I tend to view the manga as drama in dispersed with touches of black comedy wit things like Light’s meltdowns and ugly face-pulling. I’m not at all convinced that Light’s grand plan and methods are really meant to be taken all that seriously: Light takes them seriously and when things go well is hilariously smug but equally when they don’t go to plan he has ludicrous breakdowns so I always feel that from the outside, audience perspective we’re not meant to take him all that seriously at all. The comedy for me comes from his over-thinking and strict planning which every so often goes wrong. Then again, catching up with the manga now Mello seems to be equally twitchy on the other side so I’m looking forward to more of that.
I can’t really get behind the anime because the way certain things are rendered just strikes me as bizarre and often rather silly. The anime of course involves more movement over all since you have to have the connection between events that were just framed starkly by the manga in separate panels but for me it just doesn’t work. In the manga Light came off as a megalomaniac first and foremost but in the anime he seemed to be rather more socially dysfunctional as far as I was concerned.
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Date: 2009-11-16 10:39 pm (UTC)I can’t really get behind the anime because the way certain things are rendered just strikes me as bizarre and often rather silly. The anime of course involves more movement over all since you have to have the connection between events that were just framed starkly by the manga in separate panels but for me it just doesn’t work. In the manga Light came off as a megalomaniac first and foremost but in the anime he seemed to be rather more socially dysfunctional as far as I was concerned.