[ SECRET POST #193 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #193 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 079 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] too big.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 18th, 2007.
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Comments

[quaedam.livejournal.com]

20. IAWTC, so very much, anon. Light is the Grand Inquisitor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor), or at least he wanted to be. (Which even fits with the whole Light-as-Judas thing they did in the anime, actually--though Light's and L's 'we adhere to our ideas' scene in the rain never did involve any kisses on the lips. :3) Not to mention that both manga and anime made Light a fairly ridiculous/pathetic figure--even before the 'swimming lessons' bit at the end. All the goofy expressions and hysterical fits and over-dramatic writing scenes and those wide-eyed childish 'Even *I'm* being fooled by my own crap now' expressions he throws at Ryuk. . .XD. The author herself said that the idea behind the manga was to show the meaninglessness of life--empire-builders like Light and seekers after truth like L and 'good' men like Yagami senior all come to the same end, etc. etc. etc.--it wasn't to make some kind of argument for religious tyranny.

[anison.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Do you have a citation/link/something for where the author says that? Not that I don't believe you, I'd just love to read something like that for myself. Was it an interview? Is it translated (LOL Japanese skills = 0)?

[quaedam.livejournal.com]

Ah, well you may ask. ^^ I don't remember where she said it--I think it may have been out of the 'How to Read' volume--but as I remember she said something along the lines of, it isn't about 'good' and 'evil', but just about the finality of death and the absence of god/meaning/whatever. I think it *was* in the 'How to Read'. . .

[anison.livejournal.com]

That really makes a lot of sense, in the context of the manga ending. The anime seems to try to force more meaning into it.

I hope it was in 'How to Read'! *waits another 6 months for the translation XD* Thank you!

[quaedam.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, I still haven't seen the last few episodes of the anime. ^^ I liked the fact that Light basically lost by *accident* in the manga--for all that Near tried to credit Mello with having consciously taken part in Light's defeat (people always *will* see design or intent behind complete accidents if they really want to). I think it, or the circumstances of his death which uncovered Light's plan to Near, really works better taken for the sheer chance that it was. And I liked that the way Light finally died should be, as it was in the manga, not peaceful or resolved but hideously silly and pathetic. Not so much because Light 'deserved' it (though he rather *did* :3) but because this fit best with the underlying idea of the whole story: the end is the same for every one, and the most phenomenal intelligence and the cleverest plans cannot save you. ^^

And I'm pretty sure that it was--then again, god only knows what translation I read of it when I did read it. XD