Naomi

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The fuck you mean L died? He clearly faked his death and became a host in the 2nd movie about his fucking successors.

Hey Everyone!

Episode 7 of I’ll Take a Death Note and Read It, a podcast where I overread into Death Note, is up! This episode covers the seventh volume of the manga, which is probably the turning point of the series.

You can check it out on iTunes, Soundcloud, or directly where the podcast is hosted. I also have a handy masterpost that has links to episodes 1–6—may be a good place to start if you’re new to the project!

We’ll discuss L’s death and the impact it has on the series: how the plot becomes more and more expansive to compensate for the loss of the L vs. Light storyline, the odd timing of L’s death, what we know about L—and what questions are still left unanswered.

We’ll also get introduced to Mello and Near, the two successors that take over for L. We’ll discuss Mello and Near as active versus static characters and we’ll see them learn about L’s death, a scene that leads to a moment of transgression for Mello and is a pivotal point of agency for both of them.

Throughout the remainder of the story, we’re gonna try to reconcile the following: Does the series ever fully recover? What momentum is lost here? How successful is the book at at transferring the battle over to L’s heirs in a way that keeps the reader engaged? We’ll continue to keep these in mind as we head into volume 8 next.

I redrew a bunch of Ls from the manga (gotta learn from the masters, yo’), but this is the only one I actually liked.