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overanalyzing death note | manga | pt. 01
🕑 Added 2025-04-05 23:54:16 +0000 UTCSo, this was something I had been interested in doing for a while, mostly because, in my earlier videos a lot of people asked for it -- given all the differences between the two mediums. But, at the time I just didn't have the ability to commit to doing that.
However, things are going smoother now, and given the fact that I've already got a bit of a head start (script wise) and because I don't think (future versions) of these videos will take long to record/edit, I figured I could give it a shot.
I know some of y'all were expecting a brand new series, but given the mainline videos are getting to be consistently in the hour long range, I didn't wanna commit to doing a third mainline series, but I did want to give y'all over here on the Patreon a little bonus something every month.
Eventually I'll put them on YouTube (because I don't want to permanently embargo my content behind a paywall), but they'll be a Patreon Exclusive thing for a while if I continue with it. [I say "if" because, if y'all aren't interested in it (or would rather I focus my energy on finishing the mainline Death Note and then follow it up with another 'mainline' entry in the OA series) then I'll just shelf it again for the time being. ]
Either way, I hope y'all enjoy it -- and let me know what ya think of it in the comments section.
Link to watch via YT can be found here.
Links for future scripts can be found below:
Also, random aside: I wanted to make the thumbnail in the same fashion as my original first video but because Sachiko doesn't bring in the apples, no such panel exists so I ended up using this one. Lol.
I'll probably end up having my wife update it (and all of the original ones) at some point in the future.
Comments
DoomxPhD
I hear it just fine — but there is a link for YT if Patreon is acting weird or something.
Shinigo
Is it just me? This video has no sound, I listen to the others no problem
Master Knight DH
Coverage on the manga is good to see. And yeah, I think we can agree that Light is ultimately pitiable, and somebody who would fit like a glove in Batman's rogues gallery. I can state that manga Light has a less dignified end leaving him with actions that get him put on the Complete Monster trope. However, well by the time of even episode 25's happenings, we inevitably have understanding of how he even gets there, and the JP film series adaptation punctuates this very point of Light becoming twisted into something unrecognizable in his Protagist Journey to Villain. I can make clear that he's not Naraku or Voldemort. He's this guy who looks up to his police chief dad even if he becomes less and less thinking about that. I do not think Light was born a sociopath, just became one as the series would go on, but boy did he as a person need checks and balances that just weren't there, because he is proof positive that intelligence and wisdom aren't the same thing. All L et al could do was make every waking effort to apprehend the dangerous moron in front of them. That's textbook Greek tragedy. Without wisdom, Light is a glorified child with a lot of power and we get an unchecked ego and further unchecked sadism that I'm not convinced he's recognizing that he has. Obviously, despite Death Note saying we the audience wouldn't necessarily do the right thing when the chips are down, there are more childlike heroes who would have avoided even testing the Death Note, which would make Light's usage of the DN his own choices, but when he still has signs of humanity, even if he buries said humanity for his mission statement and messiah complex, where by all rights I should hate him for believe me plenty of reason, I instead just pity him and simply see him as a cautionary tale showing how hubris can ruin ANYBODY and how utilitarianism is morally unhealthy, exhibit the expanded details on episode 35's happenings (something I imagine you'd be wanting to cover in active depth for potentially needed clarification, OA). Of course, Light isn't even the first character where burying his own humanity for a flawed premise is a problem. Full Metal Alchemist manga, Volume 2 page 22. Yeah. And the character I'm alluding to also earns HIS CM status, but isn't without some degree of depth about it when his depressed response to being asked what an "assessment" is is a STARK contrast to what he already has done and would come to do. It just goes to show how important it is to not be products of our circumstances, especially not willful ones dangerous to those especially close to them. What we end up with in regard to Light the guy who curls up in his bed in shock yet still goes on his killing spree, is showcase of Death Note being criticism of popular opinion and the popularity of capital punishment in particular. I'll be wanting to provide commentary involving Good Light as well when he comes up.
Luis Angel Bautista
That's why I love having both Mediums they always turn out different in both small and huge ways! Manga ryuk is monster monster!
Luis Angel Bautista
This is hype AF! I love this!! We eating good tonight!
Josh Thompson
I have literally just been waiting for an excuse to read the death note manga. I keep hearing how much better the manga did the second half of the series. I'm definitely hoping this series continues
