Poll of the Day > I rewatched Death Note again. Kira is Justice.

(+) Yeah! (+)

The only thing he did wrong was lose in the end.

Prove me wrong.

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i was gonna respond and then i saw it was you and im gonna guess there isnt a person in the world more deadset in that belief than you lmao

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Reread the first chapter bro

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Reread the first chapter bro

Never read the manga, but I doubt it would change my mind.

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Rewatch the first episode, then

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I thought Light was all evil until I saw the Death Note Musical and I saw a new side of him. Hes still wrong though.

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People who unironically think Kira is Justice belong on some sort of government watch list.

Change my mind.

Ray Penbar
Naomi Misora

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Lind L. Taylor

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Nope, he was clearly insane.
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He has been wrong even since he took L's bait.

How do people like Anime/Manga? Its awful.

like, there isnt anything wrong with rooting for him or wanting him to win, as L himself says it turned more into a competition than some moral battle towards the end
but he was stillnout of his gourd

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BeerOnTap posted...

How do people like Anime/Manga? Its awful.

lol

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He's not really "Justice" as much as he is "Vengeance". There is a distinct difference.

It's also worth remembering that he's not omniscient, which means he isn't punishing people who are legitimately guilty, as much as he is punishing people he believes are guilty, which is a HUGE difference. Especially when he starts to go power-mad and his definition of what constitutes guilt and how much evidence he requires to justify it changes.

And then there's the fact that his name is "Kira", which literally means "killer". He's not "Justice", or "Judge", or anything else that indicates you should sympathize with him if you understand the context. He is literally just a serial killer who uses justice as the smoke-screen behind which he hides. He's literally called out for this in the story itself.

His entire story is basically a parable of how "Power corrupts" - or, if you prefer, how power reveals what was buried inside the entire time. Light is an honor student who seems to be a perfect citizen... but Kira is essentially a monster that cannot be restrained by guilt, shame, law, or responsibility. Kira is what you get when all of the chains are off and true nature is revealed.

Light/Kira is no better than the people he kills. In many ways, he's worse. That's the entire point.
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He's Frank Castle
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streamofthesky posted...

People who unironically think Kira is Justice belong on some sort of government watch list.

It's like people who miss the implied Guy Fawkes symbolism of V in V for Vendetta or who see Rorschach as the main character to aspire to in Watchmen. It misses the entire point of both of those characters.

And in those cases, it's at least partly because those stories were written by a British writer, who used British symbolism and context, which was completely missed by American audiences, who interpreted those characters through their own lens and didn't even remotely see what they were supposed to see.
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