ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA MACHIAVELLIANISME KARAKTER LIGHT YAGAMI DALAM ANIME DEATH NOTE: ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA MACHIAVELLIANISME KARAKTER LIGHT YAGAMI DALAM ANIME DEATH NOTE

ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA MACHIAVELLIANISME KARAKTER LIGHT YAGAMI DALAM ANIME DEATH NOTE

Abstract

The Death Note anime is a Japanese shonen manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba, a Japanese mangaka, which tells the story of Light Yagami, a genius teenager who finds a mysterious notebook called the Death Note. In the series, the book is owned by the god of death or shinigami named Ryuk and has the supernatural ability to kill anyone when a name is written in the book. This series centers on Light's efforts to change the world into a crime- free utopia by disguising himself as the god of justice named Kira through the Death Note. This research was conducted to analyze the Machiavellian personality of the character Light Yagami through a modern semiotic model called Roland Barthes which uses a sign. Roland Barthes's semiotics prioritizes three pillars of thought, namely denotative, connotative and myth as the basis of his analysis. The solution to the problem solving method used in this research is the listening and note-taking method, as well as literature study.