I managed to obtain a rip of the first DVD of the Death Note anime. The quality of the episodes are superb. Pity that there aren’t any subtitles. But anyway, I managed to rip the creditless opening and ending for those who want them.

You can find the opening here and the ending here.

The video is encoded in H.264 and the audio is in AC3. If you have problems viewing them, try installing the Combined Community Codec Pack.

And a warning to those who download anime off the net in Singapore. I quote:

The government wants to clamp down on animation downloads effective… this year. Happy New Year. The figures passed down stated that my beloved motherland has 230,000 animation downloaders. We are the top in the world by population percentage, at, uh, 5%? Canada only has 20,000 more households, and yet they have a lot more maple trees than us.

Odex underlined that this sounded like a serious effort on the part of the authorities, who are sick of catching little mama-shops selling pirated batteries. Japanese animation presents a fine opportunity to round up more bodies because there are few legalities to work with (Odex holds most of the licenses for titles in my motherland). They have spoken with the authorities, and I quote, the police have ‘techniques to handle certain things’.

On the other hand, I quote again, ‘it’s not going to look good if the students are caught’. It will not be nice if the local No. 1 tabloid has a 15-page exclusive on 16-year-olds jumping off 20-storey buildings in an attempt to shake off hardened plainclothes raiders. So Odex, in a nice way, is giving us a heads up and telling us to stay down.

As for myself, I hardly download anything beside Death Note these days.

Lastly, Death Note inspired Music Video:

The hasty stroke goes oft astray.