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.