Death Note: Shinigami and the Concept of Capital Punishment in Japan

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Sheila Moreno Griñón

The Japanese comic known as manga is on many occasions a faithful reflection of Japanese society, a country with ancient traditions and mores, which still employs the capital punishment. One of these mangas is Death Note(Ohba and Obata, 2013), which has a multitude of readings and points of view that make us question moral approaches to life and death. It is through these that reality and comics show a society through the fantastic elements that make up the work.

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capital punishment, Shinigami, Japan, Death Note

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Moreno Griñón, Sheila. “Death Note: Shinigami and the Concept of Capital Punishment in Japan”. Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2018, vol.VOL 6, no. 1, pp. 243-61, http://raco.cat/index.php/Brumal/article/view/340610.