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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oo, now that part was not in the anime, but is fascinating
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Yeah the fandom is really bitterly divided on whether this is canon or not
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The big Wham Line reveal at the end of the story is that the new unnamed Shinigami at the end is in fact Light himself Condemned to the same dreary boredom and nihilistic awareness that nothing matters Ryuk had
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Which is why Ryuk found it so amusing to troll him in the first place, what the "purpose" of giving him the Death Note was To find the most idealistic, hubristic person you can and watch them destroy themselves and eventually become their own antithesis
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