Something I've been curious about re: Death Note for a while - I'm by no means an expert in the relevant mythology and I know most of the stuff about the Shinigami in the anime/manga is just created for same - but the term is a Shinto thing, right?
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It just seems odd, to me, like, to take it out of the Japanese context, what if you dropped the Death Note in a Freethinkers conference in San Francisco? Why would anyone care about those terms
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I think it's fairly common for many English speakers to just say "Heaven and Hell" to mean "the afterlife" as a general concept
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That said, I don't think that Rule of the Death Note is really meant to imply that either the Christian or Shinto afterlife is real, I think it's just an idiomatic way of saying that whatever afterlife exists, a Death Note user can't get to it
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Right, it's explicit in the anime that it's NOT real, that it was a trick Ryuk wrote in, the same as saying "whoever uses this note will not be able to fly with the fairies" or whatever. I just don't get why he would expect the user to think otherwise
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