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Just out of curiosity...
Why is Death Note so popular with yaoi/slash fans?

Like, I really find Matt/Mello to be hot, but I still don't see the obsessive love/fascination with it.

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lotsa hot guys and only one annoying bitch who is very easy to ignore

ratio of guys to girls is strongly in the guys' favor, leaving room for a lot of pairings
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Mello is the hot guy with nice hair every girl was waiting for... and then we see MAtt, the masculine one of the couple... it's almost hetero, exept that Mello has a penis.

Plus, Mello's a good guy, with a bad guy's attitude and Martha Stewart's hair. What more can we ask for?

Plus, hot, tight leather clothes... Just look at those abs.. RAWR
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lmao, Matt's really not exactly "masculine"
the entire series is just full of bishonen...
I really have no idea how it can be considered shonen if the majority of fans are female and if there is so much canon kiraxkira action
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The character interactions also leave room for pretty much every fangirl kink - the killer and detective, the partners in crime, the rivals, the master and servant, etc.
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it's a popular series with many attractive male characters

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just because it has a lot of female fans doesn't make it not a shonen series. the genre is more determined by where it's serialized than by who reads it. and it's not like it doesn't have tons of male fans
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>>312857
I meant that compared to Mello, Matt looks masculine. D:
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mello is simultaneously girly and a manly badass
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does anyone have pics of mello crying? I saw one a while that was really cute and forgot to save it
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>>312857
Canon kiraxkira? wtf?
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Slash fans slash EVERYTHING. That's why.

Really though...there's a lot of polarity between characters. So whether you like Mello with Matt or Near, he's always got someone who's opposite him in some way.

I like the childhood rivalry aspects of MelloxNear, but I like the sort of best friend/comrades aspect of MelloxMatt.
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There are very few non-canon couples that I'm a fan of, slash or not. But probably half of them are Death Note ones. Light/L, Mello/Near, Matt/Mello.

I have no idea what it is about Death Note.
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Going with No.312862's opinion here. And also No.312896's first sentence. I enjoy the kinky-esque stuff, like the handcuffs and rivals, and just using men kinda makes my brain giggle. I'unno, I'm a pervert. That's my defense! XD
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thank you <3
have a gift-wrapped mello
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I was thinking about this quite recently too, seeing as i just went out and bought myself DN vol7-11 just to see some Mello/Near/Matt (inter)action. I realized that DN overall is just not that good (IMHO) xD it's one of those things where the fanart/fiction/dom is better.

Seriously, how many of you /cm-ers only know Matt as the constantly posted hottie? A month ago, I was with you guys. (BTW we're finally beating out Haku for minor character love)
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DN is fucking awesome and epic. at least until Ladies, then it's kind of retarded but still somewhat epic
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I actually like Death Note for L and for the storyline, not for any specific pairing. The one pairing that really appeals to me, L/Mello, is pretty much unheard of in fandom. (Although I do quite like Light/Mikami as well.) Anyway, Death Note is popular with BL fans because there are a ton of attractive, interesting male characters, with only a few one-dimensional female characters that appear from time to time, which apparently means there is a lot of opportunity for buttsex. :D
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>>313016
Yeah. I liked DN for the story to begin with but then somehow I got sucked into the fandom. The various pairing possibilities interest me now
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I initially liked DN because L was an intersting character, but I alway despised Light. Now I'm EXTREMELY fucking sick of the series, since there's always about 8 DN threads here
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>>313051
You're right. I love Death Note even more than Ranma or Gantz, but all the commercialism and the popularity amongst normal people is making me go sick.
Death Note shouldn't be one more story taken in lightly. It's very deep, but now about every bastard that has seen Steel Angel Kurumi and thinks s/he knows everything about animé whore Death Note the wrong way. :/
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:facepalm:
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>>313098

I'm sick of hearing people say that they're sick of hearing about anime because it's too popular. Cliche statement is cliche.

I can relate to the sentiment, but I think I'm more sick of hearing that than I'm sick of hearing about DN. Especially cos for all its annoying popularity, it ...deserves it, lmao

Yeah but taking "deep" anime too seriously is pretty annoying. Sups guys Im getting my phd in anime theory wut u think
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>>313051
I don't understand why people have to have a DN thread every 10 minutes. Every repost is a repost of a repost.
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I know personally I dont stay here much longer than 10 minutes. I check in once or twice a day and usually find some stuff I dont have each time I come. Maybe its the same way for other people? no clue
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>>313136
We like pretty to be on the first page.
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>>313133

Dude, I meant it in a way that now even Madonna is cosplaying Mello. I meant it in a way some animé are so taken advantage of that instead of entertaining, they keep making things and spinoffs to make money... and then they shit all over the story.

I'm not taking the "deep" anime too seriously. I just hate it when they fuck the stroy and the animé.
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>>313133

STOP BEING FAGS AND POST SOME MELLO!
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>>313150
LISTEN TO THIS MAN
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AGREED
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This man, he speaks the truth!
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Do actual males find mello attractive? Because I always think that the people who post in these threads are female fangirls
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YES. I'm GAY for Mello
>> Anonymous
do actual males come to /cm/?
a lot of /a/ seems to be gay for him though
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L's not even a trap yet you see people all over /a/ being gay for him...it's odd.

God, mello is so fucking hot
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/a/ gets just gets gayer and gayer. or possibly just gets more fangirl posters. either way it's entertaining
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>>313169
I don't quite find him attractive, but I do like the way he looks. Wouldn't go gay for him, though.
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Lies!!! Anonymous is always gay for Mello
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NOT ENOUGH OF YOU ARE POSTING MELLO
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I only have pink sniper so I'm waiting for anonymous to post mello pictures because now I've been enlightened and can see his true hotness
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http://rapidsearch.yi.org/?s=mello
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Thanks anon!
Will contribute greatly to this thread as soon as I have the chance
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SRY MAI LORDO
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This thread just makes my day even more lovable :D

...Must.. contribute!
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>>312845
Explaination of all...
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>>313280
I made that! I am so proud TT-TT
Its popular for slashing cus everyone in it is hawt as hell!
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Usually I don't like pictures of characters in drag, but christ this one is- christ.
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I must be crazy, but I don't find Mello attractive at all. Maybe it's because I like manly men..
And the hairstyle I think is hideous.
I think I don't like these death note guys so much because I like eyebrows, maybe thats it.
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>>314003
Nah, I can see why. I'm attracted to androgyny myself. That's probably why I like Mello so much.
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>>314003
When I first saw Mello's hair style I hated it with a passion. Now I love it; go figure.
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I fell in love with Mello before I even knew of him. I'd heard about him and couldn't wait to see him in the manga. And at first, I thought his hair was amusing, but still loved it and always will. I would crap bricks if Mello ever did anything to his hair.
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Well... Mello really got me o.o' I HATED him in the beggining!
I thought of him as a bitchy version of a goth/stupid/slut/weak character. Buuuut he really got me after that scar o.o' He looked much more serious and machiavelic! Really liked it =D
About the hair-style... How can I put that...?

I think it's really ugly.
...But VERY sexy o.o'
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I've had the exact same hairstyle as him from a very young age. It even changed in the same ways..like how his got messier after the explosion.
Thanks for the pics