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Chapter 345: Chapter 324: Antagonist Male Lead_1

“Congratulations, Host, on acquiring the manga work ‘Death Note’.”

With the System’s prompt, an extra manga appeared in Lin Yuan’s backpack.

“They didn’t arrange a random piano piece for me?”

Lin Yuan was surprised.

The System had previously liked to play with “coincidences”.

Well, if there’s no piano piece, let’s just pay homage.

Have the new protagonist play ‘Mariage d’Amour’ in the new movie, like an Easter egg. Those who know will naturally understand.

If I wanted to release a piano piece through a movie, ‘The Legend of 1900’ would be suitable.

But this film would require fine editing, so Lin Yuan doesn’t plan to spend that money yet.

As for the manga from the Silver Treasure Chest…

It’s perfect since I didn’t know what production to take over after “Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma”.

Well, that saves me the trouble of thinking about it.

Through the information in Lin Yuan’s mind, he is very clear on how famous ‘Death Note’ is as a manga!

From its influence to ratings, almost all data indicating that ‘Death Note’ is at a top tier level!

But in fact, it’s a work of cult significance!

Over in Japan, this manga is one of the few that can outshine countless top-ranked manga, truly a super cult manga!

What is cult and what is mainstream?

In general, mainstream manga is virtuous, with positive themes, kind-hearted and pure protagonists, plots usually of a hero fighting demons, and the righteous side winning.

These types of works have pure-hearted female leads, buddies, and happy companions, with justice as the theme, realizing dreams, etc.

That’s why mainstream manga’s target audience is the broadest.

From this perspective, ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’ is also considered a mainstream manga

As for ‘Prince of Tennis’, it’s more mainstream.

However, many mainstream manga are passionate and contain a lot of fighting scenes. Apart from the first two manga of Shadow, which were passionate, there was no fighting, only tennis and cooking.

Cult manga is more of a maverick. These works contain some dark aspects, which may include crime, horror, violence, etc.

Of course, mainstream manga can also have violence, but they’re not blatantly bloody.

Furthermore, the protagonist of a cult manga is usually not some harmless bunny, but could be the final villain.

Because the protagonist may not be a good person, it’s easy to explore human nature, making the manga more meaningful.

Therefore, cult manga reaches a smaller audience than mainstream manga and can easily cause controversy.

As for ‘Death Note’, it has become a representative work of cult manga in many people’s hearts. This shows how special and controversial this work is!

In any case, this anime was directly censored in our country. Everyone who wants to watch it can only resort to cloud storage.

The story begins quite wickedly.

Yagami Light, a genius high school student otherwise known as the male lead of ‘Death Note’, is a student filled with a sense of justice.

His father is a high-ranking police officer, comes from a prestigious family, and can be said to have an excellent background.

In school, he is extremely popular with the girls, always comes first in exams, and is as handsome as Lin Yuan.

In every sense, such a person could be considered perfect!

Firstly, having a father who is a police officer, especially at the superintendent level, is already quite impressive.

Not to mention the fact that he himself has a very high IQ, is excellent at exams, handsome, and has a good EQ. Girls are charmed by him.

If we don’t discuss the subsequent storyline and just look at the introduction of the protagonist, everyone might think…

Ah, this protagonist is really cliché.

Full of self-fantasizing by the author and pandering to readers.

However, that’s not the case.

This manga, with the theme of a Death Note, emphasizes a battle of wits!

The protagonist Yagami Light happened to get a ‘Death Note.’ He discovered that as long as he writes a person’s name in the notebook, that person will die on the spot.

That day, Yagami Light decided to test it out on a hoodlum.

Then, the thug died right in front of Yagami Light.

Yagami Light was overjoyed and embarked on his journey of upholding justice!

He is an extreme advocate for justice!

With the help of the news media, Yagami Light wrote the names of criminals in the world one by one into his notebook. He believed that such actions were justice!

He is God!

He wants to create a new world without crime!

Soon, countries around the world discovered that someone was secretly punishing criminals, but the existence of the Death Note was too magical and unknown to everyone. Everyone only knew that criminals would drop dead out of the blue.

The Executor is referred to as “Kira” by everyone.

On the other hand, Interpol invited the world’s number one detective “L” to investigate Kira’s identity.

So, a battle of wits and courage began between Yagami Light and “L”.

Perhaps it’s due to the uniformity of the common King Road Manga.

This “Death Note”, with its unique style, intriguing game of wits, discussion around good and evil, has a large fan base globally!

Non-manga fans only know about the Dead Sea of Fire.

Those who really enjoy reading manga, basically all know about “Death Note”.

Blue Star’s limits won’t lead to the censorship of “Death Note”, so Lin Yuan is very relieved about this.

We won’t discuss here whether Yagami Light is good or bad.

The controversy about “Death Note” is actually centered around Yagami Light.

Some people like this kind of protagonist, some people despise it, but whether you like or dislike it, at least everyone agrees:

Yagami Light is a charismatic antagonist protagonist.

In manga, there are protagonists that are antagonists, but Yagami Light is considered to embody the extreme charm of such characters.

Lin Yuan is only reading from the perspective of a reader, and then concluded that this manga is great—

This is not merely based on the data provided by the System.

What’s even more rare is that the System hasn’t modified “Death Note”.

The manga that Lin Yuan received before were all modified by the System.

For example, “King of the Net” was heavily modified from its novel version.

And then there’s “Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma”, which had a disastrous downfall in the original author’s later stage, leaving the System to tie up the loose ends.

This time, the System didn’t modify it, suggesting that “Death Note” doesn’t have any faults!

Even if some people are dissatisfied with the ending of this manga, overall, it is a complete and well-rounded manga.

The quality just slipped a little bit after “L” died.

Some people also say that it’s not that the ending of “Death Note” declined in quality, it’s just that after “L’s” death, Yagami Light doesn’t have an equal opponent.

Just like Ximen Chui Xue’s ultimate battle was against Ye Gucheng.

It’s difficult to reproduce the same earth-shattering battle after that.

Estimating the time, Lin Yuan probably figured it out.

“Perhaps during the movie filming, I can start the serialization of ‘Death Note’.”

“Also, ‘Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma’ needs to be adapted into an animation.”

“The revenue brought in by the animation adaptation is much higher than I expected. Once the serialization of ‘Death Note’ is nearly finished, I definitely need to continue with the animation.”

“…..”

Lin Yuan has tasted the sweetness of animation adaptation.

If possible, he even wanted to make a live-action version but considering the failures of live-action adaptations of anime in his previous life, he gave up.

Instead of believing in live-action adaptations of anime, he might as well have faith in his own novels.

For example, “Zhu Xian” can be made into a TV series.

If that’s still not safe, then “Ghost Blows Out the Light” should be ok, right?

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ps: Judging optimistically, it seems like I’ll be well in a few more days. I could finally open my mouth to eat today, it feels so good not having to drink porridge anymore. Also, Antarctica, the cat in yesterday’s bonus chapter, is indeed my pet.