Steins Gate proposes a thoughtful story on the dangers of time travel and the rippling effects even the smallest thing can have on the world around us. People change, the city isn’t what it once was, and he finds himself and his friends in danger. From there, Okabe’s world is turned upside down as he sees the world around him getting rewritten. Then, against all odds, Okabe and his friends discover the ability to send messages through time. As a collection of eccentrics with a passion for science, the group does all manner of experiments, soon gaining a few new members. Set in an anime recreation of modern Japan, Steins Gate focuses on the Future Gadget Laboratory led by Okabe Rintaro. King Arthur, Alexander the Great, Gilgamesh, Blue Beard, and more all appear and seeing them bounce off one another as well as the mages makes for some of the most thoughtful discussions in modern anime. Plus, the central conceit of Fate’s premise allows for some really interesting characters. There’s no sense that any one tactic is better than another and everything always boils down to whoever can out think their opponent to secure a win. It’s a tournament setup, but the real core of Fate/Zero is the clashing ideologies of all the different characters, how they approach situations, and how it all plays out in the chaos of the Holy Grail War. Each of these mages are paired with a familiar known as a Spirit, basically an iconic figure from history brought back in order to fight on behalf of the mages. In the world of Fate there is a tournament held between seven mages to determine which of them will win the coveted wish-granting Holy Grail. The Fate franchise has been offering up thoughtful stories since 2004, but one of, if not perhaps the best installments in the franchise remains its prequel Fate/Zero. On that note, here’s another death tournament-style series. Using this power, Lelouch wages a war against his former homeland of Brittania, soon erupting into a global conflict that will go places nobody expects. ![]() Lelouch vi Brittania attains the power known as Geass, which allows him to make people follow any one order he gives them. Code Geass remains intelligent and offers its own unique talking points, but at the end of the day the series is a military drama. Though that is where the two shows begin to differ wildly. 3 will mark the 12th anniversary of the series, and for fans of it here’s a list of 10 shows also worth checking out if you happen to like Death Note.įirst up to bat is Code Geass which, in itself, is also about a megalomaniacal genius who uses underhanded methods to try and change the world for the better as an idealistic rival tries to stop him. At the time it was heralded as a fantastic series, and to date the series remains a fondly remembered classic that still gets new movies to this day. A psychological thriller that pitted the megalomaniacal wits of Light Yagami against the quirky intellect of L in a prolonged game of cat and mouse as Light attempted to change the world by killing all of its criminals. Get tickets here.Over a decade ago, the anime Death Note was first released. Participants will need to put together cat toys, figure out how to get out of a cardboard box and its all from the view of a cat. Or there’s the official Death Note clipboard and penlight.Īt CatCon LA this weekend – June 25 th to 26 th, the team at Animal Planet are running a free fifteen minute escape room. Plus there’s an opportunity to buy Death Note related merchandise – Sweets of the Grim Reaper – the Death Desert of Ryuk, is a gnawed red apple which sits on a chocolate Death Note. Or for a pair of tickets – two people – it costs 7,980 yen per person (inc. Teams can be made of one to four people, with regular tickets starting at 2,980 yen per person (inc. The experience runs from July 1 st to September 4 th 2016 in collaboration with SCRAP Entertainment. Help L who has received a new message from Kira and find the six new Death Notes which have entered the world!įour levels of the Sakura TV station from Death Note have been created to house the escape room. 10 years on from the battle between L and Kira, a new mystery emerges. Eventually the media starts to realize a pattern and the famous detective, L gets put on to the case.įor Universal Studios in Japan, their 15 th anniversary celebrations comes with a new escape room based on the Death Note story. Soon after, criminals die of a heart attack or in suspicious circumstances. Kira tells his death god, Ryuk he wants to rid the world of criminals and uses the Death Note to write down their names in it. After a person has touched the Death Note, only then can they see the death god that comes with it. In the manga, Light Yagami (or Kira) is a genius high school student who discovers a Death Note when it gets dropped into the human world. It all starts with a black notebook called a Death Note.
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