The Eternal Legacy of Death Note: Why the World is Still Obsessed with Light Yagami
As the story progresses, death becomes a performance. Light kills Raye Penber not out of justice, but out of tactical necessity. He kills L’s decoy, Lind L. Tailor, in a fit of childish pique—proving L’s hypothesis that Kira is in Japan and has a god complex. By the second half, Light kills the innocent (the FBI agents, Naomi Misora, his own father’s decoy) and the loyal (Takada, Demegawa, eventually his followers). The notebook, originally a scalpel to excise society’s tumors, becomes a cudgel to protect his fragile ego. death.note anime
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