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I'll take a potato chip... and eat it!
— Death Note · 2006
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A mastermind's most sinister move turns out to be a snack, which is the joke and the appeal: Light narrates opening a bag of chips as if it were a declaration of war. The English dub's earnest overacting turned it into one of the most-repeated lines of anime fandom, quoted whenever someone does something trivial with great ceremony.
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In context
Spoilers for Death NoteShow the scene
In episode 8, "Glare", the detective L is closing in on Kira and has surveillance cameras installed in the homes of suspects, including Light Yagami's room. Light learns he is being watched and has his shinigami Ryuk locate the cameras. To keep killing unseen, he hides a small television in a bag of potato chips and watches the news, studying with his right hand while writing criminals' names in the Death Note with his left. As he does it he narrates his plan with absurd gravity, and in the English dub that narration gives us the line. The next day he throws the television out with the trash.
Sources (2)
- Death Note Wiki: GlarePlot and TriviaReference checked
- Wikipedia: List of Death Note episodesEpisode 8 summaryReference checked
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