The anime was correct to cut everything from this navel-gazing epilogue chapter. Ohba didn’t even see it fit to touch on what Misa has been doing the past year since Light’s death and her chilling in a hotel during the incident. #DNbs
I don’t care for this wishy-washy greyness in the epilogue. It doesn’t really add anything other than me despising Ohba’s insipid worldview. I do like tho that it lets our side characters acknowledge that they are selfish at heart. Anyway, I support gay shipping Matsuda with his new kouhai. #DNbs
Now for the completely manga original chapter. It’s mostly dedicated Matsuda having a conspiracy theory about Mikami’s actions at the end that screams something Ohba’s editor or readers brought up once the climax began. Oh and Matsuda having homo Light guilt. #DNbs
Man I love how Obata depicts the manner of the Shinigami peering into our world from their realm. #DNbs
It’s really funny that I didn’t know the manga ending was like this until I watched a Y Ruler of Time video on TGWTG(dot)com wayyyy back in the day. It’s like seeing an alternate ending in a video game or in the DVD extras for a movie for me except it literally is the original ending lol #DNbs
Now, contrary to popular belief, Ryuk does actually kill Light in the anime. It’s just that it happens silently when he’s desperately on the run and bleeding to death. The heart attack occurs mid-staircase in a random building. #DNbs
WILD DIVERGENCE BEGINS HERE:
In the anime, Mikami kills himself with his pen (stabbing lol). This distraction gives a Light a chance to escape. Here in the manga, Mikami denounces him due to there being no way out for either of them. No mental breakdown suicide. That’s it for Mikami. #DNbs
We are hitting new levels of desperation: Light thinks he can kill Near on the paper scrap before anyone can do anything to him AND actually get away with it. #DNbs
Perhaps it’s a *little* wishy-washy for Ohba to have Near be like “ermmm I’m like you in the sense I think what I believe is righteous. I can’t say what’s right or wrong, but I do think you’re evil” #DNbs
#atheism #moralrelativism :P
Ok but seriously, I get why Ohba wrote Near’s response this way. At first it’s from the standpoint of the law, and then Near appeals to what everyone in the warehouse personally believes Light is a delusional, evil fool. #DNbs
Near completely rejects Light’s rigmarole and gets at the heart of it: Light killed a lot of people. Objectively, that makes him a serial killer regardless of rhetoric. From extrajudicial to straight-up premeditated supernatural kills on his opposition. #DNbs
Anyway, Light’s argument here is basically “you can’t arrest me like you could have 5 years ago because Kira has become normalized in current society”
Oh and the usual egotistical, rule-by-fear wankery but now couched in terms of human equality and freedom. #DNbs
After looking like a maniac to everybody, Light goes straight into his straight serious face to make his case as to why he shouldn’t be arrested right here and now. It’s basically a spoken manifesto. #DNbs
Iconic. The anime does this perfectly too.
Also this is identical to That Moment in every Ace Attorney case trial. Light is having his breakdown at the courthouse moment.
#DNbs
While this is a cool moment that makes sense, those fuck-ass finger puppets keep taking me out of it lol #DNbs
All because Mikami didn’t think Light would try to conspicuously kill Takada on a paper slip in the back of a car. #DNbs
