HOW the fuck did he lose?

HOW the fuck did he lose?

he was dumb

overconfidence in one's own ability and ignoring the fine print in equal measure for measure.

cuz plot. Lets face it, If this faggot Kim Jong-Un wannabe had won, then that's the author basically saying dictatorships are good m'kay. Nevermind Jump, the Japan govt. would have made him an outcast.

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I would've won.

Deluded with his new power, and forgot that if you wanna be a god, then start thinking beyond mortal concept.

>just stop using death note for a period or be very careful when you do.
>hide it in spot no one will ever know
>try to make your deaths seem natural

Would be impossible to get caught

Yeah but the urge to go full ham and mess with the world is pretty strong.

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why the fuck say shit before Near got the heart attack? Why not tell Mikami to fucking shut up while writing? Why not make Mikami write Light's name on a different page so that it still looks like it's in the note? Why not make Mikami just have a tested, backup page that Mikami would eat just after the 40 seconds pass? Hell, why not write the names with delayed deaths?

granted Near would still fuck him up especially in the manga, but at least this wouldn't look as bad

He lost because he was dumb
I would win because I am smart

the point of the anime was to show how power corrupts and distorts the reasoning to the point where even genius Light goes full retard multiple times during the series. That being said, the genius characters are only as smart as the author. I am yet to read a single good DN fanfic that focuses on showing how Light might have won. Also Light's goal is unattainable, so the story can only end in his defeat.

Mikami. Mikami ruined everything.

Jump wills it because they can't let a "villan" win.

Jump couldn't have its readers agree with his ideology

Where would you get the information for the victims from? NSA would find you in a year. You would have to change locations and IPs frequently.

Why do you need to look shit up? There's plenty of important people just on tv that would be fun to kill. The world I would create is one where everyone is terrified of being famous because they all just die as soon as they're on the news or in a magazine. I wouldn't bother with that self righteous "only kill criminals" thing. His mistake was trying to be a good guy. Chaotic evil is the way to go.

you can go absoltely ham and it'd still be impossible to get caught, just don't kill anyone near you with a heart attack or just do it via. accident. Hell you just could randomly kill of all the idiot world leaders we have right now in every corner of the world, how would they ever even come close to suspect you

Well I thought we would be talking about cleansing the world of evil. If you reduce the amount of murders to just a few celebs then yea you wont get caught that easily.

The only reason Light even acted in the first place was his immense, delusional ego, and that's the same thing that brought him down.
Anyone with the humility to forgo all credit for what they were doing wouldn't have the inclination to use the book like that in the first place. The only uses for it are conspicuous personal gain, or egotistical playing of god.

The author didn't want him to win

You can get rid of a bunch of corrupt politicians or well-known gangsters, they're recognizable enough that it wouldn't be suspicious - the worst that would happen is that some of them would have (((real names))) unknown to the public

but that was the point of Light's plan, to make humanity afraid of a god that strikes down criminals - just going stealth Punisher would not detriment future crimes

>but that was the point of Light's plan, to make humanity afraid of a god that strikes down criminals - just going stealth Punisher would not detriment future crimes
Exactly, and it came with the price of getting caught. The only way to use the book in a way that won't end with you getting caught is to use it in a way that renders its use pointless.

Because he's evil! Duh!
Good>Evil

>how can Light win
By not playing into Near's hands
Killing off his team immediately after L's death, replacing them with loyal Kira zealots, keeping Misa around, not giving up a Death Note to a shinigami, extert his huge political and religious power from the shadows to track down and kill all people that might be associated with L alongside people who want to stop him, especially after Near and Mello happen, blackmail the US president into submission promising him future benefits and safety from him in exchange for control over the US military and intelligence agencies, obtain de-facto control of Japan by dealing with politicians and assuring them of safety and friendship

He's exactly like Gilgamesh his arrogance and faggotry got the best of him

autistic plot device.
>Copied exactly and replaced the precise page that Light's henchman was going to use.
>for some reason Light didn't predict something like this might happen and have his dude store a backup page of the deathnote somewhere unknown to the police the moment he got it, and then use that on the day of the meeting.

>Where would you get the information for the victims from?
Seriously? pick the head chief of any police department and force a public leak of all criminals, heck you can do a chain reaction effect starting with the fucking president and spread like cancer, one person exposes the rest and so on, do it in multiple countries just to be safe.

There, beats the shit out of using your dad's account to get private records that no ordinary civilian knows about.

this requires chain-killing every time you need a leak though, since you can't control a person's actions without them dying in the next 40 days

>People actually discuss how to kill off people in strealth mode without getting caught
holy shit just stop, do you really think this would go like in the manga if you didn't do this especially clever? If you don't literally post it online bragging about the murders there is no way in fucking hell you'll ever would get caught. We're talking about a super natural killing device here, even conspiracy theorists would have a hard time explaining that one.

In the real world all the data L collected would have been shared with all the intel agencies around the world. Given the nature of the Death Note murders, the moment L dies Light would get confined forever, without any real evidence, possibly get tortured and brainwashed into revealing his secrets.

Of all things, the musical actually fixed the ending in a way that retains all meaning, nixes all needless convolution, and axes all couldashouldawoulda loopholes and exit strategies.

bruh, the moment you piss off someone you shouldn't all your web history is under investigation
and don't give me TOR bullshit, it isn't invincible, if the services were dealing with a superhuman killer they'd do literally everything
also

Pretty much. At worst, everyone would just shrug and blame the Russians, figuring there's nothing they can do about it.

>this requires chain-killing every time you need a leak though
>every time
You need this exactly once, one huge leak of the police, military and private investigation database, you only need the persons in charge, this is the age of internet, all you need is one account with enough privileges to have everything under the sun.

It will take more than a life time to write the name of everybody in the leak, so i guess it's better to handpick leaders and people of influence while also making them write creepy messages before dying just to make everybody shit their pants and get your religion started.

It's a super natural killing device with a very specific MO that was exposed on the spot, how can you hide the fact that you need a face and a name in order to kill?
Also getting caught in this day and age is easier with cameras and shit everywhere, people who throw corpses in wells in the middle of nowhere still got caught after years

what the fuck has web history have to do with anything? Would you just post your killings online or what? Who am I kidding, you faggots would probably even brag about it on Sup Forums wouldn't you. Just watch the fucking news and kill everyone you wish, also you'll have many names and faces in your memory already. There's also newspapers and looking for names online won't be a problem too if you don't search for "who should I kill next".

Wait what? Again dude, no one knows it's super natural and there is no reason anyone except the craziest of conspiracy theorists would even assume such a thing since it's completely impossible. The scenarios you guys imagine yourselfs in seems to me like an exact copy of Lights situation which it just won't be. There won't be L busting your ass in television most importantly and also if you aren't completely retarded they won't even have a clue it's all the same guy since you won't be only killing with heart attacks except you're an attention whore like Light.

>how can you hide the fact that you need a face and a name in order to kill?
You don't need to, no one with any power to stop you would believe it was possible.

It depends on why you want to use the death note, kira was exposed because he was killing at an alarming rate that would make any government go crazy, having a lot of deaths give a lot of information and can reveal patterns (just how they've found kira was a highschooler).
Of course if you'll use it to kill few people with special death you won't get caught, but would you really miss the chance to use the death note to it full potential?

Light got fucked by your method in the second episode

>you won't be only killing with heart attacks
that's the whole point, brainlet, to let people connect the killings and cause the fear of supernatural judgement to ultimately prevent further crime. Just killing criminals wouldn't change jack shit.


My method:
>find out the DN works
>do not attract any attention to your killings by killing by natural/random causes(for now)
>continue with an investigative career, get a highest position possible(better if on an international level)
>acquire as many criminal databases from around the world as possible, do not start openly killing yet
>get 50k profiles from all around the world
>find out if you can force the victims to confess to their crimes and expose other criminals; if yes make them do so before their deaths
>Only now start the killing, with randomized death times and locations

Mikami or whatever his name made him loose, Light was a psychopath but a goddamn genius way smarter than near and L

he would have won if it wasn't for this idiot

Death note's world isn't the real world
The greatest detective is a lone wolf, Sherlock Holmes-style dude who works alone, so no greater intelligence community that does anything, they just decided to let L handle it, and Light kept his death a secret, L even deleted his own data so nobody knows shit
And nobody even knew who Light was, he wasn't even in the task force, his arrest was a secret, nobody knew he was involved

Did he? I mean, all his efforts were to make a world free of crime, he accomplished something really close to that, people won't be doing any crimes out of fear for their lives.

>watching the news
>on a tv
ok grandpa

>not googling criminals and posting cryptic facebook statuses throughout your crime spree
>"when you wish some people would just die >:("
>"cleaning out my friends list. If you're reading this, you're welcome ;)"
>"can anyone confirm if this viral article is fake news? It's important"
>"I'm feeling lucky, let's take bets on the next 3 celebrities to die"
>"Let's take a poll: like this post if you support kira, angry face if you don't!"
>"MisaMisa checked in at Aoyama"
>minion memes

Nope, author said the world was free of crime until he died, after that crime started again because people noticed Kira was gone

irl DN killings would be thought to be cause by some new technology, AI or some genetic programming and would by a higher priority than Nukes or international spies for all national security services

Yes that's a great fucking method, well thought out. Fucking briliant. Like I already said, it doesn't fucking matter at all though. Light got caught because he was a fucking retard who got baited by a detective who, in that format, does NOT FUCKING EXIST IN OUR WORLD. The whole scenario like it played out, would NOT FUCKING EXIST or even be possible in our world. Like I already said if you don't fucking brag about your killings online it would be absolutely impossible to connect them to you, people don't just fucking assume super natural killing devices.

>that's the whole point, brainlet
>Just killing criminals wouldn't change jack shit.
What do you fedora wearing neckbeard even want to change? Why the fuck should I care? Killing criminals WOULD change jack shit because said criminals would be fucking dead then you brainlet. Killing Kim Jong Un or the orange president and most of his staff, I guarantee you, would change a lot too. Why would I give a fuck about more criminals emerging if I could just kill them anyway? There is absolutely no need to be an attention whore like Kira, it's cringeworthy if anything at all

Overconfidence. Also he forget that if you want something to be done properly, you have to do it by yourself more often than not.

Arrogance.

He thought he could wage war against the world and shape it in his image. But one man even if its a genius with a death notebook, cannot beat the world. If he won in the warehouse like he thought he was going to, It was going to eventually, sooner or later, end the same. The forces he challenged would of kept throwing geniuses at him until he was found out.

Editors didn't want a bad_ ending

Or not
The series was supposed to end with L's death
Near and Mello were asspulls of the worst kind and the "real" ending was the worst possible shit
It was forced because god forbid an anti-hero actually win

In-universe, he let it get to his head. He's a very intelligent mortal given the power of a god, not a god in the flesh. There's very little practical difference, but there's a philosophical one, and in this case, the philosophical difference actually matters. A deity is, essentially speaking, infallible. Even the few mortals that defy the gods end up either regretting it or had the support of another deity or a force greater than a deity, like Fate or something. Light is not infallible but he forgot about this, so eventually he actually failed.
It's a bit like half the thread really, they're debating 'how do we kill people without getting caught' instead of what Light was doing near the beginning which was 'how do I kill people in such a way as to further my goals'. One is passive, it's a reaction, it's defensive. The other is active. If all you do is defend then you're going to get worn out eventually, which is exactly what happened in the end - he let his guard down once and only once, and he died.

>Also Light's goal is unattainable, so the story can only end in his defeat.
I mean the story ends in his defeat because he himself must die, eventually, but as long as he was still alive his goal was actively being enforced.

He had 2 death notes, 2 gods and 2 slaves with shinigami eyes.

Because he was a homo

>YAGAMI
>IMAGAY
Makes perfect sense!

He fucked up the moment he killed Lind L. Taylor on live TV, there was no reason for him to do it and it just gave away his relative location pretty early on.

He's a fucking idiot

he wasn't
maybe he got overconfident and reckless
or the author bored with the story and OP MC

anyway it finished for me when the L died

Why is Near such a fucking hack?

how I died and reincarnated in death note as a cheat character

he was too overconfident in his keikakus and because of which took too big of a risk. theres also a theory that near wrote mikami's name in the deathnote and made him write everyone but lights name in the fake page before killing himself.

he became careless

>The series was supposed to end with L's death
Sauce please

Bakuman

>Tfw to intelligent
>Someone intelligenter shows up
>Tfw not to intelligent anymore

Here's a better question. How do you use the death note to make mad profit without getting caught?

Stock market manipulation
Just do it once so there's no way to get you

Kill people worldwide instead of picking your victims from local TV news.

But lots of stock, kill rivals of the company you bought and make gains.
Or you can by like George Soros and bet on countries' currency falling or economy collapsing, then use the note to make leaders of those countries fuck their countries.

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Use the death note to force the sexiest models and porno actors to have sex with you

Kill 3 billion people, there's too much people in this rotten world.