Ok. Just to start off these are my own PERSONAL opinions, if you agree or not, I don't care. But these feelings just have to come off my chest and yes my grammar is off, so what.

SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!

Death Note and Death Note - The Last Name starting Tatsuya Fujiwra as Light and Ken'ichi Matsuyama as L was one of the worse movies I've seen thus far. First off Tatsuya does not make a big impact as Light, he was just awful. As many of us have read the manga, Light being the main character, has a huge impact on the story. From the moment he starts going crazy after realizing that L is on to him to the moment he dies. Of course the manga and anime may have more dramatic moments but to have those moments acted out in the movie would've made everything come together more smoothly, would've gotten the audience more into the whole story. Ken'ichi, oh what can i say about him. I think he made an OK L. Of course the whole role of L wouldn't be as hard to play as Light. As for the rest of the actors, well what can I say, none of them made a big impression on me...well I guess you could say Ryuk was the best actor of them all, heh, Shido Nakamura is a great voice actor.

Now on to the plot. Oh dear, what can I say. Of course it didn't go anything like the manga. Instead of the Death Note being passed to Higuchi, its passed to Takada. That alone was stupid. I mean, yeah she wanted to become this top anchor, but it just threw the whole story off. In the manga Higuchi had a good enough rule, that in my opinion, should stay so in the movie. Having Light regain his memory after having capture Higuchi was an awesome moment and would've been cool to see. L writing his own name in the Death Note to test it... I mean....COME ON! Light kill off L in the manga, that was one of the best and dramatic moments! It was a "Holy Shit!" moment! Near nor Mello were even mentioned, which totally pissed me off. I mean they had huge rules in the manga and were vital to the plot of the story. They were the ones that brought down Light. L alone was not good enough. There was so many changes in this movie, these are the ones that mostly made me upset. I think Nippon Television needs more money for these kind of movies or whoever pays up for it, I think then it might be a better quality movie.

I think next time I'll have to be more careful about which movie I pick. But I do gotta say this, the anime is one of the best that I've see in years.

The End!

-The Goon

After two and a half weeks of work of converting and capturing videos, I finally added my home videos to “My Anime Expo Memorial Page.” These are “edited” videos that me and various friends took from Anime Expo 1994 to Anime Expo 2007 with my camcorder. There are some years where I didn’t take any videos because of camcorder problems or just plain laziness. Most of these video are 45 minutes to about 3 hours long. So downloading would be a bitch of you don’t have broadband.

I’ve also added videos to the “Other Conventions” pages. Check’em out too.

For anyone viewing these videos in front of young children, I tried to makes these Rated G. But it’s almost impossible. So they’re more like PG13. There is some strong language, some voyeurism, some fan service and some sexual euphemisms used. So if you don’t want your young children watching them, DON’T let them! Be a responsible parent. There’s not too many of those anymore. You otaku parents watch enough anime to know better.

All the videos are all Apple Quicktime™ movies set to low bandwidth 11 FPS. Why Quicktime™? Because Wintel formats are proprietary, meaning only Windows™ machines could play them. You know, like the selfish bully on the block that wants you to use their stuff and not others. Quicktime™ is available for FREE download for all systems (OSX, Windows and Linux) at apple.com. So what’s better? You decide...... They are also downloadable, only if you have the full version of Quicktime™. Or if you could find another way on your own.