Everything Netflix’s Death Note Adaptation Gets Right

Mia

At the start, I personally disliked Mia. Her motivations seemed nonsensical and weird, formulaic and not integral to the plot at all. In many ways, she was what her character ended up being in the original Death Note: unneeded. But as viewers see when the story progresses, Mia’s role evolves from that of a lowly side character to that of a skilled accomplice. In this regard it can be said that Netflix’s Death Note gives the character more justice than in the original manga.

Though the cheesy romance is there, the film makes you wonder if that was all done on purpose. It seems so given the film’s ending but, with the overall narrative striving for a teen demographic, that remains up in the air.