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Hey, Answerman! [2008-02-01]

Color me surprised. Here I was thinking that EVERYBODY was going to write in with regards to changing the ending of Death Note. I'm pretty sure even the most dedicated fans generally agree that series lost a lot of steam near the end. I can't write to save my life, but perhaps a more entertaining ending would have involved (I guess I'll spoiler tag this even though nothing described within actually happens) spoiler[L and Light each with Death Notes both staring at each other in a Sergio Leone-esque staredown, wondering whether or not they should either write down the other's name or their own. Their choice is of course dependent on what they think the other person is going to write, since the outcome of their action would be affected by whatever the other guy did. Sure, there's the matter of how L would be there, how he would have a Death Note, or whether it'd be in his character to even consider using the thing, but it probably would have been more entertaining than what we got.] Even the live-action adaptations of Death Note changed the original ending up a bit.

Alexander Morou wrote:

Redundancy removed

In addition to the sheer entertainment value of his old columns, Zac has addressed this sort of question multiple times in the past. So many times, in fact, that I'm pretty sure that the moratorium on 'getting into the industry' questions hasn't been lifted yet. Sometimes he even answered to the best of his ability with a minimum of sarcasm.

You might want to check them out (go back at least a couple years and work forward if you do this).

I thought the bunny was chucking its dinner at yet another budding Miyazaki waiting for that multi million Yen production budget.

Mohawk52 wrote:

I thought the bunny was chucking its dinner at yet another budding Miyazaki waiting for that multi million Yen production budget.

Random bunny fact #19876: Bunnies can't vomit.

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Out of all the "question" marketing taglines, possibly the worst is Spiral's, "What are the Blade Children?"

No freaking joke. What a waste of time that anime was.

Tamaria wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: I thought the bunny was chucking its dinner at yet another budding Miyazaki waiting for that multi million Yen production budget. Random bunny fact #19876: Bunnies can't vomit.

Holy crap! Seriously? Wow....that actually is good to know.
I'm surprised I didn't...

Bika-chan wrote:

Tamaria wrote: Mohawk52 wrote: I thought the bunny was chucking its dinner at yet another budding Miyazaki waiting for that multi million Yen production budget. Random bunny fact #19876: Bunnies can't vomit. Holy crap! Seriously? Wow....that actually is good to know. I'm surprised I didn't...

Yep. A random, but useful fact. For instance, not giving your pet rabbit any food before surgery is useless and may even be harmful

Rabbits are such great pets. They don't barf up nasty stuff, can be trained to use the litterbox... That alone makes them smarter and more hygienic than some of the people I have met.

The downside to owning house rabbits is of course their attraction to paper, in particular the kind of paper manga is printed on

About "Samurai 7": I thought someone else would bring this up, but apparently not. "S7" is a remake, and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the majority of the audience were fans of the original. Of course, the circumstances are a little different (like the fact that Kirara doesn't exist in the original movie), but they were very faithful to the ending. And most of the rest of it, in fact.