It's been an exciting month so far, with much more to follow. Let's recap!
Fausto the Endless cosplays Kira: The God of the New World
(Reproduced with permission - FaustoTheEndless at WorldCosplay)
Kira Seiyū Interviewed by You!
Anime actors Brad Swaile, Sergio Zamora and Kim Hasper are answering your questions backstage as we speak. They ALL played Light Yagami, providing the voice for him in the English, Spanish (European) and German dubs of the Death Note anime respectively.
Each actor has a new profile page - which will later transform into their individual interviews conducted by all who sent in queries to be asked. The buttons beneath their pictures below will take you to that seiyū's profile too.
To make life easier on all, we even translated the question form into English, Spanish and German. Though any of those languages may be used to ask what you will of all three Light Yagami voice actors.
Each actor has a new profile page - which will later transform into their individual interviews conducted by all who sent in queries to be asked. The buttons beneath their pictures below will take you to that seiyū's profile too.
To make life easier on all, we even translated the question form into English, Spanish and German. Though any of those languages may be used to ask what you will of all three Light Yagami voice actors.
All about Raito: Kira Profiles, Light Yagami Analyses, Papers, Discussions & More
Death Note News writers and readers alike have been sharing their thoughts and research expertise on all things Yagami. Thus far, we've read profiles penned by us:
Philosophy:
and Linguistics:
Philosophy:
- Nathaniel Overthinks Death Note #04: The Utilitarianism of Light Yagami
- The Concept of Kira: Can you Really say Light Yagami is the God of the New World? (Guest Post by Lua)
and Linguistics:
| Then Death Note News columnist Lucas King was here to discuss and play us his piano version of Light's Theme from the anime. Whilst also ninja-ing in an appeal on behalf of a friend. Meanwhile, an old friend of all who once haunted MangaBullet - the very epitome there of a Light Yagami fan - took centre-stage in a (not coincidentally) very relevant Focus on a Fan for this Month of Kira. Who better than Maru-Light for that? Got anything more to add? A paper, insight, opinion, commentary, review or general Thing About Raito to Share lying about your hard-drive or bouncing about your mind? Then let us have it! | |
Where the Kira Fans Meet
In our aim to uncover the communities, forums, groups and other places where Light Yagami fans hang out - and to give such areas a little boost of publicity too - we had ComicVine's Light Yagami Forum respond, while also bigging up our own Pinterest Community Board for Kira fans.
Let us know if there are more out there!
Let us know if there are more out there!
Light Yagami Cosplayers Unite!
We've had Kira cosplay galore! In addition to the fabulous God of the New World above by Fausto the Endless (of whom more later in the month), the whole thing kicked off with Cayanna Carma as Light Yagami welcoming us to this event.
She returned later to answer questions about cosplaying Kira, as did Squad Six Cosplayers and Light Yagami. We're still to hear from Maru-Light, whose insight is already in and queued waiting to be published.
She returned later to answer questions about cosplaying Kira, as did Squad Six Cosplayers and Light Yagami. We're still to hear from Maru-Light, whose insight is already in and queued waiting to be published.
Paging the Writers of Light Yagami Fan-Fiction
There's been slightly less of a response from those penning Kira fan-fiction. Matti gave it a go with Mu Amongst Fools; while the ubiquitous Maru-Light came clean on whatever happened to her co-authored Death Note novels The Redeemer Series. Fascinating, even if you never read the books!
However, there may be more interest now that we've finally got our Death Note fan-fiction author questions up and running. Will you be sharing your writing secrets there?
However, there may be more interest now that we've finally got our Death Note fan-fiction author questions up and running. Will you be sharing your writing secrets there?
Drawing in the Kira Fan Artists
The lovely Tate Forkel started us off with the fan drawn Light Yagami artwork. Arrowchild added her own to the Redeemer piece already mentioned above. But then nothing more.
Come on Kira artists! We're all dying to see what you have created. To a given value of 'dying' obviously; thought we'd better mention that, given the subject and circumstances. You may be interested to note that you have also now got a series of questions aimed at uncovering your artistic know-how!
Come on Kira artists! We're all dying to see what you have created. To a given value of 'dying' obviously; thought we'd better mention that, given the subject and circumstances. You may be interested to note that you have also now got a series of questions aimed at uncovering your artistic know-how!
Did We Miss Anything?
There's much more to come from whence all of this derived, so keep reading and don't forget that everything Light Yagami related this month is being archived for a permanent display: The C0llected Archives of Death Note News Month of Light Yagami.
And next month, Matsuda. Are you ready?
And next month, Matsuda. Are you ready?
