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Wan really only exists to give the people everything they want uh

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Masa and Kento being adorable af (Let’s just say the chemistry wasn’t just a Lawlight thing)

But you don’t understand, this healed my soul.

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i think we can put all the versions of death note and its adaptations into a spectrum based on how much light and L want to kill each other and on one side of the spectrum, it's the death note japanese musical and on the very other side, it's the death note tv drama.

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Happy Pride from those of us over at the Death Note Wiki! Thanks again to kukiruna for the wonder artwork!

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Everyone knows that Light and L matched each other's freak but I think their dynamic in the musical (the Japanese ver specifically) is underrated. Like it's not super different from canon but they just had this extra edge of Violence that we never quite saw from the more methodical and careful mindgames in canon death note and I think it's great. Like, yes, they did declare in canon that they will bring each other to justice, yes L says he wants to send Kira to his execution, but in the lyrics of the musical they both outright say multiple times that they just want to straight up Kill each other. It's direct the whole way through. There's more mutual contempt. This game is about nothing more than simply being the first one to Kill the Other (they actually use the word "殺し合い" (koroshiau) or "to kill each other" to describe their game (translated as "murderous ... game")).

(Sidenote but all those references about wanting to send each other to Hell?? Beautiful)

Yeah this is a battle of justice and ideals, yes that clash is a key part of their final confrontation at the end of the musical, but throughout their duets (or even songs like The Game Begins where they're singing by themselves) there's this near singleminded desire to just fucking End each other. It's fucking Raw and it's great.

Also THIS FUCKING SCENE?? THIS SCENE FROM SECRETS AND LIES. Iconic. Actually Insane. My jaw dropped. Light looks like a crazy bitch it's beautiful.

Um. Also. Obligatory Playing His Game (yknow the gay sex song) lines dump. It basically says everything I just said above in like 9 lines. You see what I mean right.

In canon they're playing a game of mental chess, trying to use everyone around them to finally catch the other as their end goal, but in the musical you really do feel like all they see is each other. They would probably beat each other to death with their fists if it came down to that. Idk they're just so excited and fired up about their little game in the musical and it's so unhinged and fun and special and I love it. It's like the writers for the musical decided to kick their murderous intent up a couple notches and the result is absolutely Beautiful.

I also think that the intensity of their rivalry in the beginning just makes the wind-down of The Way It Ends soo much better. It's such a good contrast to their previous duets where they try to sing over each other (Secrets and Lies & Stalemate) or with each other but basically at the top of their lungs (Playing His Game). It feels like there's both a quiet mutual understanding but also an underlying disappointment that the game is finally over. In canon, L's death Is instead the peak of their game, the moment he gets confirmation that Light is Kira is the exact same moment that he dies. In the jdrama it's almost sudden, how L dies, after the quiet moment has already passed. But in the musical L's death, ironically, Is the one quieter moment in their game. Their peak was the game itself. It was Secrets and Lies and Playing His Game. But the end of the game in the musical is not a victory, it's just (as L says) the end of everything they'd been wanting up until this point.

Uh. Fuck it. Clip from the Kenji Urai version because I just love his delivery here. His tone just goes so well with the silence and the sound of the clock ticking. You see what I mean right.

Their rivalry in the musical may have been more shortlived but like Damn they were really enjoying every second of it. They were truly insane about each other until the very end. (Like despite everything I just said about the ending it was still unhinged as fuck. Light Making L Shoot Him and then Making L Shoot Himself with L's Own Hand?? Holy shit man. What the fuck /pos)

Musical Light and L your game might've been shorter but you'll always be famous <33 Please never inflict what you had on anyone else ever please stay in hell forever thank you

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death note 2015 jdrama and death note the musical are two halves of a beautiful whole that cover the whole spectrum of the death note experience

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this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

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there's just something so tragically beautiful about---

(death note j-drama, 2015)

(death note the musical, kenji urai ver., 2015)

(death note anime adaptation, ep. 37)

(death note)

---them being the same in every universe. yeah, sure, different things happen in different adaptations, but the game always begins and ends the same way. because they could never know each other without it turning into a tragedy.

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the jdrama is just live action lawlight fic. like there was no reason to add that shower scene

THERE ARE NO REASON FOR HALF THE SCENES.

the blue garage scene thing is probably copy paste from a one-shot fic angsty rewrite of the rain scene where light kills L right there in the rooftop without anybody watching and then they kiss just as L is dying

^ NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR SCENE ENOUGH. BRO WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON. this is so so so uncanon from animanga light but hey. i am here for it. jdrama lawlight is not even enemies to lovers, they genuinely thought they were besties.

they want to make friendship bracelets go on picnics together sneak a kiss when nobody is looking so badly.

jdrama is wild. it's not only the lawlight even; as i love mentioning everytime, light + misa + mikami did evil kira meetings in a maid cafe. God bless jdrama i guess

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桜の開花🌸

花見をした

一緒に楽しんだ　

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I've been legally advised to keep my mouth shut. I will not say anything about these images. This is a normal post.

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“I think Akutagawa is a character who has changed just as much, or even more than Atsushi. Generally, we try not to alter the characters of a series, because there is the risk of misinterpretation of the character and of losing fans. But Akutagawa's change is truly a glorious growth, a great achievement, and could even be called a proof of the power of human beings.” — K a f k a A s a g i r i

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYUUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA [3.1] ⟡ insp.

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今日は月の誕生日だった。

お誕生日おめでとう🎂

そして、明日芥川の誕生日だ

happy birthday Light (ft. Akutagawa from bsd whose birthday is 1 March)

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February 28, 1986: Light Yagami is born.

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Really tired of people saying Light isn’t a tragic character as if the definition of tragic is somebody who you personally feel sympathy for. He suffered and perished due in part to insane misfortune befalling him. It doesn’t matter if he also bears responsibly for what happened to him and his family, his story and death is tragic.

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Light needing validation from his father for what he was doing as Kira, knowing he was never going to get it but still secretly, desperately desiring it…..Light secretly, deep down, needing L to *see* his work as Kira, understand why he did it and agree that he was doing was right even knowing that was impossible, not that L couldn’t see him, couldn’t understand him, because he did and he still thought Light was wrong, and knowing to the marrow of his bones that L would always be fated to catch and destroy him, not just Kira but the remnants of Light Yagami that were forged into Kira’s likeness, so unresectable that without Kira there would be nothing left….am I onto anything here?