Saiyuki and Death Note
Feb. 23rd, 2005 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxI watched more Gensomaden Saiyuki last night. I have to say, despite getting intermittently upset with things like Hakkai's got the wrong chin today! and why the hell has Kenren got that massive overbite in profile? I am managing to love it. Watching it actually helps me think about the canon in a lot more detail - I think it gives me a better overview, which I don't get from jumping between printed books and onscreen scanlations and translations. The different reading formats, scanlations particularly so, make the experience of reading the story less cohesive and quite physically tiring, which perhaps distract me from taking in the finer details. Whereas with the anime the activity of watching it is very linear and there's a nice, brightly coloured flow of information for me to absorb.
L isn't really a typical good guy, is he? No one has any authority over him, he doesn't seem to have to answer to anyone, he keeps people locked up for no legal reason. He's a ruthless person and for him the satisfaction for what he does comes from solving the puzzle, not defending justice. Whereas Light explicitly says that what he does is justice. L is very much after the Sherlock Holmes model of dispassionate crime-solver, or perhaps Columbo would be a better comparison? We don't get to see very many emotional displays from him, and those we do are analysed to death by Light and so introducing doubt in our own minds about their truth.
L still looks like a lemur.
L isn't really a typical good guy, is he? No one has any authority over him, he doesn't seem to have to answer to anyone, he keeps people locked up for no legal reason. He's a ruthless person and for him the satisfaction for what he does comes from solving the puzzle, not defending justice. Whereas Light explicitly says that what he does is justice. L is very much after the Sherlock Holmes model of dispassionate crime-solver, or perhaps Columbo would be a better comparison? We don't get to see very many emotional displays from him, and those we do are analysed to death by Light and so introducing doubt in our own minds about their truth.
L still looks like a lemur.
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Date: 2005-02-23 01:49 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, part of it's because they reckon he's their best chance to catch Kira, but most of it's just not being able to leave L-emur. He's cute when he's freakish! More so than usual!
On a related note-- want me to pick up some Death Note doujinshi or junk? No joy on the Saiyuki Gaiden, I'm afraid.
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Date: 2005-02-23 04:36 pm (UTC)DN stuff would be lovely, if there's any going! Do you want anything else apart from the foodstuffs? I'm sorry that I haven't sent them yet - I've been horribly disorganised on that front. But they're on the way!
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Date: 2005-02-23 08:56 pm (UTC)And Branston's Sandwhich pickle. In a squeezy bottle, so it weighs less.