Fun fact: originally, "Hunger" on Light's List of Problems was supposed to be crossed out, but ff.net doesn't like extra formatting. If I really had to choose, I'd actually say erasure would be more Light's style, but the list looked uninteresting with just the single words. Having both his original idea of hunger and then the more general concept of scarcity made the list more organic-looking, which made the scene a little more human.
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Light doesn't have to do his homework because he did it all at the beginning of the year. This explains why he's so bored. Thus, if he had not done his homework ahead of time, all the crap with the Note wouldn't have gone down. The moral of the story, then, is that procrastination can literally save the world.
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One interesting difference between the Food Note and the Death Note is that the Food Note is far more humane, and thus Light comes off as a far more benevolent god as the Angel than he did as Kira. Consequently, his services to society are much less morally ambiguous. But as we saw at the end of the chapter, that doesn't stop L from finding something to ding him on (although if you ask me, L's just mad that the Angel is stealing his turf). On the other hand, there's no guarantee that Light's use of the Food Note will necessarily stay humane, so watch out for that.
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I like the research journal sections because the narrator doesn't take Light nearly as seriously as Light takes himself. And yet somehow I feel that it's more difficult to take him seriously in the journal sections.
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Normally you just see Ryuk floating around making snide comments and chuckling that humans are interesting. I wanted to try a different approach here and make him more of a force of nature (because death is really easy to accept unless it's your own).
On a side note, the bit about Ryuk writing Light's last meal was required by parallelism with canon, but the implications are far more hilarious than anything I could have come up with from scratch. Depending on if Light dies by the end, we may or may not see what role this last meal performs.
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For some reason, the line "Who taught you to read?" was inexplicably hilarious to me. Then again, it was 4am when I wrote it.
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I like that L gets introduced while doing statistics. Canon!L, and everyone else in canon for that matter, seemed to make do on ridiculous intuitive leaps. That's why they all burned in Statistics Hell after their untimely demises.
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Next update will be when I last said the next update was going to be.
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