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 typically, just like the solar shining via for an hour between passing storms, it might probably nonetheless get its shit collectively, and the upcoming tribute to Death Note appears 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 quick video under, 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 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 are not alone! But there’s a very good reason this looks so authentic to the source material: this segment has been animated by Korean studio DR Movie, who have a long history of helping out behind the scenes on various American and Japanese properties, ranging from The Animatrix to Justice League to, most importantly in this case, the Death Note anime series itself.

The episode will air on October 30, and will be the second of three segments. The other two will be a Babadook homage starring Marge and a Westworld parody. Which is weird, given The Simpsons has already finished a Westworld factor, one which lasted a complete episode and is without doubt one of the collection’ all-time greats, however I suppose 1994 was lengthy sufficient in the past (and the fashionable HBO collection so totally different) that they really feel like they will do it over again and newer viewers received’t even discover.

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