Post 13: The US Gun Culture

The Founding Fathers : 

The Founding Fathers of the United States are the individuals of the Thirteen British Colonies in North America who led the American Revolution against the authority of the British Crown and established the United States of America. The term is also used more narrowly, referring specifically to those who either signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or who were delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States. A further subset includes those who signed the Continental Association or the Articles of Confederation. During much of the 19th century, they were referred to as either the "Founders" or the "Fathers". Some historians apply the term "Founding Fathers" to a larger group of people, including not only the Signers and the Framers but also all those who, whether as politicians, jurists, statesmen, soldiers, diplomats, or ordinary citizens, took part in winning American independence and creating the United States of America. Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as the key Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

National Rifle Association: The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonprofit organization which advocates for gun rights. Founded in 1871, the group has informed its members about firearm-related bills since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against legislation since 1975. It is also the oldest continuously operating civil rights organization in the United States.

Founded to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA continues to teach firearm competency and safety. It instructs civilians and law enforcement, youths and adults, in various programs. The organization also publishes several magazines and sponsors competitive marksmanship events. Membership surpassed 5 million in May 2013^.
Observers and lawmakers see the NRA as one of the top three most influential lobbying groups in Washington

Steve SACK, on www.startribune.com,

Gun Lobby and Congress (2010)

This Steve Sack cartoon published on the website startribune is a criticism of how influenced the congress is regarding lobbies. The fat politician in a nice blue suit, with a wallet identifying him as a member of the congress, receiving a bag full of money from a men in a businessman suit, with a brown wallet identifying him as a member of the gun lobby. we understand that the politician is being bribed, we can think it is to keep the same legislation about gun possession and business, and this criticizes corruption, for no protest against the possession of guns will get a result if the validity of the laws is bought. There is a double criticize, with a blood streak flowing down from the capitol, placed right above the two characters. The member of the lobby saying "Now, where were we before we were so rudely interrupted", we understand that they are probably responsible of this blood streak, which criticize how the gun lobby and the authorization about the use of guns in USA can drive to violence, bringing people encouraging this state of things in a place such as the Capitol. Also, as the congress member is turning his back on the blood trail, it shows that the government is voluntarily ignoring the n,egative aspects of the gun culture un USA.

Dave GRANDLUND, on www.davegranlund.com, 

Second Amendment and NRA (2013)

 The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals, while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices. State and local governments are limited to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights.


This document is a caricature from Dave Grandlund, made in 2013, and showing the vision of the second amendment about gun possession first from the founding father's point of view, and then from the National rifle association's point of view. The first one, being the founding father's point of view, shows a noble american, very dignified, carrying a rifle as a hunt weapon. 
The side of the NRA shows a big American in a military suit, carrying an assault rifle and having two others in his back, and while the other is standing on a column, this american is standing on five boxes of munitions.
This caricature is criticizing the excessive vision about gun possession the NRA is conveying through America, in contradiction with the vision of the founding fathers that the NRA is perverting. It is criticizing the fact that gun are too easily possessible and the NRA, turning it into a business, without caring about the negative aspects that could result of it. If the founding fathers thought this law for people's protection, it is not it's real purpose these days.

POST 11: Individual document on Exchanges in Real and Virtual Spaces

As a third document to show how blurred the line between real and virtual spaces can become, this animated serie is perfect. In this story, the first virtual reality headset has been created, and the first game using this technology is released. But as people are starting to play, a problem appears; there is no way to disconnect from the game. As the headset is intercepting the brain's signal and simulating sensations by electric impulse, it was easy for the one who created this system to fry people's brain if someone tries to take it of manually, and to implement the rule that if someone dies in the game, he dies in real life. As the first virtual reality headsets are being created nowadays, people started to work on reproducing this kind of device, and it is not unrealistic to think it will be created in the future, and by recreating the five senses inside an online game, it will basically become like real life. It raises the problem of addiction to this hyper-realistic virtual space, but also the problem of a bad use of this technology.

Just in case, for potential readers, the post on life is strange is started, It'll probably be released soon, and I'll make another post later on sword art online.

The Mad Hatter

POST 4: Your own choice of a a film, series, song or book (novel, play, essay, comic, graphic novel) dealing with the 'MYTHS & HEROES' notion

Hey world! Even though this is a post for work, Don't leave it right now for I think it is a good occasion to make a first presentation of a non-manga work, for today's post will be about a sci-fi book,

The Ones!

As the most clever will have noticed, it is a book wrote by Daniel Sweren Becker that was released on September the 6th of 2016 by the Imprint edition. This book isn't very well known, mostly because it is quite recent, but I think it deserves some attention for it talks about something we could have to deal with sooner than we think: Genetical Manipulation. Well, you will get to realize it after I tell you guys about the plot.

In a slightly futuristic world, the Governement decided to experience the principle of Gene selection on 1% of newborn babies each year, making them perfect individuals known as "The Ones". During their youth, the Ones are noticed as perfect individuals, pretty, good at sport, having good grades, the highest quality of the population, and our main character, Cody, is proud that her and her boyfriend James are part of this 1%, considering it as a luck. Unfortunately, this is not everyone's opinion, an the association "Equality" starts criticizing the Ones, that would be taking away normal people's chances because of their so told perfection. After a few time of campaign, Equality reaches its first purpose by making the Ones officially illegal. This is where the real story starts, for persecution against the ones is being encouraged all over the World, and in order to "equilibrate" the balance, they are given additional disadvantages to drag them down in front of the rest of the population. As some of the Ones are accepting this situation and trying to calm things down by showing a will of peace, a group of rebellious ones is created, and their leader Kye chooses the use of terrorism as a mean to get back their rights, a movement in which Cody will take part, unwillingly taking James with her. As she is going to go deeper in illegality, James is going to be torn apart between the perfect image he has to keep in front of his family, for he is a replacement of a son they lost, and his will to help his loved one.

Obviously, the main characters are both James and Cody, but others could be considered so, mainly Kai, the leader of the rebellion, Norton, who is like the leader of the forces against the neo-Weatherman, which is the group of Ones, and James's father, who is a scientist secretly working on a chemical that would take off the One's advantages, reducing their abilities.

As you can see, this is not only raising the question of gene selection, but also the legitimacy of the governement's decision and the application of justice when individuals are at stake. This could be described as the story of a generation in a world where Human kind would have globally lost its moral, its humanity.

In addition, you could come to ask yourself what is good and justified and what revendications cannot justify, mostly with the character of Cody. If both James and cody have the noble qualities and will for self- sacrifice to be qualified as heroes, and even almost superheroes as they are perfect human-beings, Cody is a bit more difficult to agree with. At first she chooses to fight against "Equality" for justice, but after what she will experience during the story, it is obstination and the will for revenge that will make her keep fighting. All along the story, she will get deeper into illegality and terrorism, and even if you think her fight is a bit justified, you can't help but tell yourself that she is going too far, and she has to be placed in both hero and anti-hero category.

Gene selection is supposed to be a cutting age advance, a concern that would have appeared a few time ago with the many advances of science, but the Idea of a perfect man, that got rid of mere human's limitations and imperfections, is not that recent. Indeed, this corresponds to the Greek myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor who wasn't interested in women or humans in general, but that once sculpted a statue of a woman so perfect and beautiful that he fell in love with it. Eventually, after winning a contest on Aphrodite's festival day, the goddess answered his wish and made his ivory woman come human, so that he could marry her. With this myth, we can see that this will of perfection of humanity is something that keeps running through the ages without a distinction of technical limitations.

Well; this is it, hope it gave you some will to read this book, for it really deserves some more attention than it has for now. As this is partly a work post, the gift won't be for that one, but if you are curious I could give you clues in the comment section, so as always don't hesitate in writing some, I'll read them all and take them into account.
Oh, also as I have no good pic to close this post, it will be an announce of the next free post, and it's not a manga again!
Bye Guys!

The Mad Hatter

Post 6: An art Exhibition Review

In 2014, from June the 10th to September the 14th, at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, level 0, an exhibition called Pop art myths took place. Though it is of course imposible to get to see it at the center of Madrid nowaday, you can see the entire exhibition here, and you should give it a look for they did quite a great job putting it at everyone's disposition.

As said in the title, this was a three month pop art exhibition regrouping a group show of several artists, some well known such as Andy Warhol or Roy lichtenstein, and some that I discovered through it, like  Peter Blake or Mimmo Rotella. In one of there digital resources, you get through the many rooms of the exhibition, each gathering art pieces corresponding to a peculiar theme: Landscapes-interiors-still lives; Portraits; Myths; Emblems; Collage-advertising-comics; Urban Eroticism; History painting, and finally art about art.


Even though this exhibition has quite a large pannel of art pieces, that conveys quite a feeling of diversity, as someone who is quite fond of graphic art, made out of pencil and paint, the ones I found the most interesting where in the History section, especially "group hug" (counter publicity), of Juan Genovés, "The living room", of  Equipo Cronica, and the famous remake of Boticelli's "Birth of Venus" by Andy Warhol. These three, as impressive as they look, are also revealing the heteroclicity of atmosphere an identical section can contain, for the color pannel they are showing is way too different to create any other link than the historical criterial, except for some similiraties in the creative process. Indeed, in addition to Wharol's remake of Botticelli's paint, the "equipo cronica"s work is based on Velazquez painting's "Las Meninas".

Despite being fond of more classical forms of art, I have to salute the amazing works that were done by pretty much every artists of the exhibition to innovate in their art works, concerning pasting as well as re used comic characters, for it makes every piece surprising in its own way, wether it is humorous, simple or a bit grotesque. Morover, it is worth mentioning that if Andy Wharhol and Lichtenstein are probably the most well known of the pop art movement, this diversity of placement isn't focusing on their art works, and this makes the other less known artists have their place in the show.
Personally, I can't deny that as a total newbie in the pop art culture, I thought that I would not be able to get right into the exhibition, for it can look a bit weird at first time, but I was quite wrong for it is a very accessible form of art, sometime more explicit than more formal ones. Besides, if some of you are not quite fond of exhibitions and are afraid of spending too much time getting through this one, don't worry for it has quite a little number of art pieces for an exhibition, and the truth is you quickly made it through, even a bit too quick as far as I am concerned. Of course, as it is an exhibition made to present the pop art myth, to give samples in order to make it discovered by more people, this is not really abnormal, but some more pieces could have served it well.

Now that we have seen a bit of the general informations about this exhibition, let's focus on one peculiar piece, of which I talked already which is "the living room" of equipo cronica. In this painting, we are placed in a living room, very bright looking, with a squared floor on which stands a little girl dressed in grey, surrounded by what seems to be servants. At her feet are a ball, a dog and a rubber ring looking as a duck.  As a third year student in Highschool, I have some insight into this remake of Diego Velazquez's famous painting, mostly because the change of colour stricked me by the major changes it brought to the atmosphere of the all painting.
Indeed, the bright and shiny feel expressed by this remake contrasts with the very sober look
La salita

• 1970
• Acrylic on linen
  200 x 200 cm
• Museo Fundación Juan March, de Palma
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of Velazquez's paint, made as if their was no light in the scene. the level of details of nthe scene is also way superior in Velazquez's paint, and this is simply the result of the different times the paintings were made. If Velazquez is representing the XVIIth century through his representation of the Royal family, the remake of Equipo cronica seem to represent the myth of the American way 

of life during the 50s, which explains the bright atmosphere and the apparent signs of prosperity, emphasized by the traditional clothes and the fact that it is a royal family represented. The dog and the child toys are adding to this feel of modern familiy, eventhough the character's placement is the same as in Velazquez's paint, with the paintor himself standing next to the familiy. On top of that, if the level of detail is lower while looking at the nuances, it is not less

 impressive by the precision of the composition.

Las Meninas

1656

oil on linen 

318 x 276 cm

Diego Velazquez

With this painting, we basically see the essence of Pop Art, which is to use the ancient to innovate, and the change of time we see in those is perfectly illustrating this aspect of the pop art myth, which purpose is in my opinion to surprise people. I would add that this is not an art that can really die, for it will innovate and create new forms of Art as long as artists will keep creating in other arts movements. Pop art might be a constant modern art.

Well, this is it, I can only advice you once again to go check this exhibition online, as I don't think it will be another time in Madrid. This said, as always don't hesitate to leave comments, and bye guys!

The Mad Hatter

Post 2: Chris/Alexander and the myth of the noble/good savage in Sean Penn's into the wild movie

Chris/Alexander in Sean Penn's Into the Wild movie

                                                                                     The good/noble savage illustration

CONTAIN SPOILERS
A noble savage is a stock character, a stereotypical character who embodies the concept of an outsider who's mind has not been corrupted by civilization and symbolises therefore humanity's innate goodness. This was first used by John Dryden, in his play The conquest of Granada, used in reference to thenewly created man, but then became identified with the idealized image of "nature's gentleman", an aspect of 18th century's sentimentalism, which is the belief that the difference between moral and immoral are discovered by emotional responses to sexperiences. It represents the idea that in a state of nature, men are filled with natural kindness and innocence, lost with the apparition of society and commercial relations, for example. This state has been defined wrong by civilization, who attributed the word "savage" to this way of life, with the negative connotation of the absence of manners society is supposed to have brought, as it was done to native Americains.

Chris seems to believe nature is the realm of peace and calm, pure and filled with world's basic beauty, that he is willing to find. He thinks it is a place free from societie's binds, responsabilities and material binds. As he is convinced of societie's rotteness and corruptions, he believes that living on its own will drive him to be free from the poison individuals are being inocculated by civilization. This is shown several times in the movie, as when he burns all his money off after losing his car on a beach, or when he speaks with Wayne about Society, screaming out loud while being half drunk how unlogical and uncomprehensible people's greed and unkindness was. In addition, these many defaults that he sees in society are giving him even more reasons to get away from his parents, and he runs away from both societi's greed and will of domination and his parents lies, knowing there is few that share the same opinion he does. He does not really embodies the myth of the noble savage, as he has grown up in society, but he tends to embodies the noble savage. He has the will to reach this ideal of pureness, he is craving from to live societie's influence, and this is why he came into the wild; he has set his heart on achieving ultimate freedom, he is longing to for making his own decisions and chioices, whithout having to make any compromise, whithout having to let society absorb a part of him. Most of all, he is willing to kill the false Chris he created during his growth, and to become the one he thinks he could and should have become if he had lived into the wild since his birth: the pure Chris, who would be a real noble savage.

Unfortunately, in his will to achieve his lofety ideals, he fails to grasp some basic truths about living in the wild. Indeed, seeking nature's beauty, he forgot that the most important in nature is how to answer human's basic need, in other words: to survive. As he enters the wild, the guy who gave him a drive to this point sees he is not prepared enough and has to give him boots to keep his feet dry, as he didn't think about it. Also, while living in the wildness, he had not decided if he would stay a long time or not but still, it is a well known fact that to have enough food it is necessary to stock it, especially when you think that if there is a lot of game during a season, it will leave afterwards. By not being providing enough, he ended up starving in the wild lacking food, which leads us to the last example, his self-poisoning. Of course, it is comprehensible that starving and barely stable mentally because of it, he made a mistake identifying the plants he could eat with an inedible one. Though, coming into the wild, if he had prepared his stay well enough, he should have learned long before what he could eat and what he could not, knowing the unstability of the game's presence, it would have been normal to learn the utility of plants. So, what it failed to grasp was in fact simply the dangers of nature, that he underestimated, blinded by his expectations.

As I said before, i don't think Chris can be qualified a noble savage. Though his ideals are in accordance with the caracteristics of the good savage, his propension to only search for beauty in life, through books as well as through his life in the wild would place him more in the romantic category, which besides side up with the myth of the noble savage about the consideration of nature, the will to return to the forgotten sources of life. The thing is that Chris's convictions appeared because of his previous life in society, and his feels for his parents, which is in contradiction with the idea of the good savage and reveals more of an idealistic way of thinking. The influence civilization exerced on him can be seen as he finds the magic bus: he wanted to get away from material binds, but finding this sign of civilization with usable ustensils made him happy and he decided to use it, for he was accoustumed and in need for some confort.

Going back to a State of nature once one has lived in society is, in my opinion, difficult but possible.

Indeed, for a lot of people it would be impossible to deal whithout basic material comfort and to survive outside of societie's barriers. Though, there is also quite a lot of individuals who cannot bear civilization and it's restrictions, and that would like to run out from the rotten world they see growing around them, as Chris does. For these people, it would be possible, but they would need to be way more prepared than Chris was, to be aware of the price of leaving society. Also, as Chris dicovered too late, they should not leave alone, for "Hapiness is only real when shared". There are people who like peace and loneliness, but eventhough to live in the wildness, far from societie's surveillance, it would be indispensable to live at least close enough from each other to receive help in need. If society as they see it is today wicked and twisted, the basis of it were to unite humans in order to survive by helping and supporting each other, without any consideration of power or wealth.
To conclude, I can't say if it is advisable, for it depends on people's thoughts, but as it is possible, I would say it is advisable to follow your convictions, and that if someone think going back to a state of nature would be a good thing for him, as long as he is aware of the dangers and takes them in consideration, it would be advisable for this person to try this life style.

So, if I had to prononce myself about Chris McCandless's decision, I would say that despite his few mistakes, Alexander Supertramp was Rigth.

The Mad Hatter

New Manga presentation, Code: Breaker!

Hey there everyone! For this new presentation, I'll be talking about an awesome
 action manga:

Code: breaker

So, this time, a single man works above, Akimine Kamijo, or  Akimine Kamijyô.This manga is his third one, and before he wrote two quite famous mangas, Samouraï Deeper Kyo, on which I will make a post later, and Shirogane no Karasu, which looks pretty awesome, but was not released outside Japan, unfortunately. Both of them are battle mangas, and Code: breaker is not making an exception, but if the two first were taking place in an ancient Japan, this one is taking place in today world.

 Before I talk to you guys about the story, lets present you the concept:

The actual Japan, a peacefull country as any other. Happy citizens, appreciated rulers, and, as in any other part of the world, a bunch of criminals, running in the street as well as in the high sphere of gouvernement. In fact, the only difference that could be spotted is hidden in the shadow: under the prime minister's orders, a group of people are using their special abilities in the name of justice, hunting criminals around the country. Their motto? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, evil for evil.

 Those peoples above the laws are named

 The Code Breakers! 

Can you honestly say you don't want to give it a try now? However, lets get to the story!
In this story, we're following a young girl named Sakurakoji sakura, very skilled at Aïkido, karate and judo, and that is going to find out that her new classmate, Ogami Rei, is actually a killer used by the gouvernement to eliminate criminals, The Code Breaker 06, using his power, a strange blue flame, to executate the prime minister's orders. In addition, we learn in the first book that Sakurakoji is a "special specimen", and even if we don't know what this means for a quite long time, it's adding an interest to this character, that could at first sight look uninteresting if you're not fond of what I call the unactive Heros. Indeed this is what she looks like at the beginnig of the story.


 The point is that Sakurakoji is a fervent protector of Humans life, and during a good part of the story, she will try to convince Ogami to stop killing people, whithout any results. In fact, the way of thinking of Ogami, even if it is horrible, seem more logical, because during the story all the situations are going in his direction, showing that for a lot of people, speaking is useless, and that the basic laws of the country are not working on everyone.


To tell you the truth, I first thought that Sakurakoji was going to be the greatest weakness of this manga, because of her first role in the story which is almost to be a burden for Ogami. Even though her first interventions to prevent Ogami from killing are comprehensible, it can often be really annoying. In addition, in the first part of the manga, a lot of elements  are showing the rightness, if we can say so, of Ogami's point of view, by showing the cruallity of reality, corruptions, unhuman acts... But this is on purpous: that's the true and deep nature of this main character, a real humanity lover that cannot stand murder in any case and for any reason, which is probably why the code breakers, who almost gave their humanity to the gouvernement, seem to quite like her. 

Yeah, I did say the Code Breakers, because as some of you might have guess by watching the first-or the second-picture there is quite a lot of them.
Well done Sherlock!
Indeed, this manga gets its real interests when the other code breakers are starting to get in the dance. With them, we slowly come to learn more about Sakurakoji and, first, about Ogami. Indeed, you quickly learn that his intention is not to stay the gouvernements puppet, but to kill someone known as Sagashimono, the one you search, who is the guy who rose Ogami and learned him to control his powers. Each and every code:breaker as it's single interesting-and often funny-personnality, and trust me when I tell you that between them, the ancient code:breakers seeking for revenge and the Re:code, working for Sagashimono, you will not get bored. 

As you probably notice, this manga seem to question a lot the use and the conception of justice, revenge and criminality. I wouldn't say that it is done in an original way, but it is definitely very well done and shown.

Well, this is it folks, I know I took a veeerry long time to post this new short article, I've been really busy during holydays, working on some projects I might share with you someday soon. Until then, just know that I have a little gift for you guys, which I'm going to show you in the next post  and that also took me quite a lot of time during hollidays. 

As usual, leave a comment if you have any request or suggestions, or if you just want to talk a little, it would really please me, and of course I'll read them all and take them into account.

Bye guys!

The Mad Hatter

I'll show you a perfect world...

Hey there guys! Even tough I don't know if this revue will be of any use, I really wanted to make a post about today's manga, and it's quite the logical sequel for the post on Bakuman. 

Today, we are going to talk about the king of psychological thrillers,

Death Note!

I already mentionned it in my last post about Bakuman, for it has been made by the same duo of authors, Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba, my actuels models in manga writing, but I'll tell you more about this another time. This manga is the first of the three this duo made, it was first released in 2003 and has thirteen volumes in all, and an anime adaptation came out in 2006, counting 37 episodes perfectly accurated to the manga. As I said it in my former post, this manga is not what you could call a light one. Here, you will be brought to think about  the rightness of the actual justice and the limitation between good and evil, while being absorbed in a dark and unfair world.

So, the story is about Light Yagami, a gifted teenager who's life looks perfect from outside, but who is actually bored of the world around him. As the son of a police chief, he knows that a lot of criminals are running around the world, and even just around him he often thinks that a lot of people would deserve a punishement for their actions. One day, after school, he finds a strange book on the ground, titled "Death Note". In the "How to Use it" section, the first rule that is written is that if you write the name of a person in this book while having this person's face in mind, this person will die in 40 seconds. Also, it is written that if you write the cause of death during these 40 seconds, you have an extra six minute and fourtee seconds to describe it, and it will happen. After experimenting it, he will meet Ryuk, the god of death that made the death note fall into the human world out of boredom, and the basic owner of the death note. Light, who is also bored of his own unperfect world, choose to use the death note to purify the world by eliminating every criminal or person that he judges guilty of a crime. After that, he plans on becoming the god of this perfect new world. But the death of

numerous criminals will soon catch the attention of L, a mysterious detective who is known to solve every case he works on. After provocating Light, who is at this point known all over the world as Kira, the battle between the two begins, and the all story will talk about the strategies that both are going to build in order to get closer of the other, and eliminate him. I can't convey you the feelings you have while following the two of them during their fight, and also while getting to know a bit more about Light's way of thinking, for even if you can't say it in front of

everyone, for what he defends is clearly immoral, it's easy to get identify to Light and to think that Kira would be good for the world. In fact, a lot of people are arguing about the fact that Kira might be, in a way, of better influence for the world than L is, but I will talk about this precisely in another post, because yes, death note is one of the special manga I am going to talk about.

So, later in the story, we will meet another key character, who is Misa, a girl that found a death note too, but who is more powerfull than Light, for she did with her god of death, Remu, a deal that Light refused: By giving half of her life time, she obtained the eye of the god of death, that allows her to know the name of someone just by looking at this person's face. She immediately falls in love with Light, who judged the killer of Misa's parents, and he will use her at will during the all serie. The manga has a second part, but just telling a few word about it would be an horrible spoil about the first part, so I will not talk about it in this post, but in a next one.

As you might have guessed, this manga is going to talk about really dark themes, such as death, the reliability of human's justice an manipulation, with the relation between Misa and Light, which is not reciprocal at ALL. If you are looking for a light manga just to laugh a bit and get relax, this is not the good one, but if you are just looking for an excellent manga, or anime, you have to give it a try, even if it might awake the madness inside your heart...well, this was really depressive, so...hey!

Anyway, just to let you know that this manga will give some serious work to your brain, and might also make you think differently about the reliability of everyone around you, higher up or...friends, for finally, Light is only a student that thinks about making the world better, but who has a blazed notion about good and evil. That's what you may think, but is your version of evil the same as mine? What if the notion of good and evil was just something artificial, if you had the power of applying your vision of it, wouldn't you do it too? The evil is not something that is basically in some people and not in others, every single person is capable of the better as the worst. Even though you probably heard that douzains of time, it's always good to remind it sometimes.

So, Death Note is a real master piece, and one of the must read of the manga world, so if you have not seen or red it already, just hurry up, you really have to. In fact I almost envy you, for you are going to discover a freaking awesome manga...and authors duo, if you didn't knew them. 

Of course, because this manga is really extremely famous, I don't think this post is going to be useful for a lot of people, but I hope some people will find it interesting, and I really had to write at least once about this one...even if it is not the last time, but well...

As I said it at the beginning, this post is the logical sequel to the Bakuman post, and I hope you enjoyed it, for I did enjoy writing it. As always, react to it in the comments, and tell me if you want me to talk about something special or either something else than manga, I will read all of them and take them into account, and of course if I made any mistake or that you want to discuss of something I wrote, tell it and I will answer you,

Bye guys!

The Mad Hatter