People online keep trying to come up with leftist ways to use the Death Note and they always amount to “Light was just targeting the wrong people.” I think they might be missing the core concept here.
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Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 06:08:53 JST Rabbit Cohen
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 06:08:52 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
@BathysphereHat Rewatching now, and like the part where Light sans memories is criticising his Kira self feels like it makes that point in a fairly inescapable way. And yet I'm not surprised at all that people miss even that.
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 06:14:55 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
@BathysphereHat Other than some casual misogyny, it holds up pretty well. And yeah, zero subtlety at all.
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Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 06:14:56 JST Rabbit Cohen
@xgranade I haven’t read the whole manga, but from what I know, it is Not Subtle.
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