Highly recommend "Death Note"

High school senior Yue Yagami (now admitted to Tokyo University with full marks = =) accidentally picked up a notebook titled "DEATH NOTE". And discovered that as long as you write down the name of the person you want to kill, it will become a reality. Light begins to use the Death Note to punish those he deems worthy of death. Then, the original owner of the note, Death God Ruku, also appeared in front of Yue as a bystander.

On the other hand, more and more bizarre deaths of criminals have attracted the attention of governments around the world. At the International Conference of Criminal Police Organizations (ICOP), they entrusted the mysterious person L to investigate the matter.

The society calls this mysterious killer a killer, and different people have different reactions.

Who is the just party, and who will win the final victory? A battle of wits and courage (actually I don’t want to use this word = =) begins...

How to use the Death Note

1. The user must know the person he wants to kill name and appearance (name alone is not enough, because there are people with the same name and surname)

2. Write the cause of death within 40 seconds after writing the name, the person will die as written, if not Cause of death was defaulted to cardiac paralysis.

3. After writing the cause of death, you can write the detailed death status within 6 minutes and 40 seconds

4. People who use the Death Note cannot go to heaven, nor do they need to go to hell

5. After the user breaks away from the note, he will lose all memories related to the note

The eyes of the god of death

The eyes of the god of death are quite special, as long as they see one The person's appearance, his lifespan and name will naturally appear in front of his eyes. The god of death and the human who picked up the note can make a deal to exchange eyeballs - the holder of the note can exchange half of his remaining lifespan for the eyes of the god of death. Although Yue refused such a useful eye, the second note holder who appeared later accepted the deal. Humans with Shinigami eyes cannot see their own lifespan, nor the lifespan of the note holder.

Character introduction

Yagami Yue (born: February 28, 1987)

A first-class honors student, second and third grade junior high school At that time, he was the national tennis champion. He was admitted to Dongda University with perfect scores and spoke at the opening ceremony as a freshman representative. I wrote two pages of Strong Man within 5 days of getting the Death Note, which even surprised Ruku. After getting the Death Note, Yue's idea was to clean up the earth. In fact, Yue said in the first episode: "If no one does bad things, the world will develop for the better!" Yue's expression was innocent. Like Shindo Hikaru who said to Sawei, "Let's play chess." When I reviewed the first episode again, I was surprised by Yue's pure expression and smile - it turns out that he also has moments when he is not sinister (-_-b) Ruku said: In this case, your character will also be affected and become bad. of. Yue just answered confidently: I am the number one top student in Japan, and I want to become the god of the new world!

Until now, facts have proven that Liu Ku is right. As early as when Yue ruthlessly killed the FBI who entered Japan to investigate the matter, Yue's change was already obvious. It's just that Yue didn't realize it. He was busy dealing with L and Misa, analyzing their behaviors and thoughts, but he forgot to analyze his own.

L

"No one knows the name, place of residence, or even appearance of the person 'L', but no matter what the incident is, it will definitely be solved. It can be said that this is The world's top master behind the scenes, the final ace..."

"But isn't L a willful person who only deals with events that interest him? "

——by Chapter 2 , the policemen in ICOP

L, who was admitted to Tokyo University with full marks like Yue, spoke at the opening ceremony together, and was even a junior champion in the British Tennis Competition, is on par with Yue no matter how you look at it. opponent.

When two people play a game of tennis, they are both analyzing each other's true identities, and the rotation speed of their brains is never slower than the speed of tennis balls flying around (= =) Although they won the tennis match in the last month, compared to the sweating Yue, L looked more at ease when he said with a blank look: "I lost, I am worthy of being Yagami-kun" (Do you believe it? He didn't even shed a drop of sweat, he is definitely not a normal person!)

In fact, the usual duels are the same. I always feel that L is more calm than Yue. Stripping away the calmness she pretends on the surface, Yue's heart is ups and downs. Especially after Misa appears, she is often frightened by this woman who can't figure out the situation. L also had moments when he was abnormal. For example, when the second "killer" mentioned the God of Death, he was so shocked that he fell to the ground. But after all, there is more time to show composure.

I was surprised when L said "Justice will prevail" like a doll. Yue and L, these two masters of setting up and solving complex puzzles, have the beliefs behind them to be so simple!

Liu Ku

Liu Ku is actually a boring person (the God of Death) who has nothing to do when he is full. The Gods of Death are all boring, but the difference between him and other Gods of Death is that even if other Gods of Death are bored, they continue to be bored, while he thinks of ways to make life less boring. So he deliberately threw the Death Note into the human world, yes, it was intentional! All these rights and wrongs stem from the random behavior of this irresponsible god of death. However, I have seen a lot of people scolding Yue, L, and Misa on the Internet, but I have never seen anyone scolding Liu Ku. Of course I don't want to scold him. ^-^b Among the few main characters in the story, Liu Ku is the only neutral. Although he once helped Yue find a monitor for apples (Khan, the god of death who is addicted to eating apples), subjectively it is still very hard. neutral. For this reason, it also brought a lot of trouble to Yue, especially after the appearance of Rem, the god of death who was so helpful to the owner. However, it is this kind of character that likes to watch good shows that gives many people a reason to like him. (Sure enough, there are still many people who report to me the attitude of "I am afraid that the world will not be chaotic, as long as I don't involve myself".

Mimisha & Rem

Magazine model, Her parents were killed by a robber, and the robber was killed by a "killer", so she had a good impression of the "killer". By coincidence, Misa also got a Death Note and became her second "killer". There is also a story about how the note was obtained. It turns out that a god of death fell in love with Misa in the human world and used the Death Note to save Misa from a pervert. When the god of death kills people with the intention of saving people, he will die. The God of Death died like this, leaving only his own Death Note, and Rem, the other God of Death, who witnessed all this, gave this note to Misa.

Misa's purpose was from the beginning. When meeting the "killer", she has two advantages over Yue: 1. The eyes of the god of death, and 2. Rem's help. Therefore, she successfully found Yue, and claimed to fall in love with Yue at first sight, and even wanted to be Yue's girlfriend. Some people say that Misa is a more difficult problem for Yue than L. On the one hand, he must prevent this woman who does not care about the situation from being caught by L, and on the other hand, he must use this woman to kill L. , the most depressing thing is that Rem claims that he doesn’t care about his own life in order to protect Misa, so Yue can’t kill Misa. What surprises the readers the most is that Misa always appears in front of Yue without doing his job, just like that. Jumping in front of Yue and L - it happened to be L's first day back to school after a long break... This woman has every advantage except her brain ||| (but she was still caught by L)

Yue's father, who is also the criminal director of the police station, has been assisting L in investigating the "killer incident". For this reason, he suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital, but was discharged before being discharged. He drove a truck into the TV station and grabbed the videotape released by the second killer |||, what a desperate uncle.

What would his expression be like if he knew his son was a "killer"?

DN is a work that explores justice under twisted rules. Why is it called twisted rules? The one that twists these rules is Death Note.

Let us take a look at death. Notes and the God of Death. According to the interpretation of the work, the God of Death survives by taking away human lifespan.

Human death is irregular, because the God of Death can survive by taking away the lifespan of anyone, so no one deserves to die. Who doesn't deserve to die is confused. And the God of Death can take away anyone's life at will. As far as the God of Death is concerned, the human world is just a big pigsty, a place that provides them with food. And the entire universe obtains ecology in this. Balance is like a frog being eaten by a snake, and a snake being eaten by an eagle.

The Death Note, which can really kill people after writing their names, is probably derived from the reverse reasoning of the "Book of Life and Death". No matter who it is. , once the name is on the Death Note, it will be doomed within 40 seconds without any accidents.

Under the above two settings, a human gets the Death Note, and he practices God from the perspective of a human. The right is to rob people of their lives.

This itself is a contradiction worth thinking about. Why do people rob people of their lives? People will not get any benefits from it, and they will not benefit from it after death. The cost is also unknown.

But people are still killing each other. Yue is killing to clean up the world, and L is also killing in disguise in order to eliminate Yue, a person who should not exist in the world. This can Understood as a denunciation of the bad nature of human beings.

Look at the "justice" held by both parties.

Yue wants to eliminate evil and will not hesitate to put mankind into a situation of destruction, so that everyone in society can Danger, this is tyranny in itself. While he is aware of evil, he also incarnates into evil.

L, this worldly master, is a genius boy like Sherlock Holmes. His thoughts are more mature than Yue, but he is at a disadvantage. Because his purpose is to protect and defend the existing justice of mankind. What he controls is the power of human beings, while what Yue controls can be said to be the power of nature, the power that determines life and death.

Seeing that it is basically the same now. It’s time to understand that both sides want to kill their opponents. And the justice of both sides is based on the destruction of the other side.

The moon died, the world returned to normal, and mankind escaped the shadow of death (although Will still die). Evil is still rampant, and the cycle of human killing will continue.

After L dies, no one will be able to stop Yue’s activities, and the world will become an ungrateful place with only kindness and fear. A place dominated by humans. This is of no benefit to humans. It is just stepping out of humans’ own killing cycle and entering the killing cycle of death. It is humans who control this cycle, but humans will eventually fall into the cycle.

Do you understand? The result of justice on both sides is a spiral of killing. This is also the depth of this work.

In terms of characters, the character design of Death Note is obviously successful. Each character has their own distinct personality. And there is something we should admire.

When talking about characters, of course we cannot fail to talk about the protagonist of the story, Yue Yagami.

He was admitted to the University of Tokyo with perfect scores. He is the son of the police chief. He has excellent grades, is versatile in sports, has a handsome appearance, and has an impeccable figure and clothing. The most important thing is his extraordinary intelligence. Judging from these alone, it can definitely be called "perfect". It was such a person, and the story began when he picked up the "Death Note" prop on the roadside.

What is the Death Note? It is clearly explained in the story that it is a tool used by the God of Death to take away human lives. A Shinigami without notes can't do anything. Therefore, we can say that the Death Note is a kind of divine power.

And Ye Shenyue obtained this divine power.

I think even Yue Fan will admit that if Yue had not picked up the note, he would have had a completely different life. But we can't put all the responsibility on the notebook. After all, it was Yagami Yue himself who made the decision to "change the world and become the god of the new world." In fact, he could choose to burn the notes like Kyōtaro.

When faced with temptation, different people make different choices. Obviously Yagami Yue is not a person who can resist temptation.

Now let’s talk about the concept of “god” in comics.

There are "gods" in comics. In fact, these "gods" are shown in the first scene.

Liu Ke, Lem, and later Sidu. They are the real gods - the gods of death. From this setting, it can be inferred that the deaths of people in the comic world are basically caused by the death of the gods of death who write their names in notebooks. And when these gods of death kill people, they don't particularly consider whether the person is a "good guy" or a "bad guy." In fact, the so-called concepts of "good and evil" are determined by humans themselves, just like humans decide on "pests" and "beneficial insects", based on their own interests. The Shinigami in the story do not have these human viewpoints, so it can be said that a certain degree of fairness has been achieved. In fact, the God of Death does not allow favoritism, so there is a setting that the God of Death will die for killing people.

So what kind of "god" does Yagami Yue yearn for?

To put it simply, it is an idol that eliminates sin and is worshiped by the world.

By the way, Yagami Yue already regards himself as such a "god", so it is natural to exclude those who resist or do not respect the "god", that is, himself.

Sounds quite childish, doesn’t it?

In fact, the author also borrowed the words of L and N to say, "Kira is a childish person."

I think no one said that Yagami Yue is so strong. Against. Just having a hysterical attack at home after being tricked by L in college has fully demonstrated Yagami Yue's aversion to failure. To have such a violent reaction to such a small failure, it can be said that he can't afford to lose. In other words, he could not accept the fact that "he could fail like this". At least in his opinion, he should be undefeated.

While telling the girl, "I love you," he was thinking about how to use her or even kill her.

Beside his father's death bed, while crying, he secretly cursed his father for not following his intentions, and pondered whether his behavior was reasonable.

I don’t know how everyone thinks of the above behavior. Personally, I think it is quite hypocritical.

Childish, sore loser, hypocritical...or you can also add viciousness. Combining such a personality with the "perfect" appearance mentioned at the beginning of the article, it seems quite ironic that the author makes such a character setting.

Speaking of which, Meishang and Takada, who appeared later, also have the same characteristics. They have excellent external factors such as appearance, status, education, etc., but their ugly faces on the inside are disgusting. What's interesting is that in the second part, the author couldn't help but make their external faces ugly...

Yakami Yue's opponents.

The first thing I want to talk about is naturally L.

L’s appearance design is in sharp contrast to Yagami Yue.

It can be said that they have completely different styles. Compared to Yagami Yue’s formal clothes, L wears more casual clothes. The weird behavior is also in sharp contrast with Yagami Yue's "reasonable" behavior.

In other words, L was designed to be the complete opposite of Yagami Yue from the very beginning.

When he formed the Kira Search Headquarters, he informed all those who wanted to participate of the dangers and possible dangers, and then let them make their own decisions. He prepared financial resources for everyone who joined to ensure their lives. He told his suspicions directly to the person he suspected. etc.

OK, the author has given L many excellent qualities and sincerity. Similarly, combined with his appearance, it is also very ironic. Especially when you put L and Light Yagami together.

The settings of MN that appeared later were not very uniform. Relatively speaking, the setting of N is closer to L, with weird behavior and casual clothes. But M's setting is a different routine. Maybe it's because M later used notes, so his position is not so clear compared to Yagami Yue and L's.

Among all the characters, Haisha is a special case. This simple little girl may have never had any special views or thoughts, so she has no position and her image is not the same as that of anyone on either side. *** The same thing. She was abandoned at the end of the second part, probably because of this consideration.

Clothing

By the way, did I mention that Yagami Yue also wore casual clothes for a long time when she lost her memory?

To put it simply, everyone on Kira's side wears formal clothing.

Anti-Germans wear fashionable or casual clothes. Again, M and Sea Sand are exceptions.

Truth and hypocrisy, good and evil. What is justice?

What is wrapped under the beautiful appearance? And what is shown in the randomness? What is really important to people?

I’m afraid, this is what the author wants us to think about most.

So, what is your conclusion?

Before we begin, let’s take a look at the brilliant achievements of “Death Note”:

On December 1, 2003, it was announced that “Shounen Jump” would be originally written by Azuma Ohba, Xiao The manga "Death Note" written by Tsukuda Takeshi will begin serialization. For a time, this comic with novel themes and unique style became the focus of attention.

On April 2, 2004, the first volume of the stand-alone "Death Note" was finally released five months after the serialization of the comic by the conscientious and responsible Ken Kodakuda.

On February 23, 2006, the 10th volume of the comic was released. So far, in less than two years, the comic has sold more than 14 million copies.

In January 2006, the news that "Death Note" would be shot as a live-action movie was made public. At the same time, it was announced that the powerful actor Ryuya Fujiwara would star as Light Yagami, and Kenichi Matsuyama would play L. (Click for details)

On February 27, 2006, other main actors were announced, and actors such as Mi Haisha were confirmed.

Other actors are as follows:

Light Yagami (Kira) Ryuya Fujiwara

Soichiro Yagami, Joe Shikaga

Night The Gods of Yumanjima ひかり

Sachiko Yagami's Five Ways

L Matsuyama ケンイチ

ワタリFujimura Shunji

Misora ??Naomi Seto Asaka

Raye＝Iwamatu Hosokawa Shigeki

Matsuda Aoyama Souta

Aizawa Shimizu Nobu

Udai Okuda Tatsushi

Moki Nakamura Ikuji

Death God Ryuk CG (Voice) Undecided

Death God Rem CG (Voice) Undecided

Mikai Sand Erika Toda

Akino Shiori Kashii Yuu