Shinto does have a Heaven and Hell, although those don't mean the same thing as Christianity exactly Heaven is where the kami live and where humans might end up if you become a god yourself Hell, Yomi, is where most dead people end up, the dark underworld
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It's the equivalent of Olympus and Hades in Greek myth, which are fairly common concepts across different cultures
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I guess. I suppose most people weren't hung up on the idea of being eternally tormented in Hell at age 11, somehow developing a temporary OCD that lasted until age 14 where they believed they had to repeat the name of every human they knew to beg for them to be spared
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
(that was intense, sorry :P let's just say kid me would have used the DN just to make sure I could go to neither Heaven nor Hell, because Pascal's Wager dictated I was much more likely to go to Hell if I didn't)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
The highly ironic and hotly contested implications of the Death Note Relight films (which show the story from Ryuk's POV) is that it's the other way around There either is no afterlife for normal humans or if there is the Shinigami have no knowledge of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The reason for that Rule of the Death Note is that what they *do* know is that Death Note users don't go to any kind of human afterlife because... they become Shinigami The Death Note is where Shinigami come from in the first place, it's how they reproduce
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Replying to @arthur_affect
oo, now that part was not in the anime, but is fascinating
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Yeah the fandom is really bitterly divided on whether this is canon or not
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I mean I'm the kind of person who wants Shinigami to have *an* explanation of some kind even if it's not a complete explanation It does answer things like why Shinigami seem to have gender even though they don't have biological sex (in either sense)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
We know basically nothing other than that Ryuk calls the new Shinigami Light after he’s out of earshot, right? Like, do we know if the Light Shinigami *is* Light (i.e. his consciousness and having his memories), or a new Shinigami Light’s (or Ryuk’s) actions created?
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Replying to @muddlewait @BootlegGirl
Ah, now we're getting all philosophical
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