>fullproof way of murder
>undetectable
>still gets caught within a months time
Was Light Yagami retarded?

>>211545575 (OP)
Unironically yes
he fucked himself early by letting his general geographic location be perceived and killing people not because they committed crimes but because they stood in his way, further identifying him

>>211545575 (OP)
This was the first anime I ever watched outside of like DbZ when I was a kid. All the others I've tried to watch seem to just be shit in comparison. No other shows seem to have the same balance between fantasy and gritty realism.
Is it really the only good anime ever made or what? Everyone kept saying Evangelion but the ending of that show was so bad it was actually painful to watch.

The manga is better

>>211545934
>Is it really the only good anime ever made or what?
Pretty much. Anime as a genre has extremely poor writing. Half the time the show only exists as coomerbait.

All he had to do was threaten the US president and his administration (and donors) with death unless they arrested and executed L's team.

>>211545575 (OP)
Go back to /a/

the tranime board is down the hall on the left

His whole plan was retarded to begin with, it's not only physically impossible to write the names of every criminal out there on your shitty book, its also futile because those are simply the symptoms and not the root cause of what you're trying to eradicate, the people that ought to be targeted operate within the boudaries of legality to begin with, they make the laws you abide by.
Death note is such a weird show, despite its very political premise it barely has any political depth to it.

>>211546150
all he had to do was not kill people already in prison and on tv.

he would have been best off by killing politicians by getting them to admit their crimes on the news and who they benefited, ask other politicians to come forward with their crimes, and then have them commit suicide. then you do the same with the people pulling the politicians strings now that they are named. no way to blame you and you have briefly made society better until new shitty people fill the power vacuum.

there wasnt enough paper in the deathnotes to write all those names. that was never explained. infinite book? are we supposed to believe that? the anime loves holding your hand through useless information like this so i believe the paper is normal

>>211546524
to Light's defense, by the end of the show or manga the whole world is captivated or into a cult like state about "kira" in which people are more reluctant to committing crime, which is what Light was boasting about in the final episode

>tranime

>>211545934
I hate Death Note. It's the only anime that makes me change the channel when reruns come on. I don't get why anyone liked it.

why didnt he just write mexico, israel, africa, and bosnia?

>>211545934
nah there's other good ones like
Kaiji
One Outs
Code Geass
Ping Pong the animation
Terror in resonance
Psycho Pass
Parasyte
Shinsekai Yori
The Promised Neverland (season 1)
Steins;Gate (season 1)
Rainbow
Erased

>>211545575 (OP)
Having gone to med school, I can tell you that most smart people are absolutely delusional about their intelligence and think mastering one thing makes them an expert on anything.
Smart people are actually much easier to scam than midwits thanks to their inability to accurately assess their intelligence and their insane egos.
>>211546524
The narrative made it pretty clear he just enjoyed playing God and the criminal thing was just a pretense.

>>211545575 (OP)
L was even more retarded apparently, supposed to be the literal best detective in the world and almost pinpointed Light to his exact location but the plot had to keep going so of course he didn't figure out it was him

>>211547192
but he knew it was him the whole time he just needed proof

>>211545575 (OP)
He didn't want to not be detected, he flat out wanted to let everyone know someone was doing it to criminals and is the god of the new world, that's the whole point.

>convinced Ray Pember that he's not Kira
>lol better kill him and his wife anyway lmao

I felt like he went out of character right at the beginning when he tried to murder L on TV. from there it was just a series of weird decisions that only implicated him further all done just for the purpose of pushing the plot forward. When you have to constantly make your characters act illogical just to move the writing along, then that is bad writing.

>>211548316
>I felt like he went out of character right at the beginning when he tried to murder L on TV
stupidest thing he ever did, fucking impulsive autist

>>211548316
that's all true, but i think thats all a part of Lights character. he's manic, he's egotistical, behind his modest mask he is a sadist more or less

>>211545575 (OP)
Unironically yes. His *crucial* mistake was killing the guy who claimed to be "L" on live TV (spoiler: watch the film in order to understand why); he should've just watched it and not done anything at all. After all, killing someone who claims to be investigating HIS alleged murders just because he might be onto him is just straight up evil anyway.

This is what he should've done as soon as he saw the Death Note function for the first time (right after his first kill with it):

>gather the names of *everyone* he chooses to kill in a single mundane notebook
>take about an entire year doing this, maybe more
>do that whole thing where he figures out the entire web of corruption which systemically produces crime itself
>have all of the names assembled
>on a certain date chosen for reasons
>write all of those names into the Death Note in one single session with instructions to somehow communicate a message to the public before they all die
>none of this half-stepping shit just frolicking every day, serious sit down and plan shit
>inb4 just as planned

>>211548642
I just didn't get the sense that this was his character at the very beginning, but I suppose you're right that being an impulsive idiot quickly comes to define him as a character. so in that sense trying to kill L was very much in character in retrospect. it just really caught me off guard that he tried to do that when it first happened.

>>211548744
>>211545575 (OP)
Also, if he was a real genius, he would've used the Death Note to incidentally produce particular patterns he could trade advantageously in the market (and just have really rich people send all of their money to his anonymous untraceable just as planned swiss bank account before dying); once he had several percent of all the world's wealth, he could've used this financial leverage and instrumentalized further Death Note victims in order to build a utopia for the future of mankind.
>t. /biz/

It was fun until the detective kid died, I stopped watching after that

All animes have cringe kiddieshit-tier writing by the way, even the ones that are widely praised

Why is there a guy who starts this thread every day?

>>211546494
Trump actually shows up in one of the Death Note sequel one shots, and actually manages to survive it and get a pretty good ending.

>>211547940
Light was an evil cunt

>>211548316
So you be saying being granted a supernatural undetectable killing device corrupts a person? Plus he was a schizo from the start, its like those people who torture pedophiles or something, Do the pedos deserve it? Maybe, But will those people if given the chance do the exact same thing on innocents? Absolutely. Its just a different type of psychopath that does evil on supposed evil doers to make themselves feel different

>>211545575 (OP)
hubris

>>211550622
I agree with your take, but if you read or watch the series you will see a different version of Light without the memories of the Death Note, in fact helping the police with the investigation. So I think corruption may be plausible here

>>211545934
Full Metal Alchemist has what you are looking for. I am a non anime fan if that helps

>>211546888
The show drives home several times that the magic book has infinite pages no matter how much you tear out you tard. Did you even watch it or just saw random clips on the net abridging it?

>>211552315
i tried to watch through it several times, but i keep forgetting how bad it gets. if you liked this you may like dora the explorer kek

>>211545575 (OP)
>>211548744
>>211548935
>me yet again
Ultimately, he failed to exploit the virtually limitless power of the Death Note to its fullest. Imagine if he had written down the names of 99% of the population over the course of a year, each programmed death preceded by instructions to undertake a particular task as part of the ultimate design of which Light/Kira was architect. He could've programmed billions of humans to build an entire space program and travel all the way to Tabby's Star in order to kill whomever built that dyson sphere around it. HFY!

>>211545575 (OP)
>undetectable
The story goes into detail all the ways he was still detectable. He'd be caught in a week if he tried this in 2025

>>211546858
Japs, especially in the early 2000s, have a completely different relationship with their institutions. So the idea of just going after politicians wouldn't come up.

>>211552315
>tear ten billion pages out of the death note
>write the names of every postal worker in the death note with instructions to deliver the ten billion pages as evenly as possible between all other humans on earth with suicide instructions and a blank signature line already written on them; the deliveryperson then asks the recipient to "please sign for this package uwu"

he got too cocky

>>211545934
Watch monster

>>211553149
not enough of them read mishima

>>211547192
It's heavily implied he was on to him for awhile but he needed proof and also wanted to beat him in a game of wits that had personal stakes.

>>211553259
Johan is pretty supernatural when it comes to his oratory skills.

>>211553778
There's also the fact that Death Note is written by boomers as a reaction to the Aum Shinrikyo attack. Basically saying the gen xers and millennials who grew up post bubble and were upset that despite doing everything right (studying hard, going to the best universities, etc.) they did not have the same financial and professional opportunities of the bubble generation. Basically the author is saying "oh you people who want things to be better? Yeah you are literally Aum Shinrikyo!" It's a real strength of the animu that it softened those messages and made the story more interpretable from different angles to the point Death Note still invites discussion 2 decades later.

Somehow the least believable thing that happened in this story is Light being able to seal a miniature TV in a bag of chips and be able to watch it and be able to read/hear the names on it and write them down WHILE HE WAS BEING WATCHED ON A CAMERA IN HIS ROOM

>>211545575 (OP)
>fullproof

>>211554189
It all happens pretty fast, too. It's not really drawn out much. He figures it is likely Light early on, but doesn't have proof and works towards that. Light gets L's name, but can't write it down because at that point L has almost enough evidence and makes it known that if he were to die, it would prove Light's guilt. So Light does a scheme to "prove" his own innocence, at least in the eyes of the rest of the taskforce. And then once he pulls that off, he kills L. I feel like most of these kinds of critiques come from people who only watched half the episodes decades ago on Toonami.

>>211554339
The TV was a real TV you could buy and he knew the camera angles thanks to Ryuk, so it made perfect sense.

>>211545934
I know this is like saying The Beatles are your favorite band but have you checked out Samurai Champloo or Cowboy Bebop? I love them both dearly

>>211554572
i don't think Light ever gets L's real name. Misa saw it because of her shinigami eyes but she is then intercepted by L's team and her and Light don't speak again until Light erases his memories, if im not mistaken

Light lost the moment he made the police aware he had inside info. Drastically narrowed down the pool of suspects to a manageable level. And the justification he gave for it (to make the police distrust L) was so fucking retarded that even hubris can't make it acceptable.

>>211545575 (OP)
Dunning Kruger: the character.

>>211545934
Its the only Anime I have actually watched all the way through.

I just haven't enjoyed any others. Probably a common view since this is the only anime show that you can discuss on /tv/ without it immediately dying.

>L's name was actually L

I wonder why Light didn't just test "L" in the notebook, it's not as if there was anything to lose

>>211555240
Death Note's animu has some of the best directing for both animu and live action. The show goes a mile a minute with high tension despite most scenes just being people talking to each other, which makes it an easy watch. And the high concept lends itself to discussion on multiple levels. One of a kind story.

>>211555240
>you can discuss on /tv/ without it immediately dying
because it watches like an actual TV show with some supernatural elements instead of the main character getting a powerup every five episodes and screaming during said powerup for half the episode

>>211545934
The ending of death note sucked too. All anime endings suck. Just skip the finale and pretend it ends the way you want it to

>>211545575 (OP)
No, you're retarded. If he safely killed people without ever being caught, where would the fun be in that? As a high functioning autist, Light either wanted to do things the most exciting way, or not at all. There is no middle ground for an autist. You normies wouldn't understand.

Call me what you want but I like the jap movie trilogy.

>>211545934
Chobits and hack//sign both have fantasy that dive into very deep topics like lonliness, abuse, human touch, escapism, technology. Elfen Lied also has dark themes but people are still mad that it portrayed humanity in a very raw way with "muh boobs and blood is 2edgy4me"

>>211547192
L has autism and the second Kira thing happened pretty early, it became clear that the killings would probably not stop even if Light was detained

>>211545575 (OP)
Yes, L proved that it is incredibly easy to goad Light into acting out and killing out of pure desperation

>>211547072
Steins;Gate and Erased are complete trash.

>>211547192
L needed to get Light to confess or catch him dead to rights
L also didn't really give a fuck about catching Kira, he was more focused on dicking around and playing mind games than catching Light

>>211558278
>he was more focused on dicking around and playing mind games than catching Light
he deserved to die just as much as Light then

>>211558278
He needed to prove it was a single person. If he arrested Light and the killings didn't stop, he would be at a complete dead end.

>>211558423
Maybe but literally the anime makes that explicitly clear that L is treating this investigation like a game to win, its why the Japanese police detectives in the show fucking hate him

>>211545575 (OP)
>Light
>wanted to be the god of this world.
>Died begging like a bitch
>Lelouch
>wanted a world of place
>Died like a chad after ending all wars and unify the world
Lelouch >>>> light

>>211545575 (OP)
He was a sociopath and wanted the world to know Kira is real, and that he is justice. Really power comes from anonymity, if you read the LA BB murder case, you'll see how fucked L was just because the killer wasn't trying to be found.

>>211560372
>LA BB
?

>>211560908
It's a light novel, prequel to the Death note. L has to catch a serial killer called BB.

>>211555316
If you attempt to kill the same person 3 times, but fail, they become immune to the death note

>>211547377
>needed proof
He also wanted to know how the fuck Light was doing it. If a guy show up with inexplicable telepathic murder powers, you could just kill him and end it, but the smarter thing to do would be to try to figure out the underlying mechanisms to prevent it from ever happening in the future. For all L knew, Light was going to be the first of many.

>>211545575 (OP)
whenever an agry japanese citizen makes something based, the gobvernment has to come in and make it cringe just incase people get inspired to kill retarded politicans and corrupt police officers.

>>211545934
I’d tell you about Gundam but you don’t deserve it because you’re a normalfaggot and also a zoomer

I never saw this but obviously know parts of what happens, how does Light fuck up having a book that kills whoever he wants? Even if they find some trend or link to the deaths how are they gonna find him out of the 90 million people in Japan.
Does he just kill a bunch of people he knows who have publicly wronged him or something?

>>211561579
since light was killing people on live tv, L staged a fake live tv show that only showed in his area and light took the bait like the retarded teenager that he was.

>>211553259
Monster was great indeed
I would also recomend that

>Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
If you like grewsom deaths and killings
Don't get fooled by the happy themed short skirts and colored hairs

>>211561865
What a dumbass. I thought he was le keikaku master.

>>211554197
Who can play him in Netflix Adaptation?

>>211561579
>how does Light fuck up having a book that kills whoever he wants?
Light is exceedingly easy to manipulate into acting on impulse and pride, he wanted people to know someone was out there but wasn't prepared for the blowback to his murder spree
>Even if they find some trend or link to the deaths how are they gonna find him out of the 90 million people in Japan.
Light, as Kira was killing inmates and criminals who the details of their cases were only known to those within the police department itself which was a smoking gun that narrowed it down.

>>211561908
he was just a regular teenager that liked to think he was smarter than everyone else. thats part of the appeal and tradgey of the series.

You give a regular, well meaning person ultimate power and watch them destroy themselves.

its questionable whether or not the shikigami were also fucking with his mind the whole time. The problem with this series is, once itbecame popular the government basically freaked out and theres lots of rumors that the author was forced to change his story and make light retarded/comically evil because the japanese government didnt want to deal withcopy cat vigilantes murdering people who deserved to be killed.

>>211561991
the zesty nigger that played the black doctor in doctor who.

>>211545575 (OP)

Hubris strikes again.

Light took L's bait. Hook, line and sinker.

death note blows as an antihero story when code geass exists

>>211562019
You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch people's heads a-roll

>>211562125
The difference is LeLouch had actually noble goals but had to do some morally sketchy shit to accomplish it, also he wanted a better world for his sister to live in and he never lost sight of that goal.

Light got drunk on the power of the death note and only pretended to have lofty goals

>>211545575 (OP)
>fullproof

>>211545575 (OP)
>Was Light Yagami retarded?
The writers were.

>>211562567
>LeLouch had actually noble goals
Did he? Because I remember him bombing his own country's soldiers, committing terrorism, treason, and simping for some green-haired bitch

>>211561579
They used kill patterns to narrow him down to a group small enough to monitor manually which eventually forced his hand.

>comes into possession of a book that can literally kill fucking anyone in the world
>only uses it to kill people in his own country
fucking retard

>>211564191
why didn't Light stop Osama Bin Laden

>>211564191
Too young to be redpilled about the Jews

>>211562019
>regular
Light wasn't regular, he was incredibly smart, handsome, and successful. He already had a massive ego before he even found the book.

>>211561579
If the death note was real and Light did what he did IRL he would still be 100% unstoppable. His mistake was not realizing that he's in an anime and that an autistic genius savant with infinite wealth existed and wanted to solve the mystery for fun.

>Start killing people close to where you live instead of famous criminals around the world
of course he was a fucking idiot

>>211545934
FMAB is fun and Attack on Titan is good until the ending; Berserk is the only manga I have ever read and like it a lot

>>211564191
One job

>>211547072
>Shinsekai Yori
This fucking one right here got me by surprise, what a ride

>>211545934
The only animes I've liked are
>Death Note
>Area 88
>Black Lagoon

>>211564945
If Light operated in the same way nowadays, he gets caught for sure. There's even more beeg data tools and ways to track search history and patterns. Only a computer wizard or someone extremely good at anonymization would be able to get away with what he did. Now someone only going after big public figures? Yeah they'd get away with it.

>>211553149
Elaborate?

>>211545934
One Punch Man season 1 is a wonderful gateway drug.

>>211565932
They had actual trust in their institutions unlike westerners, especially americans, nowadays. Crime rate was low, tax money got filtered into public works and services people cared about, they weren't sending in endless immigrants, etc. etc. So the conception of stopping the bad in the world by going after public figures in the government and/or corporations wouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind for a japanese person in the year 2005. This is reflected in the story of Death Note - Light kills individual criminals while the people earnestly trying to stop his killings are the ones who hold institutional power: police and other governmental organizations.

>>211555054
Dumb thing is that his real name was shown in bonus material, and his first name really was just the letter L

>>211545575 (OP)
The hentai is better

>Was Light Yagami retarded?
Worse, he was homosexual.

>>211545575 (OP)
He sure didn't have any nuance or depth. By the end of the first episode, he's already declaring that he plans to become god of a new world. By the end of the second episode, he's already killed an innocent person (the L decoy on TV)

>>211545993
It only has poor writting if you expect a show about beating the crap out of furries with other furries to have a legit reason to do it.