I finally caught up on this and the last chapter. Still, I have no idea who or what a few of the charcters/ ideas are, but it's entertaining at least! Especially with Ryuk, but I figure it's anime, and I'm just not meant to understand these things. :D
Japanese jail seems pretty sweet. Still waiting for Fin Tutuola to show up though...
Trust me, if Fin Tutuola was on this series, it would have been over in a fraction of its original length!
Ryuk is . . . well, it's a long story. Ryuk is a shinigami, a death spirit, who owns a Death Note, which is this notebook where if you write someone's name in it, they die. He dropped it into the human world, where Light found it and promptly decided that, hey, he'd always wanted to be a serial killer. Since the notebook was originally Ryuk's, the deal now is that Ryuk kind of haunts Light everywhere he goes, providing snarky conversation. The only people who can see him are people who have touched his Death Note.
I'm glad you're entertained even though you're not familiar with the fandom. That suggests I've been doing something right.
And the Americans would try you even without a confession, That sounds wrong. I mean, I'm not up on the subtleties of international law, but my understanding is that the crime is tried based on the laws of the country where the crime takes place. I could be wrong, obviously (or L could be lying, er)
I find Light's loss of mental control here very interesting, that he's so overwhelmed by the changes in events that he can't even think of ways to try to weasel out of the situation.
Also, I think this chapter may bring up a certain question about who is really the more socialized, between L and Light - L, who cares but doesn't realize he cares; and Light, who doesn't realize that he doesn't care. It's interesting - and if my brain were really working, I'd have a remark here about Yagami's decision to disown Light, there, and how it might feed in with that dynamic.
That sounds wrong. I mean, I'm not up on the subtleties of international law, but my understanding is that the crime is tried based on the laws of the country where the crime takes place.
That's not quite the issue. Both Japanese law and U.S. law allow a court to try a suspect who has not confessed. The difference being that Japanese prosecutors are spectacularly unwilling to do that. I think that this is because their professional status depends much more on how many guilty verdicts they can bring in than for U.S. prosecutors, who are state employees with all the benefits thereof. Both countries can try suspects without a confession, but only the Americans wouldWhat that means for Light is that, if he can hold out through twenty-three days of interrogation without confessing, the police might not be able to convince the prosecutor to take his case to trial, and he would essentially get away scot-free with being a mass murderer. But, given that at least one of his victims (Ray Penbar) was an American citizen, the Japanese can
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Especially with Ryuk, but I figure it's anime, and I'm just not meant to understand these things. :D
Japanese jail seems pretty sweet. Still waiting for Fin Tutuola to show up though...
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Ryuk is . . . well, it's a long story. Ryuk is a shinigami, a death spirit, who owns a Death Note, which is this notebook where if you write someone's name in it, they die. He dropped it into the human world, where Light found it and promptly decided that, hey, he'd always wanted to be a serial killer. Since the notebook was originally Ryuk's, the deal now is that Ryuk kind of haunts Light everywhere he goes, providing snarky conversation. The only people who can see him are people who have touched his Death Note.
I'm glad you're entertained even though you're not familiar with the fandom. That suggests I've been doing something right.
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That sounds wrong. I mean, I'm not up on the subtleties of international law, but my understanding is that the crime is tried based on the laws of the country where the crime takes place.
I could be wrong, obviously (or L could be lying, er)
I find Light's loss of mental control here very interesting, that he's so overwhelmed by the changes in events that he can't even think of ways to try to weasel out of the situation.
Also, I think this chapter may bring up a certain question about who is really the more socialized, between L and Light - L, who cares but doesn't realize he cares; and Light, who doesn't realize that he doesn't care. It's interesting - and if my brain were really working, I'd have a remark here about Yagami's decision to disown Light, there, and how it might feed in with that dynamic.
Onward!
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That's not quite the issue. Both Japanese law and U.S. law allow a court to try a suspect who has not confessed. The difference being that Japanese prosecutors are spectacularly unwilling to do that. I think that this is because their professional status depends much more on how many guilty verdicts they can bring in than for U.S. prosecutors, who are state employees with all the benefits thereof. Both countries can try suspects without a confession, but only the Americans wouldWhat that means for Light is that, if he can hold out through twenty-three days of interrogation without confessing, the police might not be able to convince the prosecutor to take his case to trial, and he would essentially get away scot-free with being a mass murderer. But, given that at least one of his victims (Ray Penbar) was an American citizen, the Japanese can ( ... )
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