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I like Mano

but I like Brutal and Doom more lol so I'm going to pretend Dan is thriving and k*lling bad ppl until he retires or something

Most of you are taking a very small part of the chapter and making it into a bigger deal than it is!

IMO you're projecting your feelings onto Akane, but in reality, both Akane and Yamada have grown in their relationship, especially since the whole Satsuki situation. Some of you are talking about how Yamada should be more sensitive since Akane was cheated on before, but we haven't seen her think about her ex and/or cheating since before she and Yamada got together. Furthermore, if she's uncomfortable she knows she has to communicate that to Yamada rather than letting Yamada guess what was wrong like he did before.

This moment was only shown to show the reason why Yamada wants to win so badly which is why the whole incident was only a couple of panels.

Regarding Takeo's feelings for Ao, I don't think he ever liked Ao romantically - not that anything would be wrong if he did. IMO it was Takeo seeing how serious Ao and Shingo were about each other that he realized he could seriously date men as well, that it's no different than seriously dating women. Up until then he only ever dated women and had never even considered men as an option. And this is shown when Wako asks if there's a particular reason for why Takeo can see himself dating men in the future, Takeo says, "Well, not really. It could be a man, it could be a woman, it could be anyone no matter where they come from. When you love someone you think about that person more than anything else. And that person will be the most precious to you. I don't want to miss out on something that could grow into a life long love."

He keeps talking about putting the one you love first above everyone else because this is what he witnessed between with Ao and Shingo during the whole thunderstorm drama in the previous book. Honestly, I think that he's taking relationships and love more seriously because he saw how serious those two are because it sounds like he never took it seriously until then. ALSO there would be no reason for Takeo to lie when he was asked again if he had liked someone that changed his mind into dating guys in ch. 5-6 if that was the case lol

They're such a cute couple, but I just adore Seonho - where can I find one like him lol

Thank you for translating!

Is anyone other than me getting Suits vibes? Secretary Cha = Donna. Yiyoung = Mike. Director Kang = Harvey. Of course there are differences, but the characters are kind of alike in personality and appearance (more so when I really think about it).

Buddha <3

Apparently it's going to be released soon! The title is "블러드레인 천외천."

For a while, I thought that there was only one child in the flashback, but now I see that there are two: Queen Kate's child and Biebke's child (Ryuu/Alexander). They were drawn similarly (that and I wasn't really paying much attention because I was more focused on Daniel's part) and the two weren't shown a lot. Queen Kate's child is a bit older and calls Daniel "Doudou." Biebke's child, Ryuu, is younger and doesn't really speak much (we can see that when he's playing with his mother's glasses + extra chapter in which he can't speak properly). But the main difference (for me) is their hair: Queen Kate's child's hair is straight and flat while Ryuu's hair is sticking up.

Queen Kate was playing with Ryuu, not her child, when Biebke arrived. I think Queen Kate's son is dead because of her horrified face and because of Simon's line, "You are the terrorist who slaughtered the king and his son."

Biebke and Daniel only met twice according to Daniel. I think she's the one who threw Ryuu to Daniel, but they probably couldn't really see each other because of their surroundings and chaos (you don't think straight when you're panicking). Plus it doesn't seem like Biebke was wearing her glasses at the moment. I don't think Daniel would have recognized right away because of his little interaction with her.

Light is such a fascinating and tragic character. I'm not excusing him of anything and it's true that had he gotten his way, the world would have become a police state but Light bound himself to a terrible fate. His hands stained with blood, he turned his back to light and strayed from the right path, prepared to do anything not to be seen as a criminal. Paradoxically, he traded light for darkness in the hopes of escaping darkness. (“He knew what I was doing was evil… but I had no choice”).

His Self gradually disappeared behind the mask of Kira, who was supposed to be a protection. He manipulated himself, hurt himself by erasing his own memories. Imagine the moment when he regained them. In retrospect, he realized to what extent he could fool himself and use himself as a tool. This scream in the helicopter is a scream of pain, loud with the agony of a man who understands he has been cheated by himself.

Light regains his composure quickly because he must go on. Light is like water, he takes the form of its recipe, Kira. There is no going back : he must escape society’s judgement and become the new Justice. His feelings and sanity are secondary. What matters is his facade. During the false shooting scene, he doesn’t tell his father not to kill him. He tells him not to kill him because he’s not Kira. Light implicitly adheres to the idea dishonor is a fault punished by death.

And yet, alone in his room, after having killed with the notebook, he couldn’t gather the courage to ask for punishment. (You can see him start to rationalize what he's done in ch. 1 pg. 42.)

Light doesn’t believe in redemption: he kills people and accepts, theoretically, death as a fitting punishment for himself, were he Kira. There is no room for forgiveness and redemption in Light’s world. Even for himself.

That’s why, when he became a killer, he didn’t surrender. He knew what he had done what “evil”, “unforgivable”. And Light fears death. So, he tried to influence the only parameter he could change : how people perceive his actions. And Light is skilled at putting on a facade. It’s the easy way out.

If Light’s actions are Justice then Light isn’t flawed. People created Kira, the God-man who kills in the name of Justice and so Light played the part.

After all, he is used to deceive people and lying. It should be easy, shouldn’t it?Too bad Light didn’t realize the first person he betrayed in the process was himself.

When Ryuk tells him he wasn’t fated in the first scene, Light remains silent. The reader eventually understands that Light refuses to accept reality when, during the Warehouse scene, he howls that his actions might have been evil but…. he isn’t the one the blame. He followed the destiny he was burdened with. Light’s last lie is a lie to himself.

Light is Kira’s first victim doesn’t mean Light was abused by a nasty split personality. Light fell victim to his own weakness. Met with a terrible fate, his road crossing Ryuk’s, he was too weak not to kill, too weak to assume responsibility. Too weak not to endorse Kira’s mask.