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task force/spk ships are sooo underrated in general and im not just talking like. Matsulight . As much as i do adore and am obsessed with that awful tragedy of a ship. But more people need to be made aware of the good word of Lawzawa. Matsuide. Aizawide. I love them all and they should all kiss NOW

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matsuda by nemohmamono on Deviantart (03/19/2005)

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His crash out was reasonable

Y'all I love Misa as much as the next person does, doesnt help i have huge empathy for her because she was manipulated and used by Light, but I would've crashed out like Aizawa ngl.

This is totally not cause I have a newfound love for him now as an adult versus when I waa a kid

Im aware Matsuda saying Misa Misa is what caused him to break but Matsuda cant do no wrong. Sorry not sorry.

Everyone is stressed out because of the Kira case and shit so Misa was definitely the straw that broke the camels back in that moment.

Anyways Aizawa deserves more love. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. I also love his afro so much too and was depressed when he shaved it.

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Ide going on a monologue in the anime about loving Aizawa and willing to backstab Light for him is unhinged. In the manga that interaction made sense in context of what was happening, it was a reasonable response to give, and they were alone in a different location so they wouldn’t be overheard.

Meanwhile in the anime they nuked context, this came out of nowhere, and they even had Light overhear it with a “really? right in front of my salad?” expression, and when he came in, Ide and Aizawa were acting like he almost walked in on them making out.

Ide got done so dirty in the anime it’s easy to forget he’s there, they could have removed him altogether with how much they ignored everything relating to him, but they not just kept this moment but made it chaotic homosexual.

I watched Death Note with a friend who had no idea who Ide even was before that scene and my friend went on a rant about how if Aizawa can bring his new husband on the task force, we should have gotten task force Sachiko.

I haven’t rewatched the anime in almost a decade at this point. I often forget how dirty they did the second part, but in this case, it’s oddly satisfying, because it’s basically the manga subtext thrown at you without any warning.

Ide is never discussed as a character in the fandom, which I think it’s fair given that he had a role as important as Ukita’s. Maybe even less, because Ukita’s death helped finding out that the second Kira can kill without knowing the name, while Ide is just a jealous but supportive boyfriend. That’s his role.

I don’t even understand what the actual point was of having him leave the task force. I get it from a moral standpoint: he didn’t want to work with L, but why so late? He looked like he already had his mind made up. There was nothing to convince him to work with L, but he stayed and said that L has to show himself to them and they will then cooperate with him, and L is literally like, “Fine, meet me at location x at y hour, but first discuss.”

During the discussion, Ide basically says that L is a lying piece of shit and will probably send a fake. Soichiro tells him that L has actually been waiting for this moment, so he could trust them and actually show himself to them, and Ide is still unconvinced and walks away.

You can’t convince me that he didn’t just remain because he had an agenda: he wanted to convince the others not to work with L too, but failed and walked away like a loser. It would explain why he nudged Aizawa, before taking control of the conversation.

We aren’t even shown what he does during that time, even though the NPA and the task force do still maintain some sort of communication for the most part. We don’t see Ide being mentioned even en passant. He just shows up later, after convincing his lover that he should get back there, since he looked so sad and pathetic. He doesn’t even try to get on the task force after that.

I love him. He hates L so much but loves Aizawa so deeply. He hates his choices but still supports them – he literally says that in the second part.

And I approve your friend’s suggestion. Sachiko should’ve been there, but given her “housewifeness”, O&O would have probably put her to cook for and clean after them.

But, in a less misogynistic world, it’s nice to imagine her bonding with Watari. Maybe he would comfort her or something, and she would be less alone, afraid and anguished.

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^ light yagami, talking to the president of the united states

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when you accidentally call suicide hotline instead of suicide prevention hotline and johan liebert picks up

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when i say "the yagami family" may you know that is always implicit that matsuda is included in the picture. he and his glorious prodigal son aura

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Honesty, appreciate Yotsuba Arc animation more.

These are literally all from the same episode and not even nearly all this one single episode had to offer. There is so much beauty in these.

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I am disgusted and amazed at the same time that no one in the Death Note fandom ever talks about this guy:

Like:

why…

don´t you talk…

about…

YAMAMOTO?

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what’re you doing with your friday?

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started watching code geass

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Death Note plot hole

Ok so in the last episode matsuda shoots light with a gun you know and I’m like WHY DIDNT LIGHT USE A GUN?! It would be implied that all the task force had guns so why the fuck didn’t light his. I know he prefers the notebook but he is afraid of death. STUPID LIGHT YOU COULD HAVE WON

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So I was thinking are there any ships that are just too strange to ship? And I came up with

~Matsuda/Watari

~Mello/Aizawa

~Soichiro/Beyond Birthday

~Rem/Hideki Ryuga

~Misa/Light’s mom

~L/Lind L. Tailor

And then I thought yes, yes there are.

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you are me and i am you

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Ref: this post.

I wrote some tags, but they were a bit messy, because I was not exactly in the right headspace (Romanian elections + having to study). In any case, I just want to ramble about crime statistics and Matsuda saying, “There has been a dramatic decrease in the number of violent crimes committed worldwide, especially in Japan.”

This is not meant to give an answer or anything. I tried to give it some structure (probably failed), but it’s just to see the absurdity of the Death Note world.

First, I just want to talk briefly about Ohba’s faulty logic and then I’ll get into the main thing.

Light says, “It’s been six years since Kira appeared. War is a thing of the past, most of the worst criminals have died, and the world’s crime rate has gone down by 70 percent.”

That is not possible. First of all, it has already been well documented how the death penalty, which this is in the end, is not really effective to deter people from committing crimes. People that want to commit crimes will commit crimes. People that do not want to commit crimes may commit crimes. And this is regardless of a God who doesn’t even know their name unless it appears on the news, internet or in some public database of criminals just for Kira.

Confidential information on criminals may have started to flood the internet, but surely not the one of a man who killed his wife in a small rural village of central Africa o Eastern Europe or Middle East, unless they were weirdly technologically advanced from 2005 to 2010. Digitalization wasn’t as common as now, so I think it’s safe to assume that people committing crimes in some not so well-known region of the world, where technology is very limited or restricted, wouldn’t reach Kira.

Other than this, crimes happen everywhere: in extremely secure and strict prisons; in public, where everyone can see them; in situation that would make people so obviously guilty. Fear comes and goes, unless someone lives in a constantly stressful environment (which the death note universe seems not to be). People will adapt to this and get smarter at hiding.

We don’t know the rate at which Light and other Kiras killed, but even if Light alone killed one person per minute, that’s 2.628.000 people in 5 years. There were around 11 million prisoners worldwide in 2004. And, at least in the US (using it because it’s the one country that I can easily find stats of), there were almost 700k individuals admitted in prison in 2004. By the time, they kill 700k people, other 700k people will show up. Maybe, there is a decrease in this figure, but not that much, because a lot of people might be entering after a long trial.

Light didn’t obviously spend that much time killing people, because he had to keep up appearances. Misa maybe did, but at one person per minute is highly unlikely. She too has to act as if she’s not Kira. The same goes with Takada and Mikami, who also came way later. They didn’t kill enough in my opinion to create some sort of exponential fear in people that would paralyze them.

Moving on. He says “war is a thing of the past” but there are reasons to have wars and civil wars that would outweigh any fear of being killed by Kira. Especially grassroots revolutions. Then, I already mentioned this, but crimes of passion, of necessity and accidental ones… Those will not be stopped by fear. Death Note assumes people just constantly think about him, which can’t be the case, because that would mean that every murder, every crime, is premeditated. Also, for having a character with such a big ego, it surely doesn’t account for other people that might be the same and either don’t believe they’ll get caught or actually challenge Kira to kill them by committing as many crimes as possible.

There is also the dark number of crimes. How much are they? Nobody knows. Also, because of Kira’s activity, they may start to underreport other crimes.

Generally, it seems to be just the logic of the DN universe that what Kira does has the outcome Light desires. That is not realistic. Also, yes, I am not counting Kira’s crimes as crimes. That is a whole issue of its own, but since it follows Light’s journey and he sees his actions as retributive justice, those will not be seen as crimes.

Now.

Task force… Task forces?

To me, it seems highly unlikely that this kind of thing would only have one Kira task force. Yes, they cooperate with L and that’s why it’s the main one, but it feels almost impossible that no other country has an appointed group of policemen to work on the same case, to meticulously record data, to come up with their own hypothesis. We only see L work with the FBI and briefly with the Interpol, but what about each country? Why do these governments not care enough to put in that type of work? Why didn’t they coordinate different task forces around the world to have a full picture of the phenomenon?

L might not care because he’s looking to find this supposedly person (not group) in Kanto, but the police doesn’t know that yet. Yeah, one person is in Kanto, but is this the doing of only one person?

Standardization and crimes stats in general.

What Matsuda said is technically wrong not because Kira’s crimes are violent crimes and deterring people is not that easy, but because there is no global standardization for crime statistics. You can’t just say there is a decrease in crimes, when you don’t have the full data of the year. By the time Matsuda says that, there is no country that has readily available information useful for this kind of interpretation. They just have those who died in prison by heart attack.

What if crimes were extremely low all year but if you count Kira’s crimes, that trend is the same as the previous year. Having a few weeks of low violent crime activity doesn’t mean there is a decrease. That’s not how you read a trend. Those are rough numbers you are considering out of context. If you don’t count Kira’s crimes as such and the trend stays low, then you can’t say it’s his doing. Could be a lot of reasons, that you will infer on at the end of the year or in January of the next one.

If crimes are high and Kira kills prisoners (seen as a crime) that for some reason create a sort of deterring effect, what Kira does will make up for that and keep the trend high. If you don’t see them as crimes, as the manga says, it’s Kira’s doing, but still, you are assuming there is a deterring effect (highly unlikely, especially at the time Matsuda says that – almost two weeks after Light picks up the death note) and that is going to be the trend until the end of the year. Will it? The most there can be is a sort of stagnation because it’s a new situation, and then activity will start again.

How do they get this information anyway?

Are we just going to assume every and each country is willingly cooperating with a task force in Japan, giving them pretty important information about their own justice system? The number of criminals in prison does paint a picture of a country, actually.

And what about cross-country communication? Is it just that easy? Is the NPA the best organization in the world and the only one to have a top tier global communication channel? How is that even possible, since it’s a domestic agency? Okay, maybe they have a Ministry or accredited statistical agencies to do all that work for them, but 1. standardization, again and 2. the amount of time to create it would be insane and the bureaucratic procedures to even have 5 countries be actually capable of real time communication, with all the necessary precautions and whatnot, would be a nightmare. Even if they created a standard procedure for Kira’s killings, what’s the criteria? Can you really say it’s enough? Can you really be sure everybody would be ready to give you that kind of information when you need it? How could they do that without their own domestic task force?

Now, about Kira’s crimes specifically.

Saying that crimes rates went up because of him is also technically wrong if you don’t have all the data for the period (for sort of the same logic as went down), but also can you really be sure it’s Kira or actually just heart attack?

Yeah, we know it’s him and if everyone just assumes every heart attack is because of him, then yes. Crime rates went up, but this is not how stats work. I am repeating myself and I know I sound annoying, but they can’t be sure it’s all because of him. The only thing they can do is gather all the information they have over some months and then calculate a margin of error based on the heart attack frequency before Kira, which needs a lot of work, a lot of coordination and a lot of time.

So, nobody can be sure of anything. Not even Matsuda. He’s just uniformed, naïve and a bit hopeful, but the narrative is beyond wrong.

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Just shooting him wasn't enough by EMO-FEET on Deviantart (07/06/2009)

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spent too much time on this (source)