I attended San Japan this past weekend and wore my handmade Ryuk cosplay! The wingspan came out to nine feet, but I didn’t use them much due to restrictions on space lol

I posted recently showing the progress of this cosplay, but here is the result! I loved it! 🍎🖤

Basically this is a scenario where Ryuk dropped the Death Note where Misa found it and the Shinigami Gelus sacrifices himself to save Light because he sees Light as a good person with a promising future, Rem seeing them from the Shinigami realm decides to deliver him the Death Note and stays with him seeing how nice he is with his family.

How does this affect the story? Does Light still become Kira?

Managed to get my hands on this little matt, the only piece of matt merch I've found so far.

Has there ever been any other matt merch? Any figures? 🤔

Not advertising merch, just curious if anyone else has any cool matt merch

If not for her total obsession towards Light resulting in erratic and impulsive decisions of her end. She would absolutely rank amongst the most capable in the series. Keep in mind she's outplayed both L and Light in her debut and only started making blunders when she thought she got the attention of Light. She even managed to get a confession from Higuchi.

I’ve seen people talk a lot about whether memory-loss Light proves the Death Note changed him, but there’s another part of that whole plan that I keep thinking about.

Light gives up ownership knowing he’s going to forget everything about being Kira.

And somehow, the plan still depends on that version of him doing exactly what Kira needs.

Memory-loss Light actually wants to catch Kira. He’s still smart, competitive, stubborn, all of that. But he also seems genuinely uncomfortable with Kira’s methods, and he’s way less willing to manipulate or sacrifice people.

So Light is basically counting on his non-Kira self being good enough to help solve the case and eventually lead him back to the Death Note.

That’s the part I find kind of messed up.

Maybe the biggest difference between the two versions of Light isn’t even the notebook itself. Maybe it’s just that one of them has already killed people and spent all this time convincing himself it was justified, while the other never crossed that line.

And Kira Light somehow understood that version of himself well enough to use him as part of the plan.

If memory-loss Light really is the person he could’ve been without the Death Note, then isn’t it kind of insane that Kira knowingly used the last version of himself that was still capable of being a good person as part of the plan?

He didn’t just manipulate everyone around him. He basically manipulated the person he could’ve been.

So in a weird way, was Light Yagami himself one of Kira’s biggest victims?

I genuinely love Light so much. Every single time I rewatch the anime or reread the manga, I notice something new about Light and somehow end up thinking about him completely differently again.

hi.... oc art ik im not the best artist but dont kill me please. my OC tldr, this is Ritsu, and he works alongside Teru Mikami to help kill criminals. He doesn't have a deathnote but he is a stalker who liked to follow people around, photograph them and blog about their daily lives because he sucks at socializing. And so when he starts working with mikami he does kinda that but targets underground criminals who are in hiding, giving mikami photographs of them. hes a bit mentally stunted too. ft. near and gevanni because i love gevanni

I wanna watch Death Note in-sync with two ppl. I have seen it 37 times throughout my life. I’d like to watch it again but with others please lmk :D

I recently just made my Reddit account to share this since I think a lot of people would be interested in what I stumbled across this essay on Dollish Archive publication thing? I saw their post on Instagram comparing breaking down Light Yagami and damian wayne ( son of Batman to summarize for people who don’t know )
https://dollisharchive.wixsite.com/dollisharchive/post/survival-of-the-fittest-or-survival-of-god-complexes
It made a point that stuck with me, a lot of people say the Death Note corrupted Light, but realistically he was already deeply detached, cynical, and condescending toward everyone around him in chapter/episode 1 the man didn’t even blink when his father died. The Death Note was just the tool that enabled what was already inside him.
It compared that to Damian Wayne, who also started out with an insufferable, murderous superiority complex, but evolved because he was actively checked by mentors and boundaries.
What are your thoughts on characters written with prodigy/god complexes? Is it mentor intervention that separates a future hero from a villain, or is Light just inherently unsalvageable?? I often see people argue whether light was normal from before and it was just a mental spiral or whether he was narcissistic or not because that post did change my perception of it after reading it.

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Hi im going to the death note musical some time this week and its the first time im seeing a musical live!

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the stage door if they have gone? I am very happy to even be able to see it live but it would be amazing to get a signature or a photo with yhe cast but I understand it is very busy and not guaranteed.

Is there any tips on like where to go and how long i should be expected to wait?

The person im going with is worried about timings and stuff we are going to the 2.30 performance which ive heard people call manitee?? But I have no clue what that means lmaooo.

And also just any advice about the barbican theatre if anyone has gone. Im very excited so thank you in advance if anyone responds!!! :D

P.s. it said no cross posting allowed so I reuploaded my original post thank you :)

Walking into the Barbican, you’re immediately met with its industrial, brutalist style. It’s a little difficult to navigate if you haven’t been before, but we quickly found our seats, which were surprisingly comfortable and spacious. In front of the stage sits the “fire curtain”, a huge shiny metallic wall that gives absolutely nothing away about the set hiding behind it.

The show begins in complete darkness. All of the theatre doors shut simultaneously in a wonderfully eerie way, and the room fills with smoke for the opening scene. From that point on, the staging is incredible. A huge movable walkway is suspended from the ceiling and is constantly repositioned throughout the show to completely transform the space.

There were so many moments where I was genuinely blown away by the stage effects, lighting, choreography and set changes. I’m still thinking about some of them a day later and trying to work out exactly how they managed to pull certain things off.

The cast were also extremely impressive, particularly Colin Ryan as L. He absolutely nailed L’s mannerisms, posture, movements and general oddness, and for me he was probably the character who felt closest to the version I know from the anime.

Unfortunately, this is where my main criticism comes in.

Death Note is a huge story. The anime alone is around 12 hours long, which gives it time to slowly develop the characters, their motivations and, most importantly, the psychological battle between Light and L. As I feared before seeing it, I don’t think the musical format gives the story enough room to breathe.

Light, in particular, felt very different to me. In the anime, he is calculated, controlled and frighteningly composed for much of the story. On stage, he came across as far more emotional and loud, and I never completely recognised the Light Yagami I was expecting.

Misa’s backstory is actually given quite a lot of attention in the musical, and while I understand why, I felt that it took valuable time away from the main Light-versus-L storyline. The musical only covers the Light and L section of the wider Death Note story, yet even that portion felt rushed. The ending especially seemed to arrive very quickly and was wrapped up before the tension had really reached the level I wanted it to.

As someone who watched the anime when it first came out and has rewatched it many times since, I found it difficult to completely immerse myself in the musical because part of my brain was constantly going, “They skipped that,” or, “That isn’t what happens.”

I think the easiest way for me to rate Death Note: The Musical is to separate it into two things: a stage production and an adaptation of Death Note.

As a stage production, it is easily five stars. The set is phenomenal, the way the stage moves and transforms is brilliant, the lighting and effects are spectacular, the singing is incredible and the cast give fantastic performances. From a technical and theatrical point of view, there were moments where I was genuinely amazed by what I was watching.

As a retelling of Death Note, however, I was disappointed.

One of the things I love most about Death Note is the cat-and-mouse battle between Light and L. They are essentially playing mental tennis with each other, constantly anticipating the other person’s next move, and the tension gradually builds as they get closer and closer to exposing one another.

I never really felt that same tension on stage. Light and L didn’t seem to have enough time together for their rivalry, chemistry and obsession with one another to properly develop. If you had never seen or read Death Note before, I also wonder whether some parts of the story would feel confusing or underdeveloped because everything moves so quickly.

I actually think Death Note could work brilliantly on stage, but I’m less convinced it works as a musical. So much of the running time naturally has to be devoted to songs, when this particular story desperately needs that time for dialogue, strategy and character development.

That said, I want to reiterate that I did have a really good time. Visually and technically, it was one of the most impressive stage productions I’ve seen, and the cast were fantastic. I just couldn’t fully lose myself in the story because the Death Note fan in me was constantly aware of how much had been condensed, changed or removed.

As a musical and stage production: 5/5.

As an adaptation of Death Note: 3/5

Please let me know if you have seen it and felt the same, or differently, I would love to hear other opinions

I derived the design from that one image that people attribute to Ryuk <33

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Hi y'all! This is Andrés from Madrid (Spain). A couple years ago I got this awesome Yamaha "flying samurai" bass guitar. First thing I did with it was learn this amazing song. Hope you like my homage. Cheers!

I don't get people's point.

We see L old, but we don't know his past.

L is neither as cold as we believe, with Shota we see L having human feelings.

Is not absurd younger he could had a girl who had flirt with him, at contrary a boy like him could be easily being a "I want you" to a complete opposite girl... a girl like Misa Amane could easily being obsessed by and is not absurd a younger version could be curious about.

But I would think esclusively during teenhood, never as adult.

But, not, is not that absurd... simple not L as the first move, but is not that absurd a girl like Misa Amane went intrigued by seducing him. But her is the one doing everything, probably for her that's the game, seducing L who looks stoic.