Death Note is a pretty terrifying concept about a guy who finds a notebook that murders whoever's name is scribed in its pages. This idea has some pretty glaring differences with its animated counterparts Looney Tunes and Uncle Grandpa, but coming from the same general creative form of putting pen to paper to animate a story, there are bound to be some similarities.
Similarities:
- Both Death Note and the traditional cartoons we've been watching follow a distinguishable narrative that can be followed throughout the episode.
- Death Note, like many other animations, asks us to forget what we believe about the world and assume new laws about what is real and what isn't for the sake of the story. In Uncle Grandpa, we're led to believe that the laws of physics are mere guidelines to be laughably avoided any chance you get and Death Note has the audience think accept the idea of the "World of the Death Gods."
- What separates Death Note from programs like Road Runner and other Looney Tunes experiments is actually what draws it closer to some of the more modern absurdist animations like Uncle Grandpa and Adventure Time and that is through the heavy use of dialogue to tell the story.
Differences
- Death Note begins to separate itself from these other shows in simply its aesthetic. The animators use dark and cool greys and blacks to create the world, a stark contrast to the overtly cartoony nature of Adventure Time and Uncle Grandpa.
- Disney's fairytale ending, magic, and sense of wonder has no place in a show like Death Note. Its dark premise and slower pace of story (and probable sad/scary conclusions) sets it apart from Disney's Princesses.
- The characters themselves in Death Note are more complex and thick than the simple one-dimensional perennial good guys or bad guys that we find in Disney shows, Looney Tunes, and Uncle Grandpa.
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