He actually fucked it up earlier than that, the moment he decided to only make killings during after school hours and revealing his schedule is that of a student
@@DemonOfShadows66 yeah, but that one stupid move messed up basically everything. The rules state you can choose time and method of death how did he not know.
@@walkingarmageddon5479 The rules stated that you could choose the method, but it didn't say anything about the time of death. Light had to learn that himself.
The problem here is largely that Light wanted people to know there was someone casting judgement, random heart attacks although would be better to avoid any possible link to himself, as in like there isn't even anything to suspect because people have heart attacks all the time. He wanted the attention, and maybe was also a bit cocky about being untraceable.
I mean he didn’t need to kill Lind L Taylor to achieve that. He had the attention. People already knew. That’s why the broadcast aired in the first place. But his ego couldn’t handle being criticized. And then did all the shenanigans with the police and the fbi to get close to L, all cuz he got embarrassed on national tv. He was upset that he got played for a fool. He decided to make it his mission to find the guy who embarrassed him and kill him. That was the whole thing. It wasn’t like L had the means to stop Light in any capacity. The only real wildcard is Misa. Cuz, they could probably deduce she is a copy cat. And misa could be tracked down. So they would could probably get their hands on the death note. But it wouldn’t tell you who the other death note user was. But yeah, Light could have gotten everything he wanted had he just put his fragile ego aside and focused on the mission. But no he needed to get his lick back so damn bad.
AHH ur so smart, I noticed pretty much everything this guy said upon my 1st watch through, this comment helped me understand why he did it that isnt just plot convenience.
The actual problem is that he criticizes things that have to be in the show for the show to exist. I dont have problem with things like this. I mean if Light didnt do anything and just killed few criminals every day it would be boring show. There is countless movies where you can say ''if he just walked away he would be fine'' yea and also there would be no movie.😁 I have problem with stupid plot lines that are supposed to get you to some point in the story while i can think of 3 better more natural ways to get there, which is not the case for DN.
@@orchoose Obviously we needed a conflict for the show to be interesting. We all get that, doesn't mean we can't criticize Light for kinda being stupid/ egotistical. It's fun to criticize shows and games, even if you like them.
I’d say his worst mistake was celebrating early, during the end of the series where N and everyone else was supposed to die he said, “I win” which led to evidence of him being Kira. If this hadn’t happened it would have been harder to prove him guilty.
I definitely think Light could have gotten away with saying Near is framing me. There was literally nothing about Mikami linking him to Light and Misa wasn't there that day either. If he hadn't of said "I win" I think he would have at least survived that day.
@@CiraxMusic While it's true that Mikami wasn't related to Light, it's also true that Aizawa, Mogi, the Task Force and Near were all already convinced at that point that Light was Kira. Assuming in this scenario Light didn't out himself, If Light had managed to spew out a lie like that, Near and the others would easily dismiss it with basic evidence I think.
Another neat detail is that N knew he won as soon as they entered the building. Since he had the real death note, he could see the shinigami in the room.
Also guys let's not forget that N looked at Mikami's fake notebook that he thought was real and it had everyone's names on it beside Light's. Also Mikami called Light Kami (God, if you watched the dub) so regardless of Light saying anything, he was always gonna lose once he set foot in that warehouse.
Hes a narcissist. He cant resist the challenge; the chance to prove his superiority. That was *before* he got the book. With it, he felt invincible. He could never conceive empathy, or somebody making a sacrifice play. That's how I beat him.
I thought this was obvious since the first time L challenges him. Light is trying less to avoid getting caught, and more trying to feed his God complex.
Light should've just moved away from Japan after L narrowed it down to the kanto region. He was a minor, sure. But he could have found some excuse, like going to college abroad. He also should never have joined the task force to catch Kira. They'd be left searching for him in Japan the rest of the show.
Few things: 1) Light taking all this as a bit of a game obviously wasn't wise, but I wouldn't say that (in a vacuum) killing the fake L was 'dumb'... Let's face it, most people - even highly intelligent people - wouldn't ever suspect it was a targeted broadcast. Back then Light was smooth sailing, he had no reason to believe something that strong would come right off the bat. 2) It's true that Light would've been much harder to catch if he didn't play that game with L, but NOT impossible. First, to state the obvious: L can control the media. He could use that to pinpoint Light's location even if Light doesn't play his game. Say: Once he find out where Light gets his victim's names, he could arrange to have some of them NOT appear in certain publications/locations. Say, on Day 1 he doesn't publish one of the name in America. If the person dies, then on day 2he doesn't publish a new name in Europe. If that person dies, Day 3 he doesn't publish a new name in Asia. Suddenly, that person doesn't die. So he knows the killer is in Asia. Day 4 he does the same with China. Day 5, India. Day 6, Russia. Day 7, Japan, and the person doesn't die. So after a week, he already knows the killer is in Japan. And Light would have no way of knowing this is even happening unless he looks at ALL publications of the entire world, which obviously would take forever, never gonna happen.
If only our lives were as private as in Death Note. All of your online interactions are catalogued and fingerprinted by marketers and law enforcement. If you ever pop up on their radar, they will know everything about you that you've decided to share electronically. The scary thing is that the "targeted broadcast" is something that's done all the time, every day, to everyone that uses any social media/content platform. If there were a real life Death Note, there would be practically no way to effectively synthesize new information and use it without being caught without going scorched earth and shutting down the internet. The only way would be to leverage key deaths to grant you information covertly (dead drops and pick ups, etc.) or overtly (radio, tv, emergency services broadcasts). Even still, you'd need to minimize the actionable information you got to accomplish your goal (whatever it is) without drawing suspicion. Prolonged use would always expose the wielder one way or another due to their limited ability to act on limited information, so best to keep the actions to a minimum while maximizing effectiveness. Light could have been far more capable, but that wasn't the point of the story.
You're not wrong in any of this, but the point of the character is this, he WANTED to be seen. He even admits that if he had chosen a different cause of death for every criminal, he would probably never be discovered, as it would pass by as coincidence. And when he fell for that first L trick, his ego was shattered when he found out that he wasn't the only smart person in the world. So from this point foward, he is more interested in killing L than judging criminals. L is the main puzzle, that's why he responds to his actions, he wanted to tease L, because for him to win in the shadows, it would not been fun. It's just like azula "but you're the most beautiful, smartest, perfect girl in the world"
I personally believe light's downfall started as soon as he got corrupted by powers and started thinking he is doing the best anyone could using the notebook, it's surprising how in episode 2 he already got corrupted and killed the fake L which well L planted in order to pinpoint as you said. You'll understand the things a lot more if you try to portray the charachters as people, its quiet a fun thing to do try it sometime.
I feel like it would have taken the police longer to figure out that the deaths were connected if Light had just used a wider variety of causes of death than just the default heart attacks, I know that would take up more space on each page that could be used for more names but it might have benefited Light in the long run
Kira fanboys: "He's so smart he just overthought about his course of action!" "He just wanted a challenge" Yeah, sure. He's smart but he still acted stupidly and put himself over much more stress than needed, which if he truly was as bright as he thinks he is, would have not happened. Perhaps he's not that much of a genius after all.
Idk. He specifically mentioned why he was doing what he was doing. He specifically gave the info the police needed to suspect Light, (not prove but put at a high likelyhood). He wanted that so he could get close to L, to eventually kill him. In any game, defense is easier than offence. Light put himself in danger to then switch L into offense which draws L in closer. He did make the mistake of killing Lind L. Taylor, but after that, the mistakes are intentional. The only thing he kept secret was that he could control cause of death. Naiomi guessed that, a loose end that shouldnt have happened, and only happened because Raye (illegally) talked about the case.
Most extremely smart people are pretty damn useless. They can't get anything done. Its just that those smart people that are actually capable of pulling shit off take all the attention. However, you might find it surprising how many geniuses can't follow simple instructions, and it's almost always because of some nonsensical reason. Being smart makes you capable of dealing with complex situations, but the complexity of reality is infinite, so generally having some sense helps more than IQ, unlike how school works.
i feel like one issue with light is he never changed the deaths, he never experimented enough with the deaths, its very possible to make people you write in the notebook to violence against people for no reason you just cant specify who, putting one of the cops into the notebook and saying "he walks into the main room and shoots everyone in the room before dying of a heart attack" then making sure only L would be there wouldve just killed L
Ever since I watched it as a kid I always thought that he had a better chance of not getting caught if he would've just put down a random way of death instead of so many heart attacks
Light's goal hinged around it being obvious someone was passing judgement on the wicked. That was his goal(s), to become god of new world and to stop criminals from committing crime via fear of getting killed via heart attacks. Both of these would have been much harder had he decided to kill naturally instead.
In a way, Light wanted to be acknowledged and seen, as his goal was to have the world be altered using Kira’s ideals and judgements. He wanted the perfect world of only “good people”, and to be seen as a “God”, which can’t be done if criminals are dying of random things. Light wanted the people to know of his existence, to create fear, which is ultimately his flaw in the end. In a way, his love for a challenge is the reason why he got caught; when he takes risks, it makes him feel inevitable and smarter, which makes him feel like he can push some limits and do more, when it actually makes him more careless and imprecise.
Not only did Light want his actions to be recognized, he also was a student with limited time for using the Death Note every day, he already spent hours writing names, if he had to write different causes of death he would have been like 3 to 5 times slower at the very least.
If Misa hadn't entered the picture, I doubt Light would've ever slipped out in regards of the Death Note. L would have never figure out how Kira could kill people
@@davisprater4731 exactly. For me, L was the heart of the show. It was actually hard to continue after he died. But I gotta give it to the author though, they managed to still finish it without it being bad.
here we go, first time I've found a theory video that doesn't make some claim where they say that N finds out x in episode y, when the show makes it plainly obvious that he learned x way before episode y, which makes it just so annoying, like come on, this is supposed to be theories, not nutcases that didn't pay much attention. like the show makes it obvious that N knows who Kira is as soon as the police bit happens, like sure he sends a few things to the *one* other suspect, but that's just to cover his bases, he obviously knew it was Light, problem is the 'how?', 'how is Light doing it?' and he needed more of that part to arrest him. like 'whos Kira?' was never much of an actual mystery in the show as it was solved the episode it started in, its that mystery of 'how?, and what can we do?' that's the actual mystery. so thank you for being the one person so far to figure that out that's made a video on it, you watched episode two, yay (yeah that was some sarcasm, like why does everyone get stumped by that? the show couldn't really make it more blunt other then straight up having N say 'oh yeah its him, but how? I need more evidence to arrest him', which is what the show says if you pay attention to the actions) so thank you for making a video pointing it Light's major mistake, and how its that flaw of his that the show goes around, that that is the story, if it wasn't for his pride it'd be a completely different story. it was nice, as passive aggressive or whatever as this comment is, I did enjoy the video, have a like and a comment
Right! He also titles the video " why light ' loses ' in episode 2" letting anyone who hasn't seen the show scrolling through read that and go ahh nooo.
Risking stuff for getting advantage isn't unwise, for eg, if he did infact hid his notebook pages in plain sight as you suggested, if L in any way or form, got a hold of his possessions, like let's say by stealing his bag and touched the page, he would be able to see the shinigami...oh but L wouldn't do such a thing, just lookup how they got evidence against the silk road guy in real life and you'll get what I'm saying, risking your Id to get the chance to kill someone who could become the biggest thorn in your way to become the ultimate justice and God isn't much of a bargain now is it...if he didn't made any move, not only would the investigators would have gotten higher probability of getting some sort of advantage, but also there would be no fear among people looking to bring down kira
"He should do nothing so that the police would chase something that might never exist." This contradicts with Light initial motivation and goal when he started picking up the death note and using it. Light wanted the world to know the existence of someone with omnipotent ability to indiscriminately kill anyone that he deemed "worthy" to kill, mainly criminals, heavy offenders, repeated offenders, and society's cancer such as bullies. He wanted the world to know such an almighty judge exists to act as a deterrence to those existing and potential evil doers, thus decreasing the evil of the world. He literally says something along the line of "There is a lot of evil goes unpunished in this world, either by incompetent, cowardly, or ignorant people. The world is wrong, and someone must change it and make the world a better place." in episode 1. While I might agree that Light makes a lot of mistakes, it doesn't come from his lack of wisdom but rather his pride and ego, and later on, his god syndrome as he literally acts and thinks himself as a god. We've been showed that Light has a lot of potential when he loses his memory and abandoned his ego, he could even match up to L's brilliance given enough time and experience. Too bad that his thought process has derailed too much from a mortal's perspective and that gets his sorry ass killed in the end lol.
What I would do if I ever got Death Note,firstly I would write every criminal's name in a normal book for months, and when I think that the time has come,I would have written every single name from my normal book to death note at once.Then. wait for months or a couple of years to continue the killings that way I really would have literally 0% chance of getting caught by intelligence.(Don't mind my English)
this observation doesn't take into account Light's personality at all. he is secretly a moral person who feels like murdering people is a burden, but can't resist the potential for power. he has a hidden guilt complex intertwined with his overblown ego. he has a desire to be noticed and praised for everything he does. he has no desire to really operate from the shadows at all. getting into the provocation game with L is exactly what gets him going, because he doesn't just like passing justice, he likes to cause and control chaos, because it makes him feel invincible. a person like this is not gonna think coldly and calmly.
If L searched Light's trash like he should have he would've found the potato chip bag with the tv and piece of the death note. He already put dozens of security cameras I think searching the guy's trash should be like detective work 101.
This video has many flaws. He intentionally narrowed himself cause he wanted to kill L. Remember, he believed that he is god and untouchable so it was normal for him to close the distance between him and L. Another mistake is that u said that light hiding the note is pointless and he should just burn the pages after he's done. A big flaw in your logic because the main reason he hid it instead of burning pages is that if L touched the note he would see ryug.
Yeah but if light just layed low and didn't take big risks he would have won. If he decided not to kill L, if he didn't try to norrow himself down to the point where it was obvious he was close or a family member of one of the people in the police force
@@Frazier16 It would be out of character for a sociopath with god complex to just lay low.He was too arrongant to think that a ,,mele human" could defeath him
I mean, it was apparent he had technically "already lost" the second L pinned him as being in a specific city in Japan, L already had an idea of what types of things Kira might fall for, his primary motives, and a base level understanding of his psyche, so nailing down he was a likely a student in Japan with connections to the police basically sealed his fate. Only through extreme stupidity from his father, a NEED for L to "prove without a doubt" that Light was Kira, and a plot contrivance Shinigami was Light able to weasle his way to a victory.
I wanna know what would have happend If the book is full. Imagine light becoming completly crazy because he cant get the rush of killing without getting his hands dirty.
I completely agree with you, I had the same thoughts the first time I watched the show. Felt it was kind of stupid but I really liked the concept and I was a kid so I watched it anyway.s
All psychopaths are narcissists, they simply couldn’t resist when their ego is being challenged. Being so young when he acquired the notebook, he overestimated his intelligence
Light should just force his victims to write on the walls something like "Divine punishment has arrived, inform me about the sinners", then soon websites made for that would pop on the internet and people would post videos and names of bad people, so Light would get a 100% safe way to do his "job". Death Note would end on the 3° episode, with Lisa Lisa, L and all cops alive.
@@alex2005z Really? I believe you know about Bolsonaro and other bad people that are showed on TV. Wouldn't be so hard to have lots of people reporting bad people and, most importantly, policemen using their IDs to search the system for criminals to be punished. And it wouldn't be really traceable because hundreds of cops would do that at the same time and post it anonymously.
@@VosMiceSamaXD I forgot to mention how do you verify if they are truly criminals? If you did that any person could kill anyone they wanted by reoorting them as a criminal. Video wouldnt work cause photoshop. The process of going trough an official channel verifies its truth
Good video. I would like to add though that he learns the limits and possibilities of the death note by experimenting with it. These experiments do draw more attention to himself, but also give him more options to outsmart the police. It's a paradox. And like his desire to become a god (which is less subtle), this is another clear sign of his arrogance, which leads to his inevitable downfall. It's not a writing mistake imo.
Not only that, but there is nobody who would've been more likely to pick up the notebook than a self centered egomaniac best-in-the-country student that thinks he should manage to have control over death itself
@@arty5356 well if you pick the book do you have to make a contract with that ghost guy or can you just throw it away. I watched it many years ago so i dont remember most of it only the end and l's death
Good point, I suppose I should've really put that right at the start. But to be fair, I feel like a spoiler warning for a video like this is redundant as is and I included it purely out of habit. Either way, appreciate the comment, certainly something to think about next time! :)
hes smart but he sure as hell aint wise. i find it hilarious he thinks this is where he lost as if no one understood this. The point that made the show interesting was the fact that L was doing things by the books. From the very beginning L was fairly certain light was Kira.
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@@alishah8526 There's always young teens who haven't watched yet. You can't come out of the tomb and watch Death Note the day after.
Actually, L's plan was to broadcast per region and country to narrow down to the place where Kira would take the bait. He broadcasted in Kanto/Japan first because of the small population and to make it easier to narrow down who is Kirai it turns out he's there. Light's mistake of taking the bait wasn't only a tactical mistake. He crossed a moral line when he decide to kill the people investigating him and were trying to do justice instead of sticking to only criminals.
you're wrong. L himself stated that the reason he broadcast on kanto region is the first victim was there. remember biker gang sexually harassed random girl and Light Yagami write down one of them from a book store? yeah that was the first use of death note and L knows it.
@@lakraknjeprak2536 I watched it a couple of years ago, but how did L know it? As far as I remember, first guess was based on school shooting. You can't pinpoint any accident to usage of deathnote. Biker was dead due to truck-kun, which may happen, road accidents are not that rare. Even with motive it is more like "yeah, let's pick this exact accident as a starting point". It only works, because we know such information, but if you try to use statistics and knowledge about mechanism of death note it won't happen.
Almost makes you wonder how other detectives like Poirot or Sherlock or even Batman (he is the proclaimed world's greatest detective after all) would solve the case.
@@sohumchatterjee9 Sherlock doesn't believe in mythical beings so he would look into logical ways of death that would make it very difficult or out of character for Sherlock to solve the mystery imo.
@@davewhispers7720 I would say that L is actually heavily based on Sherlock Holmes. Both of them are highly antisocial geniuses and they solve all those mysteries purely for fun. Also, I don't think the first letter of "Watari" name is a coincidence. However, the main diffrence between them is probably that L focuses mostly on people and psychological motives of their actions, meanwhile Sherlock is just purely using deduction.
@@davewhispers7720 That's completely wrong. I read the Sherlock Holmes stories. And a huge fan of his canon. Holmes is portrayed a believer of God for example. Which is a magical thing alone. But that's not the point, Holmes would never bias his reasoning, even if he believed something for so long. If he is presented with something that contradicts what he knows, then he is fully wanting to learn and adapt. Holmes never says the supernatural isn't real- he only states that it isn't as common as people would throw it around on every situation. It'll be like, someone would win 5 bucks in a lottery, just when you needed gas money, and they just say it's "God's Will" that brought you it. It's absurd things like that, he'll shut down, because people throw those around willy nilly. He'll never overlook the truth if it's in his face. It's the garbage adaptations of Holmes in modern day, that make you think he isn't into the Supernatural or some sort of atheist. But if you read even a single book, you'll know that's false. I'm not being mean or anything like that, or coming at you specifically. Cause I'm not. I'm just talking generally about what you said. It's a false statement that I imagine a lot of people make. His line proves that statement is wrong..."When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". He would easily deduce a supernatural force at work.
Imagine to get throw in jail for smoking some pot in Japan and getting killed inside jail just because an egomaniac straight A student has a magical notebook.
Let’s be real the only reason light managed to kill L was b/c he was using death god magic and the fact the L was pretty much able to deduce he was using some kind of death god magic at all is kinda insane.
Dude, Light didn't even win cause he was using 'some kind of death god magic', he won cause of 2 factors, the first factor being that L didn't have any friends or equals, and when L and Light met, they both become friends(Or so L thought) and the 2nd Factor is of L being mysterious, I know, this might sound dumb, but see, if a guy sits like a guy on a potty trying to get a dump, and looks like a very different guy to the one you believed to be the No. 1 Detective in the whole entire world, would you believe him 100•/•, some people may say yes, some may say no, but the main part is that people around L and Light were alittle stupid and Light Yagami's dad was a good guy and he thought his son was just a normal high school student, and his fellow co-workers thought the same, and because of that, L's fellow investigators didn't trust him, and he also says that the chances of Light being Kira is just 5•/•, normally you would think that's very low but, in the whole world, there are 7.8 Billion humans. So, the chances of Light being Kira is very high as L didn't say that the chances of Light being Kira is 5•/• in Japan, he just said 5•/•. Edit : I just watched some clips and then realised something, after L had deduced that Kira is in Kanto, he then said 5% and I also realised something, in the Manga, L might have said that he doubted that Light maybe Kira, and the chances are 5% but, actually, L thought Light was Kira 95%, L takes side of the innocent until they are proven guilty so, yeah.
@@AnimatedGamerDab L knew Light was Kira That’s why he came to his graduation. He just couldn’t jail him without a good reason,that’s why he stayed around light.
@@Therealsasuke And he didn't know Light was Kira 100%, he knew Light was Kira 95% but, just said 5% to the people, cause he takes the side of the innocent until proven guilty.
But remember, Light's ultimate goal was to be revered as a god once he murdered everybody. So announcing his presence was very much a part of his plan.
@@ikmalhakimharun3823no the channels video title is he lost in episode 2 but when u click the video he starts talking about all the mistakes light made which Is click bait cause no where in this video did light lose in this video or in the episode
@@Bigbabymacc He is actually losing in this episode . idk what is it so hard to understand. introducing kira to the world is a very bad decision from him. no clickbait in this vid
@@ikmalhakimharun3823 the video is absolutely click bait how hard is it for u to understand that the video says he's lost in this episode and all the video is exposing is "mistakes" that actually wasn't mistakes they were done on purpose .... No where in this video did he lose nore in the real show did he lose in episode 2 this video actually makes 0 sense honestly
Thats why i think episode 2 of deathnote is the biggest hook in history. Yes the premise in episode 1 is enough to make you watch ep 2 but when you see that L multi level galaxy brain outplay, you're in it till the end
Absolutely, I feel like not many series are able to hook you in that early. And with Death Note, things only get more and more wild with time, so that constant escalation just keeps you coming back.
That's exactly what happened to me. I watched the first episode twice, because the first time I didn't keep watching it. It was only after a few weeks that I decided to give it a second shot and episode 2 made me binge watch it all the way through.
@@Koroto also Attack on Titan has the ability to instantly get you hooked. Of course death note is on another level, but AoT is also just perfect for someone looking for complex stories.
Something that L likes to remind us of is how Light often has a 5% chance of being Kira in the early parts. That might not seem like much but when you single it down across the millions of people that could have the notebook its a pretty damning percentage.
The reason for the newscast ploy was because L made a profile of someone, likely a student, with a god complex. Anyone with that sort of immaturity and attitude would take on challenges to their ability.
@@DiselSun Yeah but both of those are still receiving new content like manga chapters and games. Death Note has had nothing. Well technically it’s had like two chapters since it ended but nothing significant.
@@Blastoisebo122 arent goats??? One piece and oda is THE most popular manga\manga authour, being one piece the most selled manga and the 3rd most selled COMIC almost beating batman
Besides Light doing all that because he wants to confront and mock L, if you pay attention, Light explains why he acted on the police info, he wanted L to investigate the police so they would investigate L and do Light's work for him. It kinda worked because L had to admit defeat and work with a very reduced group.
Was looking for a comment like this, not sure why the video didn't mention he did a lot of these things intentionally. Sure it was a mistake, but he's clearly opted in to the risks involved.
@@enzo91821Which was stupid, because had his head not been so far up his own ass he would've just not engaged and could've continued killing to his hearts content
@@kmh0237 well sure but if there was no response to L then he would have just looked like a fool. L proclaims Kira is just a petty evil person but Kira continues anyway undisturbed and L would be shown to have nothing and be nothing. Instead L was proven right that Kira is a flawed human and NOT a god
Light is literally that edgy teen who thinks that because he is smart and a top student, he knows more about everything and is more mature than the adults with more life experience .
@@adamrak7560 it is, i also find it funny that no one except L seems to notice that he is , in fact, way too " perfect" to be real. Like, he doesn't do anything but study, he is always super polite, politically correct in a calculated way, always calm, always very formally dressed, his room is super tidy and impersonal....like, he is a teen, that all should have been everyone's first clue something was off with him.
Actualy, if it wasnt for his pride or recognicion, light colud have punished criminals via NORMAL deaths. Get runned down, or choking, or even tripped fell and knocked out? People still would get the impression that something is causing everything, or they could atributte it to "fate".
I think the real genius of Death Note is that in the end Light is 17 years old and he could have a genius level intellect but in the end wisdom is something you aquire through experience and a teenager would be impulsive and a show off, two things that spelled his doom.
Maybe, but also just the fact that he's so bored. It's been a while since I watched the anime, but L's existence was infuriating to him right - a threat to his plans. But it was also interesting. I'm guessing Light was so obsessed with not being bored, he wanted to challenge L. Even if it was not the wise thing to do.
@@WaterAce168 I don't think it was just boredom that made him challenge L but more likely his god-complex as well. He was obsessed with one-upping L, a world renowned 'anonymous' detective who is also respected by the FBI and Interpol. If he could manipulate and win over L in their 'game of chess', that will prove that noone could take him down.
I love the fact that, he didn't really needed some sort of worldly wisdom come to this realization, but just two minutes of introspection, which genius like him could've easily done, but noooo.
him falling for the bait when there was no pressure on him specifically has always made me angry. all he had to do was sit back and just continue to do what he is doing behind closed doors.
Yes. That’s the way Light was written. He didn’t want to be a normal person. He likes the thrill. He gets a kick out of committing his own crime. If he truly didn’t like killing ppl, he would have never write a single name down. If he thought it was a necessary evil to kill “criminals” then he was absolutely aware how evil it is to kill. Namely, innocent people. Which he did multiple times.
@@MugenTJand it’s cool that his first introduction is being bored with life, had he succeeded and built his perfect world, he’d again be bored in the end
He also mentioned his tactic was to get closer to L to defeat him because it was a game to him. He could’ve hid in the shadows but he was playing god and flew to close to the sun
But that was his downfall because the genius of religions is convince you that an invisible and intangible force is watching over you. He very well could create the belief that karma was real and his objective would be completed easier.
I'd also say that L shouldn't have told Light about the broadcast only being in Japan, or even that the one he killed wasn't the real L. This would have given L an advantage, especially with Light believing he had won already.
Yeah but L had his ego, he said it himself that he was giving Kira this information during the broadcast as a gift for making his work so easy He was both humiliating his opponent and trying to amp the difficulty so that Kira would be worth his time
But L didn’t know Light at the time, he couldn’t have predicted how he would have reacted to that knowledge, for all he knew, Light could've very quickly backed himself into a corner if he'd been a different person.
Which would mean he was not worth his time if it were the case However Light followed his prediction that Kira was childish and too proud, so he got the challenge he wanted
Tbf, Light did pull a really nice intelectual play when he gave up the death note and his memorys knowing he would get it back, and knowing that, if Misa didnt remember the name (like it would be to expect after what she went trough), Rem would kill him. But yes, Light had the better hand
@@lpgoodgamer7137 no definitely circles around him based on what the handicap was. A guy who can kill anyone from anywhere in the world, just has to know their name....how the hell do you catch him? Yet we know L basically did in just a few episodes. After that, Light only stayed ahead of him due to L not understanding the supernatural phenomenon so not being able to do anything to Light without a solid case. L figured him out within no time and knew the whole time Light was Kira. Again, he only couldn't do anything because he didnt know about Death Note's or the Shinigami. As soon as he found out about it, he started to piece everything together. He even suspected one of the rules Light wrote of being fake. Light definitely won but L was running circles around him intellectually, Light just barely got away every time. Don't get me wrong though, glad he did because it was awesome to watch
@@punkmantion That's ignoring the advantages L has. Light is a high school student with only a small amount of expierence in detective work and stratergy while L has been solving cases since he was a child. L didn't figure out Light was Kira because he was smart, he figured it out because he has had so much expierence analysing people's body language while Light hasn't had nearly the amount of expierence hiding his body language. L had full control of the police and alot of control over the media at the start of the series. L also had the FBI on his side. L had full control of the police and alot of control over the media at the start of the series. The Lind L Tailor plan wasn't actually that good. It revealed to Kira that L exists, L is chasing him, L has control of the police and the media, L is very smart and that L knows Kira needs a name and a face or at least a face to kill. The thing is, had Light not fallen for it all of these things would still have been revealed to Light in exchange for some information on Light's personality. After the broadcast it would have been easy for Light to figure out L was baiting him to kill Lind L Tailor, since the broadcast appeared in the different areas at different times, something Light would have quickly found out via the internet (even though it wasn't very advanced back then). Once he figured out this it would be easy for him to figure out that L knew Kira needed a name and a face to kill since he revealed the face of someone who may or may not be him and expected him to be able to kill that person. The reason why L used such a risky plan is because it was the best way to humilate Light and stoke his ego as will as winning the trust of the police. So Light and L aren't too different, their ego causes them to make risky but calculated decisions (well killing Lind L Tailor wasn't calculated but beyond that) rather than safer and probably more effective choices.
Light’s decisions where severely affected by his ego. However, all he did in episode 2 and after was to get closer to L (letting L get closer to him), because he always knew he had to kill him. Otherwise he couldn’t create his new world, because L would have always tried to catch him.
I completely agree, I love watching this show, because you need to be more than clever to predict what happens next, you have to have a strong intuition about what happens next in TV shows/movies On my first walkthrough I actually predicted that Misa would be the 2nd Kira though this process of context clues and what I know abou other shows
I agree with all of this! It's like you said, his pride was his downfall. Pretty much every rash decision he made was due to his god complex, i.e. killing Lind L. Tailor for calling him evil, actually wanting to deal with the second Kira for "besmirching" the name and ideals of Kira, etc..
Appreciate the input! :) Another interesting thought is that someone like Mikami might have been far more successful at evading capture. as He didn't seem phased by everything else that was going on with the Kira investigation, so if he were the original holder of the note book, he may have simply included it in his daily schedule and not challenged L in any way. Also, if you don't mind me asking, how'd you come across the video?
@@Koroto That's a good point! I never really put much thought into what would've happened if another person got the death note first but I'm sure they would've concealed it better. And I found it posted on the death note subreddit!
As smart as he is, we also have to remember he's about 17-18 at this time. He's a High School student presumably in his final year. Teenagers in that bracket tend to be the most arrogant know-it-alls you can ever meet. Especially one with Light's level of intellect. Top student in the nation? Yeah, of course he has an ego problem, and L exploited the hell out of that teenaged ego.
@@Aurora-313 Yeah, the super constant praise of his intellect in a (probably) sheltered environment may have most likely contributed to his development (I wouldn't be surprised if people that interacted Light before he first saw the Death Note would have found him really pompous in his younger years, save for his family)...
I’VE ALWAYS SAID THIS. killing lind l. tailor was his most grave mistake ever. he would have been able to get away with so much and probably not ever be caught if he hadn’t. but he let his ego get in the way.
L already knew that light was in kanto region of Japan the reason why he setup that "world wide podcast" was because he wanted to challenge light directly in his battle of pride and wanted to announce himself as a enemy to light
He thought that there was a good chance Kira was in Kanto but he didn’t know for sure which is why he was having it broadcast in different regions at different times.
@@islasullivan3463 I got you're reply after 1 month lol. Nope he knew that light was in kanto region of Japan. L calls light by saying that the police treated light's first killing as an unrelated incident but in acutally his first killings was a suspect in shinjuku and L also said that the shinjuku killer was only broadcast in Japan. Now even if light didn't kill Lind.L. Tailer L can easily make a 2nd trap to catch kira
Light himself stated he wanted them to suspect someone with ties to the police. It wasn't a mistake, he wanted to get close to L to eventually kill him.
@@elvishernandez2555true. Light only had to stay as far away from L and he would be just a random highschooler, light only needed to think twice Before acting and he likley wouldnt have killed bait L, the fbi agent,or not have had a pattern of Killing But instead randomize it
*_Every opening/ending of Death Note has a meaning, if memory serves me right..._* Opening 1: How Light Sees himself Ending 1: How the world sees Light Opening 2: How the world sees KIRA Ending 2: How KIRA sees himself
Something strange to me is that in the episode that light kills Naomi Misora, she obviously goes to the receptionist with a purpose and ask to speak with the task force. Yet they all just conclude that she committed suicide. And no one not even the receptionist mentioned that she was seen with light yagami just before her death.
@MythLegal they were at the police station together but on two different notices. Light was there to drop off food to his pops while she was there to drop a tip off. It was coincidental but it worked out for light to cut a loose end.
@@hippityhopitus7810 but regardless he spoke to her at the desk and they walked out of the station together, it’s a police station so I would assume there are security cameras all over the place so they could have watch light talked to her and walked out the station with her. Boom series over lol
Biggest mistake was to try and go after the FBI agent who was tailing him. In fact, the agent was already convinced that Light wasn't Kira and was about to discontinue tailing him anyway. Killing him and then his fiance sharply turned L's attention towards investigating the folks whom the FBI agent was tailing. From then on, Light was constantly under suspicion more or less throughout the show.
Yeah, he shouldn't have killed Lind L Taylor, not only was what narrowed the hell out of where's Kira, but also he crossed a moral line by trying to kill people who are trying to stop criminals.
@@sarmavlada funnily enough, that would probably be less suspicious, because people may just assume he's in his "dark and edgy teenager" phase. Killing that Agent truly was incredibly dumb.
Yeah, but he also played with the idea of being framed for being Kira. Imagine it from L POV, not only Kira kill very precisely someone in Kanto, which is already a monumental error, the next non-criminal to die are an FBI agent and his wife trailing the son of the region police chief. It still look like a massive covert up/ redherring and middle finger to L in the case Light wasn't Kira.
The main thing is as said light says he is smart and says he is wise but he ain't more than the meme sings; a human. The series may make someone interested in real crime because when boiled down to it, someone did it and maybe tried their best to get away with it, and in their mind had all the perfect answers before they end up in two hour stern voiced commentary video breaking down all of their mistakes during and after the crime. I think the points in the story are included to show how slowing down would have helped him more but he doesn't because of his new found ego.
One issue I have with your breakdown here is when you talk about his elaborate hiding of the notebook. The problem with what you were saying is that the minute someone else touches the notebook, they are able to see the shinigami attached to it.
right but the whole notebook is magic. he’s saying if light rips all the pages out and puts it in a regular notebook with a regular cover, the only magic part of the notebook would be the pages. L wouldn’t look at a normal notebook and say, that’s suspicious. but a notebook that literally says Death Note on it is very suspicious. obviously if he touched the hypothetical regular notebook’s pages, he would see Ryuk, but i don’t think that was the point he was making.
We are forgetting about Ryuk. The reason Ryuk stayed in the human world for so long was because Light was entertaining. Otherwise I think Ryuk would have killed Light long ago. Light was doomed as soon as he used the Death Note to kill someone.
I'm sure you haven't watched DN. He said that he'd write light's name in his notebook when light's end would be near (no pun intended) He never mentioned that he'd write his name when he'd get bored
@@bikdigdaddy When he writes Light's name, he says he doesn't know how long Light will live if he is sent to prison. I think it's pretty clear from that that he was thinking he would be bored while waiting for Light to die naturally in prison, so he ended him there and then.
No, light would have lived a long and easy life even with death note if he hadn't let himself stand out too much or fed his own ego. He was immature and had a God complex.
Not to dunk on this video but isn't that the point of Light as a character? His flawed ego and obsession to be "God". He set in motion everything from killing Lind L Taylor on purpose, because he wanted to get close enough to L to kill him, while playing God at the same time. Yes, the most logical thing to do would be to do nothing. He could've continued to play God and L would never catch him. But he didn't like the idea of L challenging his perspective of "passing righteous judgement". L got under Lights skin because Light is fueled by narcissism and so desperately wanted to one up L - Which he inevitably did. I did enjoy the video nontheless because I love that this show is still being talked about, but nothing new was really said in this video, sorry.
I disagree, even if Light didn't kill Taylor L would have a million schemes to get more info/suspects. Also, I'm surprised the police never went through his computer or the task force in general they just prohibited the use of personal phones.
He didnt kill Lynd L Taylor on purpose to get to L. At that time he thought the inmate was L. Its only after this mistake that is only option is to be safe from suspicion but still a suspect noless so that he can zero in on the real L and eliminate him. Is everyone watching the anime or reading the manga with its eyes closed?🤨
I agree with you. When you have a magical notebook, you kinda underestimate people from there. I think it's only natural to get complacent. Light won in the end so this video is redundant in saying he lost in episode 2. What's that expression... He may have lost the battle, but he won the war.
I agree with you. It is so easy speak in hindsight of what he should have done. But it is not like Light wasn't still figuring out everything and he paniced. He has gone too far to back down so obviously he will take the bait. He doesn't even really know who and what he is dealing with when L challenges him. At least that is how I remember it for it has been a while since I've seen the show.
Well to be fair, Light, like many serial killers or megalomaniacs WANTED to be known for his work. He wanted to walk the thin line between getting away with it and taunting you to your face. The way he taunts Ray, the way he taunts Misori, the way he sends L a taunt via note and then to his face, the way he taunts Near. Light is a cocky dude with a giant ego once he gets his hands on the death note. If he wanted to "succeed" and keep using the death note despite Ryuk telling him taht Ryuk WILL write his name down in his own death note he should've just kept killing in silence. So yeah as much as i love some of your analysis for other series, when it comes to death note the truth is: yep if Light was a machievelli/egotistical smug bastard he probably would've won. That's all it boils down to and makes anything else seem blatantly obvious or silly.
Seriously, lights entire downfall was the fact that he actually tried to not get caught. All he had to do was not respond and they probably would've concluded they were just natural deaths 😭. Sure ryuk would've done something eventually but still
Exactly. It would have put the onus on others to prove that all the prison deaths were unnatural. And by then Light could have prisoners commit suicide, stab each other, have aneurysms. Even L says that he had to see it for himself and didn't believe it until he did the Lind L Taylor thing. But Light wanted the world to be aware of a "God"
@@reignadams6692 Light's ego was his downfall. He wanted all people to think a God was doing this. If instead he came up varied suicidal deaths and spaced them out it would have never reached L at all, but it would be a very boring series.
But the biggest issue with all of this is that Light intended for people to know of his existence. It might have been stupid in hindsight, but he was absolutely sure that he couldn't be caught and every move he made had a purpose and that purpose was for people to know about him, while also proving uncatchable
Yeah! He wanted people to see what would happen to anyone that defied him. L did it in public, so he couldn't just let it pass if following that philosophy. His philosophy was flawed, that why he made flawed actions.
That tends to be the major issue with pretty much most things humans do. Not all but most people want some form of recognition for the things they do. Whether the thing they're doing is good or bad in this case.
@@leonardocerqueiradias6168 No he wanted people to know becouse thst way criminals would fear him and therefore stop crime and save countless people.You missed everything.His ideals were not perfect but they were definetely the best available.
His final nail in his coffin was killing Ray Penbur. HE DIDNT EVEN SUSPECT HIM!!! All light had to do was let him move on. Instead he HAD to kill them and narrow down the list even more 🙄
It was a mistake, yes, but completely within character though. Light didn't know what Ray was thinking. He had been running circles in his own mind for weeks. Plotting, scheming and anticipating the police and L. At this point he has developed a level of paranoia and acts out of fear, not logic.
@@realspeedghxst So true. However I think that was brilliant writing, because it foreshadowed his downfall. Light couldn't help himself, he was too arrogant. And Ryuk even told Light how he would die. He gave us a massive spoiler and nobody noticed.
@@tomasroberts3481 Yeah, but Ryuk literally spelled it out for us. "I will write your name in my deathnote." Destiny? Or did he plan it? Either way Ryuk and we by proxy knew how it would end.
when you realize this was all because ryuk wanted some fun time on earth. that being said tho, i think ryuk was definitely very satisfied. his notebook was picked up by an incredibly intelligent young man who also has issues with his own ego. ryuk knew from the very start how all of this would end, as soon as he found out light has a big ego, he figured out what light's downfall would be like. honestly happy for the guy, hope he had a good stay on earth
Light ultimately went against the “moral good” he was trying to create as soon as he tried to go after L. I think that twisted sense of needing to win was the downfall. His motive was never as pure as he wanted.
I've been looking through the comment to see someone else notice and point out this irony. For all the people that think Light was righteous, why did he try to kill a detective trying to find him? He didn't even give them a chance, ignore it or try to wait it out until Lind L. didn't find him - he immediately decided "Hmm, this guy seems like he *might* get in my way. I'm gonna kill him." And I have to think, partly he did it out of self-preservation for his goal, but I'm sure it also had to do with showing everyone else how serious and powerful he was. That was his greatest downfall, it wasn't the last domino to fall, but that instance of his ego trying to assert himself as the one, true epitome of justice is what got him caught and led him to real justice years later.
@@navonmyhand7999 Also, the entire reason Misa is infatuated with Light is because he killed the robbers who murdered Misa’s parents. But Light never once seems to care about the safety he has brought to Misa, or anyone for that matter. He says that he stands for the innocent, but he doesn’t. He just wants power.
Not sure how they did it in the show, but I guess it won't be far from the manga (since I read them and did not watch the show enough), but when Reurk first heard about Kira plan, he said something along the line, "... then, the only murderer left is you" I think that's the whole Death Note story there.
i disagree. he is as smart as he thinks he is. IN THE END he lost because of mikami's mistake. you could say light made a mistake by entrusting it to the wrong person, though.
@@lucat17lula he didn't ever forget about his initial ideal. I don't know what made you think that but he always wanted to make a perfect world( he mentioned about making a perfect world lot of times) he always believed that he is justice and he wanted to to do a good thing to the world and make it more peaceful place to live. Even the reason he was killing FBI agents and the police is because he believes them to be evil because they are opposing justice. So he wanted to become God and equally he wanted to make a perfect world...
@@shyamk1103 Light is a narcicist psychopath who misused his power as soon as he knew the death note worked. He was willing to kill his own sister and judged people when they commited petty crimes after L was dead. He just wanted to be god, he said this very early on. The whole justice thing was just a delusion he told himself to justify his actions, but like Near said "you're just a serial killer"
Yeah, I recently rewatched this show for the first time since I was like, fourteen, (I'm 28) and noticed this too. He reacted well enough, and was able to keep going for a long time, due to his intelligence, but him reacting to Lind L Taylor at all basically set his fate in stone. His own hubris was his downfall.
That whole thing confused me. Killing Lind L. Tailor made sense, because Light is childish and it was an impulse decision. However, after that, he goes completely haywire. Even with the information that he lives in the Kanto region of Japan and he is a student, they’d have to investigate every single student out there. His big mistake was showing his involvement with the police. The weird thing was that before Light knew that L had found out about the police thing, Light says “If he’s as good as they say, he’ll probably suspect my connections to the police.” (Not verbatim), so he knew what he was doing. I think once he found out Lind L. Tailor wasn’t L, he realized he had lost, and therefore needed to “win” or reclaim his dignity by killing L. L knew how easy Kira was making it for him, which is why L could say so confidently that he knew Kira was childish and hated losing. Light wanted to get close to L so he could eliminate him, and he did it recklessly, exactly how L was counting on it. L would have been lost without Kira’s impulsiveness, and Light’s impulsiveness shows in every scene, even when he acts composed. Ryuk knows this, too, which is why he tells Light that Raye is tailing him. It’s why Light got so in his head that he killed Raye and his fiancée. As much as Ryuk says he wouldn’t take sides on L’s killings, Ryuk was never on Light’s side. Ryuk said stuff to freak him out because he knew _that_ would be a worthy show. No, he wasn’t on L’s side either, but Ryuk influenced Light’s decisions so much because he knew it would be interesting.
Because light wanted the normal public to know that there was someone passing judgment. He wanted to challenge L or anyone that would stop him from killing criminals.
The dumbest mistake Light ever did was not letting the FBI investigate longer before starting his experiments on prisoners. He basically just told L when he found out about the FBI.
I have a feeling he wasn't Kira for 'justice' he was bored. He might have done all those stuff because he was bored and wanted to mess around with L a bit edit: I don't think he was doing it JUST for justice but he was also bored
he could've left the guy who investigated him alone, it wouldn't have done anything bad for him to let the dude live, considering he didn't find light suspicious at all. and neither did the rest of the fbi-
I'm pretty certain that is the whole point. He wanted to taunt L and give a bit more information so L could participate more in their cat and mouse game.
@Pissed Off White Guy I think he wanted to believe it. I don't think it was actually true, though. A massive part of Light's personality and motivations seems to be wrapped around deception, and especially self-deception. He can't face the idea that he's capable of doing bad things, so he tells himself what he's doing is actually good and selfless -- while he's pretty obviously toying with people and enjoying himself immensely.
Agreed on most of the topics but there is one thing that you didn't pointed out. Kira goal was never to hide from L and the police forever. He wanted to defeat them and become 'god of the new world'. The ruler of his own perfect world. So he have to eliminate L out of the equation to do that. But I pretty much agree on everything else that you mentioned in this video.
I think the youtube video is about his character flaws. Actually,an average person with death note can use it without getting caught,if they don't have 'pride' like Light. Actually,such a tool will bring 'pride' to any user.Using it is unfair after all.
@@ameennasar2583 The thing is that Light (probably) wanted Kira to be known. by being known he gives an incentive for people to not commit any crime. That average person would not get caught but he may not have the same effect on the public than Light would have. Also saying that it was just his pride is kinda of simplifying it too much. The existence of L is unpredictable, someone that is not just smart, but allowed to do crazy stuff.
@@kenzoo21 It's cruel pride for sure.Imagine if I or you were on Light's position.If a person says what you're doing is evil,will you kill him for that? If your answer is 'no',then you'll understand the fault in Light's character and for sure character faults create villains. Also,an average person with the ambition to eliminate evil people will succeed the test of L,if they don't have god complex like Light,and would not get caught.The whole anime is about how Light's character leads to his downfall,like Macbeth.
@@ameennasar2583 "If a person says what you're doing is evil,will you kill him for that?" Maybe. In the right context. I dont think Light killed the fake L just for that. That average person might as well have taken the bait of the fake L, even without the god complex. The stuff L does against Kira isn't with the specific intention to exploit the weaknesses of someone with god complex.
I completely agree, I love watching this show, because you need to be more than clever to predict what happens next, you have to have a strong intuition about what happens next in TV shows/movies On my first walkthrough I actually predicted that Misa would be the 2nd Kira though this process of context clues and what I know abou other shows
A big blunder for sure, but not Light’s biggest. When L is “explaining” the Raye Penber situation to Light, light says something along the lines of “I see. And because Raye was investigating me before he died, I’m one of your prime suspects.” Light failed to realize that L never mentioned Raye was investigating him. L caught this immediately. It’s why he was so positive it was light. It’s because Light basically told him he was Kira already.
"And I was one of the people who ray penber was investigating before he died" I think was the exact line. Light deduced that he was one of ray penbers targets. He put it together, and L already knew that light had tremendous deduction skills. It wasn't a mistake
Been re-watching this recently and have realized that L likely 99% knew that Light was Kira by the time he decided to introduce himself in person to Light at the college entrance ceremony. It seems like L's entire motivation for involving Light on the case was to get him closer in attempt to obtain some proof that it was him and figure out how he was doing it. That lack of evidence was the only thing keeping him from being able to settle it.
of course, the entire L arc was him knowing that light IS kira but being unable to prove it due to evidence lack (though that makes sense because he’s dealing with a supernatural case of a notebook that kills people when you write in it
I think it's realistic that he'd make these kinds of mistakes. You don't know what people can use to track you until they've already done it. Light tried to cover his tracks in every way, and he did a good job, but it wasn't perfect.
when light lost his memories, he really cared for his family and had principles.... I still don't understand how one notebook could change that in like 2 3 days Edit - @Yoroiful replied - I think it started with him thinking of himself as of a "sacrifice". Something only a kind person could actually consider. Like "I have to do this because no one else will" or "I have to save this world by all means necessary" in a genuine way, even if he would be doomed because of it. Over time he clearly became corrupted by the notebook, and the sacrifice turned into something else. - found this as the most accurate answer to my question, i had clearly forgotten this from like the very initial episodes
He saw himself above everyone after receiving the ability to end the life of anyone he wanted like a God. Power like that will change anyone instantly even if it takes the form of a notebook
Before he got the notebook his eyes seemed lifeless so id assume his life was literally meaningless before the Death Note suddenly gaining a purpose to live will probably change you a lot
Because "Kira" was alredy inside light,and when he recived the power of the book "Kira" Just came out Rember the book it's like the biblic apple,the Temptation,it's the Power of God and It's only a way to see Who we really are,an egoistic and megalomaniac person or a good person
I’m not sure I agree with that last statement. Anyone with the ideology that all criminals should die could theoretically become Kira. No ego problems are required.
@@justified6280 Kira is the “new god” and anyone who is willing to become judge jury and executioner of ALL alleged criminals... is 100% egotistical. It’s a requirement for truly becoming Kira.
@@beastiebroNot necessarily. The Death Note would probably corrupt most people who would use it. Light was corrupted by the note book the show even explores this when he loses his memory. He’s a different person without it even unable to manipulate Misa for the investigation. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
@@tylergannon7398 but also remember what L says about that: L still believes that he is completely capable of doing all those things. Other individuals had death notes and L had the chance to use it but never would use it like Light.
@@always_serpico exactly, bro. When I revisited it waaayy past my teenage years and got a grasp of these "larger nuances" and so called "complexities", just realized that it's the same bullshit as any other anime with overcompetent and overcapable teens, except this one is taking itself way too seriously.
His biggest flaw was his ego. He wanted the world to know that Kira existed and wanted the battle between him and L. If Light genuinely believed in the ‘pure justice’ of making criminals pay for what they did, he wouldn’t have been caught
Yeah, this is why I believe Light was on par, and maybe even smarter than L, as when he loses the death note, taking his ego out of the picture, he makes deduction after deduction that L missed out on.
“Light is smart, but not wise.” Thank you for putting into words what I could not. Like, Light was making some of the stupidest, most frustrating decisions that I could think of…like how he STILL decided to kill the FBI agent personally investigating him despite being cleared of suspicion, but decided to one-up himself by killing all the agents, getting the police to back down at the cost of making himself the sole suspect of L. Such killings (initially starting when he fell for L’s bait and killed L Tailor) completely betrayed the code he sought to establish by punishing criminals, and gave away even more important information regarding both himself and his location: heck, L was able to form an entire psychological profile describing Light’s personality to a T, and that FBI agent’s fiancé discovered a vital truth to how Light kills based off simple intuition from how sloppy Light handled it. Then, to swap up the times he kills as SOON as the police write about noticing the pattern? Yet another hint allowing L to narrow down his search. One of my favorite lines from Erwin perfectly describes Light: “I’m saying you’re making a lot of unnecessary movements.” Over 90% of the actions he took were unnecessary, and led to completely avoidable situations had he simply just done nothing.
I don't think he ever betrayed his ideals except when he's killing his own subordinates(like takada kyomi). In light's mind anyone that opposes him is evil and to be liquidated, taked down. That'a not an inconsistent thought with this original morals. I mean.....it'a not true lol But it'a not inconsistent, that's what i'm trying to say. There's no inconsistency.
I can't explain how much I agree with this..! Killing those FBI agents was really the final blow to seal his fate. Even though he put up great fight, it was pretty much decided that he'd be caught sooner or later.
@@absolutenothing7094 “In Light’s mind anyone that opposes him is evil”. That was the mindset of the Light who deteriorated into madness and was ultimately killed, the Light who viewed his own father as weak and himself as a god. The original Light only sought to purge the world of “evil” by cleansing it of criminals, creating a societal utopia where prestigious and upstanding citizens could live out their days in peace and comfort. “Kira” was a symbol of hope and a promise of a better future. But where was the consistency in killing completely innocent, morally upright citizens who sought to bring evil to justice? Where was the consistency in killing a completely innocent widow who sought justice for her husband’s murder? Arguably, the entire point of Light’s character is that there is no consistency. He’s a self-made hypocrite who punishes evil with evil. Better yet, what determined “evil” in his eyes? Imagine being falsely accused of robbing a store, having your information made public, then being killed in your cell by a kid who wrote your name in his notebook because he was bored.
@@6ixlxrd first of all to argue with your second point. it is clearly stated in one of the episodes of death note that light never killed righteous and falsely accused. he would always thoroughly research the case before he handled the criminal to make sure he never killed innocent people. he never killed people for self-defense, he never killed people in a dire situation. "where was the consistency in killing the completely innocent" it wasn't. it hadn't appeared. and the reason it hadn't appeared was because light never imagined being confornted by police like that and that a lot of innocent people would go against him. so there was no need for one. there was no need for consistency. and i'll explain this again, light thinks of himself as a god, as a perfect being. pinaccle of good, the good itself, that's his ideology,his view of the current world and the world to come. just like in the bible where god is good by default and if you oppose his will you are ultimately evil, light with his perecption is also good by default and if you oppse him, you are automatically qualified as evil. you can say that that's wrong,a lie, immoral or arrogant but i don't think you can accuse him of inconsistency or contradicting his own previous ways of thinking.
@@rimadas1910 i've heard from one content creator that what really ensured his defeat was him murdering Lind L. Taylor. that's when he gave his existence away and it was only a matter of time.
At 3:53 Ryuk's Shinigami eyes already saw that Light already had 93,312,639 seconds left of his lifespan which is about only 3 years. I remember computing this and telling my friends and nobody believed me when the series was still ongoing. Good times 😅
@@CMartin715 the Shinigami that Killed L to protect Misa Amane also protected Light and I do believe Misa was not the only one that got time added on her lifespan but also Light. Hence, your observation.
To be honest the biggest misstake was that he took a window seat in class.
You know there is a mistake in your misstake
@@sheezabiradr2853 😅
@@sheezabiradr2853 He did miss the take though
I have already made that mistake
I used to take the window seat, I no longer got the window seat after watching this anime. Light cursed my spot 😭😭
"light died"
Few moments later:
"Be careful everybody, this video has spoilers"
Lmao
Right ! " Why light *loses*..." In title
To whom it's a spoiler, deserves it
To be fair, ryuk did say in ep1 that he was going to be the one to write lights names in his death note
😂 🤣 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 Loll
He actually fucked it up earlier than that, the moment he decided to only make killings during after school hours and revealing his schedule is that of a student
At that time he was still learning how to use the Death Note. He learns later that he can choose the times of death.
@@DemonOfShadows66 yeah, but that one stupid move messed up basically everything. The rules state you can choose time and method of death how did he not know.
@@walkingarmageddon5479 The rules stated that you could choose the method, but it didn't say anything about the time of death. Light had to learn that himself.
Yeah but I doubt people who would get a Death Note would think like that at first
If light wrote more death causes to criminal instead of letting them all die by heart attack he fuked up
The problem here is largely that Light wanted people to know there was someone casting judgement, random heart attacks although would be better to avoid any possible link to himself, as in like there isn't even anything to suspect because people have heart attacks all the time. He wanted the attention, and maybe was also a bit cocky about being untraceable.
I mean he didn’t need to kill Lind L Taylor to achieve that. He had the attention. People already knew. That’s why the broadcast aired in the first place. But his ego couldn’t handle being criticized. And then did all the shenanigans with the police and the fbi to get close to L, all cuz he got embarrassed on national tv. He was upset that he got played for a fool. He decided to make it his mission to find the guy who embarrassed him and kill him. That was the whole thing. It wasn’t like L had the means to stop Light in any capacity. The only real wildcard is Misa. Cuz, they could probably deduce she is a copy cat. And misa could be tracked down. So they would could probably get their hands on the death note. But it wouldn’t tell you who the other death note user was. But yeah, Light could have gotten everything he wanted had he just put his fragile ego aside and focused on the mission. But no he needed to get his lick back so damn bad.
AHH ur so smart, I noticed pretty much everything this guy said upon my 1st watch through, this comment helped me understand why he did it that isnt just plot convenience.
The actual problem is that he criticizes things that have to be in the show for the show to exist. I dont have problem with things like this. I mean if Light didnt do anything and just killed few criminals every day it would be boring show. There is countless movies where you can say ''if he just walked away he would be fine'' yea and also there would be no movie.😁 I have problem with stupid plot lines that are supposed to get you to some point in the story while i can think of 3 better more natural ways to get there, which is not the case for DN.
@@orchoose Obviously we needed a conflict for the show to be interesting. We all get that, doesn't mean we can't criticize Light for kinda being stupid/ egotistical. It's fun to criticize shows and games, even if you like them.
@@TheJadeFist Well i didnt say you cant criticize. I just said i dont mind it and i explained teh difference.
I’d say his worst mistake was celebrating early, during the end of the series where N and everyone else was supposed to die he said, “I win” which led to evidence of him being Kira. If this hadn’t happened it would have been harder to prove him guilty.
I definitely think Light could have gotten away with saying Near is framing me. There was literally nothing about Mikami linking him to Light and Misa wasn't there that day either. If he hadn't of said "I win" I think he would have at least survived that day.
@@CiraxMusic While it's true that Mikami wasn't related to Light, it's also true that Aizawa, Mogi, the Task Force and Near were all already convinced at that point that Light was Kira. Assuming in this scenario Light didn't out himself, If Light had managed to spew out a lie like that, Near and the others would easily dismiss it with basic evidence I think.
Another neat detail is that N knew he won as soon as they entered the building. Since he had the real death note, he could see the shinigami in the room.
@@jessetheanimenerd3304 true but my point is that if he hadn’t celebrated he could try to weasel his way out.
Also guys let's not forget that N looked at Mikami's fake notebook that he thought was real and it had everyone's names on it beside Light's. Also Mikami called Light Kami (God, if you watched the dub) so regardless of Light saying anything, he was always gonna lose once he set foot in that warehouse.
Hes a narcissist. He cant resist the challenge; the chance to prove his superiority. That was *before* he got the book. With it, he felt invincible. He could never conceive empathy, or somebody making a sacrifice play. That's how I beat him.
He became the very thing he sought to destroy which I don't think is mentioned enough. He also got a thrill from being chased as well.
He is basically the Riddler.
@@Pain-cw3lt Like every serial killer, he wanted to be caught
I thought this was obvious since the first time L challenges him. Light is trying less to avoid getting caught, and more trying to feed his God complex.
@@6l4d05 Very true.
Light should've just moved away from Japan after L narrowed it down to the kanto region. He was a minor, sure. But he could have found some excuse, like going to college abroad. He also should never have joined the task force to catch Kira. They'd be left searching for him in Japan the rest of the show.
The thing is, I think light wanted to single himself out. Light had a severe god complex.
Few things:
1) Light taking all this as a bit of a game obviously wasn't wise, but I wouldn't say that (in a vacuum) killing the fake L was 'dumb'... Let's face it, most people - even highly intelligent people - wouldn't ever suspect it was a targeted broadcast. Back then Light was smooth sailing, he had no reason to believe something that strong would come right off the bat.
2) It's true that Light would've been much harder to catch if he didn't play that game with L, but NOT impossible. First, to state the obvious: L can control the media.
He could use that to pinpoint Light's location even if Light doesn't play his game. Say: Once he find out where Light gets his victim's names, he could arrange to have some of them NOT appear in certain publications/locations. Say, on Day 1 he doesn't publish one of the name in America. If the person dies, then on day 2he doesn't publish a new name in Europe. If that person dies, Day 3 he doesn't publish a new name in Asia. Suddenly, that person doesn't die. So he knows the killer is in Asia. Day 4 he does the same with China. Day 5, India. Day 6, Russia. Day 7, Japan, and the person doesn't die. So after a week, he already knows the killer is in Japan. And Light would have no way of knowing this is even happening unless he looks at ALL publications of the entire world, which obviously would take forever, never gonna happen.
If only our lives were as private as in Death Note. All of your online interactions are catalogued and fingerprinted by marketers and law enforcement. If you ever pop up on their radar, they will know everything about you that you've decided to share electronically. The scary thing is that the "targeted broadcast" is something that's done all the time, every day, to everyone that uses any social media/content platform. If there were a real life Death Note, there would be practically no way to effectively synthesize new information and use it without being caught without going scorched earth and shutting down the internet. The only way would be to leverage key deaths to grant you information covertly (dead drops and pick ups, etc.) or overtly (radio, tv, emergency services broadcasts). Even still, you'd need to minimize the actionable information you got to accomplish your goal (whatever it is) without drawing suspicion. Prolonged use would always expose the wielder one way or another due to their limited ability to act on limited information, so best to keep the actions to a minimum while maximizing effectiveness. Light could have been far more capable, but that wasn't the point of the story.
I just like how you said “ and that’s why he dies at the end” and then “ obviously spoiler alert”
Right! Also titles the video " why light *loses" in episode 2"
You're not wrong in any of this, but the point of the character is this, he WANTED to be seen. He even admits that if he had chosen a different cause of death for every criminal, he would probably never be discovered, as it would pass by as coincidence. And when he fell for that first L trick, his ego was shattered when he found out that he wasn't the only smart person in the world. So from this point foward, he is more interested in killing L than judging criminals. L is the main puzzle, that's why he responds to his actions, he wanted to tease L, because for him to win in the shadows, it would not been fun. It's just like azula "but you're the most beautiful, smartest, perfect girl in the world"
Light’s biggest downfall was his arrogance. He was given power and immediately lost it the second someone questioned him.
I personally believe light's downfall started as soon as he got corrupted by powers and started thinking he is doing the best anyone could using the notebook, it's surprising how in episode 2 he already got corrupted and killed the fake L which well L planted in order to pinpoint as you said. You'll understand the things a lot more if you try to portray the charachters as people, its quiet a fun thing to do try it sometime.
I feel like it would have taken the police longer to figure out that the deaths were connected if Light had just used a wider variety of causes of death than just the default heart attacks, I know that would take up more space on each page that could be used for more names but it might have benefited Light in the long run
Kira fanboys: "He's so smart he just overthought about his course of action!"
"He just wanted a challenge"
Yeah, sure. He's smart but he still acted stupidly and put himself over much more stress than needed, which if he truly was as bright as he thinks he is, would have not happened. Perhaps he's not that much of a genius after all.
Being a genius does not make one immune to hubris.
@@elitegamer9310 "hubris will be your downfall" frfr
Idk. He specifically mentioned why he was doing what he was doing. He specifically gave the info the police needed to suspect Light, (not prove but put at a high likelyhood).
He wanted that so he could get close to L, to eventually kill him. In any game, defense is easier than offence. Light put himself in danger to then switch L into offense which draws L in closer.
He did make the mistake of killing Lind L. Taylor, but after that, the mistakes are intentional. The only thing he kept secret was that he could control cause of death. Naiomi guessed that, a loose end that shouldnt have happened, and only happened because Raye (illegally) talked about the case.
work smarter not harder, he was working hard because of mistakes not purposely making it harder
Most extremely smart people are pretty damn useless. They can't get anything done. Its just that those smart people that are actually capable of pulling shit off take all the attention. However, you might find it surprising how many geniuses can't follow simple instructions, and it's almost always because of some nonsensical reason.
Being smart makes you capable of dealing with complex situations, but the complexity of reality is infinite, so generally having some sense helps more than IQ, unlike how school works.
i feel like one issue with light is he never changed the deaths, he never experimented enough with the deaths, its very possible to make people you write in the notebook to violence against people for no reason you just cant specify who, putting one of the cops into the notebook and saying "he walks into the main room and shoots everyone in the room before dying of a heart attack" then making sure only L would be there wouldve just killed L
How would anyone not notice what's flat out presented and told in the scene itself
Ever since I watched it as a kid I always thought that he had a better chance of not getting caught if he would've just put down a random way of death instead of so many heart attacks
Light's goal hinged around it being obvious someone was passing judgement on the wicked. That was his goal(s), to become god of new world and to stop criminals from committing crime via fear of getting killed via heart attacks. Both of these would have been much harder had he decided to kill naturally instead.
If it wasn’t obvious kira wouldn’t be obvious and that means his killings is useless
In a way, Light wanted to be acknowledged and seen, as his goal was to have the world be altered using Kira’s ideals and judgements. He wanted the perfect world of only “good people”, and to be seen as a “God”, which can’t be done if criminals are dying of random things. Light wanted the people to know of his existence, to create fear, which is ultimately his flaw in the end. In a way, his love for a challenge is the reason why he got caught; when he takes risks, it makes him feel inevitable and smarter, which makes him feel like he can push some limits and do more, when it actually makes him more careless and imprecise.
Not only did Light want his actions to be recognized, he also was a student with limited time for using the Death Note every day, he already spent hours writing names, if he had to write different causes of death he would have been like 3 to 5 times slower at the very least.
Why did you mention a "spoiler warning" at 0:32 , meanwhile you just spoiled the whole thing at 0.20 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
😭😭😭😭😭😭
Light dies in the same suit he graduated in
If Misa hadn't entered the picture, I doubt Light would've ever slipped out in regards of the Death Note. L would have never figure out how Kira could kill people
The only mystery I can’t solve is how the first half of this anime can be so good and the second half be so bad
L
@@davisprater4731 exactly. For me, L was the heart of the show. It was actually hard to continue after he died. But I gotta give it to the author though, they managed to still finish it without it being bad.
here we go, first time I've found a theory video that doesn't make some claim where they say that N finds out x in episode y, when the show makes it plainly obvious that he learned x way before episode y, which makes it just so annoying, like come on, this is supposed to be theories, not nutcases that didn't pay much attention.
like the show makes it obvious that N knows who Kira is as soon as the police bit happens, like sure he sends a few things to the *one* other suspect, but that's just to cover his bases, he obviously knew it was Light, problem is the 'how?', 'how is Light doing it?' and he needed more of that part to arrest him. like 'whos Kira?' was never much of an actual mystery in the show as it was solved the episode it started in, its that mystery of 'how?, and what can we do?' that's the actual mystery.
so thank you for being the one person so far to figure that out that's made a video on it, you watched episode two, yay (yeah that was some sarcasm, like why does everyone get stumped by that? the show couldn't really make it more blunt other then straight up having N say 'oh yeah its him, but how? I need more evidence to arrest him', which is what the show says if you pay attention to the actions)
so thank you for making a video pointing it Light's major mistake, and how its that flaw of his that the show goes around, that that is the story, if it wasn't for his pride it'd be a completely different story. it was nice, as passive aggressive or whatever as this comment is, I did enjoy the video, have a like and a comment
I always thought handwriting should have got him caught once they found the deathnote
Also in the later episodes he taunts L by saying Kira would figure Ls Plan out which then L realized Light is Kira
He said light dies then he says spoiler warning
Right! He also titles the video " why light ' loses ' in episode 2" letting anyone who hasn't seen the show scrolling through read that and go ahh nooo.
Risking stuff for getting advantage isn't unwise, for eg, if he did infact hid his notebook pages in plain sight as you suggested, if L in any way or form, got a hold of his possessions, like let's say by stealing his bag and touched the page, he would be able to see the shinigami...oh but L wouldn't do such a thing, just lookup how they got evidence against the silk road guy in real life and you'll get what I'm saying, risking your Id to get the chance to kill someone who could become the biggest thorn in your way to become the ultimate justice and God isn't much of a bargain now is it...if he didn't made any move, not only would the investigators would have gotten higher probability of getting some sort of advantage, but also there would be no fear among people looking to bring down kira
"He should do nothing so that the police would chase something that might never exist."
This contradicts with Light initial motivation and goal when he started picking up the death note and using it. Light wanted the world to know the existence of someone with omnipotent ability to indiscriminately kill anyone that he deemed "worthy" to kill, mainly criminals, heavy offenders, repeated offenders, and society's cancer such as bullies. He wanted the world to know such an almighty judge exists to act as a deterrence to those existing and potential evil doers, thus decreasing the evil of the world. He literally says something along the line of "There is a lot of evil goes unpunished in this world, either by incompetent, cowardly, or ignorant people. The world is wrong, and someone must change it and make the world a better place." in episode 1.
While I might agree that Light makes a lot of mistakes, it doesn't come from his lack of wisdom but rather his pride and ego, and later on, his god syndrome as he literally acts and thinks himself as a god.
We've been showed that Light has a lot of potential when he loses his memory and abandoned his ego, he could even match up to L's brilliance given enough time and experience. Too bad that his thought process has derailed too much from a mortal's perspective and that gets his sorry ass killed in the end lol.
What I would do if I ever got Death Note,firstly I would write every criminal's name in a normal book for months, and when I think that the time has come,I would have written every single name from my normal book to death note at once.Then. wait for months or a couple of years to continue the killings that way I really would have literally 0% chance of getting caught by intelligence.(Don't mind my English)
this observation doesn't take into account Light's personality at all. he is secretly a moral person who feels like murdering people is a burden, but can't resist the potential for power. he has a hidden guilt complex intertwined with his overblown ego. he has a desire to be noticed and praised for everything he does. he has no desire to really operate from the shadows at all. getting into the provocation game with L is exactly what gets him going, because he doesn't just like passing justice, he likes to cause and control chaos, because it makes him feel invincible. a person like this is not gonna think coldly and calmly.
If L searched Light's trash like he should have he would've found the potato chip bag with the tv and piece of the death note. He already put dozens of security cameras I think searching the guy's trash should be like detective work 101.
I have a feeling that only flawed characters inherit a Death Note.
This video has many flaws. He intentionally narrowed himself cause he wanted to kill L. Remember, he believed that he is god and untouchable so it was normal for him to close the distance between him and L. Another mistake is that u said that light hiding the note is pointless and he should just burn the pages after he's done. A big flaw in your logic because the main reason he hid it instead of burning pages is that if L touched the note he would see ryug.
Yeah but if light just layed low and didn't take big risks he would have won. If he decided not to kill L, if he didn't try to norrow himself down to the point where it was obvious he was close or a family member of one of the people in the police force
@@Frazier16 It would be out of character for a sociopath with god complex to just lay low.He was too arrongant to think that a ,,mele human" could defeath him
@@sporsporgersi3483 I know. Light being a narrsict and sociopath is what made the seris great. If he wasn't like that the anime would be boring
I mean, it was apparent he had technically "already lost" the second L pinned him as being in a specific city in Japan, L already had an idea of what types of things Kira might fall for, his primary motives, and a base level understanding of his psyche, so nailing down he was a likely a student in Japan with connections to the police basically sealed his fate. Only through extreme stupidity from his father, a NEED for L to "prove without a doubt" that Light was Kira, and a plot contrivance Shinigami was Light able to weasle his way to a victory.
I wanna know what would have happend If the book is full. Imagine light becoming completly crazy because he cant get the rush of killing without getting his hands dirty.
I completely agree with you, I had the same thoughts the first time I watched the show. Felt it was kind of stupid but I really liked the concept and I was a kid so I watched it anyway.s
All psychopaths are narcissists, they simply couldn’t resist when their ego is being challenged. Being so young when he acquired the notebook, he overestimated his intelligence
his biggest mistake was being curious. in fact, that’s most people’s biggest mistake.
WTF that is quite a bland view of life you have there
Being curious isn't a flaw. Actually, not being curious leads to ignorance.
Light should just force his victims to write on the walls something like "Divine punishment has arrived, inform me about the sinners", then soon websites made for that would pop on the internet and people would post videos and names of bad people, so Light would get a 100% safe way to do his "job".
Death Note would end on the 3° episode, with Lisa Lisa, L and all cops alive.
That wouldnt have worked. People dont have that information. And he wanted to become a god
@@alex2005z Really? I believe you know about Bolsonaro and other bad people that are showed on TV. Wouldn't be so hard to have lots of people reporting bad people and, most importantly, policemen using their IDs to search the system for criminals to be punished.
And it wouldn't be really traceable because hundreds of cops would do that at the same time and post it anonymously.
@@VosMiceSamaXD I forgot to mention how do you verify if they are truly criminals? If you did that any person could kill anyone they wanted by reoorting them as a criminal. Video wouldnt work cause photoshop. The process of going trough an official channel verifies its truth
@@alex2005z obviously people would post evidences, not just a name, a photo and a "trust me".
At the beginning of the series, he says that he is extremely bored. Maybe that's why he is so risky.
Good video. I would like to add though that he learns the limits and possibilities of the death note by experimenting with it. These experiments do draw more attention to himself, but also give him more options to outsmart the police. It's a paradox. And like his desire to become a god (which is less subtle), this is another clear sign of his arrogance, which leads to his inevitable downfall. It's not a writing mistake imo.
It wouldn't be a story without Light's pride. I like how you pointed that out.
Even the author pointed it out
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@@StarvingAngel4583 wassup dawg
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Light’s own ego was his worst enemy. Ryuk could not have asked for anyone better to pickup the notebook.
Not only that, but there is nobody who would've been more likely to pick up the notebook than a self centered egomaniac best-in-the-country student that thinks he should manage to have control over death itself
@@imanoljesusdelpozo4907 I mean I could have picked it up without knowing what it did just bc why not and free notebook
@@arty5356 Oh yeah now that I think about it you’re totally right hahaha
Had I picked up the book, he'd be super entertained
@@arty5356 well if you pick the book do you have to make a contract with that ghost guy or can you just throw it away. I watched it many years ago so i dont remember most of it only the end and l's death
I like how he says spoiler warning AFTER saying “that’s why he dies in the end”
Good point, I suppose I should've really put that right at the start. But to be fair, I feel like a spoiler warning for a video like this is redundant as is and I included it purely out of habit.
Either way, appreciate the comment, certainly something to think about next time! :)
Ohhhh boy this comment just spoiled it
Deathnote has been out for 10+ years if youve not watched it yet then i dont think you will lol
hes smart but he sure as hell aint wise.
i find it hilarious he thinks this is where he lost as if no one understood this. The point that made the show interesting was the fact that L was doing things by the books. From the very beginning L was fairly certain light was Kira.
@@alishah8526 There's always young teens who haven't watched yet. You can't come out of the tomb and watch Death Note the day after.
Actually, L's plan was to broadcast per region and country to narrow down to the place where Kira would take the bait. He broadcasted in Kanto/Japan first because of the small population and to make it easier to narrow down who is Kirai it turns out he's there. Light's mistake of taking the bait wasn't only a tactical mistake. He crossed a moral line when he decide to kill the people investigating him and were trying to do justice instead of sticking to only criminals.
Isn't it the opposite, with the largest population being in Kanto?
@@allyhanaffy2329 yes Kanto is Tokyo's Region, most populated
Well.
He *technically* did not cross a line even then, thanks L best bro.
you're wrong. L himself stated that the reason he broadcast on kanto region is the first victim was there. remember biker gang sexually harassed random girl and Light Yagami write down one of them from a book store? yeah that was the first use of death note and L knows it.
@@lakraknjeprak2536 I watched it a couple of years ago, but how did L know it? As far as I remember, first guess was based on school shooting. You can't pinpoint any accident to usage of deathnote. Biker was dead due to truck-kun, which may happen, road accidents are not that rare. Even with motive it is more like "yeah, let's pick this exact accident as a starting point". It only works, because we know such information, but if you try to use statistics and knowledge about mechanism of death note it won't happen.
In the show there's a dialogue "the weakness of a genius is the need for an audience"
Almost makes you wonder how other detectives like Poirot or Sherlock or even Batman (he is the proclaimed world's greatest detective after all) would solve the case.
@@sohumchatterjee9 Sherlock doesn't believe in mythical beings so he would look into logical ways of death that would make it very difficult or out of character for Sherlock to solve the mystery imo.
@@davewhispers7720 I would say that L is actually heavily based on Sherlock Holmes. Both of them are highly antisocial geniuses and they solve all those mysteries purely for fun. Also, I don't think the first letter of "Watari" name is a coincidence.
However, the main diffrence between them is probably that L focuses mostly on people and psychological motives of their actions, meanwhile Sherlock is just purely using deduction.
@@davewhispers7720 That's completely wrong. I read the Sherlock Holmes stories. And a huge fan of his canon. Holmes is portrayed a believer of God for example. Which is a magical thing alone. But that's not the point, Holmes would never bias his reasoning, even if he believed something for so long. If he is presented with something that contradicts what he knows, then he is fully wanting to learn and adapt. Holmes never says the supernatural isn't real- he only states that it isn't as common as people would throw it around on every situation. It'll be like, someone would win 5 bucks in a lottery, just when you needed gas money, and they just say it's "God's Will" that brought you it. It's absurd things like that, he'll shut down, because people throw those around willy nilly. He'll never overlook the truth if it's in his face. It's the garbage adaptations of Holmes in modern day, that make you think he isn't into the Supernatural or some sort of atheist. But if you read even a single book, you'll know that's false. I'm not being mean or anything like that, or coming at you specifically. Cause I'm not. I'm just talking generally about what you said. It's a false statement that I imagine a lot of people make. His line proves that statement is wrong..."When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". He would easily deduce a supernatural force at work.
Can somone elaborate this pls
Imagine to get throw in jail for smoking some pot in Japan and getting killed inside jail just because an egomaniac straight A student has a magical notebook.
Yo, fucking for real
Ikr 💀
Did he really kill such petty criminals too?
I don't know forsure but the way Japan demonizes weed I absolutely could see it.
Plus when you look at how high Japan's conviction rates are, it's pretty much a guarantee he killed some completely innocent people.
Let’s be real the only reason light managed to kill L was b/c he was using death god magic and the fact the L was pretty much able to deduce he was using some kind of death god magic at all is kinda insane.
@G.O.D 7 you sound like a Light fanboy
Dude, Light didn't even win cause he was using 'some kind of death god magic', he won cause of 2 factors, the first factor being that L didn't have any friends or equals, and when L and Light met, they both become friends(Or so L thought) and the 2nd Factor is of L being mysterious, I know, this might sound dumb, but see, if a guy sits like a guy on a potty trying to get a dump, and looks like a very different guy to the one you believed to be the No. 1 Detective in the whole entire world, would you believe him 100•/•, some people may say yes, some may say no, but the main part is that people around L and Light were alittle stupid and Light Yagami's dad was a good guy and he thought his son was just a normal high school student, and his fellow co-workers thought the same, and because of that, L's fellow investigators didn't trust him, and he also says that the chances of Light being Kira is just 5•/•, normally you would think that's very low but, in the whole world, there are 7.8 Billion humans. So, the chances of Light being Kira is very high as L didn't say that the chances of Light being Kira is 5•/• in Japan, he just said 5•/•.
Edit : I just watched some clips and then realised something, after L had deduced that Kira is in Kanto, he then said 5% and I also realised something, in the Manga, L might have said that he doubted that Light maybe Kira, and the chances are 5% but, actually, L thought Light was Kira 95%, L takes side of the innocent until they are proven guilty so, yeah.
@@AnimatedGamerDab L knew Light was Kira That’s why he came to his graduation.
He just couldn’t jail him without a good reason,that’s why he stayed around light.
@@Therealsasuke Read the edit to, I said something else.
@@Therealsasuke And he didn't know Light was Kira 100%, he knew Light was Kira 95% but, just said 5% to the people, cause he takes the side of the innocent until proven guilty.
But remember, Light's ultimate goal was to be revered as a god once he murdered everybody. So announcing his presence was very much a part of his plan.
And what this channel is trying to say is that is a bad plan
Exactly these weren't mistakes he did all of wat he did on purpose
@@ikmalhakimharun3823no the channels video title is he lost in episode 2 but when u click the video he starts talking about all the mistakes light made which Is click bait cause no where in this video did light lose in this video or in the episode
@@Bigbabymacc He is actually losing in this episode . idk what is it so hard to understand. introducing kira to the world is a very bad decision from him. no clickbait in this vid
@@ikmalhakimharun3823 the video is absolutely click bait how hard is it for u to understand that the video says he's lost in this episode and all the video is exposing is "mistakes" that actually wasn't mistakes they were done on purpose .... No where in this video did he lose nore in the real show did he lose in episode 2 this video actually makes 0 sense honestly
Thats why i think episode 2 of deathnote is the biggest hook in history. Yes the premise in episode 1 is enough to make you watch ep 2 but when you see that L multi level galaxy brain outplay, you're in it till the end
Absolutely, I feel like not many series are able to hook you in that early. And with Death Note, things only get more and more wild with time, so that constant escalation just keeps you coming back.
Straight up every time i get someone to watch it , episode 2 does it’s thing every time
That's exactly what happened to me. I watched the first episode twice, because the first time I didn't keep watching it. It was only after a few weeks that I decided to give it a second shot and episode 2 made me binge watch it all the way through.
Just like redo of healer
@@Koroto also Attack on Titan has the ability to instantly get you hooked. Of course death note is on another level, but AoT is also just perfect for someone looking for complex stories.
Something that L likes to remind us of is how Light often has a 5% chance of being Kira in the early parts. That might not seem like much but when you single it down across the millions of people that could have the notebook its a pretty damning percentage.
Never thought about it like that and to be honest you're exactly right.
When L says that's, he actually believes there is 95% chance that Light is Kira.
He lied when he said that, he was lowering the percentage by 90%
Literally one in twenty. Twenty suspects, he’s one of them
I liked when L said there was a 5% chance of him being Kira because to me it was that L knew light was Kira but he had 0 evidence
The moment he killed Lind L. Tailor, his fate was sealed.
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More like *"Rind Eru. Teiraru"*
Nah man. He could've stopped using Death Note
as soon as he fell for L broadcast trick he was cooked not only his location was revealed but now L was aware of his terribly high ego
The reason for the newscast ploy was because L made a profile of someone, likely a student, with a god complex. Anyone with that sort of immaturity and attitude would take on challenges to their ability.
@@puppergump4117 yeah and only Light would be able to keep it hidden for this long I think he knew it was him ever since the cameras
@@Sarah_Malter He saw him take a potato chip and eat it, idk what more L needed.
@@puppergump4117 It’s because he was eating barbecue chips instead of the regular or sour cream & onions one like his family
@@Sarah_Malter So his weird actions are part of a rebellious phase? Darn, we need new suspects.
When an anime is being talked about a decade and a half later, you know its a GOAT
One piece, and dragonball be like (not mentioning boruto because i think naruto ended in mid shippuden lmao)
@@DiselSun Yeah but both of those are still receiving new content like manga chapters and games. Death Note has had nothing. Well technically it’s had like two chapters since it ended but nothing significant.
@@DiselSun those two aren’t goats. They are just extremely popular. Deathnote was/is amazing and is popular
@@Blastoisebo122 arent goats??? One piece and oda is THE most popular manga\manga authour, being one piece the most selled manga and the 3rd most selled COMIC almost beating batman
Death note is a goat, but just in a different way
Besides Light doing all that because he wants to confront and mock L, if you pay attention, Light explains why he acted on the police info, he wanted L to investigate the police so they would investigate L and do Light's work for him. It kinda worked because L had to admit defeat and work with a very reduced group.
But even then L wouldn’t be a threat if he had no evidence to work off of
@@j1227 Light swore to take down L, he had to take risks
Was looking for a comment like this, not sure why the video didn't mention he did a lot of these things intentionally. Sure it was a mistake, but he's clearly opted in to the risks involved.
@@enzo91821Which was stupid, because had his head not been so far up his own ass he would've just not engaged and could've continued killing to his hearts content
@@kmh0237 well sure but if there was no response to L then he would have just looked like a fool. L proclaims Kira is just a petty evil person but Kira continues anyway undisturbed and L would be shown to have nothing and be nothing. Instead L was proven right that Kira is a flawed human and NOT a god
"He maybe smart, but He sure as hell isn't wise" just summarizes this whole character as good as possible
Yesss
Light is literally that edgy teen who thinks that because he is smart and a top student, he knows more about everything and is more mature than the adults with more life experience .
@@nessyness5447 with a god complex to top it off. He is so full of himself, it is entertaining to watch how he gets into trouble because of it.
@@adamrak7560 it is, i also find it funny that no one except L seems to notice that he is , in fact, way too " perfect" to be real. Like, he doesn't do anything but study, he is always super polite, politically correct in a calculated way, always calm, always very formally dressed, his room is super tidy and impersonal....like, he is a teen, that all should have been everyone's first clue something was off with him.
my question is why didn't he write down one of his assistant's names and write "murder suicide"
ez
L. Bait: *doesn't die
L: "welp I'm stumped."
*end credits
Lmao
Directed by: George Lucas
Actualy, if it wasnt for his pride or recognicion, light colud have punished criminals via NORMAL deaths.
Get runned down, or choking, or even tripped fell and knocked out? People still would get the impression that something is causing everything, or they could atributte it to "fate".
@@sinedddmk8996 its explained why he doesnt do that in episode 1 or 2
@@coochiha his explanation is dumb af tho its just a scream to get caught
I think the real genius of Death Note is that in the end Light is 17 years old and he could have a genius level intellect but in the end wisdom is something you aquire through experience and a teenager would be impulsive and a show off, two things that spelled his doom.
Maybe, but also just the fact that he's so bored. It's been a while since I watched the anime, but L's existence was infuriating to him right - a threat to his plans. But it was also interesting. I'm guessing Light was so obsessed with not being bored, he wanted to challenge L. Even if it was not the wise thing to do.
@@WaterAce168 I don't think it was just boredom that made him challenge L but more likely his god-complex as well. He was obsessed with one-upping L, a world renowned 'anonymous' detective who is also respected by the FBI and Interpol. If he could manipulate and win over L in their 'game of chess', that will prove that noone could take him down.
Wasn't there a time skip at the very end Light was like 20?
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I love the fact that, he didn't really needed some sort of worldly wisdom come to this realization, but just two minutes of introspection, which genius like him could've easily done, but noooo.
him falling for the bait when there was no pressure on him specifically has always made me angry. all he had to do was sit back and just continue to do what he is doing behind closed doors.
"Because Ryuk, I was bored too."
That's all the reason you need to explain why Light decided to challenge L as much as he did.
Sure give ryuk some entertainment to..
I do think Light, subconsciously, was trying to draw as much attention to himself without actually being caught. He was trilled by the challenge by L.
Yes. That’s the way Light was written. He didn’t want to be a normal person. He likes the thrill. He gets a kick out of committing his own crime. If he truly didn’t like killing ppl, he would have never write a single name down. If he thought it was a necessary evil to kill “criminals” then he was absolutely aware how evil it is to kill. Namely, innocent people. Which he did multiple times.
He didn't expect to face someone that could challenge him intellectually and that could figure out the name condition.
@@MugenTJand it’s cool that his first introduction is being bored with life, had he succeeded and built his perfect world, he’d again be bored in the end
@@johnnyappleseed6889 true. A comforting life is pretty stale. That’s why many reader identify with him.
He also mentioned his tactic was to get closer to L to defeat him because it was a game to him. He could’ve hid in the shadows but he was playing god and flew to close to the sun
Light wanted them to know that Kira exists so he can live as a godlike figure
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But that was his downfall because the genius of religions is convince you that an invisible and intangible force is watching over you. He very well could create the belief that karma was real and his objective would be completed easier.
Thing is, it was really unnecessary for him to have any supporters. It was mostly Light's ego.
@@samueldelacruz2659 yes!!!
@@lilsuty3751 isn't that is a mysterious no
Given by Nicolas Tesla
I'd also say that L shouldn't have told Light about the broadcast only being in Japan, or even that the one he killed wasn't the real L. This would have given L an advantage, especially with Light believing he had won already.
Yeah but L had his ego, he said it himself that he was giving Kira this information during the broadcast as a gift for making his work so easy
He was both humiliating his opponent and trying to amp the difficulty so that Kira would be worth his time
But L didn’t know Light at the time, he couldn’t have predicted how he would have reacted to that knowledge, for all he knew, Light could've very quickly backed himself into a corner if he'd been a different person.
Which would mean he was not worth his time if it were the case
However Light followed his prediction that Kira was childish and too proud, so he got the challenge he wanted
Ok ur L material
@@freshcupofangst If he couldn't predict Light's reaction that's an even bigger reason to not say that wasn't the real Light
Light only "beat" L because he had literal magic on his side. L ran circles around him intellectually.
Tbf, Light did pull a really nice intelectual play when he gave up the death note and his memorys knowing he would get it back, and knowing that, if Misa didnt remember the name (like it would be to expect after what she went trough), Rem would kill him. But yes, Light had the better hand
I would'nt say ran circles around, more like 1 step ahead
@@lpgoodgamer7137 no definitely circles around him based on what the handicap was. A guy who can kill anyone from anywhere in the world, just has to know their name....how the hell do you catch him? Yet we know L basically did in just a few episodes. After that, Light only stayed ahead of him due to L not understanding the supernatural phenomenon so not being able to do anything to Light without a solid case. L figured him out within no time and knew the whole time Light was Kira. Again, he only couldn't do anything because he didnt know about Death Note's or the Shinigami. As soon as he found out about it, he started to piece everything together. He even suspected one of the rules Light wrote of being fake. Light definitely won but L was running circles around him intellectually, Light just barely got away every time. Don't get me wrong though, glad he did because it was awesome to watch
Indeed, L had to deal with an unthinkable magical shit in real life, light fucked up because his arrogance
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That's ignoring the advantages L has. Light is a high school student with only a small amount of expierence in detective work and stratergy while L has been solving cases since he was a child. L didn't figure out Light was Kira because he was smart, he figured it out because he has had so much expierence analysing people's body language while Light hasn't had nearly the amount of expierence hiding his body language. L had full control of the police and alot of control over the media at the start of the series. L also had the FBI on his side.
L had full control of the police and alot of control over the media at the start of the series. The Lind L Tailor plan wasn't actually that good. It revealed to Kira that L exists, L is chasing him, L has control of the police and the media, L is very smart and that L knows Kira needs a name and a face or at least a face to kill. The thing is, had Light not fallen for it all of these things would still have been revealed to Light in exchange for some information on Light's personality. After the broadcast it would have been easy for Light to figure out L was baiting him to kill Lind L Tailor, since the broadcast appeared in the different areas at different times, something Light would have quickly found out via the internet (even though it wasn't very advanced back then). Once he figured out this it would be easy for him to figure out that L knew Kira needed a name and a face to kill since he revealed the face of someone who may or may not be him and expected him to be able to kill that person. The reason why L used such a risky plan is because it was the best way to humilate Light and stoke his ego as will as winning the trust of the police. So Light and L aren't too different, their ego causes them to make risky but calculated decisions (well killing Lind L Tailor wasn't calculated but beyond that) rather than safer and probably more effective choices.
Light’s decisions where severely affected by his ego. However, all he did in episode 2 and after was to get closer to L (letting L get closer to him), because he always knew he had to kill him. Otherwise he couldn’t create his new world, because L would have always tried to catch him.
I completely agree, I love watching this show, because you need to be more than clever to predict what happens next, you have to have a strong intuition about what happens next in TV shows/movies
On my first walkthrough I actually predicted that Misa would be the 2nd Kira though this process of context clues and what I know abou other shows
@@etanifi7613He felt threatened by the best detective in the world. So much for a god.
Well, L got closer to him. L found him and literally told him he’s L. He knew he was Kira, why else would he do that?
Light loses the moment he started depending on other people.
exactly
Yup with Misa
Disagree
Light Loses the Moment he start killing the people that are hunting Kira starting with Fake L and ending with the FBI agents
@@OK-yy6qz indeed. He should not have considered a crime to oppose Kira.
@@papapapa16 yeah not only that Destroyed his ideology basically
But also it's what turned him to the prime Suspect of this Investigation
I agree with all of this! It's like you said, his pride was his downfall. Pretty much every rash decision he made was due to his god complex, i.e. killing Lind L. Tailor for calling him evil, actually wanting to deal with the second Kira for "besmirching" the name and ideals of Kira, etc..
Appreciate the input! :) Another interesting thought is that someone like Mikami might have been far more successful at evading capture. as He didn't seem phased by everything else that was going on with the Kira investigation, so if he were the original holder of the note book, he may have simply included it in his daily schedule and not challenged L in any way.
Also, if you don't mind me asking, how'd you come across the video?
@@Koroto That's a good point! I never really put much thought into what would've happened if another person got the death note first but I'm sure they would've concealed it better. And I found it posted on the death note subreddit!
As smart as he is, we also have to remember he's about 17-18 at this time. He's a High School student presumably in his final year. Teenagers in that bracket tend to be the most arrogant know-it-alls you can ever meet. Especially one with Light's level of intellect. Top student in the nation? Yeah, of course he has an ego problem, and L exploited the hell out of that teenaged ego.
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Yeah, the super constant praise of his intellect in a (probably) sheltered environment may have most likely contributed to his development (I wouldn't be surprised if people that interacted Light before he first saw the Death Note would have found him really pompous in his younger years, save for his family)...
I’VE ALWAYS SAID THIS. killing lind l. tailor was his most grave mistake ever. he would have been able to get away with so much and probably not ever be caught if he hadn’t. but he let his ego get in the way.
L already knew that light was in kanto region of Japan the reason why he setup that "world wide podcast" was because he wanted to challenge light directly in his battle of pride and wanted to announce himself as a enemy to light
He thought that there was a good chance Kira was in Kanto but he didn’t know for sure which is why he was having it broadcast in different regions at different times.
@@islasullivan3463 I got you're reply after 1 month lol. Nope he knew that light was in kanto region of Japan. L calls light by saying that the police treated light's first killing as an unrelated incident but in acutally his first killings was a suspect in shinjuku and L also said that the shinjuku killer was only broadcast in Japan. Now even if light didn't kill Lind.L. Tailer L can easily make a 2nd trap to catch kira
@@l.lawliet2222 He wasn't certain otherwise he wouldn't have planned to broadcast it in other regions. That would just be a waste of time.
@@l.lawliet2222 he didnt, he tried broadcasting on kanto region first bc it has a really big population
Light himself stated he wanted them to suspect someone with ties to the police. It wasn't a mistake, he wanted to get close to L to eventually kill him.
amen
But it was a mistake overall
The only reason he has to kill L is because L was getting closer. Had he players cards right they’d have never been a threat to begin with
And that's exactly why he would lose.
@@elvishernandez2555true. Light only had to stay as far away from L and he would be just a random highschooler, light only needed to think twice Before acting and he likley wouldnt have killed bait L, the fbi agent,or not have had a pattern of Killing But instead randomize it
*_Every opening/ending of Death Note has a meaning, if memory serves me right..._*
Opening 1: How Light Sees himself
Ending 1: How the world sees Light
Opening 2: How the world sees KIRA
Ending 2: How KIRA sees himself
Isn’t the 2 the other way around or something?
@@mooganify you're right, it is
Opening 2:
POOOOOOOOOOORNNNNN
FREE POOOOOOOOOOORNNNNN
@@mooganify ur right my mistake
@@LightbulbHD LOTS OF FROZEN PIE HOME SECURITY
Something strange to me is that in the episode that light kills Naomi Misora, she obviously goes to the receptionist with a purpose and ask to speak with the task force. Yet they all just conclude that she committed suicide. And no one not even the receptionist mentioned that she was seen with light yagami just before her death.
I didnt think about this the show would've ended way sooner if this was taken into consideration
@MythLegal they were at the police station together but on two different notices. Light was there to drop off food to his pops while she was there to drop a tip off. It was coincidental but it worked out for light to cut a loose end.
At that time they didn’t know that Kira can kill with causes other than heart attacks
Well obviously the writer couldn’t end it there
@@hippityhopitus7810 but regardless he spoke to her at the desk and they walked out of the station together, it’s a police station so I would assume there are security cameras all over the place so they could have watch light talked to her and walked out the station with her. Boom series over lol
Biggest mistake was to try and go after the FBI agent who was tailing him. In fact, the agent was already convinced that Light wasn't Kira and was about to discontinue tailing him anyway. Killing him and then his fiance sharply turned L's attention towards investigating the folks whom the FBI agent was tailing. From then on, Light was constantly under suspicion more or less throughout the show.
Totally agree, only way to be more suspicious was to yell I'm Kira.
Yeah, he shouldn't have killed Lind L Taylor, not only was what narrowed the hell out of where's Kira, but also he crossed a moral line by trying to kill people who are trying to stop criminals.
@@sarmavlada funnily enough, that would probably be less suspicious, because people may just assume he's in his "dark and edgy teenager" phase. Killing that Agent truly was incredibly dumb.
Yeah, but he also played with the idea of being framed for being Kira.
Imagine it from L POV, not only Kira kill very precisely someone in Kanto, which is already a monumental error, the next non-criminal to die are an FBI agent and his wife trailing the son of the region police chief.
It still look like a massive covert up/ redherring and middle finger to L in the case Light wasn't Kira.
The main thing is as said light says he is smart and says he is wise but he ain't more than the meme sings; a human. The series may make someone interested in real crime because when boiled down to it, someone did it and maybe tried their best to get away with it, and in their mind had all the perfect answers before they end up in two hour stern voiced commentary video breaking down all of their mistakes during and after the crime.
I think the points in the story are included to show how slowing down would have helped him more but he doesn't because of his new found ego.
One issue I have with your breakdown here is when you talk about his elaborate hiding of the notebook. The problem with what you were saying is that the minute someone else touches the notebook, they are able to see the shinigami attached to it.
right but the whole notebook is magic. he’s saying if light rips all the pages out and puts it in a regular notebook with a regular cover, the only magic part of the notebook would be the pages. L wouldn’t look at a normal notebook and say, that’s suspicious. but a notebook that literally says Death Note on it is very suspicious. obviously if he touched the hypothetical regular notebook’s pages, he would see Ryuk, but i don’t think that was the point he was making.
@@icedrice-ts5zzI would wrap every page with stretch film 😂
It’s crazy because even with all of his flaws he was still so close to winning in the end
all because of that fuckin fanboy that thought he knew what he was doing
Literally he would’ve been golden but Mikami ruined it
That's only because he had a power that nobody else had.
We are forgetting about Ryuk. The reason Ryuk stayed in the human world for so long was because Light was entertaining. Otherwise I think Ryuk would have killed Light long ago. Light was doomed as soon as he used the Death Note to kill someone.
No wonder Ryuk was entertained, it was literally the best anime ever
I'm sure you haven't watched DN. He said that he'd write light's name in his notebook when light's end would be near (no pun intended)
He never mentioned that he'd write his name when he'd get bored
@@bikdigdaddy When he writes Light's name, he says he doesn't know how long Light will live if he is sent to prison. I think it's pretty clear from that that he was thinking he would be bored while waiting for Light to die naturally in prison, so he ended him there and then.
No, light would have lived a long and easy life even with death note if he hadn't let himself stand out too much or fed his own ego. He was immature and had a God complex.
Ryuk can’t kill light bro
Not to dunk on this video but isn't that the point of Light as a character? His flawed ego and obsession to be "God". He set in motion everything from killing Lind L Taylor on purpose, because he wanted to get close enough to L to kill him, while playing God at the same time. Yes, the most logical thing to do would be to do nothing. He could've continued to play God and L would never catch him. But he didn't like the idea of L challenging his perspective of "passing righteous judgement". L got under Lights skin because Light is fueled by narcissism and so desperately wanted to one up L - Which he inevitably did. I did enjoy the video nontheless because I love that this show is still being talked about, but nothing new was really said in this video, sorry.
I disagree, even if Light didn't kill Taylor L would have a million schemes to get more info/suspects. Also, I'm surprised the police never went through his computer or the task force in general they just prohibited the use of personal phones.
He didnt kill Lynd L Taylor on purpose to get to L. At that time he thought the inmate was L. Its only after this mistake that is only option is to be safe from suspicion but still a suspect noless so that he can zero in on the real L and eliminate him. Is everyone watching the anime or reading the manga with its eyes closed?🤨
I agree with you. When you have a magical notebook, you kinda underestimate people from there.
I think it's only natural to get complacent. Light won in the end so this video is redundant in saying he lost in episode 2.
What's that expression... He may have lost the battle, but he won the war.
I agree with you. It is so easy speak in hindsight of what he should have done. But it is not like Light wasn't still figuring out everything and he paniced. He has gone too far to back down so obviously he will take the bait. He doesn't even really know who and what he is dealing with when L challenges him. At least that is how I remember it for it has been a while since I've seen the show.
I think you're right.. Light actions help move the plot, where if he did nothing we wouldn't had this chase.
Well to be fair, Light, like many serial killers or megalomaniacs WANTED to be known for his work. He wanted to walk the thin line between getting away with it and taunting you to your face. The way he taunts Ray, the way he taunts Misori, the way he sends L a taunt via note and then to his face, the way he taunts Near. Light is a cocky dude with a giant ego once he gets his hands on the death note. If he wanted to "succeed" and keep using the death note despite Ryuk telling him taht Ryuk WILL write his name down in his own death note he should've just kept killing in silence. So yeah as much as i love some of your analysis for other series, when it comes to death note the truth is: yep if Light was a machievelli/egotistical smug bastard he probably would've won. That's all it boils down to and makes anything else seem blatantly obvious or silly.
Seriously, lights entire downfall was the fact that he actually tried to not get caught. All he had to do was not respond and they probably would've concluded they were just natural deaths 😭.
Sure ryuk would've done something eventually but still
Exactly. It would have put the onus on others to prove that all the prison deaths were unnatural. And by then Light could have prisoners commit suicide, stab each other, have aneurysms. Even L says that he had to see it for himself and didn't believe it until he did the Lind L Taylor thing. But Light wanted the world to be aware of a "God"
not natural deaths , they thought a literal god was doing these deaths until it was proven otherwise
@@reignadams6692 Light's ego was his downfall. He wanted all people to think a God was doing this. If instead he came up varied suicidal deaths and spaced them out it would have never reached L at all, but it would be a very boring series.
@@moviefiendz they could make a alternate series where light actually doss things right just to see how itd look
L might be seen as a failure going against a god or something extreme
sometimes death note fans really scare me cuz off how smart they are
@Light Yagami LMAOOOO
@Light Yagami you should write your name
YOU SEE JUST IM CASE IT LOST
@Light Yagamiyou see if you lost they will know whom they owe the chance to return it
But no one can be dumber than myself
That's just *impossible* ...
Haha
But the biggest issue with all of this is that Light intended for people to know of his existence. It might have been stupid in hindsight, but he was absolutely sure that he couldn't be caught and every move he made had a purpose and that purpose was for people to know about him, while also proving uncatchable
He would've pulled it of if his accomplices listened
Yeah! He wanted people to see what would happen to anyone that defied him. L did it in public, so he couldn't just let it pass if following that philosophy. His philosophy was flawed, that why he made flawed actions.
That tends to be the major issue with pretty much most things humans do. Not all but most people want some form of recognition for the things they do. Whether the thing they're doing is good or bad in this case.
@@leonardocerqueiradias6168 No he wanted people to know becouse thst way criminals would fear him and therefore stop crime and save countless people.You missed everything.His ideals were not perfect but they were definetely the best available.
@@kaibaboy3374 You just repeated what I said.
His final nail in his coffin was killing Ray Penbur. HE DIDNT EVEN SUSPECT HIM!!! All light had to do was let him move on. Instead he HAD to kill them and narrow down the list even more 🙄
It was a mistake, yes, but completely within character though. Light didn't know what Ray was thinking. He had been running circles in his own mind for weeks. Plotting, scheming and anticipating the police and L. At this point he has developed a level of paranoia and acts out of fear, not logic.
Light's grave mistake was killing the fake L in ep2, without doing that he wouldn't give his location to L and just be free to kill
@@realspeedghxst So true. However I think that was brilliant writing, because it foreshadowed his downfall. Light couldn't help himself, he was too arrogant. And Ryuk even told Light how he would die. He gave us a massive spoiler and nobody noticed.
You say final nail in the coffin but Light literally would have won if Mikami wouldn’t have made 1 mistake
@@tomasroberts3481 Yeah, but Ryuk literally spelled it out for us. "I will write your name in my deathnote." Destiny? Or did he plan it? Either way Ryuk and we by proxy knew how it would end.
when you realize this was all because ryuk wanted some fun time on earth. that being said tho, i think ryuk was definitely very satisfied. his notebook was picked up by an incredibly intelligent young man who also has issues with his own ego. ryuk knew from the very start how all of this would end, as soon as he found out light has a big ego, he figured out what light's downfall would be like. honestly happy for the guy, hope he had a good stay on earth
As soon as he met Light he knew he got one hell of a party.....plus apples.
Light ultimately went against the “moral good” he was trying to create as soon as he tried to go after L. I think that twisted sense of needing to win was the downfall. His motive was never as pure as he wanted.
I've been looking through the comment to see someone else notice and point out this irony. For all the people that think Light was righteous, why did he try to kill a detective trying to find him? He didn't even give them a chance, ignore it or try to wait it out until Lind L. didn't find him - he immediately decided "Hmm, this guy seems like he *might* get in my way. I'm gonna kill him." And I have to think, partly he did it out of self-preservation for his goal, but I'm sure it also had to do with showing everyone else how serious and powerful he was.
That was his greatest downfall, it wasn't the last domino to fall, but that instance of his ego trying to assert himself as the one, true epitome of justice is what got him caught and led him to real justice years later.
@@navonmyhand7999 Also, the entire reason Misa is infatuated with Light is because he killed the robbers who murdered Misa’s parents. But Light never once seems to care about the safety he has brought to Misa, or anyone for that matter. He says that he stands for the innocent, but he doesn’t. He just wants power.
@@navonmyhand7999 its all about god-complex and him being teenager. Great real life-appliable advice, ngl
Not sure how they did it in the show, but I guess it won't be far from the manga (since I read them and did not watch the show enough), but when Reurk first heard about Kira plan, he said something along the line, "... then, the only murderer left is you"
I think that's the whole Death Note story there.
@@izzfp9802 in the anime i remember light saying how kira wants to create a world only for innocent and good people and ryuk says "look who's talking"
1:18 but from the beginning, Light want to show the world that a new god, him self, exist.. it's a great chance for him tho
I think all of these issues boil down to the fact that Light is a cocky, egotistical character who just is not as smart as he thinks he is
i disagree. he is as smart as he thinks he is. IN THE END he lost because of mikami's mistake. you could say light made a mistake by entrusting it to the wrong person, though.
@@nickb220 but the reason why he had to entrust Mikami (and use an extremely risky method of communication) was because of HIS mistakes.
The issue is that he wanted kira to be known which was he's downfall
@@asaptrizzy967 but the entire point of Kira was to be known or else it wouldn’t cause the change he wanted
As all humans
6:17 thats the thing, crime stopping wasnt his actual dream. His dream was to be recognized as God the only one who could pass judgement
Maybe you should say “ wasn’t his only dream” .
I think it was his dream at the start, but this ultimate weapon made him lose his initial ideals and he became too prideful.
@@lucat17lula he didn't ever forget about his initial ideal. I don't know what made you think that but he always wanted to make a perfect world( he mentioned about making a perfect world lot of times) he always believed that he is justice and he wanted to to do a good thing to the world and make it more peaceful place to live. Even the reason he was killing FBI agents and the police is because he believes them to be evil because they are opposing justice. So he wanted to become God and equally he wanted to make a perfect world...
@@shyamk1103 he mentioned wanting to be God in like episode 1😭
@@shyamk1103 Light is a narcicist psychopath who misused his power as soon as he knew the death note worked. He was willing to kill his own sister and judged people when they commited petty crimes after L was dead. He just wanted to be god, he said this very early on. The whole justice thing was just a delusion he told himself to justify his actions, but like Near said "you're just a serial killer"
Yeah, I recently rewatched this show for the first time since I was like, fourteen, (I'm 28) and noticed this too. He reacted well enough, and was able to keep going for a long time, due to his intelligence, but him reacting to Lind L Taylor at all basically set his fate in stone. His own hubris was his downfall.
That whole thing confused me. Killing Lind L. Tailor made sense, because Light is childish and it was an impulse decision. However, after that, he goes completely haywire. Even with the information that he lives in the Kanto region of Japan and he is a student, they’d have to investigate every single student out there. His big mistake was showing his involvement with the police. The weird thing was that before Light knew that L had found out about the police thing, Light says “If he’s as good as they say, he’ll probably suspect my connections to the police.” (Not verbatim), so he knew what he was doing.
I think once he found out Lind L. Tailor wasn’t L, he realized he had lost, and therefore needed to “win” or reclaim his dignity by killing L. L knew how easy Kira was making it for him, which is why L could say so confidently that he knew Kira was childish and hated losing. Light wanted to get close to L so he could eliminate him, and he did it recklessly, exactly how L was counting on it.
L would have been lost without Kira’s impulsiveness, and Light’s impulsiveness shows in every scene, even when he acts composed. Ryuk knows this, too, which is why he tells Light that Raye is tailing him. It’s why Light got so in his head that he killed Raye and his fiancée.
As much as Ryuk says he wouldn’t take sides on L’s killings, Ryuk was never on Light’s side. Ryuk said stuff to freak him out because he knew _that_ would be a worthy show. No, he wasn’t on L’s side either, but Ryuk influenced Light’s decisions so much because he knew it would be interesting.
I love your comment btw just so you know lol
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Quite a smart comment :)
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Because light wanted the normal public to know that there was someone passing judgment. He wanted to challenge L or anyone that would stop him from killing criminals.
The dumbest mistake Light ever did was not letting the FBI investigate longer before starting his experiments on prisoners. He basically just told L when he found out about the FBI.
I have a feeling he wasn't Kira for 'justice' he was bored. He might have done all those stuff because he was bored and wanted to mess around with L a bit
edit: I don't think he was doing it JUST for justice but he was also bored
he could've left the guy who investigated him alone, it wouldn't have done anything bad for him to let the dude live, considering he didn't find light suspicious at all. and neither did the rest of the fbi-
I'm pretty certain that is the whole point. He wanted to taunt L and give a bit more information so L could participate more in their cat and mouse game.
Light already knew L knew it was him but with no evidence at that time he can mess around and test things out
@Pissed Off White Guy
I think he wanted to believe it. I don't think it was actually true, though. A massive part of Light's personality and motivations seems to be wrapped around deception, and especially self-deception. He can't face the idea that he's capable of doing bad things, so he tells himself what he's doing is actually good and selfless -- while he's pretty obviously toying with people and enjoying himself immensely.
Agreed on most of the topics but there is one thing that you didn't pointed out. Kira goal was never to hide from L and the police forever. He wanted to defeat them and become 'god of the new world'. The ruler of his own perfect world. So he have to eliminate L out of the equation to do that. But I pretty much agree on everything else that you mentioned in this video.
I think the youtube video is about his character flaws.
Actually,an average person with death note can use it without getting caught,if they don't have 'pride' like Light.
Actually,such a tool will bring 'pride' to any user.Using it is unfair after all.
6:28
@@ameennasar2583 The thing is that Light (probably) wanted Kira to be known. by being known he gives an incentive for people to not commit any crime. That average person would not get caught but he may not have the same effect on the public than Light would have.
Also saying that it was just his pride is kinda of simplifying it too much. The existence of L is unpredictable, someone that is not just smart, but allowed to do crazy stuff.
@@kenzoo21 It's cruel pride for sure.Imagine if I or you were on Light's position.If a person says what you're doing is evil,will you kill him for that?
If your answer is 'no',then you'll understand the fault in Light's character and for sure character faults create villains.
Also,an average person with the ambition to eliminate evil people will succeed the test of L,if they don't have god complex like Light,and would not get caught.The whole anime is about how Light's character
leads to his downfall,like Macbeth.
@@ameennasar2583 "If a person says what you're doing is evil,will you kill him for that?"
Maybe. In the right context.
I dont think Light killed the fake L just for that.
That average person might as well have taken the bait of the fake L, even without the god complex. The stuff L does against Kira isn't with the specific intention to exploit the weaknesses of someone with god complex.
"For the story to work the characters must be flawed" - This story is an incredible example of how you can advance a plot with good writing.
I completely agree, I love watching this show, because you need to be more than clever to predict what happens next, you have to have a strong intuition about what happens next in TV shows/movies
On my first walkthrough I actually predicted that Misa would be the 2nd Kira though this process of context clues and what I know abou other shows
@@etanifi7613Well that's not hard to guess at all. Like a lot of animes the opening spoils it.
A big blunder for sure, but not Light’s biggest.
When L is “explaining” the Raye Penber situation to Light, light says something along the lines of “I see. And because Raye was investigating me before he died, I’m one of your prime suspects.”
Light failed to realize that L never mentioned Raye was investigating him. L caught this immediately. It’s why he was so positive it was light. It’s because Light basically told him he was Kira already.
i didn't even notice that when i was watching the show
Holy shit!
Omg I've watched it at least 10 times and never noticed this
"And I was one of the people who ray penber was investigating before he died" I think was the exact line. Light deduced that he was one of ray penbers targets. He put it together, and L already knew that light had tremendous deduction skills. It wasn't a mistake
@@coldman5149 exactly
Been re-watching this recently and have realized that L likely 99% knew that Light was Kira by the time he decided to introduce himself in person to Light at the college entrance ceremony. It seems like L's entire motivation for involving Light on the case was to get him closer in attempt to obtain some proof that it was him and figure out how he was doing it. That lack of evidence was the only thing keeping him from being able to settle it.
of course, the entire L arc was him knowing that light IS kira but being unable to prove it due to evidence lack (though that makes sense because he’s dealing with a supernatural case of a notebook that kills people when you write in it
No shit sherlock.
I think it's realistic that he'd make these kinds of mistakes. You don't know what people can use to track you until they've already done it. Light tried to cover his tracks in every way, and he did a good job, but it wasn't perfect.
rewatch the video my guy
when light lost his memories, he really cared for his family and had principles.... I still don't understand how one notebook could change that in like 2 3 days
Edit - @Yoroiful replied - I think it started with him thinking of himself as of a "sacrifice". Something only a kind person could actually consider. Like "I have to do this because no one else will" or "I have to save this world by all means necessary" in a genuine way, even if he would be doomed because of it. Over time he clearly became corrupted by the notebook, and the sacrifice turned into something else.
- found this as the most accurate answer to my question, i had clearly forgotten this from like the very initial episodes
He saw himself above everyone after receiving the ability to end the life of anyone he wanted like a God. Power like that will change anyone instantly even if it takes the form of a notebook
Before he got the notebook his eyes seemed lifeless so id assume his life was literally meaningless before the Death Note suddenly gaining a purpose to live will probably change you a lot
because light and kira were not the same person mentally. and in the manga it took a while longer for light to lose control
Notebook is enabler
Because "Kira" was alredy inside light,and when he recived the power of the book "Kira" Just came out
Rember the book it's like the biblic apple,the Temptation,it's the Power of God and It's only a way to see Who we really are,an egoistic and megalomaniac person or a good person
“Light’s ego is why he lost” is true BUT Light’s ego is also why he did what he did and became Kira.
No non-egotistical person could ever be Kira.
I’m not sure I agree with that last statement. Anyone with the ideology that all criminals should die could theoretically become Kira. No ego problems are required.
@@justified6280 Kira is the “new god” and anyone who is willing to become judge jury and executioner of ALL alleged criminals... is 100% egotistical. It’s a requirement for truly becoming Kira.
@@beastiebroNot necessarily. The Death Note would probably corrupt most people who would use it. Light was corrupted by the note book the show even explores this when he loses his memory. He’s a different person without it even unable to manipulate Misa for the investigation. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
@@tylergannon7398 but also remember what L says about that: L still believes that he is completely capable of doing all those things. Other individuals had death notes and L had the chance to use it but never would use it like Light.
@@beastiebro i don't think ego is a necessary requirement for becoming a leader or a god/king
Revisiting Death Note 15 years later really makes me appreciate the writing more as I understand the larger nuances and complexities now.
I’m rewatching the anime, and I’m feeling the opposite way. I don’t remember Light being this stupid, the first time I watched.
@@always_serpico Hindsight bias
@@always_serpico ikr, it's the reason I'm afraid to re-watch it.
@@always_serpico exactly, bro. When I revisited it waaayy past my teenage years and got a grasp of these "larger nuances" and so called "complexities", just realized that it's the same bullshit as any other anime with overcompetent and overcapable teens, except this one is taking itself way too seriously.
His biggest flaw was his ego. He wanted the world to know that Kira existed and wanted the battle between him and L. If Light genuinely believed in the ‘pure justice’ of making criminals pay for what they did, he wouldn’t have been caught
True, just put details of death in every kill randomly
Justice is blind if you don't take matters into your own hands there won't be justice
But lights whole point was that there had to be a god figure to deter more crime so to that idea Kira had to b known world wide
@@thomasyongo7287 maybe to create fear so no one dares to crime again
Yeah, this is why I believe Light was on par, and maybe even smarter than L, as when he loses the death note, taking his ego out of the picture, he makes deduction after deduction that L missed out on.
“Light is smart, but not wise.” Thank you for putting into words what I could not. Like, Light was making some of the stupidest, most frustrating decisions that I could think of…like how he STILL decided to kill the FBI agent personally investigating him despite being cleared of suspicion, but decided to one-up himself by killing all the agents, getting the police to back down at the cost of making himself the sole suspect of L. Such killings (initially starting when he fell for L’s bait and killed L Tailor) completely betrayed the code he sought to establish by punishing criminals, and gave away even more important information regarding both himself and his location: heck, L was able to form an entire psychological profile describing Light’s personality to a T, and that FBI agent’s fiancé discovered a vital truth to how Light kills based off simple intuition from how sloppy Light handled it. Then, to swap up the times he kills as SOON as the police write about noticing the pattern? Yet another hint allowing L to narrow down his search.
One of my favorite lines from Erwin perfectly describes Light: “I’m saying you’re making a lot of unnecessary movements.” Over 90% of the actions he took were unnecessary, and led to completely avoidable situations had he simply just done nothing.
I don't think he ever betrayed his ideals except when he's killing his own subordinates(like takada kyomi).
In light's mind anyone that opposes him is evil and to be liquidated, taked down.
That'a not an inconsistent thought with this original morals.
I mean.....it'a not true lol
But it'a not inconsistent, that's what i'm trying to say.
There's no inconsistency.
I can't explain how much I agree with this..!
Killing those FBI agents was really the final blow to seal his fate. Even though he put up great fight, it was pretty much decided that he'd be caught sooner or later.
@@absolutenothing7094 “In Light’s mind anyone that opposes him is evil”. That was the mindset of the Light who deteriorated into madness and was ultimately killed, the Light who viewed his own father as weak and himself as a god. The original Light only sought to purge the world of “evil” by cleansing it of criminals, creating a societal utopia where prestigious and upstanding citizens could live out their days in peace and comfort. “Kira” was a symbol of hope and a promise of a better future. But where was the consistency in killing completely innocent, morally upright citizens who sought to bring evil to justice? Where was the consistency in killing a completely innocent widow who sought justice for her husband’s murder?
Arguably, the entire point of Light’s character is that there is no consistency. He’s a self-made hypocrite who punishes evil with evil. Better yet, what determined “evil” in his eyes? Imagine being falsely accused of robbing a store, having your information made public, then being killed in your cell by a kid who wrote your name in his notebook because he was bored.
@@6ixlxrd first of all to argue with your second point.
it is clearly stated in one of the episodes of death note that light never killed righteous and falsely accused.
he would always thoroughly research the case before he handled the criminal to make sure he never killed innocent people.
he never killed people for self-defense, he never killed people in a dire situation.
"where was the consistency in killing the completely innocent"
it wasn't. it hadn't appeared. and the reason it hadn't appeared was because light never imagined being confornted by police like that and that a lot of innocent people would go against him.
so there was no need for one. there was no need for consistency.
and i'll explain this again, light thinks of himself as a god, as a perfect being.
pinaccle of good, the good itself, that's his ideology,his view of the current world and the world to come.
just like in the bible where god is good by default and if you oppose his will you are ultimately evil, light with his perecption is also good by default and if you oppse him, you are automatically qualified as evil.
you can say that that's wrong,a lie, immoral or arrogant but i don't think you can accuse him of inconsistency or contradicting his own previous ways of thinking.
@@rimadas1910 i've heard from one content creator that what really ensured his defeat was him murdering Lind L. Taylor.
that's when he gave his existence away and it was only a matter of time.
At 3:53 Ryuk's Shinigami eyes already saw that Light already had 93,312,639 seconds left of his lifespan which is about only 3 years. I remember computing this and telling my friends and nobody believed me when the series was still ongoing. Good times 😅
Dude that's wild. Good on ya though
Goshh 😳 this is so smarttt
But actually he lives more than three years. After L's death, the second part of the show take place five years later.
I never thought his time left was supposed to be read in seconds youre a genius my guy
@@CMartin715 the Shinigami that Killed L to protect Misa Amane also protected Light and I do believe Misa was not the only one that got time added on her lifespan but also Light. Hence, your observation.