Serious question. What the fuck was this guy's problem?
He made the best out of an objectively pretty bad superpower
Nothing he killed the right people.
Suffering a little from god complex but eh isn't anyone these days.
>>155757763
He was baited by Light super easily in one of the first episodes. He's a fuckin idiot.
>>155757763
>muh boredom
>>155757763
He killed nobodies instead of (((politicians))). He also somehow managed to become the number 1 suspect in a 100 million populated country a couple of weeks after he got his power.
>>155757763
Everyone would get carried away with a Death Note
>>155757763
He didnt take the shinigami eyes and didnt live longer than he would have if he took them anyway.
>>155758565
>Nothing he killed the right people.
What about the innocent people who would've figured him out?
Should have went after the jews instead
>>155757763
he said he was bored
>>155759935
>innocent
>aiding and abetting criminals
Pick one.
>>155757763
Chuuni as fuck
>>155760239
>>155759044
>implying he didn't
>>155757763
Light was brilliant. He had no problem.
>>155757763
He was an impulsive teenager with a superiority complex given a power that is quite literally godlike. What happened is pretty much what you'd expect would happen given the circumstances.
>>155760671
I would have been much much more edgy in his place
>>155757763
Autism
>>155760830
Me too.
I also would have looked for a way to wage a war on the Shinigami, though, so no one would have the power to interfere.
He fucked up by making his keikaku too complicated and shooting too high
He could have ran shit from the shadows without becoming a public figure head.
They would have gotten as far as finding out that the deaths coincide with a High schooler's schedule and then they wouldn't be able to make any more head way unless they found the book by searching him or illegally surveying him.
Of course if he just burned the book once he felt threatened there wouldn't be evidence it was his doing and with a good lawyer he'd be off scott free provided they don't just summarily execute him
>>155757763
yagami backwards reads Im a Gay
>>155759935
Collateral damage.
>>155761110
You aren't wrong
>>155757763
Just being bored.
And perhaps looking for a life goal.
his problem is that when he decided to become Kira, he didn't set up a new MO.
If that one local criminal had just had a heart attack, and the rest had all killed themselves and spelled out "GOD" in their own blood, this would have stopped L from narrowing him down.
>>155761563
The problem is that he would be sacrificing a lot of efficiency by adding so much writing to each kill. Heart attacks are the default, after all, so you don't have to write any kill method for them--but if he wanted to choose a new default method thereafter, he'd have to write it out every time.
That is, if I'm remembering the rules correctly.
>>155757763
Stupidity.
He immediately made everyone aware of him by doing nothing but heart attacks
>>155761618
You do have a point
>>155761563
Having the criminals write
>you could have prevented this L
>if only L were good enough
>I guess L stands for loser
Would have been fun
>>155757763
His normiel tier parents weren't ready to raise a literal genius, and thus they ended up fucking him up without realizing it.
They built their high IQ son up with strong morals about criminal justice in a nation with a fucked justice system full of corruption, didn't look past his grades to see that he was on the slippery slope of a depression/break down spiral due to perceived lack of purpose in a rotten world that didn't challenge him at all, and were similarly ill suited to do anything else about it even if they did notice Light's problems. Light himself was obsessed with being perfect. The perfect student, son, and brother.
He just couldn't handle his entire worldview and sense of self being wrong, so he latched onto the Death Note. There's also the possibility that a Death Note has a supernatural pull that makes people want to use it.
In the end, he killed the only person that could actually challenge him too. Death Note is a tragedy in a way.
Why didn't he just set up some sort of backup for if Mikami fucked up?
He could've brought a gun or done some manipulation with the investigation team
>>155760985
To add to this, he could've easily communicated with the 2nd Kira using people on live television and tell each other as much information as they can back and forth until Light figures out Rem is willing to die for Misa.
No one would know what the hell they're talking about and Rem would be sent by Misa to find Light in a designated large public area, where Rem spots Light thanks to Ryuk and touches him with a bit of the Death Note.
After that, Misa and Light establish communication and eventually meet up, where Light manipulates Misa into telling Rem into spying on L and what he does. After a year or two, they find out about Wammy's House and all associates of L and Rem takes photo's of all of them.
Rem brings back the information and Misa writes their names in the Death Note. Now with all future L's dead, Light has nothing in his way and can write as many names as he wants, eventually breaking the will of the police and the world itself.
>>155759879
He would've died halfway through the anime, though. In Death Note universe, everyone's lifespan is specified at birth. Something would've happened to cause him to die sooner, had he taken the eyes.
>>155757763
He was sooo hot
>>155761913
L would've caught onto live messages
He didn't put the note on a printer and set it to print all names from phone books/fb causing the end of civilization
>>155761886
The author needed him to lose
>>155761913
What I would have done
Also fuck Misa to ensure she doesn't get another crush and betrays me
>>155762040
Encrypt them with shinigami proverbs so only a death note user can understand them
>>155762083
Printers can't think of a person
>>155757763
He thought it was fate when it was really random chance.
I want to tell you *I'm L*
He was blue pilled and believed petty criminals were the ones behind the world's problems.
Raito was dumb as fuck.
>>155761110
Turner backwards reads Return
Kira
Light
Mello
Near
What does it mean
>>155761110
keked
>>155762261
This scene was actually amazing and makes me want to go back and rewatch the whole series.
>>155762121
>Also fuck Misa to ensure she doesn't get another crush and betrays me
my nigga.
>>155762121
>>155762464
>implying Light didn't bang the shit out of misa during the timeskip
>>155759044
Look Anon nobody likes the thief who steals a purse
But the thief who steals 10 million dollars? We admire people like that, the Discworld series makes it a point that people are fine with crime as long as it remains organized.
Besides if you want a Manga where a teenager wants to better the world by killing politics then go read akumetsu
>>155762261
Light handled this moment horribly
>oh you flatter me Hideki-kun, but I'm just a student, I'm not on the level of a person who's battling against a God
>>155760671
>>155760830
>>155760968
But unlike Light you all would have fucked Misa if given the chance
>>155757763
Has anyone seen any normalfags react to Death Note, particularly episodes 24, 25, 36 and 37. Almost every single reaction I've seen has been pro-light and anti-police.
The amount of people butthurt over light's death in particular is fucking hilarious to watch.
>>155761797
On a side note, iq is a genetic trait so either one of the parents was a genius in disguise too or mom had an adventure.
Because the sister was fucking average.
>>155762535
the execution was heavily flawed and Near and Mello made the police side very unnattractive after L died
>>155762121
>Misa
>Betraying her love
That's not how yandere works
>>155762498
>then go read akumetsu
Ufff, I did enjoy that read my nigga
>>155762584
Light never used this kind of meta-knowledge so it stands to reason such knowledge isn't present in that world
>>155762655
Good
Now reflect on the fact that akumetsu started a year before death note, ended the same year as death note, had the same premise as death note but never got the popularity that death note had.
>>155762760
Oh sorry, I'm a different anon that the one you were talking to. I forgot to add that. My bad.
>>155762261
I finished watching this the other day, and it's still the biggest "Oh shit" moment, seeing how Light would react to that
>>155762518
I don't swing that way.
>>155762543
>either one of the parents was a genius in disguise too or mom had an adventure
That's not how genetic works though.
>>155762853
So? You can still reflect upon that fact
>>155762584
Light's biggest fuck up: Killing Rem
Light killed Rem because he didn't want to have to protect Misa his whole life, but he stayed with Misa anyways, so what was the point? Rem was willing to kill anyone they asked at any time. She could have killed the entire SPK at any point if Light asked, and protected him until he died.
He could have showed up at the warehouse with Rem and told her earlier to just kill everyone immediately.
>>155762945
>That's not how genetic works though.
Dude, don't.
IQ IS a genetic trait that goes from parents to their kids.
Hard work, mental exercises and discipline go a long way but two morons don't make a genius. Period.
>>155763252
Rem was willing to die for Misa not Light
>>155763319
they could, it's only correlated but it's not a strong rule.
>einstein's parents didn't win nobel prizes
>>155763374
Yes, but Misa loved Light, so as long as helping Light made Misa happy she would do it, which is why she agreed to kill L in the first place, for Misa's happiness.
If he married Misa, Rem would probably just hang out with them and help them out when asked.
>>155763319
>two tall people don't make a dwarf
>two normal people don't make an autist
>two brunet people don't make a ginger
It happens.
>>155762518
Thats gay.
>>155763491
So? Someone's iq doesn't dictate that they will go and study, some people have other interests regardless of how intelligent they are.
I know someone with a physics degree that wants to be an artist and live of making illustrations and such.
If you don't study and/or work on it, your iq means nothing.
>>155763634
That's different.
Dwarfs and autists are "traits" equivalent to mental illness, you can carry them but not manifest them.
Being a ginger/blonde/brunette is a dominance thing.
It's like you guys never went to school.
>>155763810
I must correct something though, about being an autist, it also depends on how old the woman is.
And I'm out of this conversation with preteens and mongrels.
Why did they think that making Near sound like a 40-year-old woman in both the sub and dub was a good idea
>>155759935
No one is innocent in death note.
>>155757763
He wasn't wise enough to reject the gift.
>>155762261
WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS GUY EAT SO MUCH SUGAR?
WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM
>>155757792
>kill anyone you want anonymously
>find a way to get caught
?????
>>155759044
He killed the US president in the manga.
>>155763810
>That's different.
>Dwarfs and autists are "traits" equivalent to mental illness, you can carry them but not manifest them.
>Being a ginger/blonde/brunette is a dominance thing.
Your ignorance is really showing.
Much like intelligence, autistic traits exist on something of a continuum, so a certified genius like Light is about as likely to happen as full-blown can't-even-form-words autism.
Likewise, traits like hair colour aren't simple dominant/recessive, there are a lot of genes which can contribute to it, which seems to be the case for intelligence (and autism) as well.
And, of course, there are multiple possible causes of dwarfism...
Genetics for anything is really complicated. There's no reason two people with some defect limiting their intelligence (a la dwarfism limiting height) couldn't reproduce mostly normal, or even above-normal, children. They just have to not pass on the bad genes.
And Light's parents are probably a little above average to begin with, just not to his level.
>>155761618
yeah but he later figured out that you can write the cause of death before anything happens then write down the name.
>>155757763
Ambition and narcissism. It was never about his ideal but about himself, so he could never TRULY let himself and his killings be anonymous, which meant sooner or later he had to be caught.
>>155762397
Just part of the alphabet.
H I J " K L M N " O P Q
>>155759935
Self defense. They were trying to kill him for killing criminals.
>>155764584
But how many times would he have to write that out to use it as a default? That's still a huge time investment and limitation.
>>155764551
It's only shitty, because his rival had plot armor/knowledge and he couldn't kill him without sacrificing half his lifespan.
To answers Op's question; nothing. He just wanted to make the world a better place. However, the power got to his head and he lost his humanity in the process.
>>155764689
They were trying to arrest him. For breaking the law and committing murder. Which he did. The moment he killed a cop he lost all credibility of good intentions, it was all just a god complex thing. He never did a very good job of actually defending his actions.
>>155764569
>And Light's parents are probably a little above average to begin with, just not to his level.
Yeah. It seemed that way for his father at least. We never do get to see his mother all that much.
The Live Action tv series actually had her killed off by criminals in Light's childhood. I should probably finish watching it too. The differences between tv Light and anime Light due to that divergence where interesting.
>>155764770
>However, the power got to his head
Approximately 20 minutes after he got the power
>>155764881
It didn't really go to his head until he killed a biker dude attempting to molest/rape a chick outside of a convenience store. Even then, it time skips a week or two.
>>155764881
It didn't go to his head until others opposed him. But yeah, it happened pretty quick and I think that's realistic. Many who had and would use such a power would become intoxicated by said power.
>>155764881
This is pretty much how I felt watching it. Once in awhile they'd take like 10 seconds out to remind you how Light was creating a better world without criminals but it was basically just a cat and mouse game 95% between him and his pursuers since he didn't want to go to the electric chair. He'd kill his entire family as long he could get away with it.
>>155762285
This. Patently a leftist, probably would've gotten all up his own ass with the wrong commie to whisper in his ear. Otherwise would've gravitated towards it himself.
Give ME the Death Note; I'd Ayn Rand as fuck.
>he'd kill his own imouto
Unforgivable.
>IQ of 184
Truly, no one is as intelligent as me.
>>155765820
As a literal commie, I would kill your sort first.
>>155765909
>his actions towards misa
>flirting with other girls immediately after rebuking misa
Truly unforgivable.
>>155767981
Kiyomi Takeda was way hotter, that's pretty much fact.
>>155768141
Misa is pretty much the perfect girl. She halved her lifespan twice, all for the object of her affection. And she's a qt, famous singer.
Light only lost because of this other faggot, it was pretty OOC that light would trust other people
>>155757763
He's a generic angsty nerd.
>>155757763
You know I just had a thought
Light is a pretty bland character. We don't really know much about his background and where he got his moralfaggotry/god complex from
If he was supposed to be just an unfortunate victim of a Shinigami(Ryuk) fine but that's not the way the series plays it as
>>155762338
No it doesn't
>>155761797
>he killed the only person that could actually challenge him too.
By fucking cheating so it doesn't count
What was her problem?
>>155757763
He was a poor man's Johan
>>155762584
Misa is not a yandere she's a doormat
What would you if you had the Death Note /a/?
>Write my name on it
>Peaceful death in my sleep
>>155768141
Good lord no
Kiyomi was a 3DPD Christmas Cake
Misa was light-years ahead of her
>>155771888
jew massacre, but not before they reveal their zionist agenda for everyone to see.
I'm going to make the holocaust look like a fucking joke.
What if I have identical twins and gave them both the same name?
Would the death note kill them both or just pick one at random?
>>155757763
Overflowing in justice and righteousness. Over-humanity can turn into inhumanity.
>>155771888
start killing politicians and annoying people for fun
That doujinshi where he has to relive all of the deaths he inflicted, and then resolves to meet the Shinigami King before he dies for real, was pretty neat.
>>155758815
I think you meant L but yeah, Light was ignorant by not having a previous adversary. Series would have been totally different if he was not so conceited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHfCCrjygGs
>dat Korean
>>155772002
SHUT IT DOWN
>>155757763
He was an above average loser with no friends who went mad with power and eventually exposed himself for a whiny crybaby who got rekt by a dumb jock.
Pretty much any anon who has the power of life and death.
>>155772855
Here's another conundrum
What if some schmuck finds out kira's full identity
Then he goes out and legally changes his name to the same one kira has
And then after that he gets the best facial reconstruction surgery that money can buy and looks nearly Identical to kira
Would any kira take the risk of writing their own name and thinking about such a similar face?
>>155771888
End most capitalists/rightists and utter scum in most spectacular, psychotic ways. Then most likely do the same as you and then abdicate it so I do not remember nor know anything.
I wonder if the death note can fabricate an epidemic to make it look like an incurable disease was wiping everyone out, he kinda went full retard despite being 'smart'
>>155759044
This, holy shit how incompetent is this faggot?
>>155774499
He was hoping that if he made it blatantly obvious that he had an in with the police that it would turn L and the Police against each other and they'd destroy each other.
>>155760830
>>155760968
I would have been more arbitrary in my kills, overall choose them carefully, and make sure their deaths looked natural.
Rudy Ginsburg would make a good target, for example.
>>155771888
I'd write down anyone who disagrees with my opinion on an anonymous message board. I'd start by tracing ips and contacting my bros in bl*ckh*t
>>155774540
>He was hoping that if he made it blatantly obvious that he had an in with the police that it would turn L and the Police against each other and they'd destroy each other.
So fucking arrogant.
>>155774588
>not using 4chan to figure out which politicans you could get away
>>155774476
Criminals would keep being criminals if they thought it was just a disease
>>155774579
>not eliminating an entire country's political figureheads and watching as shit hits the fan
Would be funny to just kill Kim Jong un and some of the other North korean leaders all within a couple of minutes and watch as they just toss missiles around while the NK military tries it's best to take over the gov't without eliminating the entire population
>>155774696
Not a bad idea, I'd write their death down as "death by Chinese Missiles" to ensure it goes well.
>>155771888
I'd start researching which liberals on the Supreme Court are ready to croak and figure out the most plausible cause of death.
Upper middle class arrogance.
>Try to be humanity's god.
>Humanity says "fuck yourself" and outwits you at every turn.
>Gets shitstomped by a trio of autistic emos.
>>155775261
This
>>155772616
I remember watching a multi-language laugh compilation as well and remember the Korean one was also by far and away the best, next to the original Japanese.
>>155774972
Good boy, kill off those liberal judges. You know the conservative ones will defend your right to view naked little girl Chinese cartoons.
>>155771888
>>155776198
Totally worth it at this point
>>155757763
How many years did Light add to Ryuk's life?
Must have been at least several hundred thousand
>>155776501
>breaking news, A german Man named Donald Drumpf was killed yesterday in a tragic shooting by a tanned German....
>In other news, President Trump signed a new executive order, mandating that...
>>155757763
He was an extremely ambitious, intelligent, and righteous person. He got a power so he used it to the fullest. It involved killing, essentially being 'evil'. So be it. Light believed he could transgress those boundaries like a superman and put up a pretty good case. On the flip side, he clearly became more corrupt.
>>155772913
>'I've never watched/read the series.'
Light is a Chad. This is constantly drilled in, because a huge part of the character is he's a guy no one would suspect in a million years of being a serial killer. It also feeds into a superman complex: "I'm so perfect, I have the right to kill, I have the right to shape the world in my image!"
Christ, he easily wraps bitches around his finger. A woman, a former FBI agent, went from being wary of him to giving him her info in like an hour because he turned on the charm.
>>155776750
>and righteous person
>righteous
>chad
>righteous
>ever
kek
Light was right. The world is rotten. Somebody had to do it.
>>155775261
The mass of humanity was sucking Kira's cock. Authorities opposed him for obvious reason (threat to power) and Kira whooped them so hard, he made the the fucking POTUS back off. As for the autistic emos, they were all super geniuses with tons of resources and were cut down to one, who would have lost if it wasn't for a crazy sequence of events.
>>155776582
>year of 2037
>redeem your MEGACORPBUX paycheck for 25MB data allowance
>oh boy time for some good fappin tonight!
>blast death metal on your sound system so that your cell phone's government-installed PATRIOTWARE client can't make sense of your keystrokes' audio signature
>fire up those torrents
>whoops forgot to enable that twenty-third VPN!
>SWAT team uses a battering ram to peacefully enter your house at 2:30 a.m.
>dick in hand, you are unable to comply immediately with the mandatory "hands visible at all times 'let our blueboys live' policy"
>riddled with bullets, paralyzed
>now a quadriplegic, your trial is steamed to you via webcam straight to your prison-hospital cell
>1 count of child pornography for each pixel of scanned lolicon in your internet history
>25 years mandatory minimum for each count
>sentenced to ten quadrillion years hard time
>as they give you your time-dilation drip and you begin to face the void of quasi-eternal imprisonment within your own mind, you have aeons to give thanks to CEOOTUS TRUMP and his supremest court judges' fair and balanced legislation
>at least you never had to share a bathroom with a person who has neon-colored hair
>>155776853
Chad is a good guy. He works hard, is helpful, and is an inspiration to others. Losers are none of those things and would just use the book to rape and murder the girls who reject them.
>>155777210
>year 2037
>Go out in my government approved love car
>ahh, the peaceful government approved paint job is so nice and inoffensive
>It's great that everybody is driving the same make and model too, given to us by the state of course.
>Get lost on my way to pick up my government supplied dose of coffee before work because all of the statebucks buildings look identical as to not incite classism
>"Oh shit, not again"
>oops shouldn't have said that
>my state clothes that have come preinstalled with the state provided "anti offensive language filter" immediately sends my mistake to the ministry of language
>State car stops thanks to the state seizing remote access of all vehicles for just this sort of emergency
>if_only_I_was_a_POC.jpg
>Three Ministry of Moderation cars roll up at a modest pace
>I can almost hear the inoffensive relaxing trigger proof siren
>10 biracial transgender Ministry of Moderation officials confirm that I am indeed a cis-straight-white male
>After putting up the anti-trigger tent system to obscure the scene from innocent passerbys who might be offended by witnessing "moderation", the cops brutally beat me into a pulp while reading off my cis white male privileges from the state's own educational material
>after that is all said and done I'm escorted to the gulag to produce more goods for the state
>Luckily I didn't get summarily executed because the lesbian moderator gets triggered by it
How do you like my pilot for my new anime idea?
>>155766127
Of course you would; you're a filthy commie and my sort is your worst enemy. Thrust you into whimpering irrelevance I would.