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The US-based Netflix Death Note adaptation was bad. But I remain convinced that you could do an entertaining and distinctly localized take on the source material. So, welcome to the lighthearted skeleton of what is effectively Death Note: American Class System Thinkpiece Edition, where Light is a middle-class striver, Mi[s]a would totally Death Note the guy who killed Cecil the Lion, and L is upset about structural injustice. It assumes some loose knowledge of the original story, and none whatsoever of the movie, except that I've used its character names.
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19 Oct 2025
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Light thought he could manipulate everyone, but since some people were beneath his notice, a quick-thinking receptionist inadvertently puts the biggest clue of all right into L's hands. Light is unquestionably evil in this.
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Shanks grinned. “You wound me.”
“Clearly, I’m not the only one.”
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21 Sep 2025
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Five Places Donquixote Rosinante Lived, and One Place He Never Got the Chance To.
Or: Corazon, houses, and homes.
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15 Sep 2025
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"Her venerable bows looked bearded": One Piece, Intertextuality, and Moby Dick by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), Moby Dick - Herman Melville
22 Dec 2023
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Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is a decades-long, sprawling, occasionally unhinged serialized manga, and within that decades-long sprawl there are many, many references.
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is another overly-long, sprawling, unhinged piece of fiction, thought by some to be the greatest novel in the American canon.
Let's discuss.
Or: 2.6k of meta essay analyzing and unpacking Oda's use of the Moby Dick allusion. Yes, really.
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15 Sep 2025