Comments on: Death Note

By: MangaPunkSai

MangaPunkSai — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:46:36 +0000

I can see how you could say the power can corrupt a person, but looking at Light’s personality I think he was pretty rotten and arrogant to begin with. However I still say he wouldn’t have become a killer if he hadn’t had a seemingly undetectable way of doing it in which he thought he couldn’t get caught. But that also speaks to his immaturity. :p That’s just my view of the character.

By: MXM

MXM — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:50:10 +0000

i haven’t seen all of the anime yet (up to episode 12) but what i saw i found pretty awsome.. very good animation and dark atmosphere that i really like in animes. i have read the complete manga though, which i also loved (who doesn’t?)

i think the main thought behind the story is that great power causes great evil, or to show that the power to kill will corrupt the user of it (or perhaps to show that humans are not capable of acting as a god?). it could be many things actually, as the story has so much depth.

though Light ends as someone using his ‘powers’ mainly to keep himself safe and to become the ‘god of the new world’, i believe that he initially really believed in making the world a better place. i can imagine thinking that there are people who make the world ‘rotten’ (though i wouldn’t wanna kill em all) so i have sympathy for the Light at the beginning of the story. Though he is a bit too arrogant..

but once he started cleaning the world of the rotten people, he actually becomes as evil as the people he kills (or perhaps even more). i love the irony in that!

By: Lilith

Lilith — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:18:27 +0000

I think the point of this story is to…I guess to show how a sciopath mind works and show the worst of…human nature to say? You almost want him to get away with it, but you know its wrong. I haven’t seen the whole series yet, but it looks interesting from what i’ve read and saw.

By: Joobles

Joobles — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:46:11 +0000

Oh dear. I typed always instead of almost. i deserve a swift smack to the face. I need more coffee.

By: Joobles

Joobles — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:44:06 +0000

I have read Death Note [well I'm always done, but EXAMS AUGHH!] and I find it amazing. No lie. There’s a reason people like it. It’s GOOD. I love the depth of it. I love its implications about the human race, all of it. it shows us our evils, arrogance, greed, jealousy, etc. There is one thing that puzzles me. It is not about the manga itself, but rather about the fans.

What’s with Matt? He was in two scenes, and then he got killed off, arrogantly boasting that such a thing would surely not happen. What is the obsession with him?!

By: MangaPunkSai

MangaPunkSai — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:07:34 +0000

**Spoiler Warnings** I don’t necessarily think it was out of character for him. We’ve seen other times in the series where he flies into a rage when things don’t go his way, especially that scene right after L ups and introduces himself.

Besides, what kind of ending could there have been other than Light falling hard and completely? After spending all that time watching him get away with mass murder and step all over everyone around him it was awesome to see him finally snap and then die pathetically (the manga was even better, actually.)

Where he was cold and calculating, he was obviously a lunatic by the end too. I mean, here he is with this power thats not even his, a fact he simply forgets, over the years thinking he’d be the “god of a new world” and coming to believe his own bullshit, basically. It also speaks to Light’s immaturity (and I do believe as smart as he is he’s also very immature, and this is clear from the beginning) when he thinks he’s got it all planned out and its all going to go well for him, and then he’s up against a wall when it doesn’t and just finally freaks out. After that in his rage his thoughts on how to weasel out of it just focus completely on Near, he gets desperate, which makes him frantic, then more and more things go wrong for him all at once.

As for his villain speech… I didn’t think of it that way so, okay, I’ll give you that it was kinda cheesey. Still, you’d think after 6 years of keeping this all in side and his plans rapidly falling apart around him its somewhat natural for his mind to finally collapse and he’d just want to blurt out “Yes it was me! It was all me! But what I was doing was GOOD!”.

Still, I think, from a literary point of view, this was the only ending there could have been.

By: MindFlayerSlayer

MindFlayerSlayer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:59:38 +0000

i have to agree, however in this case i would support the anime in that it shows a more obvious progression of light from calculating fanatic to raving madman
but again this transition felt forced near the end of the series and i was just a bit annoyed with near’s ace in the hole being “i knew that you knew that i switched it so i switched your switched book”

but on the kira idolization, fandoms will be fandoms

By: Scoobyroo9001

Scoobyroo9001 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:05:33 +0000

I agree that most Death Note fans misunderstand the plot. I also love your analysis of the plot. My only issue is the fact that you loved the end of the manga. I personally hated it. I felt that the ending seemed ruched and completely out of character for Light. The one aspect of Light that propelled him in his sociopathic quest for Diety-hood was his intelligence, which was also my favorite portion of his personlaity. Light is an arrogant, pompous, elitest sociopath. But the story is so intriguing because honestly he is smart enough to justify these qualities. I enjoyed following along with the intellectual sparing that went on between Light and L, and later between Light, Near, and Mello (though i did consider Mello considerably less intelligent than the other main characters). My beef with the way in which the manga ended was the fact that Light is depicted as the average villain. He feels that he has won and that there is no way for anyone to ever stop him. This is the way that every villain ever has been vanquished. I mean he even does a “bad-guy rant” where he explains his entire scheme because he feels that the polices’ deaths are inevitable. Of course he slips up and is outsmarted, which causes his own death. This bothered me because the entire manga led me to believe that he was far more intelligent your average manga villain, but then he goes and breaks his cover and loses his cool. Light is supposed to be the cool, calculating, murder. HE ISN’T THE RAVING LUNATIC THAT THE FINALE PRTRAYED HIM AS!!!! I just saw the end to be completely out of character.