L: Did you notice anything suspicious about a student called Light? Teacher: Now that you mention it, he did choreograph a whole musical number about punishing the wicked.
No, idk about the manga as I didn’t read it, but it was made fairly explicit in the anime that light originally did it out of a perverse sense of justice. It’s just that he lost sight of his original goals as he kept killing the the power corrupted him and fed into his god complex.
@@Wouble_Ui mean light has the same motives either way, he likely thought the same thing but didn't express since he didn't have an entire musical number to fill
You know you scared me lmao, I was nearly gonna ask wtf did Jeremy do haha? Then I remembered Light, well he was in the right path at first, though the k*lling wasn't it !
I listened to this while walking and actually got choked up cause all I could think about were the poor African Americans who haven't gotten their justice. Light kinda did have a point.
I mean that's part of the point. He had good intentions, but the death note ultimately corrupts. He may have started out well-meaning, but of course, there's always the question of do the ends justify the means. And as time went on he slowly lost his perspective and his actions became less guided by the idea of fixing the system and about fueling his own god complex. He ends up becoming a player in the system he condemns here
@Soma Néo Saki but the thing is he's not a god. He's a human being playing at one who ultimately thinks he's better than others and uses and manipulates them for his own gain. He sees the death note as giving him this authority to determine who lives and dies when in reality he has no place to. I don't think he's pure evil. There's a complexity to him for sure. But his intentions ultimately got twisted and it became about increasing his power and control rather than truly creating justice. And honestly, that's partly because the death note itself corrupts. It gives people like Light too much power and even if they go in with good intentions, they ultimately got twisted along the way. I don't he ever could have been a just god whether or not L was there and again finding a death note does not give him the right to be a god and to judge others
@@dbrokensoul I agree it was terrible... but if you haven't seen it I recommend just because Willem Dafoe NAILED IT as Ryuk. Actually if you can just find all the Ryuk scenes and watch those then you can get all the best parts.
Let’s remember that the musical version of Light and the anime version are VERY different. Anime Light had nothing about “lawyers cutting deals” or letting “corporations make the regulations.” He didn’t care about “the rich and famous” getting away with murder. He only wanted to kill all the criminals. Largely those that were already incarcerated. He wasn’t rebelling against a corrupt system, he just believed all criminals should get the death penalty.
F. A. Valencia At first I saw him like that, but when he kept killing innocents, and kept going on about becoming god, I now see him as a power-hungery sociopath.
Not only that but this musical was highly criticized for no other reason than being just that, just because the name Death Note was involved. I don't like Tiktok, but at least they finally gave this justice, albeit way beyond its time.
Was anybody going to tell me there was a death note musical that actually slaps or was I just supposed to stumble upon a comment on a good omens animatic at 2 am by myself
We all need to do our time stumbling over here from that good omens animation. I did my time of nearly 3 weeks listening to only human on repeat before I checked if there were other songs.
I was just listing to some good Broadway, and it came up. I clicked on it to see "how bad it was" and oh was I wrong. I can't believe that I never heard this before.
Same here. I came here because of the animatic and it's funny to me because it happened to me the exact same thing with another animatic, but it was from a Frankenstein musical
‼️Analysis ‼️ what I probably love the most about this song, is it's correlation to the _actual_ deathnote. Light sings about how "judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong". It may not be on purpose, but with how carefully the writers were with the words they put in their songs, I wouldn't doubt it. Now, Light is angry about the system in an "eat the rich" way, and especially questions their views, law and the system itself. The system based on _written down words._ It's amazing how the tables turn when Light gets the deathnote, _becoming_ the law with these written down words. He become what he so despised, but he fully believes he's better than it, better than it used to be (which, in my opinion, was kind of the case in the begining, until he got crazy)
I'd argue that you're so right, that you're wrong. I propose that Light never actually cared to begin with. All of this talk of helping the innocent wasn't out of an actual desire for justice, it was his own twisted ego. After all, he would be revered as the one who fixed the system and made the world work right. And besides, it wasn't even Light singing the "pushing pencils" line- it was one of his classmates. He wanted to be revered, to be appreciated for something he'd done and felt even mildly proud of (his academic life came too easy for him to ever consider that), and certain views he may or may not have had on sociopolitical affairs just got roped into all that. Which is why the musical's interpretation of the ending- Light wins the game, L dies, and then Ryuk just kills him because the game's over, is so brilliant. Light only wanted to be the god of a new world because gods are revered and appreciated and worshiped for what they do. But the most appreciation he ever felt, the most he ever connected with anyone, was when L was matching his intelligence. He needed L, not the Death Note. And in using the Death Note to be rid of L... he realized what he had the second he forced himself to watch it all fade away.
There's two sayings that go great with this: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain" and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
When I was younger I used to think that Light/ Kira really had a point. But ultimately, the death note is inadequate for creating a better world. The only thing it can do is punish, and the only punishment it can give is death. There is no in-between, no grey-area. For Light, people are either "good" or they deserve death. There is no rehabilitation, no understanding and no prevention. Immediate justice like this is satisfying, because when we hear of horrible people getting locked up for life or executed, we are likely to think "Yeah! Serves them right! Let them rot!". Our need for justice might have been satisfied, but we have learnt and gained very little to make the world a better place. Sure, this one person is gone, but if we don't ask "Why did this person turn out this way? How could this have been prevented?", the next criminal will take their spot in no time. Maybe they'll get better at not-getting-caught.
I agree with you, but in the anime he doesn’t kill people that needed to break the law to live, had understandable reasons or deeply regretted their crimes.
@@sophisticatedaristocrat wouldn't light literally just copy down arrest lists of people that were arrested that day in the anime.....someone's name next to the crime they committed does not detail their socioeconomic situation, motives for the crime, or evidence they committed said crime, so idk where you're getting that he didn't kill people who broke the law to live or had understandable reasons 😭not to mention he killed innocent people like raye and naomi too
You are omitting supernatural element of Death Note, it will get you no matter did you escape, gave bribe to the judge or walked on technicality. If you consider this it is very realistic that at the end of anime/manga crime rates fallen 70% and there was no wars. There are 415k homicides every year and this is without counting deaths in combat and others that stem from consequences of crimes. Light saved millions of lives and really made a better world in the end.
I actually can totally see the evil bits in the song, and emotional appeal to a complex issue, making it out to be simple "right and wrong". Reality is when we focus on punishment, we become like KIra. The lines start to blur to egos and personal failings, where innocents end up dying along side the corrupt. It's an amazing song. A great story and cautionary tale too. The line "Let good old fashion payback, grease the wheels of the machine" Kinda shows my point. Payback is not justice. Justice is fair and correct. Payback is emotional. The ideology was corrupt from the start, just simply told persuasively. Think of it another way too. Light is a privileged kid, his dad is a decorated officer, leader of a police department. The exact type of person who would not understand justice, believing themself to be inherently just. That's always why the god complex made sense to me, why he saw himself as justice. He had seeds of that in his mind before the death note. But as he grew he would have seen how things are far more grey. The anime showed that in the scenes where he didn't have his memories. The death note ruined him and his bright future. Stuck him in place. Made those seeds blossom. To me, death note was a story of the danger of having an absolute view of the world, and how an absolute ideology can corrupt your sense of self if you are handed power. How power stagnates you as a person. You don't need wisdom when you are powerful. Because then you must be pure. Power makes you pure. You must be god. Gods don't need to improve. They are inherent. Absolute. (usually, depends on the media or religion). I think this right here is why Light scares me so much. Ugh I love this story, one of the few I get a deep meaning out of. I''m not even a big anime fan aha. But I love this one.
Oh my god, thank you for vocalizing this. I see a lot of the comments saying that light "had good intentions, he just let the power go to his head", but IMO the point of Death Note is that any average person is capable of a lot of really terrible shit, as long as they can justify it to themself and are given the ability to do so. It does not take long for Light to rank up a kill count higher than even the most prolific serial killers, and very quickly he resorts to killing the innocent just to hide his identity. Light was always too sure he was in the right, and always broke the world down into "good guys" and "bad guys", and thought anything done against "bad guys" was justifiable. Light never actually cared about the victims - he cared about punishing the wicked. And those are not the same. Light never even thought to examine why crime happens, merely assuming anyone who committed any crime is just inherently evil. His simplistic view of right and wrong is directly a product of his privileged upbringing, how life was just kind of easy for him (I mean this on many levels - his family was wealthy, he was socially well adjusted, school was easy for him, he was attractive, etc.) and he was never forced to examine himself or his own worldviews. The Death Note just allowed him to take his very black and white worldview to its natural conclusion.
Holy hell talk about being born privileged, try being born in a country where dozens are murdered, robbed, and kidnapped daily, criminals really don’t deserve any sort of rights
"Power makes you pure. You must be god" As someone who never read Death Note but knows the story, this resonates with me. I genuinely believe in a God that's pure. And what you said is correct - to avoid corruption, God(s) must be inherent and absolute. That means having all the facts, which God(s) can do. Humans do not and are also not absolute/incorruptible. Even the best of us break down over time. But as seen with this song, Light is not absolute. He doesn't have all the facts and thus sees the world as simple black and right. The scary thing is, I used to be like that. Even now, the notion of using force to punish sounds alluring. But as you said well, power does not mean wisdom.
@@seankim1592"It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. This dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him." - Ludwig Wittgenstein.
“The choice not ‘either or’.” “Perhaps it time we drain the color from it then” I feel like this is the most bit of the song in terms of Light’s character. Not just justice, but also control over what is good and not.
HE PUT HIS WHOLE LIGHT YAGAMUSSY INTO "BUT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE THE REGULATIONS AND HOLD NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG. BUT THE RICH AND FAMOUS GET AWAYYY WITH MURDER!"
Everyone keeps talking about how Light has good reasoning here and like that's part of the point! He had good intentions, but the death note ultimately corrupts. He may have started out well-meaning, but of course, there's always the question of do the ends justify the means. And as time went on he slowly lost his perspective; his actions became less guided by the idea of fixing the system and about fueling his own god complex. He ultimately becomes a player in the system he condemns here
If argue he was never in the right because of his motivation. Light was a high school kid with a god complex that was given a golden apple that could do just what he wanted
Light might have ultimately turned into a villain himself, but I think we can all recognize our own feelings in his frustration with a broken system, that noone seems willing to question, nevermind work towards fixing. Especially in 2020.
[Light] Where is the justice When the guilty all go free Why don't we lock them up And throw away the key [Teacher] I see a young man's anger burning in your eyes [Light] What you see is my impatience With your noble compromise Show me what's right about The wrongs that we allow Real people need to feel Protected here and now This whole damn system's broken way beyond repair It's just law not law and order Not much good and seldom fair [Teacher] Laws are made for everyone We're treated all the same [Light] Till a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame What about the victims Waiting for some justice How can we turn away and say That's just the way things are [Students] What about the fam'lies Hiding in their houses All of them afraid to walk the streets at night With all their doors locked tight [Light] Tell me where is the justice If there's any justice [Teacher] Your simple arguments Have all been made before The world's not black and white The choice not "either-or" [Light] Perhaps it's time We drain the color from it then Till we're back to seeing black and white And wrong and right again [Teacher] Overwrought pronouncements Won't improve the paradigm [Light] Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime [Students] Let the corporations Make the regulations [Light] And hold no one accountable When everything goes wrong [Students] Let the rich and famous Get away with murder [Light/All] Every time a high-priced Mouth-piece starts to talk His client gets to walk [Light] Tell me where is the justice If there's any justice [Students] Tell me where [Light] Where is the justice [Students] Tell me where [Light] For all the victims [Students] Tell me where [Light] Where is the justice What good is law that can't Punish those who break it [Students] The politicians Make their speeches all day long While judges pushing pencils Mostly get it wrong Instead of loopholes For the laws to fall between Let some good old-fashioned pay-back Grease the wheels of the machine [Light] Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff Can't we all stand up and say enough [Teacher] Have I taught you nothing Have you lost perspective You'd bend the law until it breaks And tell yourself it's right [Light] Listen to the fam'lies Hiding in their houses All of them afraid to walk the streets at night With all their doors locked tight We must give them their justice [All] Where is the justice [Light] We owe them some justice [All] Where is the justice Where is the justice
@@jameswilkinson4234 They'll be running it for a second time in Japan in 2020, this has reignited talk of a north American run, but there's no concrete proof of that happening as of yet.
he is right. but hes also an example of someone with good ideas allowing them to become warped after he gains the power to enact them instead of doing it as a man helping his fellow man, lifting others up, helping others empower themselves… he gets this tiny piece of godlike power and begins to think of himself as a god. as above all others. deciding what is right, what is best for the world. becoming the very corruption he claimed to despise we see it happen all the time in our politics. we must take this cautionary tale to heart if we ever want to see real and positive change
Light was never right, he's an egocentric idiot who used to have good intentions. He makes valid points against the legal system, but his solution is just murder. The amount of people who agree with him is what's actually concerning.
Though he is wrong about one thing, it is not just rich and famous that do corrupt and unjust things. even the poor do heinous crimes and get away with it. it is like painting a set of people bad, while not recognizing that evil has no face and gender. It can be a girl or a boy, a bisexual or a homosexual, it can be a respected individual (like religious leaders, corporate leaders, government employees, teachers or even citizens who have good reputations) and a feared individual (known for killing or raping someone but authorities are unable to do anything about it). because if we limit it to one, we are only shifting the discrimination to this set of people. (like how some lgbtq members bully and harrass straight people or how some professionals/Honor students are bullied by successful singers for being "book smart" or some individuals with tattoos are bullying those individuals without it, some female would abuse males and get away with it) It is happening very frequently, and as time pass by it will become the new normal. Abuse don't just occur to a group of people---all of us suffer from it and by saying these rich guys are just the bad guys is a complete bs.
@@EpinephrineUwU light isn’t proclaiming that all crime comes from rich people. he’s saying when (in america, which this musical was written to be more fitting towards american politics than japan’s) our government and judicial system is corrupted by money-hungry corporations and capitalist politicians, there’s no longer any reason to enact real and actual justice for victims -here is where light talks about the poor and oppressed peoples, that don’t have the necessary money to proceed in enacting their own justice as victims to crime because our judicial system requires insanely expensive resources to even have a court case - when they could just as easily be bribed to let it be, giving the rich and famous and powerful a way to “get away with murder” by using their wealth.
CZcams: "What if I were to tell you there was a Death Note musical?" Me: "It will probably be on par with the movies. Enjoyable enough, but fails to capture the essence of the show." CZcams: "You didn't let me finish. This musical has catchy songs, a well written critique of the legal justice system, and brings in the philosophical view on mortality that the show had." Me: "Why did you wait until now to tell me about this? You know I love musicals!"
@@Charles12 both, but mainly the Netflix adaptation, because that is the only one I've seen. I did watch the first Relight movie, but that one was good as both an adaptation and a movie.
I love how Light in this song is understandable, but also completely wrong when you think about it for long. It foreshadows his eventual corruption very nicely.
Omg. I heard Jeremy Jordan's voice and I was all like: "Why is this voice so familiar in its beauty? Oh wait- 😍." You say he's in here and I am all "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Ive been listening to this musical for like 3 years. And i didnt know it was J E R E M Y OML IM DYING NOW. ITS LIKE HALF MIDNIGHT WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE
“Everytime a high price mouth piece starts to talk, his client gets to walk” Is such a tounge twister but such a phenomenal line you can’t even get mad about it when learning the song
I think my favorite part about the song, is that his teacher echoed everthing I thought when watching the anime. It's all well and good to say the system is broken and that you want to get Justice. But Light's method is way too cut and dry. He's not actually fixing anything, rather he's slapping a bandage on it. Actually, not even that, what he is doing harkens back to Medieval medicine. He's trying to bleed out the disease, not aware that he's doing more harm than good.
Light's method would have only worked if the system did. But because there are so many faults in the justice system itself which he didn't change, he was doomed to fail.
@@sarcasticsparkles If the system worked, he wouldn't have to commit mass genocide in the first place. It was a dumb plan to begin with, there is no empirical evidence to back up that things like the death sentence even work to scare people off from committing crimes in many situations. If he wanted to eradicate crime he should've worked against the factors that make criminals.
You’re right. He just kills people who were on the news without looking at the evidence to see if they were actually guilty or if it was bs. He only looks at one side of corruption and not the other. He also never kills any of those rich people he was just talking about smh
@@gabrielleparker4029 Not to mention just executing people does not change anything. even if he went after the rich, someone else would take their place. It is fundamentally stupid to assume that murder can solve problems rooted deep in society and system that go beyond individual control
There are so many comments about Light having a good point. There's a reason for that. In virtually every adaptation of Death Note, the viewer/reader is supposed to agree with Light...at first, before everything gets out of hand. When the manga was first written (and to some extent, still), a fairly large portion of the Japanese public was frustrated with the justice system, and the fact that criminals were freely walking the street. In Japan it's exceedingly rare for a criminal case to go to court, unless it's more or less guaranteed that conviction will occur. That's because the powers that be don't really see the point in using resources on a case where the end result might be acquittal. Most readers and anime viewers outside of Japan aren't aware of that so the work doesn't strike quite as powerfully as a thought experiment. Obviously that's not to say the work's not still incredible but some of the nuances are often lost. That said, when the musical was translated into English, some frustrations that might be unique to Japanese culture were translated in such a way where Light's viewpoint might resonate with an American audience more strongly. That's why there are lyrics such as: "Let the corporations make the regulations and all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong; let the rich and famous get away with murder! Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk his client gets to walk; tell me where is the justice?" in this song. His desire for justice isn't wrong at all, in fact, it's meant to be morally right. It's his methods that are the issue, because the end doesn't really justify the means of serial murder.
I wish this musical would come to the States. It doesn’t have to be on Broadway, just give the rights to a small independent theatre group and it’ll be awesome. As a fan of Death Note and musicals, this show is awesome; and a very unexpectedly good adaptation.
LYRICS: [Light] Where is the justice When the guilty all go free? Why don’t we lock them up And throw away the key? [Light's Teacher] I see a young man’s anger Burning in your eyes; [Light] What you see is my impatience With your noble compromise; [Light] Show me what’s right about the wrongs that we allow Real people need to feel protected here and now; This whole damn system’s broken way beyond repair It’s just law Not law and order; Not much good and seldom fair; [Light's Classmate #1] Laws were made for everyone We’re treated all the same; [Light] Till a lawyer’s tricks can fix the blame; What about the victims Waiting for some justice? How can we turn away And say that's just the way things are? What about the families Hiding in their houses All of them afraid to walk the street at night With all their doors locked tight Tell me where is the justice If there's any justice [Light's Teacher] Your simple arguments have all been made before (Ensemble Oh-oh's in the background) The world's not black and white The choice not either, or [Light] Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within Till we're back to seeing black and white And wrong and right again [Light's Teacher] Overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm [Light] Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime; [Light and Ensemble] Let the corporations make the regulations And all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong; Let the rich and famous get away with murder; Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk His client gets to walk; Tell me where is the justice? If there’s any justice; [Light] Where is the justice [Students] Tell me where? [Light] For all the victims? [Students] Tell me where? [Light] Where is the justice? What good is law that can’t punish those who break it? [Light's Classmate #2] Politicians make their speeches all day long; While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong; [Ensemble] Mostly get it wrong! [Light's Classmate #3] Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between; Let some good old fashioned payback Grease the wheels of the machine; [Ensemble] Grease the wheels of the machine [Light] Isn’t everybody sick to death of all this stuff Can’t we all stand up and say enough? [Ensemble] Time and stand up! We've had enough! Justice Justice Justice Now's the time for justice [Light] Listen to the fam'lies hiding in their houses; [Ensemble] Justice Justice [Light] All of them afraid to walk the street at night With all their doors locked tight; [Ensemble] Afraid to walk the streets at night With all their doors locked tight [Light] We must give them their justice; [Ensemble] Where is the justice? [Light] We owe them some justice; [Ensemble] Where is the justice? [Light and Ensemble] Where is the justice?
I absolutely agree with you!!! Especially now with the murders of African-American people on the news, I'm so heated every time I hear this song. This is now more relevant than ever...
@@yunamchill9169 This stupid racism has been going on for decades, but I'm happy that now it's been brought to the public's attention But still, this song hits H A R D, regardless of the protests There is so many corrupted people in power, and it's all justified through those damm loopholes in the law >:(
Wouldn't he want to kill Floyd for "being a criminal", then the officer for shooting Floyd, then the protesters for defying the law. Light's whole thing is he is unable to see grey and believes every crime warrants instant death no matter the circumstance. He is so tough on crime it would make the GOP shudder with fright.
@@geraldway64000 he carried out mass executions though, and wanted to expand his hit list to "scum" and "lazy people". He would hate protest for the small percent who riot.
Okay but if you've actually studied Marxism or even read his manifesto you'd know this was a true statement. Communism wasn't meant to apply to governments. It was created to apply to smaller things like corporations. (A co-op is communism.) In the actual manifesto, it never once tells you to apply it to governments. So while it doesn't work on the large scale of the USSR, it still works today in many successful smaller operations. Communism is about equal distribution for equal work. It makes sense that a corporation or business should apply this principal since they are the ones assigning jobs & regulating work not a government. (Sorry I went on a rant there I just study this so 😅)
Macaroni and Cliches no This is what was originally written before being translated as Frank Wildhorn, the composer and lyricist (I believe) is native in the English language
Manga comes the first，after the movie except the latest one，and anime series were made，the script，whose ”lyrics” were originally written in English and accompanied with the music by Wildhorn，was reconstructed and they were brought to Japan and Korea translated in their own language about two years ago．Moreover，drama series and the movie have been made in Japan．That's what I suppose．
.If it has the life eraser (you can erase a name in the death note and the person comes back to life) then it's the manga . If his name is name is Light Turner, then it's the movie . If his name is Light Yagami and who ever is dead stays dead then it's based on the anime
that's the point. In DeathNote you are supposed to side with him in the begining and to also want that perfect world to unfold, I mean, who truefully doesn't? But as time progresses if if his idea doesn't, his person does, get corrupted more and more and it's to you to think about your side and where the lines are crossed or not. and by whom.
Me five minutes ago: "a Death Note musical, huh? Hah, this oughtta be good for a laugh." Me now: "oh shiiiiiiiit, why didn't anybody tell me this was FIRE?!"
I love this so much, because it's clear that the translators really put in their work. I don't know Japanese, so I can't really compare the lyrics to the original, but compared to the original story, this seems really well localized for a US audience in 2015. It kinda updates the concepts from the original, which was in the early 2000s, and makes it more relevant for the time. Props to the translators, songs are so hard to localize.
The English version is technically the original version, since Frank Wildhorn was the one who wrote the music. When the show didn't get picked up in the States, they moved it to Japan and Korea.
The Musical was originally written in English. It had a workshop preformed in the US, and this concept album was recorded. The musical didn’t go anywhere in the states so it got translated into Japanese and was performed there instead
"Perhaps it's time we drain the color from it then, till we're back to seeing black and white and right and wrong again" is such a good fucking line. Really goes to show his supremacist views and his clash with L's POV
Allow me to do a quick charakter analysis here. Light starts out arguing with the teacher. They go back and forth for a bit. And then light stops listening to the teachers arguments and ignores him instead. In the beginning of the song light counteres the teachers arguments. "Laws are made for everyone we're treated all the same" "Till a lawyers tricks can fix the blame". This discusion goes on for a but. Then the dynamic changes. Light goes "Till we're back to seeing black and white and wrong and right again." The teacher argues "overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm" and then Light goes "Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime". This last line is a bit odd until you realise that it's intentionally breaking the discusion between the teacher and Light. The structure of Lights line follows that of his previous one (both starting with "till") .And the content of Lights second line also has nothing to do with the teachers line. Light is just ignoring the fact that the teacher said anything. Remember the first of lights lines that I quoted? It also starts with "till" and has something to do with lawyers. It's extremely similar to the line we just analyzed. This indicates that Light hasn't changed his view on the justice system in the discusion with the teacher. The teachers arguments didn't convince him. It only makes sense that Light then stop listening to them at all. He doesn't even try to counter. He's to convinced that he is right. During his discusion with the teacher Light has managed to convince the other students. In the next part of the song Light goes into a duet with the other students. They basically strengthen each others arguments. It's not really a discusion anymore. They are just affirming that light is right and the students are adopting lights views. (This acts as foreshadow to the people who worship Kira and approve of this killings.) The teacher gets completely pushed to the side in this segment. He doesn't get to say anything. According to the lyrics guy or girl, the teacher has another line towards the end of the song. He seems to angrily remark that Light didn't learn anything from him and sais that Light would break the rules while telling himself that he is right to do so. (Foreshadowing Kira's killings) This line also gets completley ignored by Light. He instead repeats a verse from the beginning of the song "Listen to the families hiding in their houses..." Again reafirming that no, Light didn't learn anything from the teacher. When we look at the song with this in mind it becomes clear that the song is less about Light proving that he's right about the justics system and more him brushing all other argument aside in favor for is own already established views. His superiority complex gets revealed here so early on in the musical. The power of the death note might corrupt him but he is already dead set on his views. He wouldn't let anything shake him once he made up his mind. This is probably how he justifies the killings too. He focuses on the pro arguments and ignores all the contra arguments. As the audience I find it important not to forget that Light didn't actually win the argument with the teacher. Light is just telling himself the students and us that he is right.
The teacher doesn’t get a say because most of his argument is condescending ad hominem from “the young mans anger in your eyes” to the implication that the law affects us all equally when it clearly doesn’t. Light made some good points and the teacher just insulted him.
@@NoBody-qs7op what. No. I mean, no, Ligth not only could not finish the argument, since of course, he is a child who cannot avoid seeing the world with two colors when the teacher knows well that that is wrong, and even so, Ligth ignores him and to gain strength in his argument, he convinces his other colleagues, who are more manipulable and have a more variable opinion.
@@thecourier-sama4334 people love to argue “oh the world is more complicate than that” no it really isn’t. There is right, and there is wrong. The rich and powerful get away with murder and rarely if ever face consequences, and even when they do face consequences those are a slap on the wrist compared to the crime. If you can’t understand that the law is neither fair or just then I can see why you’d think the world is complicated. You’re a simpleton.
@@NoBody-qs7op lol a bit far for an internet argument. And no it’s not that simple, this is just parroting what Light says about ignoring nuance and pretending that the world is black and white because it makes it easier for him to justify the view he already has
L: Did you notice anything suspicious about a student called Light?
Teacher: Now that you mention it, he did choreograph a whole musical number about punishing the wicked.
lmfao
AHAH
im sure thats unrelated though
@@lukaza1261 Lol-
Lol can't believe like one of the smartest people in the world over looked that
light in the manga & anime: i was bored
light in the musical: “😭😭 ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟɪᴇꜱ? 😭😰😫”
manga light is closer to the musical than to the anime
yeah hes much more of a sociopath in the manga and anime although he did show some remorse for his actions in the anime maybe its ambiguous
"NOOO THE FAMILIES" (Soyboy) vs "Yeah, crime bad. Solution = murder." (Gigachad) /j
No, idk about the manga as I didn’t read it, but it was made fairly explicit in the anime that light originally did it out of a perverse sense of justice. It’s just that he lost sight of his original goals as he kept killing the the power corrupted him and fed into his god complex.
@@Wouble_Ui mean light has the same motives either way, he likely thought the same thing but didn't express since he didn't have an entire musical number to fill
anime fans 🤝 theater fans
this masterpiece
dang I’m shaking my own hand
Me being both
exactly
It's great when you already were part of both fandoms and find ways of combining you love interests.
@@martina6700 Ikr! I went from Heathers to Death Note
Light: The legal system doesn't do enough to punish dangerous crimes like murder.
Me: Ok, I see your point.
Light: My solution... murder.
Me: ...wait
L: lets kill the justice system and every rich bastard
He had a good idea he got carried away though right idea wrong execution
i thinkhe got corupted by the death note and the rush
@@user-kt1no7yx1u indeed
I want a 'what if' where L and Light work together to kill criminals
if this wasn't sung by a literal mass murderer, this would be great call to arms song
Claire Corcoran THIS LMAO
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
You know you scared me lmao, I was nearly gonna ask wtf did Jeremy do haha?
Then I remembered Light, well he was in the right path at first, though the k*lling wasn't it !
You know... musical is underrated enough, we could get away with it lmaooo
I mean...he wasn't a mass murderer YET when he sang it.
2009: light is evil
2020: ...maybe he did had a point 👀
he's always had a point his methods just suck ass bc it got to his head
I listened to this while walking and actually got choked up cause all I could think about were the poor African Americans who haven't gotten their justice. Light kinda did have a point.
He always did...
I mean that's part of the point. He had good intentions, but the death note ultimately corrupts. He may have started out well-meaning, but of course, there's always the question of do the ends justify the means. And as time went on he slowly lost his perspective and his actions became less guided by the idea of fixing the system and about fueling his own god complex. He ends up becoming a player in the system he condemns here
@Soma Néo Saki but the thing is he's not a god. He's a human being playing at one who ultimately thinks he's better than others and uses and manipulates them for his own gain. He sees the death note as giving him this authority to determine who lives and dies when in reality he has no place to. I don't think he's pure evil. There's a complexity to him for sure. But his intentions ultimately got twisted and it became about increasing his power and control rather than truly creating justice. And honestly, that's partly because the death note itself corrupts. It gives people like Light too much power and even if they go in with good intentions, they ultimately got twisted along the way. I don't he ever could have been a just god whether or not L was there and again finding a death note does not give him the right to be a god and to judge others
You know the world has gone to shit when LIGHT actually makes valid fucking points
Yup 😀
That bad part is his methods aren't that bad when the bad guys are arguably doing worse.
Yep defenetly
@@lowesteirus yeah, he was also the son of a cop, so his black/white vision on law and justice wasn't just out of nowhere
well, the world has always been shit and light has always made valid points lol. this is a very first world comment hahaha no hate tho
Jeremy Jordan killing it as Light Yagami is not what I was expecting
Literally tho
real
Real
If L just thought to interview Light's high school civics teacher, this play would be a whole lot shorter
Why did this make me laugh so much? XDD
I mean.. i hate how right you are about this 😂
@@meglovelyxoxoxo
XD
@@eviesbooks2787
I agree. However, the joke the original commenter made was funny to me.
I'm CACKLING
The poor teacher's like "tf do you want me to do about it?"
true
I wish the teacher had slipped a discreet note ( "your son's a well meaning but sociopathic idiot) to Soichiro after class...
Tafami I feel the idiot part is incorrect. As Light or Kira the only one who can match his intelligence is L.
@@shayla106 As in idealistic, arrogant idiot. You can be intelligent yet have poor maturity..
@@shayla106
book smarts can't buy you common sense or empathy I'm afraid
Me: "I hate light"
This song: *exists*
Me: "BUT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE THE REGULATIONS-"
AND HOLD NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
@@waffleboi8147 BUT THE RICH AND FAMOUS
GET AWAYYY WITH MURDERR
@@hunterroman1884 EVERY-TIME A HIGH PRICE MOUTH PIECE STARTS TO TALK
@@waffleboi8147 HIS CLIENT GETS TO WALK
@Χρυσή Πετρίδου IF THERES ANY JUSTICE
BACK AFTER FINDING OUT THE VOICE OF LIGHT (Jeremy Jordan) VOICES LUCIFER IN HAZBIN HOTEL
SAME Lucifer and light >>>>>>
Omd i thought i recognised the voice
that was me going back to hazbin after finding out jeremy voices varian in tts
Check out Newsies and the Bonnie & Clyde musicals as well. Jeremy Jordan is the lead in both
SAME BRO
You’re telling me I could have had this over a Hamilton phase-
I'm in both and it's super fun.😊
Don’t worry, I’m disappointed in myself too.
I just learned that and I’m pissed
Exactly😔
Me too😭
This is a better adaptation than the Netflix movie.
How dare you even mention the two in the same breath? What an insult to the musical.
Wait, there's a movie?
@@chickennugget315
Avoid it
@@chickennugget315 Just don't. It was an okay movie, but doesn't deserve the title of Death Note.
@@dbrokensoul I agree it was terrible... but if you haven't seen it I recommend just because Willem Dafoe NAILED IT as Ryuk. Actually if you can just find all the Ryuk scenes and watch those then you can get all the best parts.
"Let the rich and famous get away with murder" - Light himself becomes famous and gets away with murder. His morality changes.
True tho
He’s only human after all
I don’t think it changes, he’s just a hypocrite. He doesn’t believe he’s subject to his ideals.
@@teslaphilipson2406he can't see
@@iheartblock3792"I AM THE GOD OF THE NEW WORLD"
Light always had a good point. The issue was that he became a part of the problem. And started to enjoy punishing people and evading the detectives.
Pretty sure that’s the point
Light was supposed to represent how Japanese citizens felt.
I mean--
Not to mention that he would kill anyone who stood in his way.
He also had a major god complex from the beginning, so of course he was going to be corrupted by the power
Let’s remember that the musical version of Light and the anime version are VERY different. Anime Light had nothing about “lawyers cutting deals” or letting “corporations make the regulations.” He didn’t care about “the rich and famous” getting away with murder. He only wanted to kill all the criminals. Largely those that were already incarcerated. He wasn’t rebelling against a corrupt system, he just believed all criminals should get the death penalty.
This song makes Light into some sort of radical revolutionary.
I always saw him as such since the manga
@@VunderGuy What the hell are you even talking about?
F. A. Valencia At first I saw him like that, but when he kept killing innocents, and kept going on about becoming god, I now see him as a power-hungery sociopath.
Umm.......duh?
Well, that's what he is...
heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point.
Not only that but this musical was highly criticized for no other reason than being just that, just because the name Death Note was involved. I don't like Tiktok, but at least they finally gave this justice, albeit way beyond its time.
Moshi Marshmallow yeah! the chorus from about 1:50 became a sound because he is making some points and that’s how i found this show!
yooo a fellow clickhole reader :D
@@user-lp4cm4dj6t I honestly just stumbled on it on CZcams and was like :0
@@user-lp4cm4dj6t - Actually, I never would have watched the show if I hadn't come across this song, so I'm very thankful I did run across this song.
The way he sings “let the corporations, make the regulations!” Just gives me CHILLS every time!
Same, goddamn! Let the corpoRATIONS make their reguLATIONS
RUNNING HERE AFTER I HEARD LUCIFER SING IN HAZBIN HOTEL BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS LIGHT ‼️
REAL
SAME
NOW HES GOING TO F!CK YOU
Had no idea they were the same
BRO CHILL DANGANRONPA PFP DANGANRONPA USER AND HAZBIN HOTEL KNOWER?????????
"...there is no Law and Order..."
My sleep deprived brain, which knows too much television: ...law and order...
My brain: *DUN DUN*
Same tho
Are you an unus?
@@SonicRoarinWaters Indeed I am
Lol
"give me YOUR FACKIN MONEY" *yeet*
Was anybody going to tell me there was a death note musical that actually slaps or was I just supposed to stumble upon a comment on a good omens animatic at 2 am by myself
We all need to do our time stumbling over here from that good omens animation. I did my time of nearly 3 weeks listening to only human on repeat before I checked if there were other songs.
Alex Torch I stumbled upon it after seeing an only human animatic
I was just listing to some good Broadway, and it came up. I clicked on it to see "how bad it was" and oh was I wrong. I can't believe that I never heard this before.
That's exactly why I'm here
Same here. I came here because of the animatic and it's funny to me because it happened to me the exact same thing with another animatic, but it was from a Frankenstein musical
‼️Analysis ‼️
what I probably love the most about this song, is it's correlation to the _actual_ deathnote.
Light sings about how "judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong". It may not be on purpose, but with how carefully the writers were with the words they put in their songs, I wouldn't doubt it.
Now, Light is angry about the system in an "eat the rich" way, and especially questions their views, law and the system itself. The system based on _written down words._
It's amazing how the tables turn when Light gets the deathnote, _becoming_ the law with these written down words. He become what he so despised, but he fully believes he's better than it, better than it used to be (which, in my opinion, was kind of the case in the begining, until he got crazy)
I'd argue that you're so right, that you're wrong. I propose that Light never actually cared to begin with. All of this talk of helping the innocent wasn't out of an actual desire for justice, it was his own twisted ego. After all, he would be revered as the one who fixed the system and made the world work right. And besides, it wasn't even Light singing the "pushing pencils" line- it was one of his classmates. He wanted to be revered, to be appreciated for something he'd done and felt even mildly proud of (his academic life came too easy for him to ever consider that), and certain views he may or may not have had on sociopolitical affairs just got roped into all that.
Which is why the musical's interpretation of the ending- Light wins the game, L dies, and then Ryuk just kills him because the game's over, is so brilliant. Light only wanted to be the god of a new world because gods are revered and appreciated and worshiped for what they do. But the most appreciation he ever felt, the most he ever connected with anyone, was when L was matching his intelligence. He needed L, not the Death Note. And in using the Death Note to be rid of L... he realized what he had the second he forced himself to watch it all fade away.
There's two sayings that go great with this:
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain"
and
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
@@solocheshcat3187"absolute power wait, wait, corrupts, absolutely that is GENIUS"
When I was younger I used to think that Light/ Kira really had a point. But ultimately, the death note is inadequate for creating a better world. The only thing it can do is punish, and the only punishment it can give is death. There is no in-between, no grey-area. For Light, people are either "good" or they deserve death. There is no rehabilitation, no understanding and no prevention.
Immediate justice like this is satisfying, because when we hear of horrible people getting locked up for life or executed, we are likely to think "Yeah! Serves them right! Let them rot!". Our need for justice might have been satisfied, but we have learnt and gained very little to make the world a better place. Sure, this one person is gone, but if we don't ask "Why did this person turn out this way? How could this have been prevented?", the next criminal will take their spot in no time. Maybe they'll get better at not-getting-caught.
I agree with you, but in the anime he doesn’t kill people that needed to break the law to live, had understandable reasons or deeply regretted their crimes.
@@sophisticatedaristocrat wouldn't light literally just copy down arrest lists of people that were arrested that day in the anime.....someone's name next to the crime they committed does not detail their socioeconomic situation, motives for the crime, or evidence they committed said crime, so idk where you're getting that he didn't kill people who broke the law to live or had understandable reasons 😭not to mention he killed innocent people like raye and naomi too
Yeah he’s not a good person but he does say that around episode 20 ish. I was just saying, and yeah how does he know if their innocence?
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You are omitting supernatural element of Death Note, it will get you no matter did you escape, gave bribe to the judge or walked on technicality. If you consider this it is very realistic that at the end of anime/manga crime rates fallen 70% and there was no wars. There are 415k homicides every year and this is without counting deaths in combat and others that stem from consequences of crimes. Light saved millions of lives and really made a better world in the end.
Not the first time Jeremy Jordan has demanded justice. Not the first time I've sided with him either.
Clare Gundersen Yep
My friend made a video of Varian singing this song, and it works surprisingly well lol
@@clarelabellerose if you look up "tangled where is the justice" it should be the first video her name is a palindrome
WaiT JEREMY JORDAN IS LIGHT??
@@angelaphsiao yep, that's him :)
I can't believe Jeremy Jordan played Light. I'm all for this.
I didn't realize it was him without the newsies accent
Ackk I saw him in Supergirl before Newsies so I could hear it.
@Sarah Hamilfan I personally think she'd be a great Misa
Frida I KNEW IT
Frida I love any performance he’s in
I actually can totally see the evil bits in the song, and emotional appeal to a complex issue, making it out to be simple "right and wrong". Reality is when we focus on punishment, we become like KIra. The lines start to blur to egos and personal failings, where innocents end up dying along side the corrupt. It's an amazing song. A great story and cautionary tale too.
The line "Let good old fashion payback, grease the wheels of the machine" Kinda shows my point. Payback is not justice. Justice is fair and correct. Payback is emotional. The ideology was corrupt from the start, just simply told persuasively.
Think of it another way too. Light is a privileged kid, his dad is a decorated officer, leader of a police department. The exact type of person who would not understand justice, believing themself to be inherently just. That's always why the god complex made sense to me, why he saw himself as justice. He had seeds of that in his mind before the death note. But as he grew he would have seen how things are far more grey. The anime showed that in the scenes where he didn't have his memories. The death note ruined him and his bright future. Stuck him in place. Made those seeds blossom.
To me, death note was a story of the danger of having an absolute view of the world, and how an absolute ideology can corrupt your sense of self if you are handed power. How power stagnates you as a person. You don't need wisdom when you are powerful.
Because then you must be pure. Power makes you pure. You must be god. Gods don't need to improve. They are inherent. Absolute. (usually, depends on the media or religion). I think this right here is why Light scares me so much.
Ugh I love this story, one of the few I get a deep meaning out of. I''m not even a big anime fan aha. But I love this one.
Oh my god, thank you for vocalizing this. I see a lot of the comments saying that light "had good intentions, he just let the power go to his head", but IMO the point of Death Note is that any average person is capable of a lot of really terrible shit, as long as they can justify it to themself and are given the ability to do so. It does not take long for Light to rank up a kill count higher than even the most prolific serial killers, and very quickly he resorts to killing the innocent just to hide his identity. Light was always too sure he was in the right, and always broke the world down into "good guys" and "bad guys", and thought anything done against "bad guys" was justifiable. Light never actually cared about the victims - he cared about punishing the wicked. And those are not the same. Light never even thought to examine why crime happens, merely assuming anyone who committed any crime is just inherently evil. His simplistic view of right and wrong is directly a product of his privileged upbringing, how life was just kind of easy for him (I mean this on many levels - his family was wealthy, he was socially well adjusted, school was easy for him, he was attractive, etc.) and he was never forced to examine himself or his own worldviews. The Death Note just allowed him to take his very black and white worldview to its natural conclusion.
Exactly! Beutifully said
Holy hell talk about being born privileged, try being born in a country where dozens are murdered, robbed, and kidnapped daily, criminals really don’t deserve any sort of rights
"Power makes you pure. You must be god"
As someone who never read Death Note but knows the story, this resonates with me. I genuinely believe in a God that's pure. And what you said is correct - to avoid corruption, God(s) must be inherent and absolute. That means having all the facts, which God(s) can do.
Humans do not and are also not absolute/incorruptible. Even the best of us break down over time. But as seen with this song, Light is not absolute. He doesn't have all the facts and thus sees the world as simple black and right.
The scary thing is, I used to be like that. Even now, the notion of using force to punish sounds alluring. But as you said well, power does not mean wisdom.
@@seankim1592"It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. This dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein.
“The choice not ‘either or’.”
“Perhaps it time we drain the color from it then”
I feel like this is the most bit of the song in terms of Light’s character. Not just justice, but also control over what is good and not.
i can’t believe i had to learn about this through tiktok
now no one is gonna believe me when i tell them this musical SLAPS
SAME
SAME, THIS IS SO GOOD
I just randomly found it,I'm a theatre kid and a kid at rehearsal last year was talking about this. So upset that I didn't find it when they told me
@@trinitynoelle1870 what play were you in? Sorry if I sound rude I'm just curious because your classmates seem really fun lol
Literally jumped off of my bed to my computer to find this album after hearing one of the songs on TikTok
Me when someone eats the last slice of pizza
Ok australian
ʇɹɐǝɥ ɐɹʇɔǝןǝ I laughed so hard at this
CHeesy yEEty
I was already laughing but your comment made me howl wtf
ʇɹɐǝɥ ɐɹʇɔǝןǝ How the flip flop frick did you flip your name.
Bugay Den
it's a font upside down font generator
lingojam
“It’s just law, not law and order, not much good and seldom fair”
dAMN this song is good
HE PUT HIS WHOLE LIGHT YAGAMUSSY INTO "BUT THE CORPORATIONS MAKE THE REGULATIONS AND HOLD NO ONE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG. BUT THE RICH AND FAMOUS GET AWAYYY WITH MURDER!"
YAGAMUSSY.
Everyone keeps talking about how Light has good reasoning here and like that's part of the point! He had good intentions, but the death note ultimately corrupts. He may have started out well-meaning, but of course, there's always the question of do the ends justify the means. And as time went on he slowly lost his perspective; his actions became less guided by the idea of fixing the system and about fueling his own god complex. He ultimately becomes a player in the system he condemns here
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
Light was already corrupted by his ego. Even before he starts killing police officers and innocents he proclaims himself a god
If argue he was never in the right because of his motivation. Light was a high school kid with a god complex that was given a golden apple that could do just what he wanted
"The evil thing isn't the notebook: what's truly evil is the power to kill people."
-Soichiro Yagami
I don’t think he was corrupted by the Death Note. I think the point is that he was already corrupt before he got it
Man, this song and topic sure aged well in America.
ACAB is a worldwide statement.
hehe ACAB
@@hi-td8fb Yes.
acab🙂
This show needs another New York performance, for this song alone.
obviously Jeremy Jordan is great here but can we also talk about these two at 2:23-2:42 because they SLAYED
... This is Jeremy Jordan? I thought i recognized it but... Wow
Anybody know their names?
I actually just got to this bit upon reading it, I agree yes they did
Lucifer is making a lot of good points
WHEEZING
THIS IS LUCIFER!?!
@@munchy_munch925 yep, he voices him in hazbin
K but now i want an animation for this song with Lucifer pre-fall arguing with Sera and the other high seraphs
@@iaxacs3801YES
Man, the soundtrack for Tangled the series is going along great.
Finally a comment about that
I don't understand? Do I need to watch further the serie ?
@@x-ray6633 no, it's because the person who plays light is varians VA
@@sai_8731 ho Woaw that's so cool !!!
@@sai_8731 I thought he sounded familiar!! But I couldn’t place it. Thanks!!
Light might have ultimately turned into a villain himself, but I think we can all recognize our own feelings in his frustration with a broken system, that noone seems willing to question, nevermind work towards fixing. Especially in 2020.
His intentions were right, and I admit I might had made the same mistake he did if I found the death note
There are a lot of people who would do anything if it meant returning the status quo
“This whole damn system’s broken way beyond repair.”
@@inbarreuben4761 Same and I would be worse I would show no mercy.
Honestly I think we ALL kin Light to some degree
Thanks to Hazbin I have discovered this masterpiece
Memento mori buddy
lucifer in his free time:
[Light]
Where is the justice
When the guilty all go free
Why don't we lock them up
And throw away the key
[Teacher]
I see a young man's anger burning in your eyes
[Light]
What you see is my impatience
With your noble compromise
Show me what's right about
The wrongs that we allow
Real people need to feel
Protected here and now
This whole damn system's broken way beyond repair
It's just law not law and order
Not much good and seldom fair
[Teacher]
Laws are made for everyone
We're treated all the same
[Light]
Till a lawyer's tricks can fix the blame
What about the victims
Waiting for some justice
How can we turn away and say
That's just the way things are
[Students]
What about the fam'lies
Hiding in their houses
All of them afraid to walk the streets at night
With all their doors locked tight
[Light]
Tell me where is the justice
If there's any justice
[Teacher]
Your simple arguments
Have all been made before
The world's not black and white
The choice not "either-or"
[Light]
Perhaps it's time
We drain the color from it then
Till we're back to seeing black and white
And wrong and right again
[Teacher]
Overwrought pronouncements
Won't improve the paradigm
[Light]
Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime
[Students]
Let the corporations
Make the regulations
[Light]
And hold no one accountable
When everything goes wrong
[Students]
Let the rich and famous
Get away with murder
[Light/All]
Every time a high-priced
Mouth-piece starts to talk
His client gets to walk
[Light]
Tell me where is the justice
If there's any justice
[Students]
Tell me where
[Light]
Where is the justice
[Students]
Tell me where
[Light]
For all the victims
[Students]
Tell me where
[Light]
Where is the justice
What good is law that can't
Punish those who break it
[Students]
The politicians
Make their speeches all day long
While judges pushing pencils
Mostly get it wrong
Instead of loopholes
For the laws to fall between
Let some good old-fashioned pay-back
Grease the wheels of the machine
[Light]
Isn't everybody sick to death of all this stuff
Can't we all stand up and say enough
[Teacher]
Have I taught you nothing
Have you lost perspective
You'd bend the law until it breaks
And tell yourself it's right
[Light]
Listen to the fam'lies
Hiding in their houses
All of them afraid to walk the streets at night
With all their doors locked tight
We must give them their justice
[All]
Where is the justice
[Light]
We owe them some justice
[All]
Where is the justice
Where is the justice
Musical Gamer
Lmao I thought ryuk was singing with him
where is this teacher lyric?
Is there a recording of the musical anywhere?
Thank you for putting "from it then" many are saying it's "within" I knew it wasn't!
Where is that last verse of the teacher? I can't hear it
2015: Can't wait till they finish this
2016:
2017:
2018:
2019:
2020:
2021: Still waiting for a full musical XD
Adlin Martinez
Wait, they never finished this???
VI0LET There’s no English performance, no. It’s a tragedy
Theres a full musical. Just no preformance i think.
@@jameswilkinson4234 They'll be running it for a second time in Japan in 2020, this has reignited talk of a north American run, but there's no concrete proof of that happening as of yet.
2020: Still waiting...
I know that Jeremy Jordan is going voice lucifer form Hazbin Hotel. But this song is good fit to Lucifer.
True.
With how America is going right now. It's concerning that Light is right.
he is right. but hes also an example of someone with good ideas allowing them to become warped after he gains the power to enact them
instead of doing it as a man helping his fellow man, lifting others up, helping others empower themselves… he gets this tiny piece of godlike power and begins to think of himself as a god. as above all others. deciding what is right, what is best for the world. becoming the very corruption he claimed to despise
we see it happen all the time in our politics. we must take this cautionary tale to heart if we ever want to see real and positive change
Light was never right, he's an egocentric idiot who used to have good intentions. He makes valid points against the legal system, but his solution is just murder. The amount of people who agree with him is what's actually concerning.
love him or hate him, hes spitting straight facts
But he's omitting all the negative consequences of his plan, and ignoring everything that could easily go wrong.
Expect for the black and white mentality he's pressing. He and his dad both have valid points
Though he is wrong about one thing, it is not just rich and famous that do corrupt and unjust things. even the poor do heinous crimes and get away with it. it is like painting a set of people bad, while not recognizing that evil has no face and gender. It can be a girl or a boy, a bisexual or a homosexual, it can be a respected individual (like religious leaders, corporate leaders, government employees, teachers or even citizens who have good reputations) and a feared individual (known for killing or raping someone but authorities are unable to do anything about it). because if we limit it to one, we are only shifting the discrimination to this set of people. (like how some lgbtq members bully and harrass straight people or how some professionals/Honor students are bullied by successful singers for being "book smart" or some individuals with tattoos are bullying those individuals without it, some female would abuse males and get away with it)
It is happening very frequently, and as time pass by it will become the new normal. Abuse don't just occur to a group of people---all of us suffer from it and by saying these rich guys are just the bad guys is a complete bs.
@@EpinephrineUwU light isn’t proclaiming that all crime comes from rich people. he’s saying when (in america, which this musical was written to be more fitting towards american politics than japan’s) our government and judicial system is corrupted by money-hungry corporations and capitalist politicians, there’s no longer any reason to enact real and actual justice for victims -here is where light talks about the poor and oppressed peoples, that don’t have the necessary money to proceed in enacting their own justice as victims to crime because our judicial system requires insanely expensive resources to even have a court case - when they could just as easily be bribed to let it be, giving the rich and famous and powerful a way to “get away with murder” by using their wealth.
CZcams: "What if I were to tell you there was a Death Note musical?"
Me: "It will probably be on par with the movies. Enjoyable enough, but fails to capture the essence of the show."
CZcams: "You didn't let me finish. This musical has catchy songs, a well written critique of the legal justice system, and brings in the philosophical view on mortality that the show had."
Me: "Why did you wait until now to tell me about this? You know I love musicals!"
you talking about the 2006 movies or the Netflix one? probably 2006 ones cuz it's plural.
@@Charles12 both, but mainly the Netflix adaptation, because that is the only one I've seen. I did watch the first Relight movie, but that one was good as both an adaptation and a movie.
@@TheAres1999 you need to watch the 2006 movies. they're better than they seem.
And pssssst it has Jeremy Jordan in it.....
@@Charles12 and the dubbed versions have the original English voice actors (except for Rem).
I love how Light in this song is understandable, but also completely wrong when you think about it for long. It foreshadows his eventual corruption very nicely.
pov is 2022 and light is starting to sound pretty reasonable…
I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH THIS MUSICAL FOR YEARS AND NEVER NOTICED JEREMY JORDAN
*H O W D A R E Y O U :0*
i just searched jeremy jordan and found out something shocking that made me want to listen to this over and over and over again
ME holy crap
literally same
Meanwhile when I heard this for the first time I was like ‘Varian what are you doing here- holy c**p he’s Light. That.... kinda firs’
This is already WAAAAAYYYYYY better than the Netflix movie! (Also Jeremy Jordan...can't forget him!)
Doesn't take much to be better than that disaster...
Adrien Alger truuuuue
Is there a recording of this any where?
Omg. I heard Jeremy Jordan's voice and I was all like: "Why is this voice so familiar in its beauty? Oh wait- 😍." You say he's in here and I am all "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Ive been listening to this musical for like 3 years. And i didnt know it was J E R E M Y OML IM DYING NOW. ITS LIKE HALF MIDNIGHT WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE
“Everytime a high price mouth piece starts to talk, his client gets to walk” Is such a tounge twister but such a phenomenal line you can’t even get mad about it when learning the song
Varian made some good points here
😅
I think my favorite part about the song, is that his teacher echoed everthing I thought when watching the anime. It's all well and good to say the system is broken and that you want to get Justice. But Light's method is way too cut and dry. He's not actually fixing anything, rather he's slapping a bandage on it. Actually, not even that, what he is doing harkens back to Medieval medicine. He's trying to bleed out the disease, not aware that he's doing more harm than good.
The teacher is literally like "Its not all black and white." And lights reply is literally just "WELL IT FUCKN SHOULD BE"
Light's method would have only worked if the system did. But because there are so many faults in the justice system itself which he didn't change, he was doomed to fail.
@@sarcasticsparkles If the system worked, he wouldn't have to commit mass genocide in the first place. It was a dumb plan to begin with, there is no empirical evidence to back up that things like the death sentence even work to scare people off from committing crimes in many situations. If he wanted to eradicate crime he should've worked against the factors that make criminals.
You’re right. He just kills people who were on the news without looking at the evidence to see if they were actually guilty or if it was bs. He only looks at one side of corruption and not the other. He also never kills any of those rich people he was just talking about smh
@@gabrielleparker4029 Not to mention just executing people does not change anything. even if he went after the rich, someone else would take their place. It is fundamentally stupid to assume that murder can solve problems rooted deep in society and system that go beyond individual control
this is hitting different right now.
I knew I wasn't the only one!
For real though! This is more relevant than ever in this day and age! Omg, I thought I was the only one thinking this!
Apparently Japan is especially shit and you're guilty until proven innocent 😬
aged well
You tell em Lucifer!
There are so many comments about Light having a good point. There's a reason for that. In virtually every adaptation of Death Note, the viewer/reader is supposed to agree with Light...at first, before everything gets out of hand. When the manga was first written (and to some extent, still), a fairly large portion of the Japanese public was frustrated with the justice system, and the fact that criminals were freely walking the street. In Japan it's exceedingly rare for a criminal case to go to court, unless it's more or less guaranteed that conviction will occur. That's because the powers that be don't really see the point in using resources on a case where the end result might be acquittal. Most readers and anime viewers outside of Japan aren't aware of that so the work doesn't strike quite as powerfully as a thought experiment. Obviously that's not to say the work's not still incredible but some of the nuances are often lost. That said, when the musical was translated into English, some frustrations that might be unique to Japanese culture were translated in such a way where Light's viewpoint might resonate with an American audience more strongly. That's why there are lyrics such as: "Let the corporations make the regulations and all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong; let the rich and famous get away with murder! Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk his client gets to walk; tell me where is the justice?" in this song. His desire for justice isn't wrong at all, in fact, it's meant to be morally right. It's his methods that are the issue, because the end doesn't really justify the means of serial murder.
When Broadway understands Weebs better than Netflix, a platform that hosts anime
The only thing they did right was give us Willam Dafoe as Ryuk
This gets it across well that Light really hates the injustice in the world.
Hmm yes
Yeah but at the same time he's doing the same thing. He's just too psychopathic and narcissistic to see through that.
lmao
Until he starts killing innocent people, like Raye Penber and Naomi Misora. Heck, even L.
I'm getting a legal degree and I come back to this song after every class.
Might help you stay grounded, without the hubris that usually accompanies a law degree.
I wish this musical would come to the States. It doesn’t have to be on Broadway, just give the rights to a small independent theatre group and it’ll be awesome. As a fan of Death Note and musicals, this show is awesome; and a very unexpectedly good adaptation.
Whether you love or hate him, you gotta agree that he's got a point that the law is messed up beyond repair
No matter which side of the political spectrum you're on, the fact that the law is messed up and needs some serious work is one thing we can agree on.
If you got money, you could do about anything now. It’s almost like the law doesn’t apply to the rich 🙄
this reminds me of the pitiful children from be more chill
Danger Swais ikr
oh my gosh it does!
Omg you're right...
Teacher: Jeremy (or Michael)
Students: Students (XD)
Light: SQUIP
Now thinking about it you are right. Especially in the concept of the song and the amazing guitar.
hmm, it reminds me more of The World Will Know from Newsies. i WoNdEr WhY
Congrats to light becoming Lucifer in hazbin
Bro I am here bc of him
@@Itzzh3l3N I already knew about the musical but yeah this revived my Death Note phase
It’s almost like Lucifer himself is singing…
LYRICS:
[Light]
Where is the justice
When the guilty all go free?
Why don’t we lock them up
And throw away the key?
[Light's Teacher]
I see a young man’s anger
Burning in your eyes;
[Light]
What you see is my impatience
With your noble compromise;
[Light]
Show me what’s right about the wrongs that we allow
Real people need to feel protected here and now;
This whole damn system’s broken way beyond repair
It’s just law
Not law and order;
Not much good and seldom fair;
[Light's Classmate #1]
Laws were made for everyone
We’re treated all the same;
[Light]
Till a lawyer’s tricks can fix the blame;
What about the victims
Waiting for some justice?
How can we turn away
And say that's just the way things are?
What about the families
Hiding in their houses
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight
Tell me where is the justice
If there's any justice
[Light's Teacher]
Your simple arguments have all been made before (Ensemble Oh-oh's in the background)
The world's not black and white
The choice not either, or
[Light]
Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within
Till we're back to seeing black and white
And wrong and right again
[Light's Teacher]
Overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm
[Light]
Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime;
[Light and Ensemble]
Let the corporations make the regulations
And all go unaccountable when everything goes wrong;
Let the rich and famous get away with murder;
Every time a high-priced mouth piece starts to talk
His client gets to walk;
Tell me where is the justice?
If there’s any justice;
[Light]
Where is the justice
[Students]
Tell me where?
[Light]
For all the victims?
[Students]
Tell me where?
[Light]
Where is the justice?
What good is law that can’t punish those who break it?
[Light's Classmate #2]
Politicians make their speeches all day long;
While judges pushing pencils mostly get it wrong;
[Ensemble]
Mostly get it wrong!
[Light's Classmate #3]
Instead of loopholes for the laws to fall between;
Let some good old fashioned payback
Grease the wheels of the machine;
[Ensemble]
Grease the wheels of the machine
[Light]
Isn’t everybody sick to death of all this stuff
Can’t we all stand up and say enough?
[Ensemble]
Time and stand up! We've had enough!
Justice
Justice
Justice
Now's the time for justice
[Light]
Listen to the fam'lies hiding in their houses;
[Ensemble]
Justice
Justice
[Light]
All of them afraid to walk the street at night
With all their doors locked tight;
[Ensemble]
Afraid to walk the streets at night
With all their doors locked tight
[Light]
We must give them their justice;
[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?
[Light]
We owe them some justice;
[Ensemble]
Where is the justice?
[Light and Ensemble]
Where is the justice?
Thank God, I was getting tired from looking for them.
Thank you very much
god🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! ❤
The more I experience the dumpster fire that is Real Life, the more I agree with Light’s initial perspective here.
I absolutely agree with you!!! Especially now with the murders of African-American people on the news, I'm so heated every time I hear this song. This is now more relevant than ever...
@@yunamchill9169 This stupid racism has been going on for decades, but I'm happy that now it's been brought to the public's attention
But still, this song hits H A R D, regardless of the protests
There is so many corrupted people in power, and it's all justified through those damm loopholes in the law >:(
@@hopelesshaddy3332 Wholeheartedly agree with you.
The story is simplified, of course, but the score of this musical is just out of this world.
This song is sung by varian’s voice actor, jeremy jordan, and the funny thing is that the song fits so well on varian
Okay, but, like, Light has a point
Agreed especially nowadays R.I.P George Floyd
It makes me so fucking happy that someone agrees. Whenever I say this, my family just shuts me down.
Wouldn't he want to kill Floyd for "being a criminal", then the officer for shooting Floyd, then the protesters for defying the law. Light's whole thing is he is unable to see grey and believes every crime warrants instant death no matter the circumstance. He is so tough on crime it would make the GOP shudder with fright.
Stephen King no, cause idk why but I feel like light would support BLM
@@geraldway64000 he carried out mass executions though, and wanted to expand his hit list to "scum" and "lazy people". He would hate protest for the small percent who riot.
i just realized light is the type of kid to say "communism works, they just messed up"
This is beautiful and true
YES
I mean... he has a point
Its true doe
Okay but if you've actually studied Marxism or even read his manifesto you'd know this was a true statement. Communism wasn't meant to apply to governments. It was created to apply to smaller things like corporations. (A co-op is communism.) In the actual manifesto, it never once tells you to apply it to governments. So while it doesn't work on the large scale of the USSR, it still works today in many successful smaller operations. Communism is about equal distribution for equal work. It makes sense that a corporation or business should apply this principal since they are the ones assigning jobs & regulating work not a government. (Sorry I went on a rant there I just study this so 😅)
Where Is the Justice? More like "WHERE IS THE BROADWAY RUN?!"
Light made some good points before becoming Kira, but we also see the hints of what he will become with his black and white thinking.
so this is an apaptation of a japanese version of the musical, based on a movie, based on an anime, based on a manga?
Macaroni and Cliches no
This is what was originally written before being translated as Frank Wildhorn, the composer and lyricist (I believe) is native in the English language
Manga comes the first，after the movie except the latest one，and anime series were made，the script，whose ”lyrics” were originally written in English and accompanied with the music by Wildhorn，was reconstructed and they were brought to Japan and Korea translated in their own language about two years ago．Moreover，drama series and the movie have been made in Japan．That's what I suppose．
Macaroni and Cliches
BASED ON THE TRUE STORY
.If it has the life eraser (you can erase a name in the death note and the person comes back to life) then it's the manga
. If his name is name is Light Turner, then it's the movie
. If his name is Light Yagami and who ever is dead stays dead then it's based on the anime
tiggerbre the manga doesn't have an eraser, whoever is written down dies, there's no going back on what was written down
I know that Light is not exactly a good person, but hot dang, this song is so sick. It almost gets you to side with him
that's the point. In DeathNote you are supposed to side with him in the begining and to also want that perfect world to unfold, I mean, who truefully doesn't? But as time progresses if if his idea doesn't, his person does, get corrupted more and more and it's to you to think about your side and where the lines are crossed or not. and by whom.
JEREMY LOVE YOU VOICE, Tangle, Hazbin Hotel, Wherever you are amazing
Me five minutes ago: "a Death Note musical, huh? Hah, this oughtta be good for a laugh."
Me now: "oh shiiiiiiiit, why didn't anybody tell me this was FIRE?!"
"Perhaps it's time we drain the color from within
Till we're back to seeing black and white
And wrong and right again"
I quoted that when yelling at a teacher
Thanks
*drain the colour from it then
Jeremy Jordan as Light? Music by Frank Wildhorn?? Holy shit it’s Bonnie & Clyde 😂
In all honesty, I love this show
Laura Osnes is here too, who knew this really was Bonnie and Clyde
Don't forget Laura Osnes plays Sayu, and Michael Lanning plays Light's father. It's so close to being a Bonnie & Clyde reunion
*faint*
I'm ok. I'm ok... I think?
Thumbs up for the people who discovered this through hazbin hotel and now, can't stop imagining Lucifer from hazbin hotel singing this.
“Your simple arguments have all been made before” yeah, maybe we should consider those arguments if they keep being repeated haha
2019: no that's bad we shouldn't do that
2020: you know what I think he's on to something
All it takes is for the world to go to s**t to realise Light has a point 😂
where is the justice for this musical honestly
a m e n
Ok Lucifer pop off
I can see myself un-ironically belting this song in a corrupt courtroom
Light was HIGHKEY onto something with this...
He's still a murderer though, stan L 💕
Even mass murderers can be based 😅
HOW DID I FIND A YTTD FAN HERE. WH.
@@edgarw.toadstool2768 Because you and I both have good taste in anime/games
@@sourkirby644 i-
Murderers aren’t always necessarily “bad”
If I could hack like Anonymous. I would also put this in Radio.
same ngl
bare minimum is having it on spotify
@@addiet4875 i wish
Lol that would be nice
@@addiet4875 its on there now
THIS IS SO TRUEEEE YK ITS BAD WHEN LIGHT SOUNDS RIGHT
I love this so much, because it's clear that the translators really put in their work. I don't know Japanese, so I can't really compare the lyrics to the original, but compared to the original story, this seems really well localized for a US audience in 2015. It kinda updates the concepts from the original, which was in the early 2000s, and makes it more relevant for the time. Props to the translators, songs are so hard to localize.
The English version is technically the original version, since Frank Wildhorn was the one who wrote the music. When the show didn't get picked up in the States, they moved it to Japan and Korea.
The Musical was originally written in English. It had a workshop preformed in the US, and this concept album was recorded. The musical didn’t go anywhere in the states so it got translated into Japanese and was performed there instead
Are you trying to tell me that Jeremy motherfucking Jordan was in a goddamn STAGED MUSICAL OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANIMES?!?!
It was never staged in English, this is just a concept album. This version never was staged.
still screaming at the fact that death note had a musical
and jeremy jordan was in it
"Perhaps it's time we drain the color from it then, till we're back to seeing black and white and right and wrong again" is such a good fucking line. Really goes to show his supremacist views and his clash with L's POV
When this song is being used as a riot song for 2022
Allow me to do a quick charakter analysis here.
Light starts out arguing with the teacher. They go back and forth for a bit. And then light stops listening to the teachers arguments and ignores him instead.
In the beginning of the song light counteres the teachers arguments. "Laws are made for everyone we're treated all the same" "Till a lawyers tricks can fix the blame".
This discusion goes on for a but.
Then the dynamic changes. Light goes "Till we're back to seeing black and white and wrong and right again." The teacher argues "overwrought pronouncements won't improve the paradigm" and then Light goes "Till lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime". This last line is a bit odd until you realise that it's intentionally breaking the discusion between the teacher and Light.
The structure of Lights line follows that of his previous one (both starting with "till") .And the content of Lights second line also has nothing to do with the teachers line. Light is just ignoring the fact that the teacher said anything.
Remember the first of lights lines that I quoted? It also starts with "till" and has something to do with lawyers. It's extremely similar to the line we just analyzed.
This indicates that Light hasn't changed his view on the justice system in the discusion with the teacher.
The teachers arguments didn't convince him.
It only makes sense that Light then stop listening to them at all. He doesn't even try to counter. He's to convinced that he is right.
During his discusion with the teacher Light has managed to convince the other students. In the next part of the song Light goes into a duet with the other students. They basically strengthen each others arguments. It's not really a discusion anymore. They are just affirming that light is right and the students are adopting lights views.
(This acts as foreshadow to the people who worship Kira and approve of this killings.)
The teacher gets completely pushed to the side in this segment. He doesn't get to say anything.
According to the lyrics guy or girl, the teacher has another line towards the end of the song. He seems to angrily remark that Light didn't learn anything from him and sais that Light would break the rules while telling himself that he is right to do so. (Foreshadowing Kira's killings)
This line also gets completley ignored by Light.
He instead repeats a verse from the beginning of the song "Listen to the families hiding in their houses..."
Again reafirming that no, Light didn't learn anything from the teacher.
When we look at the song with this in mind it becomes clear that the song is less about Light proving that he's right about the justics system and more him brushing all other argument aside in favor for is own already established views.
His superiority complex gets revealed here so early on in the musical. The power of the death note might corrupt him but he is already dead set on his views. He wouldn't let anything shake him once he made up his mind. This is probably how he justifies the killings too. He focuses on the pro arguments and ignores all the contra arguments.
As the audience I find it important not to forget that Light didn't actually win the argument with the teacher. Light is just telling himself the students and us that he is right.
Damn bro I’m impressed
The teacher doesn’t get a say because most of his argument is condescending ad hominem from “the young mans anger in your eyes” to the implication that the law affects us all equally when it clearly doesn’t. Light made some good points and the teacher just insulted him.
@@NoBody-qs7op what. No. I mean, no, Ligth not only could not finish the argument, since of course, he is a child who cannot avoid seeing the world with two colors when the teacher knows well that that is wrong, and even so, Ligth ignores him and to gain strength in his argument, he convinces his other colleagues, who are more manipulable and have a more variable opinion.
@@thecourier-sama4334 people love to argue “oh the world is more complicate than that” no it really isn’t. There is right, and there is wrong. The rich and powerful get away with murder and rarely if ever face consequences, and even when they do face consequences those are a slap on the wrist compared to the crime.
If you can’t understand that the law is neither fair or just then I can see why you’d think the world is complicated. You’re a simpleton.
@@NoBody-qs7op lol a bit far for an internet argument. And no it’s not that simple, this is just parroting what Light says about ignoring nuance and pretending that the world is black and white because it makes it easier for him to justify the view he already has
_IT'S JEREMY JORDAN!_
I KNOW, I'M STILL SCREAMING
WHAT ABOUT LIFE, JAMIE???
how lovely to listen to lucifer sing about murder (i watched death note but was left in the dark about this magnum opus)
Light Yagami? More like Lucifer Morningstar
Y’all are tellin me, I coulda had a Deathnote Musical phase instead of a Hamilton phase??? I was robbed.
You still can
Hamilton is amazing lmao why are the comments disappointed in their ham phase
¿Porque no los dos?
why not have both? Both are excellent
@@geraldway64000 thank you 😔🤚
Me: A hardcore musical and Death Note fan.
Death Note Musical: Okay, here I am. And I have Jeremy Jordan.
Me: *Take my money*
Varian making a great point here
You know this planet has gone to shit when light fucking yagami has a point