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[Meta] Parallels between Goro Akechi and Light Yagami: intentional, subconscious, or accidental? The Slideshow by CardXXII
Fandoms: Persona 5, Death Note (Anime & Manga)
11 Jul 2024
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Light Yagami and Goro Akechi do share some similarities. Coincidence? In the fall of 2019, I decided to do a deep dive and find out.
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He’s not friends with Akechi. Not at all. Spending time together is a prerequisite for such a label, perhaps, but not the definition.
Akechi insists they’re rivals, like he never grew out of his sentai phase, which makes it all the more annoying when Ren has to admit that he agrees with the term.
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Ren learns to push his luck.ShuAke Week - Day 1: Role Swap
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- Part 1 of Shuake Week 2024
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31 Mar 2025
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A vivid, economic role reversal one-shot. An entire alternate game told in poignant flashes as our leads careen towards the inevitable Nov 20th. Even though their positions have swapped, goro & akira retaining (most of) their canonical backstories, personalities, and even behaviors during the game is fascinating. Goro is still the chatty one, still the one inviting Akira out, still initiating the duel. God it's so interesting when you twist the prism ever so slightly, suddenly all these actions seem so heroic. Of course the hero is going to doggedly pursue the quiet, unreadable dark-haired villain. How could it be any other way?
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Goro has a nightmare; this is the after.
The scent of fresh coffee cuts through the air as it brews—a smell that Goro associates with home—and she feels the nightmare fading like sand tumbling down an hourglass.
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31 Mar 2025
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Sad, sweet, & sapphic. Atmospheric & domestic. Goro grapples with the impending fate of her father. It's a tall task making shuake sweet while keeping canon intact, but jumping twelve years ahead is a really smart way to handle that. It's enough time that I totally buy where Akechi is at. Leaves me wondering: which is a worse fate for Akechi? Being a man who resembles his father or a woman who resembles her mother?
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The perfect cup of coffee begins like this.
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19 Feb 2025
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Short, sweet, and exquisite use of the 'food as a metaphor for love' tag. Made me want to reread it a second time with a cup of coffee on hand.
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Goro understands that Leblanc feels like a home, the one thing he'll never truly have.
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- Part 7 of shuake week 2019
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18 Apr 2024
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A very fun look at what possibly could've been going through Akechi's head during "honey, i'm home". Delicious angst as the gears of fate grind onward towards fateful November.
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Goro meets Kurusu for the first time in a TV station hallway—the marker of an end.
(Chess games and duels and the bloody ache of near clashes. Darts on boards and two hands shaking and the meld when they brush near. All of this refracted in twin mirrors, which was the face and which was the reflection?)
Goro meets Akira for a second time in a TV station hallway, it's the beginning of something. At least he knows that much.
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17 Feb 2025
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First meeting in the second rotation of a time loop. A pretty and sharp little one-shot that offers a tantalizing glimpse into what came before, and hints at what might come next. Feels like 30k words distilled down to the most important scene in the best way possible.