It’s very easy to look back over the last 25 years The simpsons and write it off as garbage because, for the most part, that’s what it was. But sometimes, like the sun peeping through an hour between passing storms, it can still pull itself together and pay the tribute that lies ahead death notice looks like one of those rare opportunities.
It’s part of the next show Tree House of Terror Halloween compilation and give The simpsons a full anime makeover for one of the episode’s episodes. You can see it in action in this short video below, which introduces Lisa as the recipient of the Death Note (or, as it’s called here, the Death Tome):
A few screenshots have also been released, giving us a good look at the Homer and Marge anime as well:
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If your first thought was, “Wow, that looks way better than I expected,” you’re not alone! But there’s a very good reason why this looks so authentic to the source material: this segment was animated by Korean studio DR Movie, which has long been helping out behind the scenes on various American and Japanese objects, from The Animatrix to justice league to, most importantly in this case, the death notice anime series itself.
The episode will air October 30 and is the second of three segments. The other two will a Babadook Tribute with Marge and a western world Parody. Which is strange, given The simpsons has already done a western world Thing that lasted an entire episode and is one of the show’s biggest of all timebut I think 1994 was long enough ago (and the modern HBO series so different) that they feel like they can do it all again, and newer viewers won’t even notice.
TO UPDATE: Turns out it’s a VERY long and cool one story about it, with its origins dating back to 2008 fanart,as pointed out by Turbotastic in the comments!
