Rem doesn’t understand why Higuchi keeps a stack of fashion magazines when he doesn’t even read them, but she doesn’t waste time wondering about it: she isn’t the type to wonder about anything, or at least she wasn’t until she whirlwind-collided into Misa’s life and almost ruined it all, and anyway there is nothing in Higuchi to question — the filth he embodies is plain and self-serving and meaningless — so instead she leafs through the latest issue of Eighteen to find Misa for the third time in as many days, the bright innocence of her eyes missing that crimson sparkle, the vicious edges of her smile sanded off to just enough sweetness for the glossy paper to confine her within two dimensions as it blares: Misa-Misa to Star in Director Nishinaka’s New Movie!
Higuchi doesn’t watch movies and so Rem will not be able to, but it’s alright — the magazine in her grasp is enough, only looking, only wondering, only resisting the urge to trace a claw along the curve of that smile: are you happy out there, Misa? Are you?
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In the context of the whole "Where is L's hand and foot placed" saga, I ask...
Why can't we look at the color manga pages to solve the mystery once and for all?
i feel incredibly silly for not thinking of this but in my defense i don't know who did the coloring for death note? i don't think it was obata? were the original creators consulted or did the illustrators just guess
anyway the color manga says that triangle between L's arm and thigh are the jeans color which… actually does not clear up matters that much… but the second one of my attempts does fit more though! yeah!
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by Obinata Mame of the doujin circle Mameteisyoku in the doujinshi Bottomless Desire: 80% Structure!
for context, this minicomic references the very popular nursery rhyme 不思議なポケット / "A Mysterious Pocket", which goes roughly like this:
Inside my pocket, there is one biscuit.
When I hit my pocket, there are two biscuits.
When I hit it once again, there are three biscuits.
As I hit it more and more, I get more biscuits.
I want a mysterious pocket like that!
I want a mysterious pocket like that!
actually when light first shows L the data on yotsuba, i'm pretty sure L puts his hand on light's shoulder, takes it off, and then puts it back on. please see:
(these are entirely consecutive panels other than me taking out one panel between image 1 and image 2 because it was the same as image 1, with identical dialogue, just drawn from a different perspective since it was the introduction to a new chapter)
(actual theorizing under the cut because this got long)
as you can see, L's hand is missing from light's shoulder in the second image. this is notably also when he and light are drawn in separate panels, unlike in the other panels where they're drawn together. (the chapter title "separation" is helpfully right underneath as though to remind us of this.)
also notably the panel where L doesn't have his hand on light's shoulder is the one where L says, "if this is connected to kira, then punishing criminals may not be the true goal of this kira…" (emphasis mine) demonstrating that he thinks that prior-to-confinement kira and post-confinement kira are different people, which — since the confinement was initiated by light — confirms that he still thinks the original one was light.
(it isn't established that yotsuba kira is a different person at this point — the rest of the task force is convinced kira just took a break during the early days of light's confinement and then returned — so L's theory is significant to note even if it's pretty obvious as a reader. light has the revelation in a later chapter, 47, on his own and thinks, "ryuzaki must have noticed the differences between the current kira and original one… why hasn't he mentioned this to me…?" [answering his own question] "because light yagami is the original kira, so why bring it up…?" he's annoyed in this panel, i think - obviously he doesn't like being suspected.)
ANYWAY back to our original scene. light's smile drops (haha.) and he pauses before he answers: "yeah, it's possible that punishing criminals is camouflage while he kills for monetary reasons…" which dodges the "this kira" thing entirely.
back to L, who is still in a solo panel, actually softening his stance somewhat: "since kira and the second kira existed at the same time, this could be an entirely new kira from the one who was killing criminals" - as in, maybe the yotsuba kira isn't killing criminals at all, whereas the original kira is still active on top of that. (i think this is what he means, anyway; the "was" is an "is" in the original japanese, like "this could be an entirely new kira from the one who is killing criminals," and him talking about kira 1 and kira 2 coexisting makes me believe he's talking about two kiras coexisting here as well.) unlike his earlier line, this doesn't implicate light.
and then L compliments light on his research and his hand is back on his shoulder and they're in the same panel again.
tl;dr i think L touches light when not actively considering him kira lmao please consult this post of mine for a much worse example
(following on the material after the cut) of course this is not a cut and dry thing considering L very much still has his hand on light's shoulder when he brings up light's potential involvement a second time
(light has a longer pause before 'that's true' in the japanese version…… oh well.)
i think my point stands though! maybe L genuinely means less by this line or maybe he's relying on light's shoulder to stay stable at this point i do not believe that pose is sustainable.
both of your sketches regarding L’s posing look pretty plausible!! i was kind of just assuming L had his foot resting on the very end of light’s arm rest (second panel), hence why it isn’t visible because his arm and body are obscuring it from audience view, if that makes sense??? then i think he moves his foot over to his own chair (third panel), but i’m not sure. i think another realistic possibility is that obata was prioritizing silhouette and visual over accuracy lol, which i think he does sometimes, like that one early panel of ight looking down at his weirdly enlarged hands - i guess to give it a more sinister look, or to ensure his hands are sufficiently visible? i think he sometimes forgoes “realistic” scale in favour of aesthetics. shrug…. but idk…. :(
(context) oooh yeah that makes sense! even more extreme foreshortening but i can see it. and YEAH i do kind of love obata's yaoi hands why does he like drawing them so large………… he does it so often i fear i have lost track of the regular scale of human fingers. look at near in this one
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actually when light first shows L the data on yotsuba, i'm pretty sure L puts his hand on light's shoulder, takes it off, and then puts it back on. please see:
(these are entirely consecutive panels other than me taking out one panel between image 1 and image 2 because it was the same as image 1, with identical dialogue, just drawn from a different perspective since it was the introduction to a new chapter)
(actual theorizing under the cut because this got long)
as you can see, L's hand is missing from light's shoulder in the second image. this is notably also when he and light are drawn in separate panels, unlike in the other panels where they're drawn together. (the chapter title "separation" is helpfully right underneath as though to remind us of this.)
also notably the panel where L doesn't have his hand on light's shoulder is the one where L says, "if this is connected to kira, then punishing criminals may not be the true goal of this kira…" (emphasis mine) demonstrating that he thinks that prior-to-confinement kira and post-confinement kira are different people, which — since the confinement was initiated by light — confirms that he still thinks the original one was light.
(it isn't established that yotsuba kira is a different person at this point — the rest of the task force is convinced kira just took a break during the early days of light's confinement and then returned — so L's theory is significant to note even if it's pretty obvious as a reader. light has the revelation in a later chapter, 47, on his own and thinks, "ryuzaki must have noticed the differences between the current kira and original one… why hasn't he mentioned this to me…?" [answering his own question] "because light yagami is the original kira, so why bring it up…?" he's annoyed in this panel, i think - obviously he doesn't like being suspected.)
ANYWAY back to our original scene. light's smile drops (haha.) and he pauses before he answers: "yeah, it's possible that punishing criminals is camouflage while he kills for monetary reasons…" which dodges the "this kira" thing entirely.
back to L, who is still in a solo panel, actually softening his stance somewhat: "since kira and the second kira existed at the same time, this could be an entirely new kira from the one who was killing criminals" - as in, maybe the yotsuba kira isn't killing criminals at all, whereas the original kira is still active on top of that. (i think this is what he means, anyway; the "was" is an "is" in the original japanese, like "this could be an entirely new kira from the one who is killing criminals," and him talking about kira 1 and kira 2 coexisting makes me believe he's talking about two kiras coexisting here as well.) unlike his earlier line, this doesn't implicate light.
and then L compliments light on his research and his hand is back on his shoulder and they're in the same panel again.
tl;dr i think L touches light when not actively considering him kira lmao please consult this post of mine for a much worse example
Can we as a community discuss the time where L had a hand on Light’s shoulder for 4 pages straight? He does not stop touching Light for this whole conversation.
