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I watched Jigokuraku season 2 last week. Overall it was good, but the end of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It ends at the start of a giant conflict, and it’s entirely dependent on a character they introduced this season just unilaterally going nuts and nobody in his party trying to reign him in. It reeks of a Deus Ex Machina, which is a big red flag with regards to writing quality.

Overall, I’m not sure if I’m going to bother with season 3, as it looks like it’s about to tank in writing quality. And over the years I’ve grown to distrust the community’s response to shows.

Fuck NGE

Damn, the parkour in it looks about on par with Warframe

I generally hate movies for existing anime series, but I think a prequel isn’t too bad

I still can’t get over how everyone’s response was “wait, isn’t this is just the quack doctor?”

Or just watch both in full. While the ending of Brother hood was vetter than FMA’s ending, I think FMA’s ending was still good

What the fuck is OOP smoking?

NOBODY WANTS FAKE FRAMES

When’d you get put on the list? I got the email saying I was also put on the list about 2 weeks ago and wondering what the wait’s like

Signal would be terrible for that. It’s designed to be more like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp

Or XMPP

Same for me. Only Crunchyroll could drop the ball this hard on a popular show

Ended the season on a cliffhanger, and we get to wait another 5 years for the next season!

Jokes aside, overall the season and this episode was good

Another thing to note is that a lot of official manga apps are tracking nightmares. Kodansha’s app, KManga, has more trackers than FACEBOOK. What’s up with that? And the Shounen Jump app had about 90% of the trackers that Facebook has.

When I found out I dumped my Shounen Jump subscription and deleted both apps. There’s no reason to treat paying customers like that

Maybe they’ll finally stop going after piracy sites since they don’t have skin in the game anymore.

I have my doubts that they’ll stop, since they’re giant cunts. But I have to wonder if they’ll throw away money for absolutely 0 gain now

Dude, we’re in a thread about the morality of using a Death Note, not debating whether to strap up with a machine gun and becoming an insurgenct. You’ve gone off on a completely unrelated tangent here

I hate these abominations

Please no

They defaulted to a lack of empathy with those affected by their actions and got defensive when challenged on that.

Is it truly a lack of empathy to look at the pain and suffering a relatively small number of people are inflicting on the rest of the world and be disgusted by it? The health insurance CEO that got Luigi’d is respobsible for 10’s of millions of deaths. Elon Musk and DOGE removing USAID killed over 100,000 children worldwide. And Peter Thiel is literally trying to recreate 1984. How you consider anger over that a “lack of empathy”?

Also consider that if the elites that are trying to oppress the world are ever taken out by a Death Note, their friends and family will still be significantly better off than the oppressed ever would. As in, they still would never need to work a day in their lives and still be well off. It’s hard to feel particularly sorry for them whem they have so much comfort that a small reduction would greatly benefit hundreds of millions of otherd.

Being friends or family of someone who got murdered sucks.

I don’t give a fuck about the family of the health insurance CEO that got Luigi’d. They got their fortune from killing millions of Americans, and they still get to be stupidly rich for the rest of their lives.

If someone used a Death Note to take out the 100 most wealthy individuals in the world, you’d save hundreds of thousands of lives and improve the lives of orders of magnitude more people than that.

The entire theme of Death Note is that power turns people into sociopaths

First off, sociopathy isn’t a thing. It’s a made up term a fake psychologist made up to put people on death row in Texas for personal gain. Go listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on it. The actual diagnosis is “psychopathy”

Second, Light Yagami was already a psychopath at the start. Notice how in the show that there were 2 others that held the Death Note and they didn’t go mad with power over it.

yet this comment section seems to be teeming with people who are equally immature.

Look at all of the growing injustice and inequality in the world, spurred on by CEOs, dictators, and billionaires. Just look at health insurance, where hundreds of thousands die each year from denial of care. Look at Elon Musk and DOGE defunding USAID, which resulted in over 100,000 children dying across the world. Look at the destruction and death that Russia has brought to Ukraine to try and conquer them.

Look at everyone in this thread who looks at all of that pain and misery and would want to do something about it. You’re calling them immature? No, you’re the one who’s immature, with all of your bullshit pearl-clutching.

Here’s a bit of a tangent: when the US invaded Vietnam, there were a lot of incidents where troops were ordered to just wipe out villages of people who had nothing to do with the war, including women and children. There was also a high rate of soldiers “snapping” and shooting their officers in retaliation. Those soldiers didn’t “snap”, they were the sane ones.

Of course they likely wouldn’t be let out ever again, and given their control of their countries military

Except there’s historical examples of tyrants getting out of their sentences and taking control of their military. The notable that comes to mind is Napoleon.

Not for a justice system that was developed hand-in-hand with the KKK (yes, the police really did develop that way) then I’ll agree in that condition due to the system often being used to suppress minorities. But that’s not what’s being discussed here.

It was literally pointless. There was bo reason for it to be done this way. This all could have just been a short scene with Rudy reading the diary. It’s not like we weren’t already aware of what happens in the diary since they alreasy spend the entirety of the previous episode going over it.

I repeat: this episode was pointless. All it does is force the audience to slog through a bunch of misery porn without advancing the plot

Insisting that tropes are universally true just because they’re repeated is abaurd. It’s something a child would think up.

Go look at history. There’s plenty of examples of people who do the right thing when in positions of power. This is because power doesn’t corrupt - it reveals who people truly are. It’s just that selfish people are more likely to seek out power for personal gain.

Eventually you run out of monsters to fill the position (and the supporting positions below). At that point you now have people willing to make positive changes in the world

I think a lot of people ignore the main issue with Death Note. I don’t view it as depicting how anyone would be corrupted by power.

Light Yagami started out with an overinflated ego and impaired self control by virtue of being a teenager with good grades. He likely was also already a psychopath (though you can’t give that diagnosis to a minor). He’s effectively the male Japanese version of Elizabeth Holmes. That’s what led to him becoming a megalomaniac.

Not everyone starts off with that set of circumstances, and conversely not everyone would go down the same route. But that’s not the story the author wanted to write nor the story the audience wanted to consume. A good person using the Death Note to fix the world would get old really fast because there’s little tension and intrigue. But someone being correpted by power down a path of evil? That’s a story that can be interesting

The only class you’d actually be targeting would be psychopaths tbh. And indirectly at that

Ooh fuck, they should put ointment on that burn

Says the centrist who’s fine with claiming to take the moral high ao long as they can stay confortable

Then just get rid of the next monster. Eventually the hierarchy will learn and reform, if by no other means than by the individuals corrupting the structure being eliminated