one of the best animes and i think the movies did a decent (B-) job. while there is of course the unfortunate sexism, it is still a great story expertly told. to a point (no spoilers, but those who watched know there's a point where it goes downhill very fast).
On another note, I often wonder if they could make a movie of it here in america. I worry that the characters would be whitewashed (which makes no sense since light looks white. compare this pic of young steve jobs to light
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as does misa. they could get japanese actors to play the other parts and american actors to play light and misa and it would be fine.
I also worry they would dumb down the plot, fail to illustrate the battle between crime control and due process and move it to NYC to make it "identifiable."
Also, do those pictures prove that bill gates is L?