The Simpsons Is Going Anime For An Upcoming Death Note Tribute

It’s very simple to look again on the final 25 years of The Simpsons and write it off as being garbage as a result of, properly, for probably the most half it has been precisely that. But generally, just like the solar shining by means of for an hour between passing storms, it may nonetheless get its shit collectively, and the upcoming tribute to Death Note appears to be like like a type of uncommon events.

It’s a part of the present’s subsequent Treehouse of Horror Halloween compilation, and can give The Simpsons a full anime makeover for one of many episode’s instalments. You can see it in motion on this brief video beneath, which introduces Lisa because the recipient of the Death Note (or, because it’s referred to as right here, the Death Tome):

Some screenshots have additionally been launched, giving us a superb have a look at anime Homer and Marge as properly:

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If your first thought was “wow, that looks a lot better than I was expecting”, you aren’t alone! But there’s an excellent purpose this appears to be like so genuine to the supply materials: this section has been animated by Korean studio DR Movie, who’ve a protracted historical past of serving to out behind the scenes on varied American and Japanese properties, starting from The Animatrix to Justice League to, most significantly on this case, the Death Note anime sequence itself.

The episode will air on October 30, and would be the second of three segments. The different two shall be a Babadook homage starring Marge and a Westworld parody. Which is bizarre, given The Simpsons has already accomplished a Westworld factor, one which lasted a complete episode and is likely one of the sequence’ all-time greats, however I suppose 1994 was lengthy sufficient in the past (and the fashionable HBO sequence so completely different) that they really feel like they’ll do it once more and newer viewers gained’t even discover.

UPDATE: Turns on the market’s a VERY lengthy and funky historical past to this, with its origins relationship again to fanart drawn in 2008,as identified by Turbotastic within the feedback!