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The Aftermath

Death Note ended after a series of 37 twenty minute anime episodes. The final episode "New World" marking the death of Light and hence the forthcoming of peace. But then the true essence of manga writing is in making the readers bite their nails off by ending a chapter at the crescendo hence making the reader anxious to know what shall happen next.

It's what the talented mangaka Tsugumi Ohba along with Takeshi Obata did. They skillfully made the successor Death Note Relight : Visions of God testifying this fact.

The film begins in the Shinigami realm with an unnamed Shinigami seeking out Ryuk, complaining that the Shinigami realm is boring and is in search of a good story. How the creators pla with the minds of everyone watching? They just let the dust settle down in the way the audience wants it to because they are the best judge of what as the ending is best suited for them. They create a mysterious shinigami whose name is not revealed during the course of the entire movie.



This void is meant to be filled by the audience itself and thus create a sense of thrill as the audience themselves uncover the deep meaning of the plot. The true aftermath of the series is that the Unkown Shinigami in the movie is no one but Light Yagami. The build up to this event was given from the beginning of the series when it was stated by Ryuuk, " The human who uses the notebook can neither go to Heaven nor Hell." He ends up being a shinigami. The most ideal position for Light to be to clean up this world's mess.

Conclusion

Thus, in the end, Light became just what he wanted to be. An unknown figure of justice who kills the criminals without the human world knowing it. The Kira case shook the world from the roots but there was someone who was a hope for mankind; the Unkown Shinigami with none to stop him.

“Faith - Acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

The mangakas justifies the statement with this twist in the series.

Thus, in the end, the people just live on their normal lives believing that their is God who judges everyone. But when the same thing was being done in the real world, they were the one who thought of Light as the messenger of Death. The creator thus intends to show human tendency to fear what they do not understand but believe in their faiths thus disregarding any attempts of truly understanding the truth.

JagritL (talk) 12:46, May 24, 2013 (UTC)Jagrit Surisetti.JagritL (talk) 12:46, May 24, 2013 (UTC)

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