[Kanji_The_Wanderer]

Aoshi-san, I like your posts a lot. Your intelligence shines through with every sentence. Bu I must say, you still managed to make me laugh out loud in those posts as well.

You wrote a lot of views, so forgive me for not being able to remember them all but two of them stuck out to me the most. (You finished the series haven't you Shino?)

The following contains spoilers, so if you haven't finished the series yet, then go away now!!

If what you say is true, about a person's name, there are people in Death Note who shouldn't have died. You say a person's name is what they believe whole-heartedly to be their name correct? Light believed he was Kira. If he was thinking to himself, I am sure he would say that he is Kira before he is Light. If this is true, then why did Light die when Ryuk wrote "Light Yagami" in his Death Note? He believed that he was Kira, the god of this world, with all his soul. If your name is what you believe it is then why did he die? "Kira" is a nickname that he was given. Just like "Ryuzaki" or "L" is L's nickname. His real name starts with an L, but he discarded his real name, and only goes by L/Ryuzaki now. So why did he die? I believe that a human's birth name, what your parent's give you, is required to kill you. It doesn't have to be a government issued name, but a name that is given to you from the very first day of your life. That is your true identity, and no hopes of wishing will change that. If I could chose it, I would be Kanji, and discard my real name, but that real name is who I am, and I cannot escape it. This is what I think. So you can think all you like that you have a different identity. But that is just in your mind. Even if everyone around you starts to call you a different name, it is all a lie. Your original name is what you really are. (lol I am rambling now)

Oh, the other thing I wanted to comment on is that Ryuk didn't steal Light's Death Note from the Shinigami King. He stole it from Shidoh another Shinigami who isn't that intelligent. He then told the Shinigami King that he forgot the rules, and that he'd like the King to write the rules in it so he never forgets it. Sorry for the correction, I don't mean to be anal, but I just figured I tell you.

I also had one more comment about the Shinigami. They lay around and play games because there is just nothing else to do. They are forbidden to travel to the human world. They can only come in this world in they have a note here, and they are retrieving it, or following it around until the humans who possess it die. Their world is a wasteland. They lost all hope of life. They don't write names down, because they don't want to live anymore. But then, when their life is about to burn out, they realize they don't want to die, so they kill a human to go on. They know what death is, and they don't want that. In DN when you die to go to nothingness. There is no Heaven, no Hell. They know this and fear it, so they only kill at the very end to keep on living since they know when they die there is no other plane of being that your soul will go to.