Death Note movie still depicting Supreme Judge Kenichi Mikuriya played by Eiichiro Funakoshi.
Photograph courtesy of Warner Bros Japan
There seems to be a touch of the Mikami about this new Death Note character - a Kira aping Supreme Judge to be introduced in the fourth of the movies, out in Japan this October.
Eiichiro Funakoshi has been cast as Kenichi Mikuriya, one of the owners of a shinigami notebook in the movie Death Note: Light Up the NEW World. He picks up his Death Note after six of them fall to Earth on Kozuki Night and chaos reigns a whole lot harder.
As a high-ranking judge, it might expected that Mikuriya would hand his notebook immediately over to the appropriate legal authority for them (in this case, Tsukuru Mishima and his Death Note Countermeasure Headquarters Special Team). However, the Supreme Judge as better ideas. Rankled with the slow progress of the law, and with the occasional iniquity and unfairness of it too, Mikuriya determines the way forward to be embracing a more 'sophisticated' brand of arbitrating justice, i.e. him using the Death Note where the courtroom fails.
We can't help feeling that we've heard rhetoric like this before. You know, from Light, L, every Wammy ever, Mikami...
And ok! Mikami was a mere prosecutor, not a Supreme Judge, nor was the lawyer technically a Death Note owner. But the distinction would have been lost on any of those many thousand of names that old Teru over-dramatically scribbled into his own (borrowed/bequeathed) Death Note pages. We've had an L clone and a Kira imitator announced (plus the originals back in the forms of Misa and Matsuda), so why not Mikami.
Now bigger and better and much, much darker. Deleting along with his forerunner and the best of them.
Death Note: Light Up the NEW World will be out on October 29th 2016.
Eiichiro Funakoshi has been cast as Kenichi Mikuriya, one of the owners of a shinigami notebook in the movie Death Note: Light Up the NEW World. He picks up his Death Note after six of them fall to Earth on Kozuki Night and chaos reigns a whole lot harder.
As a high-ranking judge, it might expected that Mikuriya would hand his notebook immediately over to the appropriate legal authority for them (in this case, Tsukuru Mishima and his Death Note Countermeasure Headquarters Special Team). However, the Supreme Judge as better ideas. Rankled with the slow progress of the law, and with the occasional iniquity and unfairness of it too, Mikuriya determines the way forward to be embracing a more 'sophisticated' brand of arbitrating justice, i.e. him using the Death Note where the courtroom fails.
We can't help feeling that we've heard rhetoric like this before. You know, from Light, L, every Wammy ever, Mikami...
And ok! Mikami was a mere prosecutor, not a Supreme Judge, nor was the lawyer technically a Death Note owner. But the distinction would have been lost on any of those many thousand of names that old Teru over-dramatically scribbled into his own (borrowed/bequeathed) Death Note pages. We've had an L clone and a Kira imitator announced (plus the originals back in the forms of Misa and Matsuda), so why not Mikami.
Now bigger and better and much, much darker. Deleting along with his forerunner and the best of them.
Death Note: Light Up the NEW World will be out on October 29th 2016.
