A Death Note blog with intermittent activity. My name is Elizabeth, I've been in the fandom since 2007, and I'm mostly interested specifically in DN canon. L is my favorite character, but I also like Misa, Naomi, and the NPA task force members.
What you will see here: only DN content and the rare personal text post. What you won't see here: very much about Light, the Successors arc, or most of the fandom's popular ships, unless someone made something very beautiful or said something very smart. Otherwise, those subjects just aren't my thing, but there are plenty of good blogs out there that cover them.
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There’s a major flaw in the end of the LABB murder case (I bought it the other day and re-read it for the first time in a few years), and that is that while it would be seen as very incriminating for B to have locked the room and then [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS] set himself on…
Just a lil’ contribution to Inkctober, I guess. I lack practice with traditional inking but… Oh well, I felt like making something anyway. Behold, my favorite Death Note pairing! I missed them. :D
aka why I am absolutely convinced the man on that picture is not B
Obviously, this is still a speculation though. I am not Takeshi Obata nor have I met Takeshi Obata nor have I even met someone who met Takeshi Obata. There is no way to be certain about his intentions.
For my part I can just say, it doesn’t make sense to me any other way than what I am about to detail.
Okay, this is the image, just so we’re all clear on what it looks like. What I love about this picture is that it’s a spoiler for the entire novel - and yet it’s right there at the start of the book.
It also is beautiful because it features all relevant characters of the book - L, Naomi, B and the victims. However, there are only two categories. Investigators and victims. Let’s like about the latter.
I’ve had much simpler reasons for thinking that this illustration was meant to represent L rather than B. The story implies that B only “looks like L” to someone who has never met L, because the book’s central twist relies on giving a description of B which is vague enough that it seems like it could plausibly refer to L, and because B is imitating what he’s been able to learn about L’s mannerisms. (When you go back and look at it again, his L impersonation isn’t very good: it’s intentionally over-the-top, sure, but that doesn’t preclude that it could also be inept.) Furthermore, you couldn’t draw what B actually looks like without giving away the entire plot, which hinges on the reader thinking that Rue Ryuzaki is probably L.
The breakdown of the symbolic meaning of the “eyeball tree” is a really astute catch. I’m impressed!
I place my bets on it being either the Winchester Mad Bombings or the Detective War, they are the only areas of the past that haven't been covered in detail, unlike LABB were the story is like 100% known.
wait wait i know what the detective war is (and hell yeah I’LL TAKE ANYTHING L-RELATED PLS AND THANKS) but what are the winchester mad bombings and where are they mentioned
i’m a bad fan omg why don’t i know these things?
(Edited this a bit.)
This one too! I’m overactive on Tumblr this afternoon I guess?
Both of these were in Another Note. The Winchester Mad Bombings were the case that 8-year-old L stuck his nose into in such a way that he got Quillsh Wammy’s attention.
These would have taken place around 1987-1988 (depending on the time of year), so my personal assumption related to them has always been that they could have been suspected IRA bombings in and around Winchester, which is a “charming country town” sort of place. IRA bombings were still a present fear in England at that time, and it would be interesting if something that initially looked like them turned out not to be.
Someone else mentioned that the Winchester Mad Bomber gets a mention in the LCTW tie-in novel, but that’s not where the idea originated. The mention is a nod to Another Note. That particular novelization is weird because it’s definitely not canon to the main DN universe (it’s like the writer never read a single thing Ohba said about L and had the most fanon interpretation possible), and it’s not quite a faithful representation of the plot of the movie, but the writer still made a point of tying it in to both the movieverse and Another Note (while Another Note itself is mangaverse). The LCTW novelization is like an AU unto itself.
There’s a lot of minutiae in Another Note that tends to fall by the wayside because it’s in the form of super offhand comments in the text — not part of the main action at all.
