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04 Sep, 2008

Anime Insider, September 2008

Posted by: David In: Anime News

The September issue of Anime Insider (Issue 60) is now out. This month’s cover story is about the worst adaptation ever Live Action Death Note Movie. There’s a lot of better stuff though, like a cool interview with singer Shoko Nakagawa, a wrap-up of Anime Expo 2008 and an update on the CG Astroboy Movie.

Also be on the lookout for L (Death Note) and Yomiko Readman (Read Or Die) in the ‘Gratuitous Fanservice’ section.

Here are the main articles, in order of appearance:

  • Hair Apparent
    The Seven Wildest ‘Dos In Anime, by Rob Bricken
  • Death Proof
    Why You Can’t Miss The Live-Action ‘Death Note’ Movie, by Angela Hanson and Summer Mullins
  • Food for Thought
    Meet and Learn from the greatest chefs of anime, manga and videogames, by Rob Bricken
  • Sublime September
    Explore a month of Japan’s Fall Festivities and Famous Birthdays, by Carolyn Fowlkes
  • Vacation Destination: Neo-Venezia
    Take A Leisurely Tour Through the Canals of Mars, by Megan Rebuck
  • I Luv Halloween
    Manga Preview, by Keith Giffen

My best part of this issue was the news about my fave artist Junko Mizuno’s Spiderman Project. Somehow, I missed out on the initial announcement back in June!

5 Responses to "Anime Insider, September 2008"

1 | nckl

September 4th, 2008 at 9:14 am

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Aawww. Why did you cross out “worst adaptation ever” ? :D I admit I didn’t see the first one, but I saw the second one and for the first time in my life in all my years of seeing movies at a cinema, I nearly walked out of it 10 minutes into the movie. It was embarrassingly bad.

2 | conankudo4

September 6th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

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For the Deathnote Live action:

The graphics were amazing.

Everything else failed. Royally.

3 | David

September 9th, 2008 at 9:28 am

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nckl - Live Action Death Note was indeed a painful experience for me (and Rachel) too. By crossing out “worst adaptation ever, I figured it wouldn’t totally upset any of the super-fans. You’ll get to hear what Rachel really thought of it sometime soon!

conankudo4 - I liked some of what they did with the character animation for Ryuk and Rem. Unfortunately, the compositing was a bit ‘off’ and they didn’t look photo-realistic. The Shinigami Realm scenes look top-notch, but that’s because everything was CG. If the whole movie had been done that way, Ryuk would have been awesome!

4 | anazy

September 20th, 2008 at 4:22 am

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Deathnote Live action: I like the graphics too :)

5 | Emma

October 6th, 2008 at 8:23 am

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I thought the live action movies were great..I mean sure the second one lost it (a lot) through the poorly translated subtitles which in some cases were funny…..but I saw them before I had started watching the anime, I think the actor that played L did a better job then the anime did….anyway that’s my personal opinion :D

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