- Or even a stealth parody of happy fun kids' movies. Specifically, remember that one about the bullied kid approached by a goofball monster wearing punk accessories? The one from a world of monsters that preys on humans. Now remember the pilot chapter. Take a good look at Howie Mandel's eyes and mouth.
- That explains everything! Also Misa seems to be a parody of typical shojou tropes, especially the Magical Girl genre: a young, beautiful, yet ditzy girl is granted magical powers (see above) by a (not so) cute Non-Human Sidekick (a gross, monster-like creature), is fighting evil by the moonlight (by murdering criminals and innocents), finding a Mysterious Protector (In Name Only, who just uses and manipulates her, gives a shit about her as a person and actually wants to kill her in the beginning) and falling in love with him (as in: becoming completely devoted to him unrealistically fast, dedicating her life to him and being completely obedient. (Like any good (soon-to-be) wife should do!)) Bonus points, because she teams up with demons, instead of fighting them, like a typical Magical Girl Warrior.
- And let's not forget Martial Arts: L knows Capoeira.
- That explains everything! Also Misa seems to be a parody of typical shojou tropes, especially the Magical Girl genre: a young, beautiful, yet ditzy girl is granted magical powers (see above) by a (not so) cute Non-Human Sidekick (a gross, monster-like creature), is fighting evil by the moonlight (by murdering criminals and innocents), finding a Mysterious Protector (In Name Only, who just uses and manipulates her, gives a shit about her as a person and actually wants to kill her in the beginning) and falling in love with him (as in: becoming completely devoted to him unrealistically fast, dedicating her life to him and being completely obedient. (Like any good (soon-to-be) wife should do!)) Bonus points, because she teams up with demons, instead of fighting them, like a typical Magical Girl Warrior.
- And by extension...
- So that'd make Light Big Brother?
- No, because Big Brother/Ingsoc state that they want to rule the world for the sake of it/for their own sadistic kicks-Light, however does not want to take over the world for that reason. Of course, that doesn't preclude the idea of Big Brother having a Death Note of their own/Ingsoc bastardizing their founder Kira's message.
- Except that pretty much every other character in the series does have a more conventional name—those ones mentioned are unusual. And Mihael is a real name—it's the Croatian/Slovenian form of Michael.
- It's also possible that they (Psycho-Pass spoilers ahead!) took Light's brain and preserved it to become the first to be inputted into Sybil, too.
We know that people can die by causes other than Death Notes, and that every death in the Death Note universe can't be attributed to Shinigami simply due to the amount of people that die every second. Ryuk mentions that most Shinigami, when writing down names, don't bother to put in a cause of death because they don't need to, so it can be assumed that the vast majority of people that Shinigami kill die of heart attacks. This is not unlikely as heart attacks are the leading cause of deaths worldwide. However, most people who die from CV Ds are people who have chronically suffered from them for years, or have genetic predispositions to attacks. Very rarely does a healthy person succumb to a heart attack and die when perfectly healthy 40 seconds prior. Add in that most of the people who suffer from heart attacks are likely to be very old (therefore not having a lot of natural lifespan left) Ryuk's statement of the Shinigami world being lazy and inactive is likely an exaggeration; most Shinigami would have to kill every dozen years or so to stay alive if they were just building off the humans' lifespans. (Afaik we are never told what the natural lifespan of a Shinigami is) While there are definitely contributing medical factors that lead to having heart attacks, these heart attacks would be the non-fatal variety; whenever a heart attack results in death, it is because a Shinigami killed them. Fatal and non-fatal heart attacks are two separate things, and the second just happens to mirror the first. This idea is supported with the lack of general apathy at the idea of Light putting a stop to war and crime by other Shinigami; if they are not collecting time from humans dying of crimes, then they are likely obtaining it off of disease or heart conditions, with the occasional accident as well. As Light is not targeting the elderly unless they are criminals, old people being picked off by Shinigami through heart attacks would likely not be impacted by his actions as Kira. Judging by the amount of people who die each year of heart attacks, if the number of Shinigami in the Shinigami world was known then it would be much clearer how many people they would have to kill to maintain living.