Hero's journey-DeathNote

Group Members: Si Peter, To You Kim

Why we chose it: We wanted to try a hero's journey in which the 'hero' is in fact a villian.

ACT I

1. Ordinary World: Light Yagami, an ordinary student (with an exception of being a  genius), lives in an ordinary world as a model student who always claims the position of valedictorian.

2. Call to Adventure: He sees a notebook in the school track field, and picks it up. He finds out that the notebook is a Death Note, a notebook in which a person whose name is written on the notebook dies.

3. Refusal of the Call: After finding out that the person with name written on the notebook died, Light feel guilty of his deed.

4. Meeting the Mentor: Approximately 3 days after picking up the note, Light meets Ryuk the shinigami, the grim reaper who was the original owner of the Death Note. Light fears that shinigami will take his soul for abusing the note, but Ryuk announces that the note belongs to Light from the moment he picked it up.

5. Crossing the Threshold: Light, after his brief encounter with his mentor, decides that he will commit his life to eradicating the evils of the society using the Death Note. He says after annihilating all the evils he will claim the throne of being the God of the New World. After killing numerous criminals, Light picks up a pseudonym “Kira,” which means “Killer” in Japanese.

ACT II
6. Tests, Allies, Enemies: After mysterious deaths of infamous criminals, the united world police association panics, as the method of homicide is unheard of, and every day more people die out.This is the scene where Light meets his nemesis, L. L is the best detective the world has ever seen, and police asks for his help. L easily finds out approximate location of Kira, and drives Light to the corner. 

7. Approach to the Innermost Cave: Light, as he commits himself to ridding the world of criminals, finds out that he will have to sacrifice his own humanity, and peoplehe love, like his own father. Light Yagami’s father is Soichiro Yagami, a police who investigates the Kira case. As the police gets closer and closer, Light is forced to make his choice and face L.

8. Ordeal: Light and L fights a silent war, a battle in which one tries to find Kira and the other tries to kill L. They fight a war that they use the subtlest of methods and the most ingenious schemes to expose each other. Light wins at the end.

9. Reward:

Light gains the ability to control the Death Note at his will. He no longer has any nemesis, and uses the condition to impose his values to the world. He also meets a girl, Misa, who is his fanatic and also happens to have the Death Note.

ACT III
10. The Road Back: Light goes to his usual day life, except that he still works to eradicate the criminals at night.

11. Resurrection: This story does not have the resurrection of Light, but rather L. L’s two heirs, Near and Mallow, succeeds L’s works.

12. Return With the Elixir: Kira becomes the world’s god.

13. The Difference Death note has form ordinary Hero’s journey: The story does not end with the Light having the ultimate ability to control the death note and killing L. The story ends with Light dying, killed by L’s heir, Near. Light dies disgraced.