Films like Death Note: Light Up the NEW World.

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured crime / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Parallel (2018) poster
1. Parallel2018

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

A Rough Draft (2018) poster
2. A Rough Draft2018

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

ARQ (2016) poster
3. ARQ2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

King of Thorn (2010) poster
4. King of Thorn2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013) poster
5. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011) poster
6. Gantz: Perfect Answer2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Attack on Titan II: End of the World (2015) poster
7. Attack on Titan II: End of the World2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013) poster
8. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) poster
9. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014) poster
10. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Inhabited Island (2009) poster
11. The Inhabited Island2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (2016) poster
12. L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Death Note: Light Up the NEW World’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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