Death Note Manga to Anime - What Changed?
Lately more and more attention has been drawn to the fact that the DN manga and anime vary in various crucial points, making them both engaging and unique stories to enjoy and think about. On basis of this, I started wondering what exactly changed from manga to anime? In the sense of… which scenes were adapted straight from the text, what was added, what was removed?
Well, I sat through the entire anime and compared it to the manga counterpart.
What resulted is this. It’s a bare-bones scene inventory. It’s not an analysis of the different implications, it’s more meant as a reference post to help with starting to compare the two. It also in no way means scenes not mentioned here are entirely unadapted - listing every small phrasing change was simply not within my capacity. And since this was a huuuge task as was, I also couldn’t pay much attention to minor alterations in body language and such either - let alone filmic mood-creating devices such as camera, coloring and music.
What this does is compare the scene selection as such. It answers questions as ‘Was this in the manga like this?’ ‘Is this scene in the anime?’ and ‘How was this scene order altered?’ essentially. One day I would love to do an actual analysis on what some of this means for plot interpretation, but as is, this is just a plain comparison that I think more people than just me might find interesting.
(While I did give my best, please note I worked on this hours and hours sometimes in the middle of the night, so I don’t claim a full absence of mistakes. Double-checking for yourself when you want to work with comparison analysis is probably always the safest bet.)
So yes, all 37 episodes of the DN anime, compared to the manga. Go!
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