#death note opinion

[skyborneveggie]

Light is someone who perceives a very strong separation between the body and the mind, and is very disconnected from his own body. And I do wonder if, by nature of them being so similar, this is something he projects onto L as well; & helps him divorce the thought of the death of L's body (ie. his shell) from the death of L's mind (ie. his true self). So Light kills the body, the part of L that isn't really him, to incapacitate his mind, not kill it. He's compartmentalized it in such a way where he doesn't have to think of death as being true death.

It isn't until Light is about to die himself that he is able to mentally bridge the connection between his body & his own conscious existence, and realize what it really means to die.

[jichanxo]

okay i know they went to university basically never because plot, but i'm forever amused by the idea of strangers seeing these two together and being baffled/wildly wrong about them

[kiyomitakada]

the amount of lore ive made up about halle lidner is probably unsustainable. she sleeps 4 hours a night. she has tremors without caffeine. she had a brother who was [spins wheel] an oil company ceo who higuchi-kira killed and she was actually on terrible terms with the brother but like, vengeance is just what you do in that position and she needs someone to go after doesn't she. she has zero natural fear response and had to program it into herself through her cia training. out of everyone in the spk she's the most like near. she could knock you out in one punch. she has no idea what she's doing with her life. she kind of hates working for the united states government but what other job is there that puts her in routine life or death situations. she took a sabbatical after the kira case and realized three weeks in that she missed her coworkers and doesn't like vacationing anyway. her parents disowned her. she speaks five languages. she likes pathetic women. she's even bisexual

[jeremyjohnirons]

finally watched the 2017 death note earlier this summer and you know what? i love her. she's camp.

[captainhysunstuff]

Stretching for a new day~.

[vamphorica]

one of my favourite things about being as fixated on death note as i am is how i simultaneously can and cannot defend it at all. it is the greatest anime of all time but so ridiculously flawed, the characters are unique and interesting, but are often developmentally neglected, the plot is ingenious but also rushed and concludes both brilliantly and extremely poorly. it is a product of its time, which makes it impressive in how relevant it continues to be but can also be very short-sighted as well. i do love it dearly, but over the years, i think i have grown increasingly critical of it, and you know what? that's what i appreciate about it. it opens the door to so many moral and ethical discussions, hosts a cast of characters that can be loved in spite of their faults, and thus encourages more indepth considerations into itself as a piece of media. blindly defending death note feels like it does a disservice to the franchise, and i love it too much to consider it perfect.

[ikarugosleftbrow]

just finished reading death note ........ damnn that was GOOOOOOOOOD

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

i love when characters go insane from the pressure to fit in :3 all of those years of intense study and stuffing themselves into a box only to leak out reprehensibly and use their knowledge for Evil

[corviiids]

every time i get into a thing i have to write a new essay about how it's just like the iliad. no one needs to see my new thesis about light yagami death note and the ways in which his tragedy arc mirrors achilles fromtheiliad but it exists now

[intersexnateriver]

I feel like Near resembles L a lot more than usual in these panels. Maybe it's the wide open 'alert' eyes, or his words (which i swear are similar to something L says earlier), but that just feels like L incarnate to me... idk. I wonder if that was an intentional choice.

[blondiest]

Most controversial death opinion?

it should never happen to me bc im special

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

What do you think L thinks of the successor program?

Previous Thoughts on Wammy's and How the Concept is both Bonkers and Toxic

Well, what we see is pretty damning.

L... Doesn't Talk About it Much and Other Bad Signs

L brings up the successor program once in the manga (this line is removed from the anime adaptation). It's a very one-off line in which he tells Light (while still in the college arc) that "you know, even if you were to kill me, L is legion and I'd just be replaced by the next L" and Light sort of stares at him.

Neither touch on this ever again.

Worse, when the torch is passed, it's only because Watari happened to be in the room where he could push The Big Red Button (TM) that sent information to Wammy's. And yes, while there was clearly a protocol in place to let the successors take on L's legacy, it uh... sure wasn't L pushing that button and the fact that it's a secret button in the security room where Watari hangs out (and certainly not L) leads me to think this is a Watari idea (the orphanage where people compete for the title of L, being in fact, Watari's weird fucking idea).

Most tellingly, L doesn't even bring it up when he knows he's going to die. He doesn't even think to himself "ah yes, those bratty twelve-year-olds in England will get vengeance for me and then Light will be put to justice". L doesn't think about the Wammy program at all in his last day, in fact, he knew for several hours he was going to die and he didn't seek out any means to bring his successors in or even think "oh woe that Light is right there or I could inform my secret successors of everything we need to know".

We learn later that Near and Mello never actually met L, in fact, and if they ever did speak to him it was... brief and impersonal. This leaves them both with weird complexes about the man and their relationship with the role of successor.

In fact, L blatantly says "Light is my successor" and seems to mean it. True, L knew Light was Kira and was perhaps doing this for the mind fuckery, but on the other hand he had no reason to do this and again, had time to take it back once he realized Light was Kira again (which he did very quickly after Light got his memories back). Had L not done this, he could have either a) directly had a Wammy's person take over and explain the whole successor thing (he does not) or b) left it such that Soichiro was in charge. He has nothing to gain by even hinting that Light could take control over his title after he left. And the fact is... Light does do it. He's the power behind L for six years while Near and Mello do... well, Mello joins the mafia and has a time in Nevada, Near does who fucking knows what.

Basically, L couldn't be less supportive of the Wammy's orphanage unless he actively shut it down and fired Watari (but then who would bring him snacks?)

But Why?

L's in it for personal victory. L wants to beat Kira himself, he wants to do it on his own terms, with his own ingenuity. It's not so much about beating Kira but the fact that he will be the one to beat Kira. His 'successors' doing so would be less than meaningless to L.

Leaving it to some twelve-year-old to solve, hand-picked by Watari because they solved puzzles good and read good too, would be worse for L than fucking Matsuda or Misa making a major break in the case (and canonically, both those things happen, and canonically L handles it fucking poorly).

Worse, Watari is not even implying, but outright saying, that L is not so special a super genius snowflake and that Watari can cultivate another one simply through hard work and careful selection. "Congratulations, L, you are irrelevant and superfluous!" And worse, those replacements are little kids and I imagine L finds their quirks... annoying. (I'm not convinced L's not just s troll).

And if we take LABB into account, all L sees them do is kill themselves or make trouble for everyone (through murder). L does not want to deal with these people (and so he doesn't and makes Naomi do it for an entire hilarious novel).

TL;DR

L hates those fuckers.

[kiyomitakada]

my sayu take is that she was doing perfectly fine having friends being social getting decent grades until her big brother moved out to live with his girlfriend and now all of a sudden she has both of her parents' scrutiny on her and she knows they're just worried but it doesn't feel any less suffocating so she starts studying harder and acting more mature while she feels worse and worse because she will never live up to her big brother who every day feels less like how she remembers him and more like a hollow shell of himself and in her worst moments she wants to say i'm sorry i'm not good enough i'm sorry i'm not him* but most of the time she is normal until of course mello kidnaps her and everything goes to hell

*but also it annoys me when people say she idolizes him, i don't think it's to that extent, light is just her annoyingly smart older brother. she doesn't want to be him she just wants her parents to be happy and they're clearly not without someone-like-light there. you know?

[purplink8]

Okay what is with those posts making Light out to be a Republican?? And transphobic/homophobic for that matter while Misa is an ally? 😭

Babes, it's Misa who was homophobic in canon. And while we're not shown Light's opinions on homosexuality afaik, Light is not really much judgemental about how people present themselves (see how he picks out a spot suitable for L to sit the way he sits).

I know it's 'funny' to make fun of problematic characters but you don't need to add whole new unfounded flaws to their character to do so holy shit

[totheidiot]

here is what i think. anime light yagami bottoms. jdrama 2005 light tops. japanese death note musical light also tops. but then the english death note musical light bottoms.

[div1n309]

got a 10hr road trip back home

chat wish me luck 🙏🙏🙏