Death Note Color Manga Image Dump and Inane Commentary

Wanting to both share requested color scenes in one place and post something of use besides picture dumps (there's a reason I don't Tumblr), I thought I'd try to offer some kind of useful input. Alas, I doubt I have any insight to offer that hasn't been considered by the large, active and cerebral fandom over the last decade. Death Note's not all that deeply steeped in Japanese culture or even particularly distinct character speech. No characters have speech styles that really stick out from what you'd expect by looking at them or listening to them. As far as I know Death Note's had perfectly fine subtitle track made available even if the dub script's earned some cringes, and I haven't heard of the manga translations being off to my knowledge. But when I mentioned the full color DN manga, it appears they have not been common knowledge though they've been available in Japan for a long while now. So in looking for something relevant to share, I did notice a few things the color helps to bring out. Some of them are actually interesting, some of them are pure crack.

( Lots of images. )