US and Japan are hooked on "Death Note" and simply can't get enough of it. From the manga to the anime to the live action, "Death Note" screams nothing but success in both extremes of the world. Though this comes as no surprise. Everyone wants to know what will happen to the being with the power to control death through a seemingly ordinary notebook. The manga is showing up on the best-selling books and the live action movie is selling out like crazy.
The second live action movie, "Death Note: The Last Name" was just released on DVD in Japan this week and I'm sure everyone wants to get their hands on it. To commemorate this latest release, life-size figures of the shinigami, Ryuk, have been displayed in various locations in Japan. The streets of Japan are also plastered with ads for the spin-off movie, "L." The interest in this series is nowhere close to being exhausted.
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"Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire." ~Rei Ayanami
"To be or not to be. It makes no difference to me. My death is the only absolute liberty." ~Kaworu Nagisa
"Human beings create dolls in their own image. If God exists, it's possible that we're all just dolls to Him." ~Evangelion
"I'd rather live in a world with people in it, no matter how stained it is with sin." ~Kouzou Fuyutsuki
"Forget all that formal crap 'bout comin' at me one at a time. I'll take all you bitches on!" ~Mugen
"Survivability takes priority." ~Misato Katsuragi
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing..." ~Optimus Prime
"I've come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels." ~Homer Simpson
"There is nothing left to believe in." ~Vicious
"Give me the gift of nothingness, give me death." ~Legato
"A sinner once passed away will never return, but sins will never vanish and the love will never die." ~Les Soldats
"Even without clocks, the sun will still rise." ~Captain (King of Bandits Jing)
"All of us are either users, or tools...or both." ~Zabuza
"God did not create humans. Humans created God." ~Londes
"If you aren't remembered, then you never existed." ~Lain
"As long as there is trust, there is betrayal." ~Battle Royal
"I'm just watching a dream I never awakened from." ~Spike Spegiel
"The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth." ~Keel Lorentz
"No matter where you are, everyone is always connected." ~Lain
"A bell that does not ring serves no purpose." ~Keel Lorentz
"What's wrong with running away from reality if it sucks?" ~Shinji Ikari
"Only in the human's version, do the hunters slay the wolves." ~Jin-Roh
"Journey and see with eyes unclouded." ~Mononoke Hime
"The hedgehog's dilemma...the nearer we get, the deeper we hurt each other..." ~Misato Katsuragi
"Science is the power of man." ~Gendo Ikari
"Beyond jealousy and betrayal; beyond hate and desire; beyond pain and death; lies the ultimate revelation; the final choice; the end ~End of Evangelion
"...pain is something man must endure in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily, some believe life is pain." ~Kaworu Nagisa
"Death gives birth to nothing." ~Gendo Ikari
"The beginning and the end are one and the same" ~Seele
"The less one forgets, the less one can remember." ~Batou
"The mirror is not an instrument of enlightenment, but of illusion." ~Togusa
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." ~Oh Dae-Su
"How can there be any meaning in the memory of such a being? What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion." ~Sephiroth
"I'm no hero. Never was. Never will be." ~Snake
"It does not exist, but it has always existed...." ~Paarthurnax
US and Japan are hooked on "Death Note" and simply can't get enough of it. From the manga to the anime to the live action, "Death Note" screams nothing but success in both extremes of the world. Though this comes as no surprise. Everyone wants to know what will happen to the being with the power to control death through a seemingly ordinary notebook. The manga is showing up on the best-selling books and the live action movie is selling out like crazy. 
The second live action movie, "Death Note: The Last Name" was just released on DVD in Japan this week and I'm sure everyone wants to get their hands on it. To commemorate this latest release, life-size figures of the shinigami, Ryuk, have been displayed in various locations in Japan. The streets of Japan are also plastered with ads for the spin-off movie, "L." The interest in this series is nowhere close to being exhausted.
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