tl;dr if you don't care about Christianity (i.e. you don't care for its rightness, within or without the context of watching anime) and you don't care about Death Note not aligning with Christian belief and you don't care if Death Note aligns with nihilism you probably don't care about the gripes in this post
The OP itself seems like an original copypasta, though. Not very characteristic of
@mindlessobserver, as far as I've seen him.
Genuine question here: Do you know that the main antagonist in that game is a rip-off of Light Yagami?
Shido Yaldabaoth Society isn't a rip-off of Light.
...being less cheeky, neither is Akechi. Their motivations, and the reasons for their motivations (i.e. the substance of their characters) are pretty different.
I can see the resemblance, if you're on the mark with those observations. Maybe the writers were being cheeky. I wouldn't call it substantial enough to be considered for rip-offedness, though
also the litmus test for a ripoff is whether I like it-- if it's good, it's a homage, and it's a ripoff otherwise.
Holy shit! I hope OP never watches
Hell Girl. It's even worse, since it's about a ghost girl who can send anyone (good or bad) to Hell by request - the price for this service being that the person making the request has to go to Hell themselves when they die. The second season ends in a free for all where the citizens of an entire town are busily sending each other to Hell over petty reasons. Some of the people that get sent to Hell during the series are pretty nasty pieces of work and you wonder if getting sent to Hell might even be too good for them. Cynical works like this and Death Note are just a reminder that despite their politeness and conformity, the Japanese are just as dark and twisted as the rest of us, perhaps more so.
The following is inchoate in many regards, but I have the impression that the Japanese are capable of a particular kind of "emotional rawness" I have yet to experience from Western media. Perhaps it's because of that contrast between themselves and the face they have to wear to maintain their society building up creative tension energy that's eventually released in severe eruptions... when they manage to either strike gold/catch lightning or otherwise prevail against the crushing weight of industrial conformity.
But you're not readily getting that in America where that same contrast isn't that strong and there's more tolerance for (and sometimes, glorification of) non-conformity...
maybe.
I ought to think about this more. It's fascinating.
I hope I don't waste time trying to articulate what could be effectively summarized as "channeled autism".
