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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.
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 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 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.
Light is an asshole, bully and ironically an idiot. he uses the deathnote in an infantile manner and his sense of justice is juvenile.
also, deathnote was mid.