The Boy Who Cornered God | Death Note Analysis

from country to country and from sea across the shining sea, whether it is raining or the sun is shining brightly, evil is happening somewhere in the world, in broad daylight and on a pitch black night, which makes to a good criminal and a good detective, what splashes and swirls inside someone's house. head while opening the chest they move people voluntarily or not, they move them knowingly or not and they trap the object of their desire in a corner that they formulated: how do you cage an animal that behaves hyperconsciously as if it were also trying to cage you to yourself? -Consciousness and level of thinking that is almost superhuman.

The iconic first half of Death Note is a game of two big egos, two rival judges, and a game to leave the greatest mind clutching a silver chalice. That's not what happens, although it is a game that rewards the most. sociopath takes place the crueler the game of who can tune out the white noise in their head by ignoring or leaving emotions behind in a sunk cost ego game to avoid losing because they both hate losing spoilers obviously Death Notes characters are so compelling in part because from the emotional scenes and reactions that are often left up to interpretation, even when reading the manga and watching the anime adaptation multiple times, it's clear that the key moments are meant to be introspective and prompt the viewer to decide whether the emotion that happened was real. or not yet, I'm going to use all the context we've been given in this video to show how the human element of Elle doomed her tragic fate and how that same element then ignited into a race to see who could tune out The Boy Who the most.

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God, so let's get a little emotional and look at L.L.

Lolliet is mostly emotionless, with the exception of the occasional disappointment over mostly unconcerning issues. He rarely has any outbursts of emotion and is only shown once in the entire Death Note series. The terror of the initial idea that a shinigami could exist, this terror does not come from fear of

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or the supernatural or danger to your own life or the lives of others, but rather comes from the realization that you may be investing in the equivalent of an unsolvable mathematical equation this is important as we learn later I'm an orphan who really only had watari as his close companion I rarely get to know or feel connected to anyone it's fair to say I'm a lonely person but as he himself admits it debatably uses his real feelings to try to illuminate the place.

He repeatedly mentions that Light may be his first friend, the first person who thinks like him or understands him, but it's always left partially up in the air to what extent exactly that is him. trying to expose the light and how real his feelings are, the level at which he cares for him, even I probably couldn't sort out his feelings in their entirety to relate to someone and yet see them as a threat, something else to What to

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is that their belief in justice initially seems to come from a similar starting place, although method and extreme divide them sharply during the Yotzuba arc.

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to confirm the power and use of the death note that operates in a utilitarian way, with a few more innocent people dying, I could confirm the possibility and stop more deaths. future. Light initially thinks that a world without criminals or bad people will make the entire society happier, slowly transforming into an ego that anyone who opposes him is a criminal to God, a bad person who prevents the arrival of the new world before Yotsuba. and after light's achievement the only notable point in the story where ell's emotions take the lead is her demotivation after wasting over 60 days stopping light and misa found no solution to her confidence stutters for a moment with the idea that actually, after all this time, he might finally have been wrong about something, all the money, all the time, the lives of the people who died while he was working, were not reaching their conclusion, members of the group job he left the police and the public others were losing confidence in him and the fact that he was only known and needed for his title as an unbeatable detective is certainly a huge weight to bear after so long without any real substantial progress next. to add more context and contrast for what will eventually be my main point is the comparison with the light.

The descent of the light really parallels, if not recurs, far beyond similar character arcs like in Breaking Bad, as we see that the light before Death Note wasn't exactly about violence. or an abusive person, mostly just seemed bored and uninterested in most things, a handsome honors student who all the girls fawn over once again once he loses his memories, shows genuine and real concern that Kyra can be in the world and its detention is a waste. that the longer he remains unable to help more people and the longer he is given attention, the more people will die and he is genuinely worried because it is not an act.

He shows genuine conflict and sadness when I lie to him to tell him that Criminals stopped dying while he was detained and he seems really meek and changed from the light we've come to know through the rest of the series by constantly analyzing every smile and smile expression when we see Elle's death light screams in terror before looking down. to Elle with a sinister smile clearly conveying that that same feeling of warmth that Elle may have felt to a certain extent towards Light was cold on the other side while she felt a strange closeness, an affection towards the rivalry of who she thought was Kira Light felt.

There's not so much retroactive sadness in Elle's passing. I respect it, maybe for sure, but I don't regret it. The only time I think there's any genuine hesitation on Light's part that couldn't be interpreted as a possible trick is when she nervously shakes and accepts how she may have to do it. her killing her own younger sister to keep the death note safe, as well as being in a mostly private situation, which lends credence to her being genuine. He also seems visibly frustrated by taking it out on Misa, really for no reason at the time, because of this, this is the last time. true and objective ray of care towards anyone the light shows that cannot be argued as a possible double game or blatant manipulation until the horror he feels towards his own final failure before the death of his father, he even considers killing Mass with blood cold to avoid it. the possibility of melo having shinigami eyes and being able to track him down at this point in the plot is completely absent in much of the anime, as the story after l took up the last half of the manga in just a third of the anime's runtime. , this obviously led to a much simpler walk through of the story which left many people over the years dismissing the later writing because of this, I will take into consideration the characters from both the anime and manga since it wasn't as condensed and was given the adequate time to breathe that he needed, it is clear to me that Light's willingness to strip him of his emotions to buy both his ego and actively kill those who loved him demonstrates that his strength over Self was not necessarily a good trait and it was too.

It's not that he's a smarter person, but that he gets rid of some of the basic aspects that make someone act human. Caring for others. Self-introspection. The ability to question yourself to doubt. This is quite confirmed by the author himself, who has recorded. say that I am smarter than light and close, however, light and close have a trait that puts them at an advantage, these parts of themselves that they have shed of kira not only for the light but also for the public, two men driven by hatred to lose a personal ego and the desire to flaunt victory along with similar but divided ideals and methods of justice, the human element, emotionality was ultimately what led to Elle's greatest weakness.

The point that Light abused to gain victory, so how do you fight Nate River? It's often misquoted that he and Mello worked together to defeat Elle and that's how they got through it, but anyone who's watched or read the series and paid attention knows that. It is false, he claims that they got through it together, not that they worked together to get through it and this is an important distinction, the last thing Mello wanted was to work with Nir, he was aware of the cold and calculating opposite of him, the sit back and set traps approach .

They technically worked together without contact near the end and this was because Mello realized what he had to do to catch Kira and Melo realized that no matter what he did nearby, he was always sitting down keeping in mind that moved like a chess piece using his actions to better construct his own plan, Melo realized that while he was participating in the capture of Kira Nir he had already taken into account any action he could take, that is because somehow , the soft and close represent polar opposite aspects of what represents a complete person. close is logic mathematics mello is emotionality and ego elle died due to her emotionality forming a small weakness against kira and notably melo also dies being the emotional aspect being the ego so close and mello was able to overcome him not because together they possess more power brain or because they actively work together, but because Mello operates as an element of chaos keeps Kira on her toes, allowing Nir to stay at a safe distance, focus on being the human computer he is, and wait for the right checkmate to land. when the light finally does. makes that one misstep, all things considered close is the least emotional character in the series, but it's more than just being apathetic or just similar to him.

He gets irritated and disappointed by small inconveniences, but larger inconveniences often register the same or similar response from him. The closest I get to determining the feeling of closeness is when one of his agents realizes it and tells him that following Mikami if he breaks into the locker room could mean his own death and with that fear clear, he almost essentially says yes, could you. You'll probably die if you're not comfortable with that, we'll send another agent, which I think shows some level of respect or concern towards the people following him, but even with that, he mentions that he'll have someone else do it at the end of the day your plan continues, you can delay progress but not go back.

However, what ultimately gives almost the advantage against the light is that while I and the light contained his own righteousness, his own ego and I only cared a little more about the people around him nearby he possesses little or none of that, the series does not try to be subtle, it sees this whole situation as a game, a fun but serious strategy game between two players, the only difference is that while the world is the playing field, the world is not its stage. nir never intends to share the existence of death note, he has no intention of telling anyone that i caught kira, he has no intention of achieving any kind of public victory, but rather he simply wishes that kira would eventually stop working and be fade away in the past there is no ego in him, he even openly considers himself not so good since all he cares about is winning the game, for once we see something much rarer between two parties in a story, not two rival judges but one judge against someone that he acts amorally before justice with the apathetic person claiming victory and preventing the murder of many people.

As for the narrative, they even end up framing it close in the final moments with a classic villain mantra when he states that the light in him really is no different, they both believe what they decide as moral to be fair, but while one has the ego of killing countless people to try to change the world according to their beliefs, the other recognizes that he is all that, he is someone with an ego, a chimpanzee with a machine gun, not ever. He saw Kira as something special while Elle helped build Light's ego as a god. Nate only saw a serial killer, nothing more, nothing less, in a way that the things that were almost lacking in him allowed him to steer his ship more stably and the things that Light had nearby. he had more clarity and that's what made me realize that Near wasn't so much a successor to the character as he was to the light, he had all the strength of the light without the ego and the vanity, the delusions of grandeur, just this and their ideals really separated them and that's why almost, although not, the most technically powerful adversary of the light was the most powerful for him, specifically in my eyes, this is how a child managed not to corner not to a god but another criminal.

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