L: Did you notice anything suspicious about a student called Light? Teacher: Now that you mention it, he did choreograph a whole musical number about punishing the wicked.
Not only that but this musical was highly criticized for no other reason than being just that, just because the name Death Note was involved. I don't like Tiktok, but at least they finally gave this justice, albeit way beyond its time.
No, idk about the manga as I didn’t read it, but it was made fairly explicit in the anime that light originally did it out of a perverse sense of justice. It’s just that he lost sight of his original goals as he kept killing the the power corrupted him and fed into his god complex.
@@Wouble_Ui mean light has the same motives either way, he likely thought the same thing but didn't express since he didn't have an entire musical number to fill
@@dbrokensoul I agree it was terrible... but if you haven't seen it I recommend just because Willem Dafoe NAILED IT as Ryuk. Actually if you can just find all the Ryuk scenes and watch those then you can get all the best parts.
You know you scared me lmao, I was nearly gonna ask wtf did Jeremy do haha? Then I remembered Light, well he was in the right path at first, though the k*lling wasn't it !
I listened to this while walking and actually got choked up cause all I could think about were the poor African Americans who haven't gotten their justice. Light kinda did have a point.
I mean that's part of the point. He had good intentions, but the death note ultimately corrupts. He may have started out well-meaning, but of course, there's always the question of do the ends justify the means. And as time went on he slowly lost his perspective and his actions became less guided by the idea of fixing the system and about fueling his own god complex. He ends up becoming a player in the system he condemns here
@Soma Néo Saki but the thing is he's not a god. He's a human being playing at one who ultimately thinks he's better than others and uses and manipulates them for his own gain. He sees the death note as giving him this authority to determine who lives and dies when in reality he has no place to. I don't think he's pure evil. There's a complexity to him for sure. But his intentions ultimately got twisted and it became about increasing his power and control rather than truly creating justice. And honestly, that's partly because the death note itself corrupts. It gives people like Light too much power and even if they go in with good intentions, they ultimately got twisted along the way. I don't he ever could have been a just god whether or not L was there and again finding a death note does not give him the right to be a god and to judge others
Was anybody going to tell me there was a death note musical that actually slaps or was I just supposed to stumble upon a comment on a good omens animatic at 2 am by myself
We all need to do our time stumbling over here from that good omens animation. I did my time of nearly 3 weeks listening to only human on repeat before I checked if there were other songs.
I was just listing to some good Broadway, and it came up. I clicked on it to see "how bad it was" and oh was I wrong. I can't believe that I never heard this before.
Same here. I came here because of the animatic and it's funny to me because it happened to me the exact same thing with another animatic, but it was from a Frankenstein musical
Let’s remember that the musical version of Light and the anime version are VERY different. Anime Light had nothing about “lawyers cutting deals” or letting “corporations make the regulations.” He didn’t care about “the rich and famous” getting away with murder. He only wanted to kill all the criminals. Largely those that were already incarcerated. He wasn’t rebelling against a corrupt system, he just believed all criminals should get the death penalty.
‼️Analysis ‼️ what I probably love the most about this song, is it's correlation to the _actual_ deathnote. Light sings about how "judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong". It may not be on purpose, but with how carefully the writers were with the words they put in their songs, I wouldn't doubt it. Now, Light is angry about the system in an "eat the rich" way, and especially questions their views, law and the system itself. The system based on _written down words._ It's amazing how the tables turn when Light gets the deathnote, _becoming_ the law with these written down words. He become what he so despised, but he fully believes he's better than it, better than it used to be (which, in my opinion, was kind of the case in the begining, until he got crazy)
I'd argue that you're so right, that you're wrong. I propose that Light never actually cared to begin with. All of this talk of helping the innocent wasn't out of an actual desire for justice, it was his own twisted ego. After all, he would be revered as the one who fixed the system and made the world work right. And besides, it wasn't even Light singing the "pushing pencils" line- it was one of his classmates. He wanted to be revered, to be appreciated for something he'd done and felt even mildly proud of (his academic life came too easy for him to ever consider that), and certain views he may or may not have had on sociopolitical affairs just got roped into all that. Which is why the musical's interpretation of the ending- Light wins the game, L dies, and then Ryuk just kills him because the game's over, is so brilliant. Light only wanted to be the god of a new world because gods are revered and appreciated and worshiped for what they do. But the most appreciation he ever felt, the most he ever connected with anyone, was when L was matching his intelligence. He needed L, not the Death Note. And in using the Death Note to be rid of L... he realized what he had the second he forced himself to watch it all fade away.
There's two sayings that go great with this: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain" and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
F. A. Valencia At first I saw him like that, but when he kept killing innocents, and kept going on about becoming god, I now see him as a power-hungery sociopath.
When I was younger I used to think that Light/ Kira really had a point. But ultimately, the death note is inadequate for creating a better world. The only thing it can do is punish, and the only punishment it can give is death. There is no in-between, no grey-area. For Light, people are either "good" or they deserve death. There is no rehabilitation, no understanding and no prevention. Immediate justice like this is satisfying, because when we hear of horrible people getting locked up for life or executed, we are likely to think "Yeah! Serves them right! Let them rot!". Our need for justice might have been satisfied, but we have learnt and gained very little to make the world a better place. Sure, this one person is gone, but if we don't ask "Why did this person turn out this way? How could this have been prevented?", the next criminal will take their spot in no time. Maybe they'll get better at not-getting-caught.
I agree with you, but in the anime he doesn’t kill people that needed to break the law to live, had understandable reasons or deeply regretted their crimes.
@@sophisticatedaristocrat wouldn't light literally just copy down arrest lists of people that were arrested that day in the anime.....someone's name next to the crime they committed does not detail their socioeconomic situation, motives for the crime, or evidence they committed said crime, so idk where you're getting that he didn't kill people who broke the law to live or had understandable reasons 😭not to mention he killed innocent people like raye and naomi too
You are omitting supernatural element of Death Note, it will get you no matter did you escape, gave bribe to the judge or walked on technicality. If you consider this it is very realistic that at the end of anime/manga crime rates fallen 70% and there was no wars. There are 415k homicides every year and this is without counting deaths in combat and others that stem from consequences of crimes. Light saved millions of lives and really made a better world in the end.
Everyone keeps talking about how Light has good reasoning here and like that's part of the point! He had good intentions, but the death note ultimately corrupts. He may have started out well-meaning, but of course, there's always the question of do the ends justify the means. And as time went on he slowly lost his perspective; his actions became less guided by the idea of fixing the system and about fueling his own god complex. He ultimately becomes a player in the system he condemns here
If argue he was never in the right because of his motivation. Light was a high school kid with a god complex that was given a golden apple that could do just what he wanted
[Light] Where is the justice When the guilty all go free Why don't we lock them up And throw away the key [Teacher] I see a young man's anger burning in your eyes [Light] What you see is my impatience With your noble compromise Show me what's right about The wrongs that we allow Real people need to feel Protected here and now This whole damn system's broken way beyond repair It's just law not law and order Not much good and seldom fair [Teacher] Laws are made for everyone We're treated all the same [Light] Till a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame What about the victims Waiting for some justice How can we turn away and say That's just the way things are [Students] What about the fam'lies Hiding in their houses All of them afraid to walk the streets at night With all their doors locked tight [Light] Tell me where is the justice If there's any justice [Teacher] Your simple arguments Have all been made before The world's not black and white The choice not "either-or" [Light] Perhaps it's time We drain the color from it then Till we're back to seeing black and white And wrong and right again [Teacher] Overwrought pronouncements Won't improve the paradigm [Light] Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime [Students] Let the corporations Make the regulations [Light] And hold no one accountable When everything goes wrong [Students] Let the rich and famous Get away with murder [Light/All] Every time a high-priced Mouth-piece starts to talk His client gets to walk [Light] Tell me where is the justice If there's any justice [Students] Tell me where [Light] Where is the justice [Students] Tell me where [Light] For all the victims [Students] Tell me where [Light] Where is the justice What good is law that can't Punish those who break it [Students] The politicians Make their speeches all day long While judges pushing pencils Mostly get it wrong Instead of loopholes For the laws to fall between Let some good old-fashioned pay-back Grease the wheels of the machine [Light] Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff Can't we all stand up and say enough [Teacher] Have I taught you nothing Have you lost perspective You'd bend the law until it breaks And tell yourself it's right [Light] Listen to the fam'lies Hiding in their houses All of them afraid to walk the streets at night With all their doors locked tight We must give them their justice [All] Where is the justice [Light] We owe them some justice [All] Where is the justice Where is the justice
I actually can totally see the evil bits in the song, and emotional appeal to a complex issue, making it out to be simple "right and wrong". Reality is when we focus on punishment, we become like KIra. The lines start to blur to egos and personal failings, where innocents end up dying along side the corrupt. It's an amazing song. A great story and cautionary tale too. The line "Let good old fashion payback, grease the wheels of the machine" Kinda shows my point. Payback is not justice. Justice is fair and correct. Payback is emotional. The ideology was corrupt from the start, just simply told persuasively. Think of it another way too. Light is a privileged kid, his dad is a decorated officer, leader of a police department. The exact type of person who would not understand justice, believing themself to be inherently just. That's always why the god complex made sense to me, why he saw himself as justice. He had seeds of that in his mind before the death note. But as he grew he would have seen how things are far more grey. The anime showed that in the scenes where he didn't have his memories. The death note ruined him and his bright future. Stuck him in place. Made those seeds blossom. To me, death note was a story of the danger of having an absolute view of the world, and how an absolute ideology can corrupt your sense of self if you are handed power. How power stagnates you as a person. You don't need wisdom when you are powerful. Because then you must be pure. Power makes you pure. You must be god. Gods don't need to improve. They are inherent. Absolute. (usually, depends on the media or religion). I think this right here is why Light scares me so much. Ugh I love this story, one of the few I get a deep meaning out of. I''m not even a big anime fan aha. But I love this one.
Oh my god, thank you for vocalizing this. I see a lot of the comments saying that light "had good intentions, he just let the power go to his head", but IMO the point of Death Note is that any average person is capable of a lot of really terrible shit, as long as they can justify it to themself and are given the ability to do so. It does not take long for Light to rank up a kill count higher than even the most prolific serial killers, and very quickly he resorts to killing the innocent just to hide his identity. Light was always too sure he was in the right, and always broke the world down into "good guys" and "bad guys", and thought anything done against "bad guys" was justifiable. Light never actually cared about the victims - he cared about punishing the wicked. And those are not the same. Light never even thought to examine why crime happens, merely assuming anyone who committed any crime is just inherently evil. His simplistic view of right and wrong is directly a product of his privileged upbringing, how life was just kind of easy for him (I mean this on many levels - his family was wealthy, he was socially well adjusted, school was easy for him, he was attractive, etc.) and he was never forced to examine himself or his own worldviews. The Death Note just allowed him to take his very black and white worldview to its natural conclusion.
Holy hell talk about being born privileged, try being born in a country where dozens are murdered, robbed, and kidnapped daily, criminals really don’t deserve any sort of rights
"Power makes you pure. You must be god" As someone who never read Death Note but knows the story, this resonates with me. I genuinely believe in a God that's pure. And what you said is correct - to avoid corruption, God(s) must be inherent and absolute. That means having all the facts, which God(s) can do. Humans do not and are also not absolute/incorruptible. Even the best of us break down over time. But as seen with this song, Light is not absolute. He doesn't have all the facts and thus sees the world as simple black and right. The scary thing is, I used to be like that. Even now, the notion of using force to punish sounds alluring. But as you said well, power does not mean wisdom.
@@seankim1592"It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. This dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him." - Ludwig Wittgenstein.
@@jameswilkinson4234 They'll be running it for a second time in Japan in 2020, this has reignited talk of a north American run, but there's no concrete proof of that happening as of yet.
HE PUT HIS WHOLE LIGHT YAGAMUSSY INTO "BUT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE THE REGULATIONS AND HOLD NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG. BUT THE RICH AND FAMOUS GET AWAYYY WITH MURDER!"
“The choice not ‘either or’.” “Perhaps it time we drain the color from it then” I feel like this is the most bit of the song in terms of Light’s character. Not just justice, but also control over what is good and not.
he is right. but hes also an example of someone with good ideas allowing them to become warped after he gains the power to enact them instead of doing it as a man helping his fellow man, lifting others up, helping others empower themselves… he gets this tiny piece of godlike power and begins to think of himself as a god. as above all others. deciding what is right, what is best for the world. becoming the very corruption he claimed to despise we see it happen all the time in our politics. we must take this cautionary tale to heart if we ever want to see real and positive change
Light was never right, he's an egocentric idiot who used to have good intentions. He makes valid points against the legal system, but his solution is just murder. The amount of people who agree with him is what's actually concerning.
Light might have ultimately turned into a villain himself, but I think we can all recognize our own feelings in his frustration with a broken system, that noone seems willing to question, nevermind work towards fixing. Especially in 2020.
RU-vid: "What if I were to tell you there was a Death Note musical?" Me: "It will probably be on par with the movies. Enjoyable enough, but fails to capture the essence of the show." RU-vid: "You didn't let me finish. This musical has catchy songs, a well written critique of the legal justice system, and brings in the philosophical view on mortality that the show had." Me: "Why did you wait until now to tell me about this? You know I love musicals!"
@@Charles12 both, but mainly the Netflix adaptation, because that is the only one I've seen. I did watch the first Relight movie, but that one was good as both an adaptation and a movie.
You have to be pacific you realize it's 3 versions of Lucifer named Lucifer Morningstar. Which of the comic and the show Lucifer and the hazbin hotel character. It's just a kind of annoying thing I have about Hazbin. That they didn't come up with a different last name for Lucifer because it makes it harder to Google and look up because you just find pictures from the show. It's just one of my pet peeves with the show. I know it's a small thing but I'm kind of mad about it.
Though he is wrong about one thing, it is not just rich and famous that do corrupt and unjust things. even the poor do heinous crimes and get away with it. it is like painting a set of people bad, while not recognizing that evil has no face and gender. It can be a girl or a boy, a bisexual or a homosexual, it can be a respected individual (like religious leaders, corporate leaders, government employees, teachers or even citizens who have good reputations) and a feared individual (known for killing or raping someone but authorities are unable to do anything about it). because if we limit it to one, we are only shifting the discrimination to this set of people. (like how some lgbtq members bully and harrass straight people or how some professionals/Honor students are bullied by successful singers for being "book smart" or some individuals with tattoos are bullying those individuals without it, some female would abuse males and get away with it) It is happening very frequently, and as time pass by it will become the new normal. Abuse don't just occur to a group of people---all of us suffer from it and by saying these rich guys are just the bad guys is a complete bs.
@@EpinephrineUwU light isn’t proclaiming that all crime comes from rich people. he’s saying when (in america, which this musical was written to be more fitting towards american politics than japan’s) our government and judicial system is corrupted by money-hungry corporations and capitalist politicians, there’s no longer any reason to enact real and actual justice for victims -here is where light talks about the poor and oppressed peoples, that don’t have the necessary money to proceed in enacting their own justice as victims to crime because our judicial system requires insanely expensive resources to even have a court case - when they could just as easily be bribed to let it be, giving the rich and famous and powerful a way to “get away with murder” by using their wealth.
I think my favorite part about the song, is that his teacher echoed everthing I thought when watching the anime. It's all well and good to say the system is broken and that you want to get Justice. But Light's method is way too cut and dry. He's not actually fixing anything, rather he's slapping a bandage on it. Actually, not even that, what he is doing harkens back to Medieval medicine. He's trying to bleed out the disease, not aware that he's doing more harm than good.
Light's method would have only worked if the system did. But because there are so many faults in the justice system itself which he didn't change, he was doomed to fail.
@@sarcasticsparkles If the system worked, he wouldn't have to commit mass genocide in the first place. It was a dumb plan to begin with, there is no empirical evidence to back up that things like the death sentence even work to scare people off from committing crimes in many situations. If he wanted to eradicate crime he should've worked against the factors that make criminals.
You’re right. He just kills people who were on the news without looking at the evidence to see if they were actually guilty or if it was bs. He only looks at one side of corruption and not the other. He also never kills any of those rich people he was just talking about smh
@@gabrielleparker4029 Not to mention just executing people does not change anything. even if he went after the rich, someone else would take their place. It is fundamentally stupid to assume that murder can solve problems rooted deep in society and system that go beyond individual control
LYRICS: [Light] Where is the justice When the guilty all go free? Why don’t we lock them up And throw away the key? [Light's Teacher] I see a young man’s anger Burning in your eyes; [Light] What you see is my impatience With your noble compromise; [Light] Show me what’s right about the wrongs that we allow Real people need to feel protected here and now; This whole damn system’s broken way beyond repair It’s just law Not law and order; Not much good and seldom fair; [Light's Classmate #1] Laws were made for everyone We’re treated all the same; [Light] Till a lawyer’s tricks can fix the blame; What about the victims Waiting for some justice? How can we turn away And say that's just the way things are? What about the families Hiding in their houses All of them afraid to walk the street at night With all their doors locked tight Tell me where is the justice If there's any justice [Light's Teacher] Your simple arguments have all been made before (Ensemble Oh-oh's in the background) The world's not black and white The choice not either, or [Light] Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within Till we're back to seeing black and white And wrong and right again [Light's Teacher] Overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm [Light] Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime; [Light and Ensemble] Let the corporations make the regulations And all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong; Let the rich and famous get away with murder; Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk His client gets to walk; Tell me where is the justice? If there’s any justice; [Light] Where is the justice [Students] Tell me where? [Light] For all the victims? [Students] Tell me where? [Light] Where is the justice? What good is law that can’t punish those who break it? [Light's Classmate #2] Politicians make their speeches all day long; While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong; [Ensemble] Mostly get it wrong! [Light's Classmate #3] Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between; Let some good old fashioned payback Grease the wheels of the machine; [Ensemble] Grease the wheels of the machine [Light] Isn’t everybody sick to death of all this stuff Can’t we all stand up and say enough? [Ensemble] Time and stand up! We've had enough! Justice Justice Justice Now's the time for justice [Light] Listen to the fam'lies hiding in their houses; [Ensemble] Justice Justice [Light] All of them afraid to walk the street at night With all their doors locked tight; [Ensemble] Afraid to walk the streets at night With all their doors locked tight [Light] We must give them their justice; [Ensemble] Where is the justice? [Light] We owe them some justice; [Ensemble] Where is the justice? [Light and Ensemble] Where is the justice?
Omg. I heard Jeremy Jordan's voice and I was all like: "Why is this voice so familiar in its beauty? Oh wait- 😍." You say he's in here and I am all "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Ive been listening to this musical for like 3 years. And i didnt know it was J E R E M Y OML IM DYING NOW. ITS LIKE HALF MIDNIGHT WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE
I love how Light in this song is understandable, but also completely wrong when you think about it for long. It foreshadows his eventual corruption very nicely.
I wish this musical would come to the States. It doesn’t have to be on Broadway, just give the rights to a small independent theatre group and it’ll be awesome. As a fan of Death Note and musicals, this show is awesome; and a very unexpectedly good adaptation.
There are so many comments about Light having a good point. There's a reason for that. In virtually every adaptation of Death Note, the viewer/reader is supposed to agree with Light...at first, before everything gets out of hand. When the manga was first written (and to some extent, still), a fairly large portion of the Japanese public was frustrated with the justice system, and the fact that criminals were freely walking the street. In Japan it's exceedingly rare for a criminal case to go to court, unless it's more or less guaranteed that conviction will occur. That's because the powers that be don't really see the point in using resources on a case where the end result might be acquittal. Most readers and anime viewers outside of Japan aren't aware of that so the work doesn't strike quite as powerfully as a thought experiment. Obviously that's not to say the work's not still incredible but some of the nuances are often lost. That said, when the musical was translated into English, some frustrations that might be unique to Japanese culture were translated in such a way where Light's viewpoint might resonate with an American audience more strongly. That's why there are lyrics such as: "Let the corporations make the regulations and all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong; let the rich and famous get away with murder! Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk his client gets to walk; tell me where is the justice?" in this song. His desire for justice isn't wrong at all, in fact, it's meant to be morally right. It's his methods that are the issue, because the end doesn't really justify the means of serial murder.
To some degree, yes I see it. However, JD wanted it on a much smaller scale. He just wanted to "purify" a highschool, (and mainly just for his "true love") he didn't take into account that the kids he was targeting would grow up and probably realize the way they acted was fucked up. Meanwhile, Light targetted mainly adults, who were full grown and should have known better. He wanted to "purify" the world, and not just for one person, but for everybody else in the world who wanted justice and was tired of the system failing over and over again. I see what you're getting at. However, while they are very similar, they are also very different.
Macaroni and Cliches no This is what was originally written before being translated as Frank Wildhorn, the composer and lyricist (I believe) is native in the English language
Manga comes the first，after the movie except the latest one，and anime series were made，the script，whose ”lyrics” were originally written in English and accompanied with the music by Wildhorn，was reconstructed and they were brought to Japan and Korea translated in their own language about two years ago．Moreover，drama series and the movie have been made in Japan．That's what I suppose．
.If it has the life eraser (you can erase a name in the death note and the person comes back to life) then it's the manga . If his name is name is Light Turner, then it's the movie . If his name is Light Yagami and who ever is dead stays dead then it's based on the anime
I love this so much, because it's clear that the translators really put in their work. I don't know Japanese, so I can't really compare the lyrics to the original, but compared to the original story, this seems really well localized for a US audience in 2015. It kinda updates the concepts from the original, which was in the early 2000s, and makes it more relevant for the time. Props to the translators, songs are so hard to localize.
The English version is technically the original version, since Frank Wildhorn was the one who wrote the music. When the show didn't get picked up in the States, they moved it to Japan and Korea.
The Musical was originally written in English. It had a workshop preformed in the US, and this concept album was recorded. The musical didn’t go anywhere in the states so it got translated into Japanese and was performed there instead
Hits different in an America where everything Light is saying is correct and we’ve just lost abortion rights and possibly soon to be more. (I’ll note this for the we, I’m trans so I’ve lost it too 😅)
I absolutely agree with you!!! Especially now with the murders of African-American people on the news, I'm so heated every time I hear this song. This is now more relevant than ever...
@@yunamchill9169 This stupid racism has been going on for decades, but I'm happy that now it's been brought to the public's attention But still, this song hits H A R D, regardless of the protests There is so many corrupted people in power, and it's all justified through those damm loopholes in the law >:(
Wouldn't he want to kill Floyd for "being a criminal", then the officer for shooting Floyd, then the protesters for defying the law. Light's whole thing is he is unable to see grey and believes every crime warrants instant death no matter the circumstance. He is so tough on crime it would make the GOP shudder with fright.
@@geraldway64000 he carried out mass executions though, and wanted to expand his hit list to "scum" and "lazy people". He would hate protest for the small percent who riot.
Okay but if you've actually studied Marxism or even read his manifesto you'd know this was a true statement. Communism wasn't meant to apply to governments. It was created to apply to smaller things like corporations. (A co-op is communism.) In the actual manifesto, it never once tells you to apply it to governments. So while it doesn't work on the large scale of the USSR, it still works today in many successful smaller operations. Communism is about equal distribution for equal work. It makes sense that a corporation or business should apply this principal since they are the ones assigning jobs & regulating work not a government. (Sorry I went on a rant there I just study this so 😅)
Me five minutes ago: "a Death Note musical, huh? Hah, this oughtta be good for a laugh." Me now: "oh shiiiiiiiit, why didn't anybody tell me this was FIRE?!"
Allow me to do a quick charakter analysis here. Light starts out arguing with the teacher. They go back and forth for a bit. And then light stops listening to the teachers arguments and ignores him instead. In the beginning of the song light counteres the teachers arguments. "Laws are made for everyone we're treated all the same" "Till a lawyers tricks can fix the blame". This discusion goes on for a but. Then the dynamic changes. Light goes "Till we're back to seeing black and white and wrong and right again." The teacher argues "overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm" and then Light goes "Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime". This last line is a bit odd until you realise that it's intentionally breaking the discusion between the teacher and Light. The structure of Lights line follows that of his previous one (both starting with "till") .And the content of Lights second line also has nothing to do with the teachers line. Light is just ignoring the fact that the teacher said anything. Remember the first of lights lines that I quoted? It also starts with "till" and has something to do with lawyers. It's extremely similar to the line we just analyzed. This indicates that Light hasn't changed his view on the justice system in the discusion with the teacher. The teachers arguments didn't convince him. It only makes sense that Light then stop listening to them at all. He doesn't even try to counter. He's to convinced that he is right. During his discusion with the teacher Light has managed to convince the other students. In the next part of the song Light goes into a duet with the other students. They basically strengthen each others arguments. It's not really a discusion anymore. They are just affirming that light is right and the students are adopting lights views. (This acts as foreshadow to the people who worship Kira and approve of this killings.) The teacher gets completely pushed to the side in this segment. He doesn't get to say anything. According to the lyrics guy or girl, the teacher has another line towards the end of the song. He seems to angrily remark that Light didn't learn anything from him and sais that Light would break the rules while telling himself that he is right to do so. (Foreshadowing Kira's killings) This line also gets completley ignored by Light. He instead repeats a verse from the beginning of the song "Listen to the families hiding in their houses..." Again reafirming that no, Light didn't learn anything from the teacher. When we look at the song with this in mind it becomes clear that the song is less about Light proving that he's right about the justics system and more him brushing all other argument aside in favor for is own already established views. His superiority complex gets revealed here so early on in the musical. The power of the death note might corrupt him but he is already dead set on his views. He wouldn't let anything shake him once he made up his mind. This is probably how he justifies the killings too. He focuses on the pro arguments and ignores all the contra arguments. As the audience I find it important not to forget that Light didn't actually win the argument with the teacher. Light is just telling himself the students and us that he is right.
The teacher doesn’t get a say because most of his argument is condescending ad hominem from “the young mans anger in your eyes” to the implication that the law affects us all equally when it clearly doesn’t. Light made some good points and the teacher just insulted him.
@@NoBody-qs7op what. No. I mean, no, Ligth not only could not finish the argument, since of course, he is a child who cannot avoid seeing the world with two colors when the teacher knows well that that is wrong, and even so, Ligth ignores him and to gain strength in his argument, he convinces his other colleagues, who are more manipulable and have a more variable opinion.
@@thecourier-sama4334 people love to argue “oh the world is more complicate than that” no it really isn’t. There is right, and there is wrong. The rich and powerful get away with murder and rarely if ever face consequences, and even when they do face consequences those are a slap on the wrist compared to the crime. If you can’t understand that the law is neither fair or just then I can see why you’d think the world is complicated. You’re a simpleton.
@@NoBody-qs7op lol a bit far for an internet argument. And no it’s not that simple, this is just parroting what Light says about ignoring nuance and pretending that the world is black and white because it makes it easier for him to justify the view he already has
that's the point. In DeathNote you are supposed to side with him in the begining and to also want that perfect world to unfold, I mean, who truefully doesn't? But as time progresses if if his idea doesn't, his person does, get corrupted more and more and it's to you to think about your side and where the lines are crossed or not. and by whom.
"Perhaps it's time we drain the color from it then, till we're back to seeing black and white and right and wrong again" is such a good fucking line. Really goes to show his supremacist views and his clash with L's POV
Before I watched the anime, the fandom had me genuinely convinced that Light, Misa, and L were all working together to achieve Light's goal. I watched it all the way through until L's face was revealed along with his intentions, and felt SO stupid. Funny memory nearly five years later, though
@James Lucas I think they mean something like, "why couldn't we have gotten a full production and performance of this musical instead of the Netflix adaptation?"
“Everytime a high price mouth piece starts to talk, his client gets to walk” Is such a tounge twister but such a phenomenal line you can’t even get mad about it when learning the song
i love how the singer for Light has controlled voice cracks bc Lights dub va uses voice cracks when he was shouting :D it feels like we are actually hearing Light sing
