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[telophase]

Something I've noted while obsessively combing through three chapters of Death Note looking for reference for the doujin[1] is that - probably due to the need for visual flow and to push the reader's eyes onward, 90% of the time, L is looking towards the left, so we see the left side of his face and head. Unfortunately, due to the same aforementioned need for visual flow, I have to have L looking to the right. Which means that I'm basically making up what I think the right side of his hair looks like.

In the same vein, Light is most often seen with a camera directly at him, or from slightly above, while L is msot often seen with the camera angle directly on him or from slightly below. (I draw the opposite. God only knows why. Massive reference problems.) I'm sure that Obata-sensei is doing that deliberately, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why. When Light goes extra-special-evil, he tends to be shot from below looking up, but for the most part, downwards.

[1] I am as of yet not quite clear on what the difference between 'doujin' and 'doujinshi' is. I shall merrily continue using them at random until someone gets offended enough to let me know.

What, me look it up?? That there's crazy talk!!

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh. It may be a regional thing, too - in some areas of the country one use is more pronounced and in other areas, the other is.

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I just asked a Japanese online friend of mine on the subject, here's her answer (http://www.livejournal.com/users/baikautsugi/18625.html?thread=69057#t69057); quite interesting.

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Cool, thanks! :D