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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I don't think that's out-of-place either for the story. Much like the difference between Light and his father, the story is illustrating "book smart" from "street smart".
Like so much other modern fiction, Death Note is a variation on the Hero's Journey trope. In this case, the hero is a composite between L, Near, and Mello.
who's who? I thought Light and L were fairly similar in their types of intelligence and both felt book smart.
how? It just seemed like a typical "antagonist and protagonist are mirrors" with a villain protagonist in Light.
Light = Book Smart
Light's Father = Street Smart
Hero's Journey is so common, I too, would consider it "typical".
Combine L, Near, and Mello all as one entity "the hero". How that composite travels through the story I see it well mapping against the hero's journey. Another portion of the variation is that the story primarily follows Light/Kira, which is the antagonist, not the hero.
Hero's journey :
So, Light goes through call to adventure, supernatural aid, and threshold guardians? Ok.
All the characters go through "challenges and temptations" but aside from Light not going for the Shinigami's eyes, they generally tend to cave to whatever temptations they're presented with. I assume
spoiler
L's literal death and replacement with MeloIs the death & rebirth and transformation. I don't see the atonement, return nor the gift of the goddess. Also, I thought the hero's journey had "visit to the underworld" as part of the abyss, and also a voyage to a strange land which again, feels missing.
I appreciate you sharing your point of view though.
ah yeah, that makes sense