Death Note: The Musical

Tumbling Down · Postby **Tumbling Down** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 8:20 pm

http://deathnotenews.weebly.com/news/ca ... he-musical

There are no plans for a Western production, but the show is written by Americans, so it's not impossible. At the very least, if the show does well there, we might get a subbed bootleg like the German Hunchback of Notre Dame show. which actually just made its way to America but that's for another topic

Rosenakahara · Postby **Rosenakahara** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:24 am

Only one thing can be a proper response to this: :fuyu_facepalm:

Fireball · Postby **Fireball** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:42 am

I imagine swimming lessons with singing should be quite funny.

chee · Postby **chee** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:22 am

SPOILER: Show

Tumbling Down · Postby **Tumbling Down** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:35 am

Rosenakahara wrote:Only one thing can be a proper response to this:

Could you elaborate?

Rosenakahara · Postby **Rosenakahara** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:02 pm

Death the musical? really? fucking really? Lion king can be a musical, shrek can be a musical, so many other things might work as musicals........but not this.

Ray · Postby **Ray** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:36 pm

This is gonna be hilarious.

Tumbling Down · Postby **Tumbling Down** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:40 pm

Rosenakahara wrote:Death the musical? really? fucking really? Lion king can be a musical, shrek can be a musical, so many other things might work as musicals........but not this.

Why not? I actually think Death Note has the potential to be a great musical. The corruption/"man or monster" story has been used in a lot of great shows. Of course, there's no guarantee that the people doing this show know how to best use the material.

Trajan · Postby **Trajan** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 11:29 pm

Death Note is already so hammy and over-the-top that I could see this working actually.

Alaska Slim · Postby **Alaska Slim** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:12 am

Trajan wrote:Death Note is already so hammy and over-the-top that I could see this working actually.

Ditto. The premise is already surreal, and they liked playing vaguely gregorian-chant music in the background when sh*t went down, so why not have the characters sing-a-long?

Tumbling Down · Postby **Tumbling Down** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:33 am

AN ENGLISH TRACK IS HERE

AND IT'S SUNG BY TONY NOMINEES

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Fi ... E-20150201

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

~~time to deepen my balls~~

BrikHaus · Postby **BrikHaus** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:23 pm

I really, really, really want to see this. Ryuk on stage singing, what could be better?

Postby **Sailor Star Dust** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:01 pm

Anime-turned-musicals aren't too weird in Japan at least. Sailor Moon has the extremely popular Sera Myus, Utena had a musical, there's probably other series too.

I agree with Tumbling Down and Brik's thoughts that this could be great if done right. Death Note is one of those shows I haven't seen because it's not my cup of tea, but it's impossible to not know about it.

Princess Asuka · Postby **Princess Asuka** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:15 pm

Without Sailor Moon we wouldn't have the whole anime musical trend. And the two most recent SeraMyus are pretty good. I read on wikimoon that the first anime musical was the 1993 Sailor Moon musical. Would I watch the Death Note, probably.

Ray · Postby **Ray** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:16 pm

Where's my Macross Frontier Musical?

Tumbling Down · Postby **Tumbling Down** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:25 pm

Hey, they added a second track! When was this?

It's not as good as the first one, but I love Ryuk's voice.

"They will live, sleep, eat, die, never knowing their truth is another man's lie."
Sounds awfully Episode 26-esque.

Squigsquasher · Postby **Squigsquasher** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 6:38 pm

IIIIIIIII'LL TAKE A POOOOOOOOOTAAAAAAAAATOOOO CHIIIIIIP....And..EEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!

Postby **UrsusArctos** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 8:05 pm

Sailor Star Dust wrote:Anime-turned-musicals aren't too weird in Japan at least. Sailor Moon has the extremely popular Sera Myus, Utena had a musical, there's probably other series too.

Well, there's the Takarazuka favorite Rose of Versailles, and even Legend of the Galactic Heroes got its musical, so why not Death Note? It's perfectly adaptable to the stage, unlike, for instance, Evangelion or TTGL.

Death Note is one of those shows I haven't seen because it's not my cup of tea, but it's impossible to not know about it.

The first third of Death Note is awesome and the show stays good until about mid-way...and that's when it goes downhill. You could give the early episodes a go, they're not nearly as dark or as messed up as the show turns later.

Tumbling Down · Postby **Tumbling Down** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:26 am

UrsusArctos wrote:unlike, for instance, Evangelion

What if footage of robot fights was played on HD monitors? I--it could work.. :bigeyes:

Edit (3/11/15): We're up to five tracks now, but I'd say only two of them are any good. The rest are.. okay. Hopefully the full album has a better ratio, assuming it's ever released.

Death Note: The Musical

Death Note: The Musical

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