Tsugumi Ohba

situations of; 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

lie(and idea) • 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

Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba is a story about a college-age genius who kills criminals to reduce the crime rate. He does this by writing their name in the Death Note which will then kill them. A genius detective named L and the police force work to find out who is killing these criminals. High charisma, an adaptable morality, and intellect are what make Light the best villain. You will find that most villains, including Light, are charismatic. Light uses his charisma to accomplish his goals. A good

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

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Our meaning of heroes and villains are continually evolving. In their anecdotal universes, there are superheroes that are looked upon with profound respect and thought to be essential pioneers of society, and there are superheroes that are looked upon with wariness or even scorn. Heroes and villains often reflect one another in their forces and capacities; with the significant contrast that the hero is utilizing his/her energy to help other people and the scoundrel is utilizing