Death Note is only good by accident. Death Note is brilliantly written. It's a comedy. It's a drama. It's a psychological thriller. It's just a fucked-up story a crazy guy wrote. It challenges us to think about criminality and morality. Everything it had to say about criminality and morality is absolute dogshit. It's incredibly entertaining. It's a modern classic. It's just something people liked when they were 14. It's a modern classic but for the wrong reasons. It's my best friend, my greatest enemy, my girlfriend,
i really love the misa, light and L dynamic because it's just the three worst people you've ever met in your life with rotating amnesia manipulating and attempting to murder/execute each other while also going on fake dates and pretending to attend college. sometimes they want to save each other's lives and sometimes they want each other dead and no one is ever on the same page at the same time. everyone is the third wheel in the parasocial relationships they have with one another. i wish hell was real so they could all go there and gaslight the devil together.
This man could come into my house and rob me, set my kitchen on fire, dump my washed clothes into the toilet bowl, choke me to death and I could still thank him
if you like Death Note (especially the themes), try watching Moriarty the Patriot!
mainly for the "crime lord vs detective but they don't hate each other" troupe and the manipulation of the plot is GOD tier??! 🙏, oh and "commiting murder for the greater good" YESSSSS WE STAN.
it's for you ESPECIALLY if you loved Light and L's dynamic too