>ends global wars
>lowers crime rate by 70%
>but he’s evil because….he has le god complex…
 Shopping Cart Returner Shirt $21.68 |
 |
Shopping Cart Returner Shirt $21.68 |
>ends global wars. >lowers crime rate by 70%. >but hes evil because.he has le god complex
>only needs one-shot chapter to mog kira
zoomers bros we can't stop winning
qrd
>Zoomer Light sells Death Note to the highest bidder
>Requests that everyone with the same bank account recieves the money so they don't find out who he is
>Dies because Death Gods are salty homosexuals
couldn't he just have picked a random multinational company like BlackRock and told them to do the same thing or he'd kill off the board of directors?
he had no interest in killing and culling people, he knows what happens when you go down that rabbit hole. he just wants money
Yea, his death really didn't feel satisfying because they literally changed the rules without him knowing. Dude got fricking cheated.
the original L didn't cry about getting cheated even tho he did
Reks the idea of the Death Note so hard that the god of death has to implement a new rule to frick him over before he succeeds.
>dies like a b***h
Minoru's death:
>withdrawing fat stacks of yen from an atm
>only died because the king of death malded that minoru exploited his shitty rules
Light's death:
>AHHH RYUK KILL NEAR PLEASE BRO STOP!!! DONT KILL ME PLEA-ACK
He's being tricked by death angel reaper people thing, he's both an egocentical autist and a moron that got played on every conceivable level.
>He's being tricked by death angel reaper people thing
how?
>Oops I drop my loaded gun next to a baby, please don't shoot kid!
they watch for keks but the user still controls the death note
there is no trick
Damn Ryuk even tricked thereader/ viewer now that was a true mastermind
I always thought it was bullshit, give any human the power of a god and they would abuse it.
It's the same shit as putting a special tree in front of adam and eve and saying "now now you two, I know this tree fruit looks mighty tasty, and you have to sit here every day looking at how delicious it looks. Yes I know I could have planted this tree somewhere else instead so you wouldn't be tempted but that wouldn't be any fun. So be sure you never eat it ok, you don't know anything and have no idea you are setting up billions of your progeny for an infinite amount of suffering but that would spoil the fun now wouldn't it".
>It's the same shit as putting a special tree in front of adam and eve and saying "now now you two, I know this tree fruit looks mighty tasty,
Wow the death reaper eating apples symbolism really went over your head.
You really don't understand metaphor do you?
we get it anon, you're barely literate
If you didn't know you could have just asked.
Untrue and it’s no surprise you’re a Christcuck moron who thinks power is an unstoppable corrupting force. Examine the origins of why you’re so cucked in the head.
>criticizes the bible
>y-you must be a christcuck
They really aren't sending their best and brightest these days are they?
>Y-you can't seriously just expect me to control myself
Humans deserved what we got
Ryuk wanted to have fun. And what better way to have it, than to give your supernatural notebook capable of killing easily people to a genius egotistical psychopath with a god complex?
Sometimes I think that Ryuk was the real MVP of the anime and outsmarted everyone to give him a show.
>than to give your supernatural notebook capable of killing easily people to a genius egotistical psychopath with a god complex?
I think the funniest part is that he didn't deliberately give it to Light. The Death Note just accidentally ended up in the hands of the worst person possible
The one-shot before Death Note was a manga shows Ryuk's manipulation better. In it Light is a moralgay, Ryuk dropped two death notes in the world to mess with both humans and the respective owners of the death notes.
>I watched the Netflix movie
based
I hate evil people. It's just too bad that many things deserving death are hard to prove, and can easily be twisted onto the wrong person with lies.
so many anime "villains" did nothing wrong
you only hate evil people because youre too weak and afraid to do what they do
>determining guilt based solely off of media reports and arrests
And this guy was a genius law school graduate, yet can't see the gaping flaws in his plan.
>I hate evil people
Light is evil. Not only that he's a gullible moron because he based his judgement on fricking media reports and a justice system that prioritizes getting convictions over truth.
>the main detective believes in magic because the plot demands it for him to find Light
Such a stupid manga/anime.
They’d never find him in a logical setting because no detective police force or any authoritative power would ever go for “he kills them by knowing their names and faces!”
yeah but the people magically die
people already believe magic bullshit IRL with no evidence
The people that believe in magic irl are morons. L going for the magic route is the same as Stephen Hawking rejecting his own theories because he saw something he couldn’t explain and going with “it’s god”
yeah in the story magic is real so they would follow the evidence. cope
>How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
btfo
>yeah in the story magic is real
No one except light knows this though. There is no reason for anyone else to suspect that a kid can magically kill people with a book.
they noticed pretty fast that people without published name and face would not die
just try explaining that some other way. sorry L mogs you at investigating
what in frick's name are you talking about, the entire world knows a supernatural force is killing criminals
Because the story needs them to know about it. In reality no one but schizos would ever hear about random heart attacks and think it was the work of some supernatural book.
Black person. One guy writes KIRA in blood in his cell before dying.
Holy shit does that mean if I write hillary clintons name next to my corpse after cutting my wrists that she magically killed me with her adrenochrome powers?
People write or say all kinds of shit before dying it doesn’t mean some kid with a magic book is controlling them
In a realistic setting if someone in a prison wrote Kira on the wall and died the assumption would be that information is being shared between the prison inmates and the outside world and that some cult is doing shit. The same way when people write shit on the wall with literal shit and then bite their tongues in their cells and kill themelves we don’t assume it’s magic
Are you moronic? The whole reason Light chooses to kill with heart attacks is specifically BECAUSE he wants people to know there's a godlike presence purposefully using magic kill methods. He does it to criminals on national TV, he does it to criminals who get off Scott free. He does it every single fricking day.
He literally goes out of his way to make it known that there is a magic killing method. People don't just believe it because the plot needs them to, he makes it a point in his whole scheme to make it so obvious that everyone would have to be as moronic as you are to think otherwise.
If it happened irl, people would know. At first it can be brushed off as coincidence, and then evolve into conspiracy nut territory, before the evidence becomes too fricking apparent to think otherwise. He was sending a message. He had cri my finals fricking write messages on their cell walls before their deaths to spread the word. He had messages broadcasted on TV stations to spread the word. If it was made in the modern age, he'd have probably had victims fricking tweet "kira is going to kill me" or some shit just 30 seconds before their heart attack just to make it more blatantly obvious. Because the point was to make the deaths undeniably linked to a magical force that can and will find you if you commit crimes.
>before the evidence becomes too fricking apparent to think otherwise
in your made up scenario most people are capable of thinking which they simply aren't anon.
Yea but magic isn’t real so the conclusion would never be “it’s magic”
That’s the problem, you’re attributing the fact- that magic is real in death note so L is correct because you as an observer knows that the magic is real. L or any other logical investigator would never go for the magic route, let alone be their first move, this would only work if it WASNT a grounded in reality story minus the death note and reaper part . There are morons alive today that believe in magic but even if everything in death note happened IRL, magic would never be the conclusion of anyone taking the case seriously.
Isn't the world majority religous?
There’s been an increase in heart disease deaths in the world the last year or two. Is there some kid with a notebook killing people or do you think it’s something logical, because I say it’s the magic notebook. And if you don’t agree then your argument is moronic.
L's vax status?
but they were all criminals or well known chuds
can't explain that
And the other people that die of heart disease every single minute? Why doesn’t L think that’s magic too, what about later when he just jumps to the conclusion that he can mind control these people with magic too
They aren't every criminal who gets any news coverage anon. Calm down.
the death rate for criminals was off the chart
but not the normal population
L noticed. seethe
No one said they wouldn't notice. They just said only schizos like you would immediately jump to the conclusion that it was supernatural.
L is very schizo
L was pretty much a weird schizo
and he was the world's best at investigating
and he didn't jump to conclusions. he had theories and tested them. you are moronic sorry.
>people are dying of heart disease but suddenly heart attacks are spiking in inmates especially in Japan
>do we assume it’s something environmental
>do we assume it’s diet
>do we assume it’s some sort of criminal underground shit
>do we assume it’s corruption
>well before we investigate any of that I’m gonna send a guy to die on tv because I have a hunch it’s a teenager with a warped sense of justice killing criminals, that can magically give people heart attacks by knowing their name and face, he’ll kill that guy and prove it to me, I mean yeah the guy I’m sending up is a criminal so maybe the magic kid just kills him because he magically also knows he’s a criminal, but you’re wrong, he’s doing it because he got challenged by me and he won’t kill me cause he doesn’t have my name or face not because I’m not a criminal. This theory works because I know the kid would kill a challenger despite every single magic victim so far has been a criminal and I assume a self righteous god-complex teenager has never gotten in trouble before and killed or injured someone with his magic in spite
It’s a moronic story that only works because it has to work for the plot. In real life they would never find Light, they wouldn’t ever suspect teenagers and they would never suspect magic.
One man could do it
All I know is that if Kira really did indiscriminately kill the most violent of criminals then the media would call him racist.
>because I have a hunch
They naturally were already exploring those options for weeks prior to that scene in episode 2. When you hit roadblocks (like L/the feds did because science and resources likely didn't identify a probable common cause) you literally throw shit at the wall until it works, based on intel and bits of data you have at the time. Given the extremely valuable info Light left behind on his MO (cause of death, active time and initial area of impact) the idea to use resources and test the theory made sense. Light didn't follow basic opsec procedures and it wouldn't have taken long, even in real life, before someone other than L came to similar conclusions via basic profiling. L did that stunt and successfully narrowed the search area down (admittedly with a little luck for dramatic effect) because until then Light specifically acted in a way for Kira to be found and recognized, via the heart attacks. He didn't take any measures to change his patterns. Like you, he thought it was unnecessary and untraceable. Had Light been just a little paranoid and wrote completely random CoDs and ToDs before going on a killing spree then yes, the feds would legitimately have had no starting point.
Every time people raise complaints against the manga it's from a 3rd person and almost omniscient view of the plot combined with that impression that they could have done better and operating more discreetly, missing the point. Most people and Light would have had different objectives. If Death Note did one thing right in its writing, it's the accurate depiction when it comes to delusions of grandeur among teenagers who don't know enough and underestimate the world.
https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
I suggest you read this if you haven't.
Yeah you’re right in most of your points except… magic doesn’t exist It would never be an angle they tried in this century. There are way more plausible reasons for people to die of heart attacks all of a sudden.
They didn't just assume it was magic, it was more like assuming the culprit had SOME way of remotely killing people, they just didn't know what the method was. L was using a stand-in because he wanted to stay hidden and didn't want to make himself the real target. He wanted to test if Kira was able to somehow target the person claiming to be him and was proven right.
Motherfricker killed Lance Reddick because he didn’t like him being cast as Zeus in the percy jackson reboot and wesker in the resident evil Netflix show, lmao
I think you may be onto something, Anon.
Occam razor.
It was either some magical bullshit or some hyper duper stupidly scientific and convoluted weapon. The easiest explanation was by far the magical one.
The only reason that makes sense to you is because you know it’s the correct answer after the fact
Do you think Egyptians used magic to build the pyramids? Do you think Epstein was killed by magic? Do you think any part of the origin of life on earth is magic? Any of that being “magic” is the same conclusion that L draws, it makes no sense other than to a (stupid) observer or a stupid writer.
Dunno. Even L was quite reluctant about it being magic. He was simply open enought to accept every single conclusion considering people were dying around the world without a single correlation beside being know on tv/police database, the similar kind of death and the being criminals.
It was some kind of scientific weapon? A super virus dormant inside every single human capable to "fox die" 'd whenever Kira wants....
Every solution involved either magic or some stupid mambo jampo tecnology.
If anything, he simply considered it as an Hypothesis that became concrete only when he met with Riuk that he got the confirmation.
but magic is real you complete npc
Then why are you still a virgin neet
Haven't found the way to summon a sucubus yet
>tfw magiclet
He only believes it since he tested it out using the death row prisoner on TV. If Light hadn't fallen for that they'd be working under the assumption that he was using poison or something.
Yeah but he used the stand in because he suspected magic. Which is fricking moronic
It's not moronic if you're testing for what method the killer is using. He used a stand in because he obviously wasn't willing to die himself just to find out how people were getting killed. They were likely monitoring the stand in closely for any sort of poison or energy vector, but the only explanation was magic so that's what they went with.
He uses a stand in for everything, only this time he used a criminal instead of his Valet
You don't need magic to find him. Light leaves a trail of heart attack kills his first week. L just found the kill light did during that local hostage situation broadcast. That's how he found out he was in Japan.
They were vaccinated.
How else would he explain the death of that guy pretending to be L on live tv? It's not necessarily magic but he could tell something might be supernatural or unknown by humans.
back in 2007 death note they'd find Light almost instantly as soon as he starts doing shit on computers
was it genuine or was he faking it?
If he was faking he would have killed L, his father and that moron Matsuda early on.
It was genuine because his father died from a oversight in his thinking. He wasn't simply sad because his father was dying, he was sad because he died due to his frickup. He even tried to get his dad to finish his plan to kill Mello literal moments away from dying
>tons of people around the world mysteriously die of untimely heart attacks
Eerie how death note predicted the vax.
If only the vaxx only took out bad people, instead it takes out NPCs
>random teenager in Japan finds magic book, starts killing high-profile evil people
>all murders get written off as suicides by the government in order to cover for their own shady shit
>general population is convinced they were actually murdered by Hillary Clinton
This is how DN could work in a realistic setting, and Light would never get caught in it.
>Believes Kira wouldn't kill Billary
If you replaced Hillary with good hearted establishment plant like Bernie Sanders or maybe AOC.
Yeah so Epstein wasn’t killed by suicide or Hillary, it was magic, gotcha, fricking moron
What would you do with the book bros?
Kill a shit ton of people
Isn't the deal that if you use the book even once you burn in hell for eternity?
No. The deal is no afterlife at all.
There's no afterlife for anyone in Death Note, Ryuk was just fricking with Light by telling him using the Death Note had a price.
Canonically untrue, watch death parade.
Read the manga.
3 things:
1) Ryuk has a tendency to exaggerate and lie through omission.
2) Death Parade isn't exactly canon.
3) Death Parade isn't really an "After life". It's a purgatory, sure, but it either leads neither to heaven or hell. Which can at least reconcile what Ryuk claims with what happens in the show
>Ryuk has a tendency to exaggerate and lie through omission
Yes, and the lie through omission was that "if you use the note, you won't go to heaven or hell". It was meant to fool you into thinking that that was the price for using the note, when in reality that's just the case for EVERYONE, no matter what you do.
No, it's worded in such a weird ambiguous way so Light can interpret it as there being no Heaven or Hell, when in fact there is and Light will end up becoming a Shinigami.
I don't know why you people insist on making shit up instead of just reading the manga. Ryuk quite literally confirms that Light saw through his bluff and says he's impressed, because usually the idea of an afterlife is too ingrained into humans. See
seems like a sweet deal, why keep extending our suffering?
Light's fate is actually revealed in a completely unrelated anime.
what is this show called again? I want to watch it but I can't easily just find it on youtube or something. probably need to go to nyaa. I want to say black butler but that's not it.
Death Parade
Nah
I could end wars and reduce crime if I killed every man except myself and all the low IQ women.
Wouldn’t make me a hero.
All anime is shit and uses the same shallow black and white morality with le evil psycho genius vs awesome normal guy who is a loser but with special abilities also cool and has a harem of anime girls
Every single one
>same shallow black and white morality
die evil normie
It’s written by bullied losers for bullied losers. Which is why half this thread is defending it
Everyone that likes Death Note has a plan for what they'd do with it if they had it.
I would make my list separately before I use the Death Note. I would use the 23 day rule to mind control all the world's most powerful individuals into spending two weeks being as charitable as possible before they all die simultaneously. Then when it's done, I'll burn the pages. Everything's better, everyone dies at once, nothing points to me, no evidence.
I'd use the death note to kill riot people who disagree with me online
Death by meteors
>two weeks
Three weeks*
id just make myself obscenely rich by idk having ceos do some wild shit before committing suicide after putting 100x shorts on their stock
>Everyone that likes Death Note has a plan for what they'd do with it if they had it.
You know, honestly, I don't think I've put that much thought into what I'd do with it.
If I had it, I'd probably treat it like a handgun.
It's the type of thing I'd want to have, but never use.
>If I had it, I'd probably treat it like a handgun.
>It's the type of thing I'd want to have, but never use.
Okay, but keep in mind it's instant, you can specify how the person dies, and we don't live in a world with an L. Don't like your boss? Accident. Sick of the talking head on TV? Illness. That one dick at the bank? Suicide.
The thing about the note is that there are already a lot of real world parallels.
It's a monkey's paw. Sudden influx of power warps minds, and that's the core message of Death Note.
The note is great if you're already a killer, but I'm not one and I'm not ready to become one. And that's not something I like fantasizing about.
It's pretty easy to think of somebody that deserves it, if you watch the news. Then all you have to do is write their name... Then all you have to do is watch some more news... Then write another name...
I would abuse the shit out of the mind-control period.
- Have multimillionaires set up as-untraceable-as-possible accounts for frankly minor, at least for them, amounts of money, and then geocache the managing info to a place I will define (so there's no direct connection to me, and I don't risk to write my name even as a "situational" condition) so I can set myself up a bunch of cushy millions.
- Have higher-ups people leak all kind of shit before they croak. Grievous political secrets, Eipstein stuff, Harvey dumping his stash, etc
- I would probably try at least once "HOT-PIECE-OF-ASS travels to CITY, meets a guy wearing PECULIAR ARTICLE-OF-CLOTHING in SPECIFIC PLACE (so, I will be the guy but no name again), immediately lusts after him and spends MIND CONTROL PERIOD getting fricked silly by the guy before - I guess - going back home and die in her sleep". Which I guess would be pretty evil but who gives a shit about one less broad on the planet.
>edgelord would steal a million dollars and then expose people's secrets and then rape + murder an innocent woman
Cringe
What are you going to do, "mAKe tHe WOrlD A betTeR PLacE"?
You either don'use it out of moral reason, or you FRICK YOU GOT MINE.
Either way you're going to be inconsequential in the long run.
The edgelord is right. The death note is confirmed a cursed item within the fiction of the show but even in real life you would 100% be cursed to have a power like that, it would unironically hollow out and ruin 99.9% people's lives and ultimately no matter what you did with it things are going to end badly for you. You have 3 options when you get it and I think they're all valid
>destroy it
>use it to try and make the world a better place (whatever the frick that means to you and good luck with that, you're probably not an exceptional person, the only thing exceptional about you is your arrogance to think you'd be able to handle that level of responsibility competently)
>use it for your own selfish ends
Depending on the interpretation of MU, it is pretty likely that there is no punishment either. You just stop being and that's all, regardless of how high of a pile of young-hot-chicks you stacked under your feet.
Literally anything you can do to any individual person, somebody else has done worse for a smaller gain (if any gain at all).
As far as I recall from what the creator of Death Note said, it was a misdirection by saying that all death note users go to "MU" (nothingness) because in fact EVERYONE goes to MU in this universe, there is no afterlife. So yeah there is literally no real punishment to using the notebook besides a likely shorter lifespan since everyone who uses it meets an untimely end
100% agree. And whatever information Light didn't have access to he still somewhat made up for with his off the charts IQ only rivalled (in my opinion exceeded) by one other person in the world, L. I think you can safely assume Light was center left. I think he would be very pragmatic about it so "since democracy and capitalism seem to have the best results then that's what everyone should be working hard to reinforce by being competent, hard working and good natured"
You can tell by the way the anon replied to me again what kind of person he is so I'm not going to bother. Like I said to him you would still have an effect in the world, a really major one if you were as obvious about declaring your prescence as Kira was but you wouldn't fundamentally change how societies operate for the better. Not to say it still wouldn't be worth doing but you'd have to go to sleep every night knowing that the worst of the worst are still out there and there's nothing you can do about it
And even then, I'm pretty sure it happens because you make yourself noticeable to the Shinigami, so you're not a rando among uncountable randos anymore and are more likely to be written down on a whim, and not because of a specific/inescapable property of the DN itself
The morons who would go on a mass-killing spree thinking killing random petty criminals is going to save the heckin world are the ones who would get caught thanks to big data and internet profiling. What you need to do is do surgical removals of people in important positions and use the mind control powers for kickstarting larger change. Quality over quantity. If you want to make money do the same thing and use it for profiting from stocks.
Member when the Joker movie was announced and he tweeted at Scorsese that he wanted to play Joker. He did this publicly like it was owed to him or something.
He did more than that. He went on talk shows and shit dressed as the Joker. It was like when Sean Young broke into WB wanting to be Catwoman and made Tim Burton hide under his desk.
Why would Tim Burton hide from prime Sean Young? Was he a homosexual?
>OP joined the cult
>"did you hear we're getting a live action adaptation of Death Note!?!"
>is like the 4th live action DN, if you don't count the live action tv series
The best live action Death Note is the musical.
*is objectively the hero humanity needs in your path*
why are anime villains so cool bros
>gets ostracized by your own race because even they think you're going too far with "muh oppression"
He crosses the threshold the moment he attempts to kill L out of mere childish anger, and then actually Raye and his wife, and then sacrifices his father after focing him to make the eye deal, it shows he doesn't actually care about morality, he's just a hypocrite.
Also, if he really cared to fix the world then he would have gotten rid of the actual source of out issues, israelites and politicians, not oetty moron criminals who were already in jail.
he's evil because he only killed criminals who were victims of the system. he should've killed politicians and lawyers
Japan is a hardcore authoritarian society, deferential behavior to your social superiors is so ingrained that their entire language is structured around sucking up to others on a dozen different layers.
Had the writers done that, have Light kill politicians, they all would have lost their careers and likely their homes and publicly dishonored their family.
The author was anonymous, no one knows who wrote death note.
how are murderers and rapists victims of the system?...
Wrong board
>Lower crime rate by 70% by committing more murders than all of them combined.
You didn't truly defeat evil if you had to become evil to do it. And he absolutely was evil, he had absolutely no issues doing truly terrible shit like sacrificing innocent people for the "greater good" He even murdered petty thieves and lazy people. It's not that these people don't need to be dealt with to fix the world but he was simply doing it wrong.
He saved more innocent people than he killed FACT. 70% of murder, assaults and rape were prevented due to his actions. Light is the hero and the police gays were just butt hurt losers who couldn't accept that L jobbed like a moron
>just finish death note tonight
>suddenly find this thread, the only Cinemaphile death note I've seen in 10+ years
what the frick
There's like one a week at least
That's only because you were now looking for death note threads. Same thing happened to me with The Sopranos
>I'm mentally moronic
Cinemaphile is one big hivemind
Join us, Join us U VILL WATCH LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES NEXT, U VILL POST HERE AND U VILL BE HAPPY
>tfw no modern Death Note remake where Light lowers crime by 99% and barely kills anyone but he's evil because he has the wrong political beliefs
God, L is cute
>Light spends all his time going after street muggers and doesn't even touch politicians and CEOs
>Seven years of magically killing people in God-Like fashion and the most recognition he gets is a cheesy variety show devoted to him
Some New World he's got there.
Not true, it's stated in the show that crime worldwide went down by a huge margin because of him. Criminals feared his retribution and he also had millions of fans. Did he break a few eggs to get it done? Sure, he wasn't an altruistic guy at heart. But he did have the goal of making the world a place where good people wouldn't have to fear bad people and he was making that dream a reality.
Iirc he tells the psycho lawyer guy the next phase of his plan is about punishing those who don't 'contribute into making the world a better place'. I.e. Don't suck his dick.
He's a c**t and the end result of his perfect world would've been something akin to that bit in the spongebob movie where everyone is hauling rocks to build Plankton statues everywhere.
That's because Light's morality is the same as the average edgelord teenager, that's the bit. What if you gave some homosexual teenager godlike power think about it
>ugh we should just kill all criminals
>lazy people are a waste of resources kill em all
he literally tries to kill an innocent news reporter in the first episode
his morality is bullshit and it's made clear from the get go
El Salvador the anime.
hes killing prisoners, and maybe wanted criminals
but he isnt stopping crime
>>ends global wars
He didn't.
>he has le god complex…
No I don't, I was just trying to be a dick to an atheist butthole who I wanted to be as far away from me as possible.
First half of Death Note was incredible. Second half was bullshit and poorly written to try and make Light unlikeable/make sure he lost.
Kira existing literally made the world a better place. Light deserved to win.
Try and guess when the story was meant to end and when it was extended for selling well
I assume L's death?
I feel like I'm genuinely moronic because I actually liked the second half a lot, too. If anything, all the drama with Mello and Near and the ramping up of shit felt satisfying while L's and Lights constant bullshit arbitrary mind games tired me out to some extent.
Same thats why i love the jp live action
Not true, light was 90% cringe and gay and was only interesting in contrast to L and because of the wacky scenes created in the anime like the chip eating.
L was the heart and soul of the show. Deatnote was my second or third gateway anime and years later I went back and tried to rewatch it. It was just as good as I remembered until I got to L's death. Everything after felt like a slog, nothing captured the imagination or felt creative like the first half. It had nothing to do with light it was just shit. Couldn't even make it halfway through when I knew there was nothing to look forward to. They should have condensed that shit down to a handful of episodes.
I liked Light's protege and how he conducted himself, and Light cucking misa was funny too.
I do wonder if Light even had sexual attraction to anyone though or if he was just gay for L or what. Didn't seem like he even fricked Misa just for fun or anything, or that other b***h he was fricking around with. he would use them as tools but not as sexual gratification
I think light was one of those true psychopath narcissists that was so wrapped up in his own ego his interest in other people was almost zero. He probably couldn't even get a boner if he tried because sex seems so beneath him.
It was more the fact that after L ( the best, Second best, and third best detecive in the world) dies they call the autistic detective zoo and the guy is like "lol no problem we got a bunch, here have two!"
I mean, L was the best. They sent the second best and third best hoping they could add up to more than L alone, and they were right. Mello was willing to be just as evil as Light, and Near wasn't as hung up on finding the evidence and was just willing to trick Light into outing himself. If they played by L's rules, they would have died like L (Mello still did, but that was his fault).
For me it was the fact that Watari had a whole orphanage full of detective wunderkinds. Such a moronic, boring plot development. The show should’ve ended when L died because he had a final trump card to frick over light in case he died. So light gets exposed as Kira by L but then instead of being sent to death row the entire population revolts and saves him and worship him as a living god protected by millions of sycophants
the digits once again spoke the truth
Light should've just lost when L died.
L had him beat a dozen times over, but his autism kept him from gambling on the 99.99% because he HAD to have 100.
When L got killed, the people behind him should've just come out and been like "yeah, what did you think was going to happen now? we held back because of L, now we're gonna go full unhinged. we've got a big fricking list of our own and we're killing everybody on it, starting with you."
>The show should’ve ended when L died because he had a final trump card to frick over light in case he died.
Have you seen the Japanese live action movies? I think you'd like them.
Why is everyone closing their eyes?
FORESHADOWING
I can’t stand Japanese actors or their acting/voice acting (including porn) they don’t act like humans. But are they any good?
Outside of a couple scenes, they play it fairly straight. Light is more of a smirky smug than a maniacal laughing kind, everyone else acts similar to the manga. Misa is still pretty dumb and loud, but that's in character.
Isn’t L supposed to be British? Why are they ricewashing their own creation
I think he was supposed to be a Russian/Italian/British/Japanesse mutt. But Japanese movies generally don't care about that
What would you guys actually use a Death Note for? I have no ill will against anyone to the point of wishing for their death. There is nobody that could die and benefit me in any way. The only thing I could think of is something similar to zoomer kira but I'm way too moronic to think of a plan that complex. The best I could do is like another anon in the thread mentioned, mind controlling high level share holders into manipulating stock in a way that I could somehow profit but I don't know shit about that.
Honestly I'd probably try it out on some insane rapist child murderer in the news, realize it works, and put it away forever
I'd kill the president and then keep killing whoever got appointed president next right on their inauguration speech purely to see how long it'd take people to freak out.
just kill every single person who aspires to be a politician or lead a country until it all collapses honestly
It's real easy to Google some evil ass motherfrickers that run entire countries.
Unironically just for my own personal gain, no fixing the world or anything. Just kill the guy who's blocking my promotion, make some girl sleep with me but she dies afterwards, shit like that. Of course, it'd rise suspicion but good luck trying to prove I had anything to do with those deaths considering my murder weapon. Just frick around with it but it's ultimately not worth it considering the shinigami will kill for the frick of it and you'll spent eternity in nothingness.
>and you'll spent eternity in nothingness.
I don't think you are doomed to be forever in the void. You just stop existing.
Opposed I guess to some sort of afterlife for normal people, but I don't see how just clicking off would be any kind of actual punishment
>you'll spent eternity in nothingness.
No actually you get stuck spending an eternity in a bar but you don't get to drink.
Keep in mind, according to the author, in the dn world there is no afterlife, so him playing god was the only way victims of criminals could find justice.
There's one more thing I wanted to ask you about....
Any more shows with completely irredeemable c**ts as protagonists? seeing light go completely mad in the second half of the show and have zero redeeming qualities was very refreshing, I want more villain protagonists
>Light totally would have been a fair and judicial dictator over human life!
Except that it's a slippery slope, and even had a chapter in the manga that had Light thinking to himself "It's too soon to start killing off lazy people" when Mikami was in control.
Now, you can argue that "Well, lazy people are a blight, aren't they?", but the old addage goes "absolute power corrupts absolutely". Without anybody to keep him in check, especially an egoistical man baby like Light, it would just start sliding further and further into a society of fear and paranoia.
Why didn't Light just use the book to kill all black people?
Imagine if all the names writen on death note is filled with -stein, -berg, cohen, and all those yiddish names
USA/Israel would nuke Japan in a second.
Instead of trying to fix core issues that lead people into becoming criminals, he just kills people who are already being punished by the justice system, so it's no wonder why crime rate would return to what it was after he died.
Not only that he was aiming to become a dictator who would eventually kill even physically undesirable people, like overweight people.
Light was evil and he had childish views on justice.
>Instead of trying to fix core issues that lead people into becoming criminals
Some people are just born evil.
Vast majority aren't and Light's view of justice was a slippery slope because it went from killing psycho criminals (a lot of them were already serving time in prison) who were similar to Light himself to petty criminals to those who didn't agree with him to eventually something where people who didn't have cult like mentality towards his cause and/or who weren't physically attractive would be dealt with.
>multiple criminals are dying a day
>of the same method
>with no physical evidence
>all over the world
DRONES AND NANO MACHINES
If I had a Death Note I would make Light look like a punkass b***h. I would be more like the god emperor in Dune in terms of scale of death and destruction. Unironically Light was far too lenient. Many people are simply too evil or simply have the power to do great good and choose not to (which is evil)
How would you do that the book has limited space even if he wrote as small as possible you could only get so many people probably not even 100,000
The DN is a supernatural book. Once a page is filled or removed another one just pops up.
How much physical time would it take to write down even 100000 names? Along with memorizing their faces
Just rip out as many pages as you need, tape them together or tape them to regular sized paper and put them in a printer.
There is no need to write so many. Just a few correct deaths in the right time and the right place
Governments only have power because they have a monopoly on violence they're not going to let some random dude take over especially if he's doing a good job that makes them look bad
>be a 200IQ super intelligent Japanese dude
>find a magic notebook that lets you kill people
>Still get caught
Light had a big ego. He slipped up multiple times, like during a family dinner where they played a message during a broadcast that hunderds of FBI agents were coming to hunt Kira down as a bluff in order to get some kind of reaction out of potential Kira in the Yagami household.
Light knew that this was meant to provoke him and that L would be watching through a camera but he simply couldn't resist the urge to show off his intelligence to L.
biggest loss in protagonist history
he had the heart but not the glory
He didn't reduce crime or anything and that's a major part of the story
He's a child with a gun and a god complex
It's said word for word that he reduced 70% of the world's crimes. You moron better learn to read
Why didn't they just stop reporting criminals' names?
L is also childish and hates to lose
Yagami
iamgaY
I am gay
It's "I'm a gay", you fool
>Black person tricked into saying he was gay
Well done super subtle troll anon.
I used quotes, making myself invulnerable to his trickery, it's all good
>need a face to kill
Lucky his time was before Covid huh
How to use it properly instead of judging criminals by yourself when you didn't firsthand witness their crimes, and so you don't get writer's cramp:
>Any dictator dies
>Any politician involved in corruption dies
>Any politician who creates an unconstitutional law, a law aimed to unequally help/hurt any particular group, or law that violates citizen's individual rights dies
Then the only politicians left are people with the best intentions, nobody else wants the job.
>Any Judge involved in corruption dies
>Any Judge who selectively interprets the law or displays any bias dies
>Any DA who selectively interprets the law or selectively charges people dies, (eg. Jan 6th horseshit)
>Any DA who detains anyone inappropriately or violates their rights dies
>Any cop involved in corruption dies
>Any cop who violates the individual rights of citizen dies
>Any cop who selectively enforces the law dies
>Any cop who fails to enforce the law properly dies, (like arresting/detaining a lone counter-protester instead of rioting Black folk because that easier)
Everyone else is on their own, unless you see them committing a crime personally, but even then you might not kill them depending on the nature of the crime, in which case you can just let the now functional legal system work.
Likewise in the real world, you don't need to address the criminals as much as you do the arseholes who should be arresting them, and enforcing the existing laws. Imagine if the population got to track and monitor politicians, officers or the court, and cops the way they want to do to us? If they're going to put in positions of power, they should be wearing ankle monitors and shock collars as far as I'm concerned.
Anon, look at what you just wrote and think about how exhausting this would be. I don't care how committed you think you'd be, imagine having to pay this close attention to everything 24/7 for the rest of your life. Not to mention confirming that you're making the right calls and not to mention how you would manage monitoring some of the things you listed. Would you just be going by news headlines? Because that's obviously flawed. Even though you can kill anyone with a name and their face you're not omnipotent, you only know what you're told. I'd be so fricking burnt out by the second year. Because remember if you don't keep this up constantly then human nature as in the tendency towards corruption will always rear its head again as soon as people think it's safe and people will stop believing there was some higher power controlling things.
No because for every corrupt politician/judge/cop you kill it disincentives the rest and improves life, freedom, and justice for everyone instantly. Look at the situation now where they're doing this shit out in the open and laughing in your face. You'd shut that shit down pretty quick.
Just like when they get called out by someone like James O'Keefe, they'd be more interested in shutting you down than just straightening up and flying right. But that's the only good option you want to leave them. It's exactly the right way to handle all criminals. Light is right that you want a world where good and honest people have nothing to worry about, but being judge, jury, and executioner in the way he goes about it is far more difficult and fraught with potential flaws than going directly to the true source of the problem.
Just look at any perfectly clear situation like a bunch of Black folk are rioting and looting and the cops arrest a "racist" for waving an American flag down the street. Putting them in a situation where the only way out is to address the real criminals makes a huge impact on the problem. And since they are getting orders from above, there's only one man who really needs his priorities sorted out.
Also, forgot to mention:
>Lind L. Tailor dies
Because frick Lind L. Tailor. Anyone with a name that stupid deserves to die, and should thank me as their God of the New World.
You didn't listen to what I said so I'll say it one more time. You don't have all the information. Imagine this world you're describing where you exist and are enacting this plan of yours. Every second, every day, while you're sleeping, millions of people around the world are doing bad things. Testing the waters. And noticing that nothing is fricking happening to them. There's no instant karma, so you must be fallible. That's what you're really contending with here and it would not take long for really bad people to realise that (you) are only targeting people who are public figures in some way. All it takes then is shell companies and ghost ceos and they are invisible to you forever. You're not changing anything, you're a comicbook superhero at best. Going after petty criminals on the street or puppets in chairs in tall buildings or low level corruption when the real masters are hiding from you and laughing. You would of course have an affect I'm not disputing that but you wouldn't actually change anything
>You didn't listen to what I said so I'll say it one more time.
I bet that's how you respond to anyone who tells you you're wrong you fricking pseud, and obviously you didn't fricking listen.
That's like saying you shouldn't bother enforcing the law because punishing criminals doesn't stop crime 100%. I guess it's better to just throw your hands up in the air and just let Black folk loot huh? CURRENT YEAR Zoomer world explained.
homosexuals who have literally never heard of Broken Windows policy, or understand how anything actually works.
I haven't read the post chain but basically this, it wouldn't work very well in real life. A big part of Kira being so effective is that he literally had the world's best Intel, allied with the best detective in the whole world (so good he has other 2 identities also known as the best in the world, he was 3 people) from the CIA / FBI.
So yeah Light had info on top secret Epstein tier stuff (and even then some would escape his knowledge?... on the other hand, I fully believe the US has Intel on absolutely everything happening such as the entire crime chain on Mexico or who truly killed 2Pac / if Hitler escaped alive and lived off in Argentina)
A normal person would never scratch the surface but in Kira's case it was indeed possible, such a shame we never saw his political views. Well, his politics probably don't matter, he doesn't care about enforcing a certain economy or a social agenda, he was just looking to kill confirmed corrupt politicians and whoever else steps for the position will probably be clean.
The writers sorta fricked up on that front, because they admit his antics DID work so Kira was right...?
I'd have them focus on why this DOESN'T work, give us some statistics or facts such as
>Criminals have merely learned to become anonymous and the black market / underground crime remains mostly the same because those people aren't caught to begin with.
Or
>Wars do continue because there's no real registers of warlords and other random soldiers fighting said wars / they've learned to use proxy leaders
Or even
>mere thieves and rapists have now started killing their victims to reduce the chance of getting identified and caught
Or the more obvious
>There's multiple protests in countries because the police system is faulty, over half the people caught and killed by Kira were actually innocent. Police stations want to show results and prove they're still useful since crime has been reduced, so they quickly capture any suspect with dubious proof / now the policemen are the ones carrying out crimes and never recording it
>People have developed a bystander syndrome and stopped helping each other out, because they trust in Kira being God.
SOMETHING like that, tell me as the audience what the frick are the negatives that come from Kira, because ignoring his personality he's just presented as a straight positive change for the world by the author. The things I listed probably did happen, there HAS to be ways in which the world worsened off, but they're not presented to us.
>Light only targeted violent criminals initially
>Most of Lights early victims were Americans
hmm
Or like, mention Kira fricked up killing some important crime lords / country presidents and created massive power vacuums that caused more civilian deaths than ever
Film Theory:
>Ryuk can see how long Light has to live
>can see that he will survive getting shot up at the Yellow Box and spend time on trial, in gaol, etc. so writes down name
>otherwise he'd be gain like an extra three minutes or some shit, so what would be the point?
So what would have happened if he didn't? Light is physically fricked up and in gaol, but he's still a genius and half the world thinks he's the breasts. Should be able to escape, regain the Death Note, and still become the God of the New World. Either way it would be fun to watch him try.
>Ryuk gyped us that fricking homosexual
What should i watch next bros?
I vote Monster.
thanks anon, will watch
>be N
>pretend to be turbo-sperg who plays with toys
>wait for Kira to kill L
>wait for Kira to kill Watari
>wait for Kira to kill criminals
>wait for Kira to kill Police Chief and whittle down people who know about the Death Note
>wait for Kira to almost become God of the New World
>trick Mello into killing himself eliminating any competition
>buy Yellow Box
>trick SPK into giving you possession of the real Death Note
>trick Kira-L2 into bringing everyone who knows about Death Note to the Yellow Box including X-Kira in person where you can see their faces
>trick L into getting X-Kira to write down everyone's name for you
>accuse L2 of being Kira
>get Kira-L2 killed
>Left in warehouse alone with Death Note and list of names
Just as planned
>write down names in real Death Note
>be new God of the New World
That's why N said Light wont get far. Neither would anyone else from the Yellow Box.
>>buy Yellow Box
i am puzzled after this line
i just looked it up. i remember sorry
Near lusted for power all along. It's the only explanation for him also wanting a private winner-take-all confrontation with Kira-L2, and him not catching him for years, while he manipulated and caused other people to get killed by Kira.
When he shows up in the Yellow Box with a mask it's so that if Kira could kill the others he would leaving only N, saving N the trouble of killing them himself, who would then simply use the Death Note in his possession to kill Kira-L2 and Mikami.
People assume N is a weak L replacement, but he's actually the real-real Kira, who is so smart he let's Kira do all the work for him, take all the suspicion, so he can swoop in at the last second and become God of the New World as N-Kira2.
Pretty smart.
>worked his way to the top position of his organisation just like Light-Kira1 by eliminating competition
>kept close to Light-Kira1 so that he could gather information and look for an opportunity to kill him, just like Light-Kira1 did with L, the cops, and N.
That's why L dies halfway through. L was the only good guy. The rest is just N-Kira2 gathering information and fighting over power with Light-Kira1.
>>but he’s evil because….he has le god complex…
Of course, that's the source of all evil: to believe that you are God, when you are not.
Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.