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[rivalcobalt]

Wow both ibuprofen and ryoakira in one page

[rivalcobalt]

Oh just realized replies are turned off so editing my RB instead. Have you seen this

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[rivalcobalt]

@147cookies it's actually surprisingly direct! There's been general admissions of devilman being an influence on death note (the crybaby hand poster, Satan fanart, how using Christian imagery in shounen generally traces back to devilman, etc), but Obata mentions being inspired by Akira when designing L, which makes Light's position as a Ryo more viable as his opponent, all things considered

From L's page on the death note wiki:

When Obata's editor told him that he wanted L to have a face "looking cool based on the angle," Obata added black "bags" under L's eyes, and he cited Devilman's Akira Fudou when expressing his belief that black bags "looked cool."

[Say what you will about the sanity of considering under-eye bags cool lmao. Extremely funny to think about Akira's lower lashes as eye bags though]

I don't know if O&O have ever directly commented on whether Light was intended to take anything from Ryo, but he gets some Lucifer imagery especially in the first OP. I mean, there's a lot of Christian allusions made in death note (I think across the series Light alone is likened to Judas, Adam, Jesus, and Lucifer), but still:

-name: Light → Lightbringer → Lucifer

-the final shot of Light in the first OP being him in front of what appears to be a painting of Lucifer falling from Heaven

As well as arguably following a number of other Ryo-isms (part of a dark haired + light(er) haired homoerotic narrative foil/adversary duo, morally questionable (or flat out wrong) actions for what he believes will make the world a better place, unusually talented/has special abilities, conventionally attractive young man, etc). Tbh I didn't think about it either until I saw him and L on that one venn diagram of gay ships that were all ryoakira-derived and then narumitsu hgshdj

So, yeah, I don't think he's as much of an undeniable Ryo expy as say Kaworu or Joshua or whatnot, but I think he does have some of the Ryo genes in him. They're just a bit harder to spot since afaik he's the only time the Ryo has been the protagonist and the Akira is the antagonist instead. It also makes it way funnier imo that O&O (or at least Obata?) HATE that people think Light and L are kinda gay, cause like... you at least partly used ryoakira as a base, what did you expect to happen