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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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