I love that this fannish5 question came up today because I just finished watching
Death Note last night, an anime chock full of geniuses, evil or otherwise. (Even if only one of them made the cut for this list.) Appropriate, ne?
Name your five favorite geniuses - evil or otherwise - from any fandom.
1. Charlie Eppes (
Numb3rs)
2. Yagami Light (
Death Note)
3. Hermione Granger (
Harry Potter)
4. Edward Elric (
Fullmetal Alchemist)
5. Otori Kyoya (
Ouran High School Host Club)
FYI: I completely fail as a fangirl. -_- I totally forgot about Charlie the first time I made this list, since I was focusing mainly on anime. How could I possibly forget the awesomeness and beauty that is Charlie Eppes/David Krumholtz?! I'm not worthy! (In case you're wondering, the character that got cut was George from
Paradise Kiss, who I consider an artistic genius.)
Now for my thoughts on
Death Note....dgja;ghjafhjalfghj!!!!!
I totally and completely
loved it. Definitely up there among my all-time favorite anime, although I had a bit of trouble deciding exactly where to rank it. I wanted to put it either above
Super GALS, which is currently my second favorite, or below
Fruits Basket, which was my third favorite, so I compromised and put it the middle of those those to for now, making it my new third favorite overall. In any case, it earned a 10 (Masterpiece) rating from me on
MyAnimeList, joining an exclusive group consisting of just five other (non-movie) titles:
Kaleido Star,
Super GALS,
Fruits Basket,
Princess Nine, and
Ginban Kaleidoscope.
Even my mom liked it. She only saw a handful of episodes though, so when I told her I was planning to buy it, she was all "Yay!" *laughs* Now I just have to wait for Right Stuf to have a good sale on it. It's possibly good enough that I would consider buying retail if I had the money, but I do think the retail price is a bit steep for a two-boxset, thirty-seven episode series. Hopefully they'll come up with a cheaper, complete boxset once they finish milking the series for all it's worth. (Ugh, I hate this new trend of splitting up series that don't need to be split up into separate boxsets just to make more money! It's so annoying! I really want to buy
Ouran High School Host Club, too, but it's the same deal with that one. At least make the boxsets a bit cheaper! Nobody wants to pay forty, fifty, sixty dollars for only half a season!)
Anyway, back to
DN. Favorite character, in case you haven't already guessed from the above list, is Light. As somebody who is against the death penalty, I can't agree with his ideology at all, but dang it if he isn't just totally and completely fascinating as a character. (And he's hot, too, which is always a plus in my book. Added him to my
Harem of Bishies, along with Matsuda.) Second favorite is Matsuda, who is just adorable, followed closely by a three-way tie for third place between Light's father, Misa, and Aizawa. Didn't care much for L, although he was an okay character. He was a little too quirky for my taste, I guess. I prefered Near.
And like I predicted a few entries back, of course I've got plot bunnies! -_- Right now I've got a Matsuda/Sayu fic swimming around in my head, but I doubt I'll write anything until I have the chance to watch the series again. It lost me a couple of times with all the Death Note switchings, so I'd rather wait until I have a good grasp of canon before I actually try to write for it. Good thing, too, since I already have enough on my plate!
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