Isn't the world such a terrible place? When you think about it, it is. There's war, poverty, etc. Every 2.2 seconds, a child becomes an orphan. Meaning, when I'm finished typing this, about...a lot of children will be orphans. Imagine if one day, you're in school, dreaming off and you see a black notebook lying on the sidewalk in the sun. When you get outside and pick it up, you read the cover- Death Note. Of course it's just a prank, like those chain texts that say if you don't pass it on you'll get cancer or something. Or is it?
This happens to Light Yagami, a serious, straight-A high school student. But the Death Note isn't a game or a prank. It's for real.
Five days later, Light is visited by a shinigami, a God of Death, Ryuk.
Ryuk says that if Light succeeds in getting rid of the Earth's criminals, he will be the only evil one left. And that left me thinking. Light is doing a good deed in getting rid of the world's most dangerous criminals, but he is also being terribly bad. He's murdering criminals with the Death Note, using only heart attacks so everyone could realize someone was tipping off the bad guys. If he succeeds in his scheme, he WILL be the only criminal left. But what WILL happen?
Deathnote is pretty philosophical. It was the first manga that i read, and it blew me away with how much it gave me to think about. Do you think he is doing the right thing?
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