instead of making a bunch of shitty american live action death note adaptations i think they should take the basic concept and export it into totally different cultures and/or time periods. i want to see what would happen if the death note fell into the hands of an evangelical youth pastor in rural ohio. or the old matriarch of an african royal family. or a struggling painter's apprentice in renaissance italy. or a lobster fisherman. or a famous russian novelist from the early 1900s. or a cowboy or a secretary or a monk or a farmer like why does it always have to be Light Yagami the Teenage Prodigy huh? when does someone else get a turn