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What do you guys think of Light Yagami?

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Light Yagami, the MC from death note. I personally have him in my top 5 MCs of all time. But I know some people dislike him,
 
He would have killed all LDARcels. He became radicalized and wanted to kill NEETs
 
Prettyboy tallfag, aka should get executed
 
He'd want to kill us probably
 
Prob

But i like his character, the story is really engaging and I actually think he's pretty cool in terms of design
 
Monster > Death note
I haven't finished monster, I kinda just stopped watching it around episode 24. Nothing wrong with it but it is lengthy and there are stretches where nothing really happens
 
I haven't finished monster, I kinda just stopped watching it around episode 24. Nothing wrong with it but it is lengthy and there are stretches where nothing really happens
I think it achieves much better what Death Note was trying to propose, the duality between Doctor Tenma's humanism and Johann Liebert's nihilism, where it's superficial between Light and L, it's more like a war of egos between two players in a game of chess.

The show is lengthy enough to create an enigmatic atmosphere and make the monster frightening by reducing the number of times it appears on screen, because fear comes from the unknown.


 
Cool edit also.

but your explanation does make sense, I guess I'll have to finish it to fully give my opinion. Johan is very convincing as an antagonist though from what I've seen, I've always been moderately excited to see where the story go with him.
I think it achieves much better what Death Note was trying to propose, the duality between Doctor Tenma's humanism and Johann Liebert's nihilism, where it's superficial between Light and L, it's more like a war of egos between two players in a game of chess.

The show is lengthy enough to create an enigmatic atmosphere and make the monster frightening by reducing the number of times it appears on screen, because fear comes from the unknown.


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He should kill foids and chads
 
He's too smart and charismatic for a high school student, that's probably why fanboys love him. He seems like a creature from another world. Most of today's 17 year olds are childish imbeciles who watch tiktok all day long.
 
He's too smart and charismatic for a high school student, that's probably why fanboys love him. He seems like a creature from another world. Most of today's 17 year olds are childish imbeciles who watch tiktok all day long.
Thats the thing about fiction though, someone like him doesn't exist lol.
 
Thats the thing about fiction though, someone like him doesn't exist lol.
Depends on the task that the writer sets for himself, some readers like down-to-earth characters even if it is a fantastic plot.
 
Depends on the task that the writer sets for himself, some readers like down-to-earth characters even if it is a fantastic plot.
True I suppose. I love Mob Psycho 100, despite the psychic nonsense
 
I haven't finished monster, I kinda just stopped watching it around episode 24. Nothing wrong with it but it is lengthy and there are stretches where nothing really happens
Bro after 24 is precisely when the good part starts kicking in and the story begins to spiral down. Very strongly recommend you finish watching the anime, then watch some 5hour video essay to actually understand everything
 
He's too smart and charismatic for a high school student, that's probably why fanboys love him.

He was smart in terms of raw intelligence, but he was also very impulsive which caused him to do some dumb shit. Killing the very first criminal was forgivable even though it helped L narrow "kira" down to "likely in Japan". Killing Lind L Taylor and the detective that was investigating him was dumb and impulsive. The plot kind of required him to make major mistakes like that though, otherwise L wouldn't have been able to figure out it was Light seeing how he had an overpowered untraceable weapon with infinite range.

Anyway, overall I liked light as a character. He was also blackpilled, there was a scene where ryuk said something along the lines of "your skill must make you popular with the ladies" to which Light replied "it has nothing to do with skill, its all about looks". Based as fuck. I also generally like characters who are high IQ popular pretty boys since that's exactly what I wish I could be and I generally prefer admirable character to "relatable" ones.
 
He’s a moral fag.
 
The foids like him therefore I don't like the character
 
Bro after 24 is precisely when the good part starts kicking in and the story begins to spiral down. Very strongly recommend you finish watching the anime, then watch some 5hour video essay to actually understand everything
I always do that after I finish a show lmfao, I'll pick it up again after I finish Dexter
 
he was cool in the beginning but then became dumb
 
Most of his flaws are there because they had to be for meta reasons (he couldn't be too sympathetic, he had to lose, L and him had to get into direct conflict quickly). So he had to do some stupid and undoubtedly immoral shit. And he had to be more focused on his ego than on any kind of cause.

If you wanted to, you could easily write a slightly less narcissistic version of him that would be hard to argue with from a moral perspective. But that wouldn't be as entertaining in the eyes of most, so the story wasn't written that way.

He is still decent, and his dynamic with L is what makes the show what it is.
 
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I like him purely for the intelligence,death note as a whole really. Any form of manga/anime content with mind games is entertaining for me,way more than shonen but there is also way less of it.
 

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