#death note japanese

[meandmypagancrew]

The measure of a production of Death Note is actually determined by how many characters sing I'm Ready. By this metric, the 2023 Korean production is the winner, as it featured FOUR different characters singing it.

Japan comes in second with two (and I'll give them a half point for Ryuk having a whole dance routine to it) and West End comes in last with only Misa.

Information from the Russian production could not be found.

[corviiids]

as part of my pitch re: this post please see below my original concept donut steal for an "if phoenix wright had to catch kira death note" au. best regards

more about this, probably:

this is probably the last case of the game where it transpires that all the other apparent murders in the game have been somehow set up as part of kira's master plan (kira has found creative ways to get around the fact that you can't use the death note to force one person to kill another person and also around rule 10 of the death note that a written death cannot cause other deaths. if you have further queries regarding this matter please do not hesitate to contact me via email best regards)

framing L involves setting up an elaborate murder scene with preset evidence where L is in precisely the wrong spot at the wrong time. L of course anticipated this

the detective character is soichiro, but the real detective character for most of the game is his son light who is a very helpful young man and in fact is the one making most of the contributions

L is ostensibly a detective character too but he mostly just shows up, licks some evidence, blinks at you, and fades out. until he gets arrested

the prosecutor is still miles edgeworth. consider the following:

edgeworth: we have security footage of the defendant holding the murder weapon, at the time of the murder, standing directly in front of the victim, using the weapon on the victim, and then the victim dies

phoenix: okay... but... what if there was a magic notebook

[hylianane]

The most homoerotically charged scene in the Death Note franchise is not the feet washing scene you guys, you freaks and fools, it’s this moment from the musical

[feroluce]

On Sampo's name (ALL of his names!)

I feel like everyone who's a fan knows the meaning of Sampo's full name by now- the sampo was a legendary item that could magically make endless supplies of gold, flour, and salt, all priceless items at the time! So it works perfectly for a scammer businessman like Sampo. ☆

"Koski" is the Finnish word for "water rapids" which might seem kinda random but actually makes sense for him, since Aha and the Masked Fools are also referred to with water terms:

This kind of analogy isn't specific to only Aha and the Masked Fools, but it does still tie them together. So water rapids fits perfectly! Sampo wants to stir the pot! He likes to shake things around and spice things up! He's taking that stagnant pool and turning it into water rapids! It would actually explain his ridiculous hair color, too; a dark blue wave tipped with white foam haha

EDIT: an amazing contribution from @ricochetlovebombs, who heard it from hoyolab user Rattaboy. If you interpret his first and last name together, instead of separately like I did, you would get something like "money river."

In other words, Sampo's name literally means CASH FLOW SKXJMDMDMD

What I really wanted to talk about is his drag alias name, though, Brughel Poisson, because to me that's where it gets really interesting.

So like in the English version, Sampo goes by Brughel Poisson when he's in disguise. Searching for just "Brughel" itself doesn't seem to get you much at first: a Flemish and Dutch Renaissance painter named Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who was famous for his landscapes and peasant scenery, especially Hunters in the Snow and The Blue Cloak.

He's referred to as "the Elder" because he had a son also named Pieter Brueghel (the Younger), and he began a long line of painters, all named Brueghel. Some of them did original work, and many of them created reproductions of the Elder's art to sell. The Elder was also famous as a printmaker. All of this is hilarious when you remember that Sampo is an infamous counterfeiter and has sold a relic called the Parallel Universe Printer JSKZJSMD

There is also something called Brueghel's Syndrome, named after one of Brueghel's paintings called De Gaper, which pictured a man yawning widely. It's a condition that causes the mouth to open and gape uncontrollably, twisting a person's countenance into a distorted mask of their usual face.

Tumblr doesn't have a way of censoring pics like twitter, so for the sake of the medically squeamish, I'm just showing De Gaper here. But if you look up Brueghel's Syndrome, you can find pictures of actual patients, some of whom really do make faces resembling Aha's comedy and tragedy masks!

In the Chinese and Japanese versions, his alias last name is a lot more silly- In those, "Sampo" is phonetically written as "san-bo" and "san-po." And in disguise, his last names are phonetically written as... "Bo-san" and "Po-san." The Chinese version uses different tones, but still. This smug asshole seriously just decided to write his own name backwards and called it a day NDMKXMDMD

In the English version, Poisson itself is kind of a reused Hoyo asset- it's also the name of Navia's fishing village in Genshin Impact. Which is a really silly name for a village, because it literally just means "fish" in French smzjxkdkdk but!

Again, more water imagery. And in English, if something is suspicious, we say that it's "fishy," which is perhaps the most fitting association yet for someone as shady as Sampo ☆

And for a good while I thought that was the only connection. But then. My beloved @hydrachea, who is an actual native French speaker, dropped this on me right after April Fool's Day:

Poisson is literally the word you use to pull an April Fool's prank.

[requinum]

I'm going insane

[skieystar]

The Death Note drama (2015) is such a fine piece of media. The story opening with Misa's concert and Light vibing in the audience, glowstick and all. L being allergic to outside air and Watari spraying everyone with disinfectant before they step into L's extravagant lair. L and Light saying fuck it and literally having a physical fight over the death note. Ryuk dancing along to Misa's idol music. The fucking shower scene. A masterpiece.

[nonvoice]

[the-library-of-forgotten-endings]

i'm gonna be so real all of lights plans would have fallen apart if the authors had bothered to make their female characters complex and have an IQ above room temperature

[sw33t-oubliette]

Kira, Kira! A savior you are not! Kira, Kira! You are a man-made fabrication!

[choieis]

彡 rangiku misa pink moodboard.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The world if people stopped applying their understanding of "conservatism" and "religion/christianity" through a very modern, deeply American view onto Death Note (a manga from the Early-mid 2000s which is very much set in the cultural and societal context of early-mid 2000s Japan and all that entails):

[zimt-deathnote]

At first I was going "What if Mikami got his hair out of his goddamn face?" and then I went "What if Mikami was actually looking like a sweetheart instead of a villain...?" and then I was going "What if ALL the Kiras actually looked really sociable and unassuming and didn't have the evil eyes activated 24/7?" and I think I'm onto something.

And I wanted Mikami to be a mid 50s kinda guy, short and average looking, doesn't stand out from the crowd one bit, to set a contrast to the young handsome/beautiful Light, Misa, Takada scheme. I know Light isn't supposed to be particularly good looking but Misa is a literal top-model, Takada won some beauty contest at university and Light is at least having so much Rizz he can easily date multiple people at once, so... point stands.

But wait, there's also Higuchi... who is also DRIPPING villain vibes...

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[mihaelkeehl]

light yagami wouldnt be homophobic this light yagami wouldn’t be transphobic that light yagami hit me with his car and called me faggot as he reversed over me

[numbuh424]

society continues to ignore the fact that misa is shorter than near. fortunately I am here to remind.

[girlmadegrave]

Tokyo Ghoul

Official Art by Sui Ishida

[optimisticgardenhologram]

Ok so here is my attempt at interpreting this panel. 

(loads of shaky theorizing to follow…)

As a quick recap and basic description: Mello is on the phone with Halle Lidner, who tells him Near’s has a plan to confront Kira and end the investigation. Mello asks if the plan involves his name being written down, which Lidner confirms, and then after long pause Mello responds “then I have to do it*". He appears to be some derelict space that looks like maybe a­n abandoned store or warehouse.

The background shown here is unusual and unsettling, and I do think Obata (and with Ohba’s direction/framing) made this panel with particular mind to symbolism and its figurative qualities at the forefront. If the setting was insignificant, Obata could have drawn a more normal room, or one that’s more easily identifiable - a generic office, an non-descript apartment, etc…instead this space is not that can be easily contextualized within the story. The room pictured in this panel is only shown this single time, completely divorced from any other panels or in-plot information that would hint at what sort of place is this location and why is he there. The unexplained dismembered scattered mannequins also don't appear anywhere else in the manga images or themes so seem quite out of place.

It seems the setting in this panel feels almost dream-like? As if it's something more like a window into Mello’s psyche in this moment than necessarily a real, grounded physical location. The black and white tiles on floor evoke a game board, like checkers or chess – and since they were introduced, the ‘competition’ between Near and Mello was framed like a game. Following this metaphor I think it’s a very easy to continue following that train of thought and conclude the dismembered mannequins scattered about represent conquered game pieces.

Or in my reading, his reflections on death and destruction and the likely fate of whoever makes the next move in this game. I believe Mello deduced Near’s plan and from his outsider's vantage point can see the possible vulnerability within that the enemy can exploit. If Mello's theory is right, when Near confronts Kira in person they will launch the counter-attack and the bodies of the anti-Kira investigators will litter the ground, like the mannequins on the floor. Kira will stand over the playboard victorious, the winner. Mello has something in mind that could potentially prevent that fate…but the cost may well be the sacrifice of his own playing piece. To take the risky gamble and become a fallen pawn himself, in doing so accepting the chance he'll never see the end of the game. 

For someone as fiercely competitive as Mello, who’s built his whole life around winning it is an agonizing decision. He can’t bring himself to go to Near directly (what if in the end his intuition is wrong, that might even be a humiliation worse than death) but still knows deep down that Near’s plan is the best hope they have to bring down Kira. And so, after a long silence he concludes “I have no choice but to do this” (*this is the phrasing used in Japanese; it has a resoluteness that's lost in Viz's English translation).

So to conclude after giving it too much thought that���s how I’ve come to interpret the symbolic meaning in this frame. But totally acknowledge this is in all likelihood far closer to imagination than any intentional reading by the authors. Still, if anyone’s reading hopefully these thoughts have provided some entertainment value if nothing else.