My Favorite Anime: Che Lingo’s journey from Death Note to Jujutsu Kaisen

polygon.com:

Che Lingo, the U.K.-based rapper and musician, is an avid anime enthusiast. In addition to collaborating with Crunchyroll on its fall 2023 anime trailer, Che Lingo also composed and performed several songs for Jujutsu Kaisen’s first season.

Polygon recently had a chance to connect with Lingo, so we had to ask: What was your first favorite anime, and what’s your favorite anime now?

My Favorite Anime is Polygon’s column dedicated to collecting the stories of the biggest celebrity anime fans in the world, charting a path from their earliest introductions to Japanese animation to the series and films they love today. Here’s what Che Lingo had to say.

Death Note is easily one of the most famous and iconic anime of the late 2000s. Based on Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s 2003 manga, the series follows the story of Light Yagami, an intelligent yet disaffected high school student who yearns for a world where his personal idea of “justice” is upheld.

After discovering the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages, Light plunges into a megalomaniac killing spree, acting as judge, jury, and executioner for anyone he perceives as unworthy of life. When the rash of inexplicable deaths sparks an international manhunt for the person responsible, Light must elude his would-be captors with the aid of Ryuk, a Reaper-like supernatural entity known as a shinigami and the previous owner of the Death Note.

A psychological mystery thriller with a Faustian supernatural twist, both the original Death Note manga and its anime adaptation enjoyed massive popularity and commercial success, with the manga having sold over 30 million copies as of April 2015. Death Note has spawned multiple adaptations and spinoffs since the anime’s conclusion, including five Japanese feature films and a 2017 American adaptation starring Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, and Willem Dafoe.

Since its premiere in 2020, Jujutsu Kaisen has quickly become one of the most