>the easiest anime to adapt into live-action as it's already written and directed like an American prestige crime thriller

>Please anon tell us how you solve Light as Kurito within a day
Quickly narrow down the profile to the city, general location, get CCTV footage of all the victims and use tracking to figure out who was in their vicinity at the time. Crossrefence that with the psychological profile of K and quickly narrow it down to the chip-eating autist.

At this point, don't do all the bullshit that anime L does. Pull out a gun like Black L. That's one of the things I like about Black L. He figures out who Light is within like 30 minutes. Because it's not a hard problem to solve and nobody in the real world gives a shit about absolute certainty. The list of people that K can be isn't large, and L shouldn't be thinking about this problem from a Japanese social status and "you can't accuse the rich kid" mindset because L isn't Japanese. This isn't Japan with its 98% conviction rates. Death Note's problem story-wise is that it is HEAVILY reliant on certain assumptions that don't actually hold up to scrutiny.

The fact that nobody thinks Light could be Kira because he's the police chief's son isn't logic that holds up outside of the firmly hierarchical structure of Japanese society where even SUGGESTING that such a powerful and influential man's son could be a criminal is taboo. The problem is that L doesn't act like a non-Japanese person. He acts like a Japanese fictional detective would, giving proper honour and respect and playing by the unspoken cultural rules of Japanese society.

L openly accuses Light to his dad's face in their first fricking meeting. I don't remember if he even asks his permission ahead of time that he's going to bug the shit out of his apartment or if he just does it and says "it happened" L gives no shits about Japanese etiquette, his issue was always purely with getting actual proof of Light being Kira. And he was so openly willing to accuse him that he 1. arrested and detained Light and his girlfriend with no actual proof for fricking weeks 2.Made himself a deadman switch that would deem Light Kira if he didn't rule him out before said death. Unless you're talking about the movies I didn't watch. L was very much not restrained to the idea of "He could be a mass murderer but I'd hate to be rude about it" like other nips would be.

Who cares if Shrek fans don't like the Shrek movie, though. Why should we care what source material fans think?

The best adaptations are usually the ones that throw away most of the book.

What's the argument for Death Note being good, though? "I liked it" isn't an argument. When I hear people talk about Death Note being well written, it's like hearing a Metal Gear Solid fan try to argue that Metal Gear Solid has great writing and characters.

none of those changes are necessary as there was nothing wrong with those aspects of the series and they make it uniquely japanese, I don't see the value in stripping that away and americanising it. either let the japanese make it or do the research to make it authentic

I've only seen the korean oldboy lol. the japanese death note movies sucked yes. it needs to be an 8-12 hour limited series, there's no point in trying to condense the story into a movie imo.

in terms of changes I would like to see an expanded role in the story for naomi misora. if you were only doing the 1st arc she could even take on a role similar to near. if the 2nd arc was adapted they would need to try and get the characters off their comptuers more and have more scenes with near and mello interacting

They would if the concept was good enough but then again what else is there to do beyond a battle of wits?

>Because outside Japan, the whole idol culture thing is apocalyptically cringe
is it though? Taylor Swift proves otherwise. America is just as bad
>That's one of the issues with the Death Note franchise attempting to relocate outside Japan. So much of the property is built on Japanese cultural sensibilities particularly around youth and one's role in society that is imposed upon you. To a degree, Death Note is a product of a culture where the idea of putting on a mask and being a vigilante killing criminals isn't as much of a thing. The idea of having a death notebook to punish criminals is inherently more of a Japanese idea of vigilante behavior taken to its extreme.
All fair points but the fact is the vast majority of people don't think of it like this so it wouldn't matter. Just being pragmatic here.
>In that light, it's worth noting that when Adam Wingard made his version of Death Note he filtered it through the prism of Final Destination. That's why all the deaths in his version of Death Note are multistage "car crashes, ladder flies off, beheads a guy" kinda things. Because that cultural context is more familiar to an American writer/director.
America's history with religion/punishment and especially Catholicism and the rampant crime and degeneracy in a country like America would be a good substitute for that context. There is context there to be found. There's plenty of movies with Light-like characters and such people do exist in America. I think you have some fair points to your ideas about how DN is uniquely Japanese but that you might also be overstating them a bit. I feel like if you keep the cat and mouse game, insert that American cultural context which is similar enough then you have a great show. Look at Edge of Tomorrow. it took the original and repurposed it instead of adaptating it straight without losing the essence. it's why that OP live action show was the worst thing to ever be produced.

The way it's presented in Death Note is absolutely a Japanese idea. For a start, a top performing student outside Japan would be spending his time in study groups, networking. Light's life, his family, etc. are all very distinctly Japanese. The way he lives his double life is very Japanese. And that's not inherently a criticism given he is a Japanese character in Japan. But so much of the plot falls apart when you remove it from that context.

All the academic activities Light takes part are distinctly Japanese. Remember the scene in the manga where Light attends the school dance and they play INXS? Of course you don't. Because that's not a thing that would ever happen in a Japanese high school.

It's sort of like how pretty much all the nonsense that happens in the Persona games completely falls apart if you relocate the story outside Japan. That's not how teens live their lives. That's a very specifically Japanese way of living your life.

You put it way simpler than I did, anon. Basically, the mask that Light hides behind is that he's a perfect student and his father is a highly respected, highly ranked police officer.

In Japan, if such a person were accused of being a rapist or a murderer, there would be HUGE resistance to leveling accusations against them because of their social status. In Japan, a lot of rape goes unreported because if you accuse someone who is higher up in society there is a very good chance you'll end up having to apologize to them.

But outside Japan, who gives a shit if Light is has a flawless GPA and his father is a cop? We don't trust or respect police officers, so why would we give a shit about their sons? The whole social dynamic that drives Death Note doesn't quite work.

Honestly, the way Light views the world is very reminiscent of a Resident Evil villain, and it feels like a very Japanese story trope where the character is like "I'm going to become a god!" Then they die a b***h. Not hating on Japanese story tropes, but it's something I do notice.

NTA but this actually fits the narrative of the Cyberpunk anime.