Death Note Fin (Spoiler)

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diamuerto said:

naznatips said:

diamuerto said:

Nope, not overrated. I don't think in any way One Piece is better than Death Note. I've seen the subbed version of One Piece and I feel we have enough never ending anime action/comedy shows already. Too many dbz inspired shows for my taste. Macross Plus is on sci-fi channel on monday nights. Don't know if that has to with the show your talking about, but it's good to.

One Piece is NOTHING like DBZ. It's nice to have an anime like One Piece with a sunny style, real humor, characters that don't DEM (I'm soooo tired of this), and *gasp* character development that doesn't include the typical "bad boy" hero.

What's DEM? And if your referring to Death Note with the typical "bad boy" hero, it's anything but typical.

Deus ex Machina. It's when something ridiculous constantly happens to save the character. Like every time he is about to die he suddenly becomes massively stronger (ala Super Saiyan) or he magically trains up to super strength in a couple days to beat an enemy who should far outclass him. There are a lot more but these standard anime plot devices are practically nonexistent in One Piece. Luffy's powers remained unchanged for 270 some episodes, and he had to figure out more creative ways to use them, and develop his OWN skills, rather than rely on random transformations to save himself. Even when he does finally get a form of transformation (the Gears) they are really just a new way to use the abilities he already had. And, yes Light fits the typical anime hero pretty well, though in general Death Note isn't too bad about sticking to athe overused anime plot devices.

Edit: I'll give you that luffy shares some characteristics with Goku, but is a much better developed personality.  Limited character development is a downfall of many animes, DBZ especially.