The Death Note Halloween special on The Simpsons has made a crazy wink: it kills characters from a classic console game.
The Simpson have decided to make a brutal nod to Death Note with a special anime-style chapter. A collaboration in which even the animation studio of the original Japanese series has participated and that comes loaded with winks beyond the small screen. Because, as several users have discovered, Lisa Simpson kills several classic console characters in this Death Note special.
Characters that have appeared on Nintendo and Sega consoles, more specifically in the video game Fighting Baseball (MBPA Baseball in the West), published by EA Sports in the early to mid 1990s. At one point in this House of Terror special, Lisa decides to annihilate the board of directors of a company. What happens is that all the names that appear They are the characters of said video game.
The reason for this nod from The Simpsons to characters from a classic video game
Why have The Simpsons made this random wink? Why does Lisa Simpson kill characters from such a specific classic game with her Death Note? The truth is that it is a homage to the English version of the anime. The translation team decided to take made up names absurdly to prevent real identities from being involved in the Death Note story.
As a result of that, the public began to joke saying that lThe names seemed taken from Fighting Baseball. To close the circle of the joke, the Fox team has decided to take it literally and take these fake elite athletes that are in the game (and that had to be placed because they did not have official licenses) to be Lisa’s victims.
A great wink, of course, for a special of The Simpsons House of Terror who has caught everyone by surprise by showing so much love for Death Note. And you, have you seen it?
