Similarities:
They both have the idea of high school students being locked up somewhere before graduation. They both try to mainly discover the truth of a fellow student and reveal secrets about all the other classmates in order to find it.
Differences:
Re: mind - only 11 students and they are all girls. Focus more on the dead student. They stay in one room and the time period is around one day. Has a creepier/darker setting and mood.
Mr hiiragi’s homeroom - has the whole class and teacher (all genders). Slightly change the topic but still somewhat stay with the idea of the dead student. They stay within one floor of the school and stay there for about 10 days. Somewhat a lighter mood.
They both have the idea of high school students being locked up somewhere before graduation. They both try to mainly discover the truth of a fellow student and reveal secrets about all the other classmates in order to find it.
Differences:
Re: mind - only 11 students and they are all girls. Focus more on the dead student. They stay in one room and the time period is around one day. Has a creepier/darker setting and mood.
Mr hiiragi’s homeroom - has the whole class and teacher (all genders). Slightly change the topic but still somewhat stay with the idea of the dead student. They stay within one floor of the school and stay there for about 10 days. Somewhat a lighter mood.
In both dramas, the high-school-aged protagonists want to make the world a just place. In Death Note, the protagonist used supernatural notebook to achieve this and focuses on whole world, whereas Re:Mind relies on earthly methods and focuses on specific group of people. Furthermore, both series explore the theme of spiraling into madness as the pursuit of justice unfolds.
