This week I wanted to revisit a Manga that I read/watched when I was a kid, and now that I have more of an appreciation for analyzing manga, I wanted to sit down and revisit the books and talk about what I think now. Death Note really helped popularize the crime/mystery genre for manga and fully integrated its self in pop culture with numerous spin offs, extended manga on specific characters like Lite, and even a live action movie. The overall themes that I picked up while rereading the books stem from a lot of political routed Ideas like liberty versus security. Morality is a strange line that can easily be blurred into corruption due to a "just" cause. Is killing someone who is evil moral? or is it immoral to kill someone even if there evil in the name of justice. Another theme I noticed in the book was the theme of religion and ego. Light is essentially playing god in the book because he gets to decide who lives and who dies. The original writes Takeshi Obata said in an interview "nobody should play god" and its almost fitting redemption at the end of the series when light dies. This plays a lot with the Idea of light and dark because and also its Irony. Light is actually evil but in his head, Hes doing the right thing. L is the good and light because hes trying to take down the one who is disrupting the laws of justice. The real question is, who is good and who is bad. I found that its all in perspective which is the thing that makes it interesting.
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