Light Yagami

What was his problem?

I am rewatching deathnote for the first time in nearly a decade and he just keeps putting the suspicion on himself. Was it all part of his plan? Or was it naïvity?

Possibly both added with a bit of arrogance that nobody intellectually could get close to him, didnt reckon on L.

Didnt enjoy it after Ls death, the ending with Near seemed rushed and contrived. As Light said himself Near is no L.

He wanted to meet L so he rose suspicion on himself so they could meet.

A decade has pass yet your brain is still fucking stupid.

Did you miss Ryuk calling him out for exactly that, and him replying "I'm doing it to find L not to avoid capture."

Okay, so now there are TWO plot holes?

The only plot holes are the Death Note rules.

I think it's moreso the minutiae that the shinigami neglect to mention

Such as?

Cursed with retarded henchmen, much like any villain.

Such as shinigami eyes being able to see people's time but not users' time. Or the amnesia.

It wasn't out of character, Light was childish since chapter 1.

Those aren't plot holes, they might be ass-puls (espcially the amnesia), but they don't contradict anything established.

>What was his problem?
Lack of creativity.
He should have varied his methods far FAR more than he actually did. Instead of just using the default method of heart attack for every criminal in the world, he needed to mix it up. Car accidents, homicides, murder-suicides, deadly diseases, workplace accidents, drug overdoses, cancer, brain aneurysms, take advantage of natural disasters, literally thousands of possible methods of killing criminals that would have had absolutely no connection and thus would have been impossible to correlate. Shit, he could have used a couple of gag methods like a bungee jump from a helicopter gone wrong.
But no, heart attack from everyone and L was able to figure out that it was a single perpetrator responsible for them.

Because Light wanted people to know they were correlated.

The whole point was for the world to know there was judgement.

You do realize that writing the cause of death takes time ? That's a massive pain in the ass. With that amount of time he could have killed less.

Retarded aim. Why in fuck's name do you need people knowing about judgment,they'll establish a pattern soon enough and if not,just keep killing. His methods were also flawed. Using a 24 and 60 sided die for time randomization would have eliminated the possibility of time pattern establishment. If he killed outside Japan as well(the aim was to remove criminals), I doubt any pattern would be established. Mix in a few innocents,and total anonymity achieved. Aim to remove evil also achieved,and if people noticed a surging criminal death rate from multiple causes, the superstitious would have begun fearmongering. Superstition is hard wired into humans,combine that with confirmation bias and you have continents believing in active judgment.

Light didn't want to hide. He is not a coward like you.

>implying caution = cowardice
See, that's how you get caught genius

You can't become a God being cautious.

He was arrogant and had a literal magic book that could kill people. Reasonably speaking, no jury would be able to convict him short of a confession. He never had much of a need to hide anything.

Both of these are probably true. While it would certainly be more cautious, there is no reason that the gods we hold esteemed in our civilizations should be accessible to the mediocre. Only the truly daring and talented should have the chance, a chance, at godhood. However, being a work of romanticism, this godhood is not achieved. We remember that this is an anime, a work of art, and it is meant to be viewed in the same manner one views Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. It is a tragedy, after all. It is precisely because it is a tragedy that we idolize the narrative.

>Those aren't plot holes
What ?! imagine you see someone with a day left to live, you manage to convince him to stay safe that day.
What happens ?
his life expectancy grow? (effectively making the eyes useless)
or final destination bullshit ?
If it's the later case what happens if I write a scenario in the death note that make him survive that day ?

>Reasonably speaking, no jury would be able to convict him short of a confession
Reasonably speaking he'd get vigilante'd the second people put 2 and 2 together.

Light is a fucking idiot, but no one seems to accept that fact because the series bends over backwards and makes everyone else impossibly more stupid in order to suck him off for being a "genius".

>have magic killing powers
>no one knows
>could be anyone
>reduce region of suspects by 99.9% with one rage induced hissy fit

He is such a genius guys. Light so smart so cool.
Massage my feet.

If Light was at least a bit smarter than an average person there'd be no series to speak of because he'd win instantly. He had a fucking magic murder book at his full disposal.

Not to mention that there was no win condition outside of his deranged mind to begin with. Reasonable person's Death Note would probably be about Light supplanting the head figures of an oil corporation and landing a CEO job there or something.

That was the middlle arc.

At the beginning he didn't know or even thought much about how his heart attack related kills on criminals would eventually be pinpointed to be caused by a single being, rather than a seemingly random heart attack that happens all over the world.
When the people starts making up rumors and personified the criminal deaths being caused by a single being (Kira), he used the heart attack as his personal calling card, signaling that "Kira" is the one bringing justice to all the criminals of the world.

When "Kira" was created and Light personally steps in to become "Kira", that's when he lost sight of his original goal of just killing criminals for the sake of justice, and everything becomes personal for him. He now has to live up the expectations as "Kira", which is when he starts killing anyone that got close to him instead of manipulating or ignoring them entirely to stop adding more and more suspicion on himself.

If Light really wanted to create a free and just world then he'd have to completely deconstruct all of civilization.
First it'd be necessary to wrestle control from the clutches of the oligarchs and the nepotists and the monarchs across the globe. It wouldn't be especially difficult - assassinations, foreign invasion, civil war, that sort of thing. World War I was ignited from the death of Francis Ferdinand. Now of course that leaves a vacuum that anybody ambitious would try to fill. There's no greater incentives than money and power. So, next up would have to be everyone who makes a move to try and usurp any positions of authority which could be exploited for personal gain.
Using the power to communicate messages through his victim's death, Light could then instruct that anyone who seeks power would receive the same fate. Next up would have to be the legislators, the parliaments, the senates and so forth. He needs to remove and any all exploitative elements from their structure and render ineffectual any attempts by vested interests like lobbyists to influence decision-making for personal gain.
After that comes the enforces like civil authority, police, national guard and so forth. The general idea is to orchestrate a new world order where any and all incentive to do harm unto others is completely removed and fear, true fear of reprisals is instilled into the hearts minds and souls of the entire world populace to permanently remove poverty, war and crime from Earth.

And then there's our Light
>I will kill criminals haha

He was short-sighted. Didn't think of the big picture. He wound up a victim of his own narcissism.

He wound up a victim of Mikami acting like a fucking retard.

He's a fucking idiot