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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.

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.

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

sure thing. It’s just combining that with the “I smelt the onion in his farts, that breed of onion 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 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.

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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  the story is illustrating “book smart” from “street smart”.
  who’s who? I thought Light and L were fairly similar in their types of intelligence and both felt book smart.
  
  Death Note is a variation on the Hero’s Journey trope
  
  how? It just seemed like a typical “antagonist and protagonist are mirrors” with a villain protagonist in Light.
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    the story is illustrating “book smart” from “street smart”.
    
    who’s who? I thought Light and L were fairly similar in their types of intelligence and both felt book smart.
    
    Light = Book Smart Light’s Father = Street Smart
    
    Death Note is a variation on the Hero’s Journey trope
    
    how? It just seemed like a typical “antagonist and protagonist are mirrors” with a villain protagonist in Light.
    
    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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    Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hero’s journey :
    
    So, Light goes through call to adventure, supernatural aid, and threshold guardians? Ok.
    
    All the characters go through “challenges and temptations” but aside from Light not going for the Shinigami’s eyes, they generally tend to cave to whatever temptations they’re presented with. I assume
    
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    L’s literal death and replacement with Melo
    
    Is the death & rebirth and transformation. I don’t see the atonement, return nor the gift of the goddess. Also, I thought the hero’s journey had “visit to the underworld” as part of the abyss, and also a voyage to a strange land which again, feels missing.
    
    I appreciate you sharing your point of view though.
    
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