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I am working on a second attempt. This time it will be light. Let’s hope I have improved some over the years.

My first attempt at drawing like the man the myth the legend Takeshi Obata! I drew Misa, hope I didn’t let y’all down ✌🏻😳

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Odette-Odile

Happy Birthday  🌙

#death note #light yagami #fan art #deathnote

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Landscape study feat. Death Note

Drawing clouds is therapeutic

Reblogs > likes 💕

#I am reblogging this since it is nearly the 2 year anniversary now #fan art #death note #l lawliet #light yagami

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@kegareki

YOU!!!!! YOU UNDERSTAND ME.

welp, here’s a viewer-generated sequel to the death-note-in-year-2020 shitpost saga.

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Why do you think L represents St Peter (in your tags)?

Eh I was gonna write a longer meta about the parallels but in a nutshell it has more to do with Obata’s art than Ohba’s writing of L.

1. L’s curved-back chair in Obata’s illustrations is based on a real chair in St Peter’s Basilica called (wouldn’t you know it) Saint Peter’s Chair, and Obata’s art even places the gold rays in the same position behind. Three ray clusters up top and some on the sides.

2. L’s gold shield bearing the letter L in the art above and blank below is based on the papal shield above St Peter’s Basilica

3. Saint Peter was supposedly crucified upside-down by the ruthless Emperor Nero, and Obata gave us art of L upside down in front of a cross (left picture below).

Interestingly, Nero rose to power around age 17 and died young in his 20s in 68 AD. It was believed he committed suicide but since Nero’s body was never found, a resurrection cult (Nero Redivivus) believed he would return and persisted for over 500 years. Three imposters claiming to be Nero popped up over time but were all exposed/executed. Nero’s real name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and Lucius translates from Latin to…Light.

4. Saint Peter is considered the first Pope by Catholics and the Popes that followed were his successors. Like L, there is just one Pope although others wait in the wings to take over at the Pope’s death. Historically there’s a ton of competition and intrigue around who get to be the next Pope, similar to the position of L. Obata nicely provided us with some Death Note art featuring a dead Pope, and the text in the illustration above describes Saint Peter’s Basilica and Saint Peter (right picture above). There’s also art of L in the chair beneath the gold papal shield and the window behind St Peter’s Chair alongside his successors Near and Mello.

So anyway, that’s why I think L is meant to be a a parallel of Saint Peter, maybe Light is meant to be Nero (although that’s more fuddled because Obata mostly draws Light in Christ-like poses). I’ve come to the conclusion that Obata visited this basilica because he has a souvenir from it in his drawing studio (a miniature replica of the oldest crucifix in that basilica).

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thoughts. abt death note and intelligence

d=eathnote doesnt portray intelligence the capitalistic way i initially thought it did.

Light's backstory is that he is the top student in all of Japan/L is the smartest detective in the world. We start off with an impression that inelligence is the most important value to show. (But there's nuance!!)

We have the ranking system at Wammy's, which is used to test genii little kids (I don't have a ton of confidence in this type of thing from my experience with testing and my understanding of bias in IQ Testing) ...we don't know how exactly the test works, but is used to test kids for skill equivalent to L's.

Having a ranking system for kid's intelligence is such an awful idea to begin with. Especially if they are aware of the rank. Its inhumane and leads them to beleive their worth is based on their intelligence output. (NOT UNLIKE THE MFKING AMERRICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM) but anyways...

So already the show is centering reasoning ability/intelligence as a value for these kids. (And I think it's fair to say that as a result, other values are deprioritized, like social/emotional intelligence (for example L talks about being childish and wanting to win))

And we see that intelligence increased a characters audience perceived standing on a surface level basis, since on first look, intelligence is what moves the plot.....!

But! While reasoning ability DOES impact a characters importance/value to the show, social intelligence/ a lack of reasoning ability DOES NOT.

Which is fucking WEIRD, but if we go back to L for a second, he has. no social intelligence. Like. My man doesn't wear shoes. He wiggles his toes around and in general is a weird ass dude. But he's essential to the show, and his lack of social skills/presentation is overlooked by fellow characters and the audience, in favor of his smart lil brain.

There's also Misa, who has high social intelligence but low reasoning skills (i personally think she has average intelligence, im just comparing her relatively, and on their weird-and-makes-no-sense intelligence scale). She is loved as an idol, but treated as a dumbass by the detectives. For her, whatt i have seen is that her high social intelligence is overlooked by her lack of intellectual (?) intelligence... And yet Misa makes huuuuge contributions to the plot, and in general is a very important character.

the only time i felt there was real depth of conversation was towards the end when L was about to die and it was raining, where light and L talk more metaphoircally and abstractly with each other, and we see social intelligence. this was a key moment where we saw characterr to character interaction not based around reasoning, but as a casual setting.

since these ttypes of conceptual, abstract scenes are the minority in this show, its clear that the back and forth of l/lights tthought process is really the central value. idk. i think its kinda stupid and they coul dhave added much more depth to the characters.

I think that the decision to highlight intelligence is definetley what makes it deathnote. so yk. it is what it is. but also, they could have handled the treeatment of "less smart" characters with more care. they could have gone deeper into the emotional effect of these decisions.

not to mention the social interactions between characters... the ahllucinations that L experienced beofre deatth were just. so well done. and because of the staunchness of the est of thte show. those moments were sort of coveted and craved. idk. maybe thats a goood thing? who knows.

im also not going to discount the small funny moments in the show. like where L is beig especially awkward or creepy, i think those scenes give LIFE.

But I wish they had more respect for misa and didnt fuckiung rruin her towards the end.

I don know if this makes any fuckin sense. If anyone has additional thoughts realted to this let me know!!

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A sort of tribute to the reprise songs from the Death Note musical

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“if you don’t mind me asking, why do you keep checking your watch?”

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guy who types each letter of his keysmashes individually with his index finger, pausing to think about what letter should go next

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misa by me ⚔️

click for better quality

#beautiful art #misa #art #misa misa #misa amane #death note #fanart #digital art #art by op

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I’m bringing this back for spooky season! Happy Halloween month everyone!

I get that it’s a little disappointing not finishing on L, but wouldn’t this be a interesting idea for deathnotetober? Maybe you could have it backwards

#deathnotetober #inktober #death note #l lawliet #deathnote #dn #l #light yagami #mello

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had to share this note i woke up and wrote in the dead of night

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Ratio.

Yeah I KNOW I read that as raito too

#death note #raito yagami #pls #light yagami #deathnote #L #l lawliet

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What would life be without these cuties 😭😭😭😭

@wammyweek Day 7: wounds/recovery

Game night with the boys

They’re doing alright and getting along just fine,

afterward they settled in for a movie 🎥 🍿☺️

#death note #mello #matt #near #wammy week #amigurumi

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basic bitches unite <3

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It’s June 2021 and I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT KINNIE MEANS

#pleas help #please* #personal post