DEATH IS JUSTICE: LIGHT IN DIFFERENT LIGHT

"This world is rotten. Rotten people should be killed off to cleanse the world,” Light said.

With the Death Note in his hands, a very powerful instrument of death, Light begins to create a new world and eliminated all those he wanted—the criminals and whoever stands in his way.

Light Yagami is the son of a chief police officer named Souichirou Yagami and a bored 17-year old but extremely intelligent student.

In my own perspective, Light grows in a society where violence and crime are both widespread like a contagious virus. Numerous reports of crime and violence incidents often reached his ear from his very own father and like some people out there who hated crime and violence, he may too wanted to do something to get rid of it. The madness of the world and the way it rotates shaped Light in a different light after acquiring the Death Note. He sees the world as a place that polluted by evil which is rapidly increasing and there are so many humans who shouldn’t necessarily live in this world and should be erased. They are humans who painted the world with unnecessary colors that ruined the beautiful masterpiece of art the world has once became.

Hence, Light used the Death Note as his instrument to create his own ideal world. It is a world. By using the Death Note, he will reshape the world by eliminating those entire he thinks doesn’t necessarily live; the evil humans who destroyed the world. In Light’s eyes, when people start to see that death is the consequence of doing evil they’ll stop doing it and the world will rotate normally once again. Many people feared death and if death is the judgment for those who are evil other people will never imitate evildoers.

Light remained firm on this goal and brought judgment to evildoers. For this reason, he became Kira the god of the new world.

In Japanese fiction, the name Kira means “light” or “shininess.” It can also mean any good qualities in a person.

A single question arises as Light becomes Kira, the god of the new world.... Can Kira bring light to the world?