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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 days agohe uses the deathnote in an infantile manner and his sense of justice is juvenile.
Light was a teenager. He’s always lived an easy sheltered life under the care of his parents. He’s lacking any real life experience. In my mind, his juvenile sense of justice is right in line with someone of that immaturity especially given the power he got from the Death Note. We get to see a great contrast when Light’s father is given the power of the Death Note, and immediately chooses to cut his own life in half to get the eyes. The father understands self sacrifice and paying the price to protect those he loves.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
sure thing. It’s just combining that with the “I smelt the onion in his farts, that only grows in the nagasaki region” style writing of “smart, observant people” makes the show kinda silly , while the tone is suuuuper serious about everything.
I watched it out of curiosity and to practice my spanish (netflix dub). In a way I’m glad I gave it a miss in its heyday when I was at uni.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t think that’s out-of-place either for the story. Much like the difference between Light and his father, the story is illustrating “book smart” from “street smart”.
Like so much other modern fiction, Death Note is a variation on the Hero’s Journey trope. In this case, the hero is a composite between L, Near, and Mello.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
how? It just seemed like a typical “antagonist and protagonist are mirrors” with a villain protagonist in Light.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Light = Book Smart Light’s Father = Street Smart
Hero’s Journey is so common, I too, would consider it “typical”.
Combine L, Near, and Mello all as one entity “the hero”. How that composite travels through the story I see it well mapping against the hero’s journey. Another portion of the variation is that the story primarily follows Light/Kira, which is the antagonist, not the hero.
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