moon.light

does anyone know why every single post on my dashboard is light yagami coded until i actually go looking for one at which point they vanish like drops of dew in the sunlight

(+bonus jdrama:)

For LawlightWeek Day 7: Old World / New World

Masa and Kento being adorable af (Let’s just say the chemistry wasn’t just a Lawlight thing)

(Sidenote but all those references about wanting to send each other to Hell?? Beautiful)

Yeah this is a battle of justice and ideals, yes that clash is a key part of their final confrontation at the end of the musical, but throughout their duets (or even songs like The Game Begins where they're singing by themselves) there's this near singleminded desire to just fucking End each other. It's fucking Raw and it's great.

Also THIS FUCKING SCENE?? THIS SCENE FROM SECRETS AND LIES. Iconic. Actually Insane. My jaw dropped. Light looks like a crazy bitch it's beautiful.

Um. Also. Obligatory Playing His Game (yknow the gay sex song) lines dump. It basically says everything I just said above in like 9 lines. You see what I mean right.

In canon they're playing a game of mental chess, trying to use everyone around them to finally catch the other as their end goal, but in the musical you really do feel like all they see is each other. They would probably beat each other to death with their fists if it came down to that. Idk they're just so excited and fired up about their little game in the musical and it's so unhinged and fun and special and I love it. It's like the writers for the musical decided to kick their murderous intent up a couple notches and the result is absolutely Beautiful.

I also think that the intensity of their rivalry in the beginning just makes the wind-down of The Way It Ends soo much better. It's such a good contrast to their previous duets where they try to sing over each other (Secrets and Lies & Stalemate) or with each other but basically at the top of their lungs (Playing His Game). It feels like there's both a quiet mutual understanding but also an underlying disappointment that the game is finally over. In canon, L's death Is instead the peak of their game, the moment he gets confirmation that Light is Kira is the exact same moment that he dies. In the jdrama it's almost sudden, how L dies, after the quiet moment has already passed. But in the musical L's death, ironically, Is the one quieter moment in their game. Their peak was the game itself. It was Secrets and Lies and Playing His Game. But the end of the game in the musical is not a victory, it's just (as L says) the end of everything they'd been wanting up until this point.

Uh. Fuck it. Clip from the Kenji Urai version because I just love his delivery here. His tone just goes so well with the silence and the sound of the clock ticking. You see what I mean right.

Their rivalry in the musical may have been more shortlived but like Damn they were really enjoying every second of it. They were truly insane about each other until the very end. (Like despite everything I just said about the ending it was still unhinged as fuck. Light Making L Shoot Him and then Making L Shoot Himself with L's Own Hand?? Holy shit man. What the fuck /pos)

musical: only Mogi gets a name and he dies immediately

jdrama: lawlight just wanna kiss and run away buy fate stops them sigh. They don’t even really wanna kill each other

musical: they want to KILL EACH OTHER SO MUCH and probably FUCK WHILE THEYRE AT IT

jdrama: Soichiro is an absent parent but he tries, he sees through him in the end thoigh

musical: loves his son so much and then he’s dead. jdrama: the shinigami are barely there then it’s over

musical: hey we LOVE the shinigami Ryuk and rem? Some of our best characters! HEY did you know rem and misa are in LOVE love? You do now!

Just about the only thing they both do is swing WILDLY between comedy and serious and somehow both pull off equally as compelling version of death note.