoughts on Death Note 2: The Last Name, a sequel you’ve probably never heard of. And if you have, you’re cooler than me!

Bit of a back story for you non-Death Noters: The original Death Note movie is adapted from Manga (aren’t they all?), about a young lad, Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who discovers a book dropped to earth by a death god, a “shinigami” named Ryuk. He sees a particular person’s face and writes their name in the book, they meet a tragic end. Light then takes it upon himself to see if he can rid the world of evil with the help of his book. Enter the police (as they do, when their criminals start to die off) who are trying to figure out why their crime rates are dropping, and suddenly you have a Crime and Punishment/Les Misérables kind of plot twist.

In Death Note 2, Light Yagami joins forces with the police to try to catch the serial killer “Kia” while the super detective “L” still suspects that Light is the killer.

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Okay so the whole point of this post is that there’s a showing here in town of Death Note 2 at the Empire, December 3rd (see link above!). It sounds like a great chance to see derivative Japanese culture. Seeing how live action movies in an actual cinema setting is so utterly rare here in Toronto, I would say that this will rock quite a bit.

Or you can wait another 3 years and see Sarah Michelle Gellar in it. Trust me, see the originals.