Takeshi Obata

• State the key features each author uses to convey to the reader (in similar/different ways) • How as a result of these features, the perspective of the reader is formed. Throughout Plato’s The Republic a Socratic dialogue and Tsugmi Ohba and Takeshi Obata Death Note a psychological/thriller, the issues of what constitutes as justice and the implications of noble lie are heavily debated between the characters and within their ideologies in each text respectively. Both texts use justice to convey

Go is a fascinating game that, although created in China, gained popularity and permanence in Japan. Go planted its roots in the Heian Period and grew from there. The Heian Period, known as the Golden Age of Japan, was a very stable time with the imperial court at the height of its reign, especially in its early and middle years. Go provided a leisurely pastime and an opportunity for casual conversation that was not only entertaining in a stimulating way, but at the same time maintained the cultivated

what if in order to save an innocent person’s life, you had to kill another? What if the person is too dangerous to keep alive? Humans are fallible and cruel creatures. This is the focus of the Manga called Death Note, Created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata in 2004. Death Note is a story about how a young man named Light Yagami, who acquires a Death Note, a tool used by Gods of death called Shinigami who use these tools to keep a balance of life and death and order. When one Shinigami named Ryuk becomes

Zatoichi (27 films, 1962-2003) This particular title became globally known to the public through Takeshi Kitano's 2003 movie, "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi". However, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Before Kitano's movie, there have been 26 more. Let us take things from the beginning though. Our hero's first appearance was in a small story by

United States of America born in Ohio. Roy Geiger was also born in the United States from Middleburg, Florida (“Battle”). The leaders of the battle of Guam on the Japanese side were Lt. General Takeshi Takashima and Lt. General Hideyoshi Obata, but Hideyoshi took control after Takeshi died. Lt. General Takeshi Takashima

Death Note is an anime series produced in 2006 by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. This series can also be found as a manga and movie. The anime series confronts justice as a system of power.¹ An individual in the series, Light Yagami, attempts to reform the world through the use of the death note, a notebook. The death note notebook grants an individual the authority to kill anyone whose name is written inside it; but only while the writer is thinking of the victim’s face to avoid