Have you seen the live-action movie version of Death Note? The pair of two-hour movies cover roughly the first season of the anime, but they have a different ending, one inspired by a popular fan theory...
I watched one of the Death Note movies, but I really can't remember anything about them except L killing himself with a delayed Death Note sentence, or something like that, and how horrible the CGI Ryuk looked.
I don't know if this is a little too afar field for even a Discussion post, but people seemed to enjoy my previous articles (Girl Scouts financial filings, video game console insurance, philosophy of identity/abortion, & prediction market fees), so...
I recently wrote up an idea that has been bouncing around my head ever since I watched Death Note years ago - can we quantify Light Yagami's mistakes? Which mistake was the greatest? How could one do better? We can shed some light on the matter by examining DN with... basic information theory.
Presented for LessWrong's consideration: Death Note & Anonymity.