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Death Note is a Japanese manga series about a high school student who uses a supernatural notebook to kill criminals. The series has spawned several anime, live-action, and musical adaptations, as well as spin-offs and sequels featuring the shinigami Ryuk and other characters.
Light Yagami is the main protagonist of the manga and anime series Death Note, who uses a supernatural notebook to kill criminals as the vigilante Kira. He is pursued by the detective L and the police, and his name is related to the Japanese word for "moon".
Ryuk is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a Shinigami who drops a Death Note into the human world to observe its use by Light Yagami, a high school student who aims to create a utopia by killing criminals.
Apoxyomenos is a Greek sculpture theme of an athlete scraping himself with a strigil. Learn about the famous versions by Lysippus, Polykleitos and Daidalos, and the recent discoveries of bronze statues in Croatia and Turkey.
Nike is the personification of victory in any field, often portrayed as "Winged Victory" in Greek art. She is the daughter of Styx and Pallas, or Ares, and the attendant of Zeus and Athena in mythology.
Hellenistic sculpture is the final stage of Ancient Greek sculpture, influenced by Eastern cultures and characterized by eclecticism, secularism, and historicism. It depicts human emotions, activities, and portraits, and reflects the expansion of the subject matter and the taste for retrospective works.
In Buddhism, there is the Mara that is concerned with death, the Mrtyu-mara. [3] It is a demon that makes humans want to die, and it is said that upon being possessed by it, in a shock, one should suddenly want to die by suicide, so it is sometimes explained to be a "shinigami". [4]
Prostration is the gesture of placing one's body in a reverentially or submissively prone position. Learn how different religions and cultures use prostration as an act of worship, respect or humility, and see examples from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and more.