How the fuck did he lose?

this

Now, I loved Mikami from the very depths of my heart, but it was largely Mikami's fault.

But most of all, he lost because Near was a Gary-Stu overflowing with ass pulls.

Exactly this.

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>Stares at the TV for a bit
>Immediatly discovers who Kira-X is
Near was so full of shit holy hell

Too much of a little bitch to ask for the Shinigami eyes.

Would have made more sense if L won because he actually did all the work in tracking Light down.

>replying in Yea Forums thread
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Near and his bullshit sixth sense about Mikami.

It's a Yea Forums thread bro but that one got nuked

Surrounding himself with incompetent people

He didn't use the power of friendship.

>cancer crossboarder

Considering how methodical both Light and Mikami were, it seemed weird that Light never told him to carry an emergency piece of paper when he told Takada to or that Mikami himself never had that idea.

That bit just seemed like "Light HAS to lose so lets leave this opening here to catch him."

Says the fag who watch 5toubun & darlingxxx and actually liking it

The signs of a mad lad

People give a lot of shit to these scene, but I always thought the tape surrounding implied he watched all of those.

Yes he did, and that doesn't help his case at all
It is pretty unclear why he decided to watch all of them, did he decide that watching all of Sakura TV's shit would obviously lead him to Kira or did he watch them all because Mikami caught his attention in the first place? Regardless him coming to the conclusion that this one guy is Kira because he's pretty loyal is a huge fucking stretch, hell, if Demigawa was still alive would Near conclude that he was the chosen one to carry on Kira's duty? The entire thing was way too convenient to how quickly a conclusion was arrived

>How did he lose?
You should read the manga and find out user

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Mikami went to the bank, if he hadn't had done this Light's plan would have most likely worked. That or Near would have been overly cautious and wouldn't have set the meeting if wan't 100% sure he could back Light into a corner.
But it doesn't matter since light still won in the end.

Read the manga.

Because the author didn't like how he was being seen as the righteous one by readers, so he was to be killed off.

The series is 10x better if you stop when L dies and read that short dojinshi where Light is older and writes his own name in the book.

Better question: what does raitos cum taste like

to add, the series would have been better if Near just didn't exist and Mello was the sole successor

What i remember from the manga actually made Light more smart, it gave more reasons for him to get rid of Ray Penbar and he did it so in a way that would actually throw L in a fucking loop and search for a lead in the completely wrong direction, what saved the investigation there was Misora Naomi's death clueing L in
As for the second part my memories there is kind of a blur i admit, but at the end of the day i'm pretty sure it still revolves around Mello throwing away his fucking life having no idea what the fuck he was doing, which so happened to trigger Mikami to act like a fucking retarded, which so happened to allow Giovani Jesus Yamato to work his godlike magic on Mikami's death note
If Death Note was a tabletop RPG and i was the one playing as Kira i'd be fucking MAD at the ammount of asspulls against me, the DM obviously wants me to lose just because i fucked his sister that one time even though she came on to me

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By making idiotic errors after idiotic errors. Light? More like, dim candle.

You forgot the biggest asspull of all, Near finding "X-Kira" by looking around a room full of TV screens, seeing Mikami and then yelling THAT ONE

Bad writing. Wasn´t he winning til the last episode when the N-guy asspulled the conclusion that light is the villian?

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Near knew Light was Kira for some time, but yes the N-guy aspulled the hell out of it by making a pixel by pixel perfect replica of Mikami's death note in a single night, so perfect that it bypassed Mikami regularly checking the damn thing with a microscope and actually managing to spot signs of tempering back when the N-guy was just modifying a page per day, but not this time!

You're brainlet. Mikami was literally spouting a Kira-esque nonsense philosophy. Given how strong Mikami's sense of justice was, and the profile of X-Kira having a very strong sense of justice + the fact that the prosecutor seems to be talking about following Kira rather than being Kira, it was obvious there was a suspect on the screen.

Mikami checking the fucking thing eith a microscope is just as retarded. The whole series comes off as a retarded person trying to write smart people

Plot induced stupidity.
Like when light killed penber for no reason or not telling mikami to keep a spare page hidden on him all the time.

Mate we're not talking about a few dozen people who support Kira which would make it easy to spot the really zealous one, it's an age where Kira is the law with countless supporters and TV stations actively competing with eachother to show with one has the biggest devotion, Near found a needle in the haystack in whatever short timespam he had, no galaxy brain can unbullshit this

Kira had a huge cult following at that point you silly sausage. Literally thousands of people were as fanatic about him and his sense of justice as Mikami was, and yet Near took one look at him and thought "yep, that's our guy! No need to make a list of suspects or anything, we got our man on the FIRST FUCKING TRY". When L started suspecting Light he spent months shadowing and observing him in order to raise his suspicions to a mere 5%, meanwhile Near used his Sharingan Powers to break the fourth wall and read his own manga to find out Mikami was the bad guy

I see it more like a person who clearly gave up and tried tricking his audience
Everything in the second part is super over the top compared to the first to hide the lack of clever schemings.
Mello has so much influence he can convince a veteran pilot to commit carrer suicide, he also has a missile that Near can't track through radar, Near throwing money out of his skyscraper to make an opening to escape, police operations with tons of shooting and exciting moments, second part is full of loud scenes to grab your attention in the moment without having to think about the behind the scenes

So Kira had a thousands of criminal justice lawyers that spoke openly about it? And they all had highly decorated backgrounds? And they all were followers rather than fake kira? And they all had the stagelight given to them by TV media?

Come on, its a matter of 20 questions. You can deduce literally anything with 20 questions.

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Reminds me of that pic comparing the writing in "no country for old men" and Sherlock.

I'm not denying Mikami's a prime suspect, I'm just saying he's not the ONLY one. Did Near do any investigating besides his basic surface-level background check before reaching his conclusion? No. He didn't even ask 20 questions. Or look for other suspects. At all.

He didn't. Thé series ended when L died.

Kira-X having a strong sense of justice doesn't mean he's a lawyer, there was also no obligation whatsoever that Kira-X HAD to be someone that appeared on TV

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Does this look like the face of a man who could ever win?

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Given that Kira was involved from the very through TV with multiple incidents revolving around live TV, its a given that TV plays an important role in Kira's decision.

>so sick of this shit
>wanna finish the story once and for all
>but creatively bankrupt
>fuck it let's just go full retard
>hey everyone this guy made a perfect copy of death note in a day and fucked Light over!

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checked and based, although user explains it fairly well too

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He had a good idea, kill all the bad people that the law can't touch, but then he wanted people to KNOW that it was intentional. This meant he accelerated the rate at which he was killing people to the point that the governments of the world HAD to get involved because the public was becoming aware. Then he decided to not only take credit for the killings, but bought into the idea that he was actually some sort of god.

L would have caught him had he also not fallen victim to the same character flaw of letting emotion get in the way of his original objective. L probably knew it was him the moment they first met, but used the excuse of wanting airtight case to mask the fact that he would have to accept that his only friend was a murderer.

who ordered him? the government? what are they afraid off?

Except the show was a fucking joke from the start
>oh no, my husband got killed by a guy that can kill you by knowing your name and face
>he told me it's someone within the police or family, someone on the investigation who would have access to the info
>what's this? The son of the police chief is following me like a fucking creep, begging me to tell him my name, following me for 10 minutes after we decided to part ways?
>better give him my name. He did say he literally works for L
Shit is just astronomical levels of stupid

This.

Melo is actually not a terrible character, unlike Near who is basically L but without any emotions, quirks or character flaws. Melo is clearly not as smart as Light, but he's far more cunning and ruthless.

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"5%" was misdirection, at that point in the story he was more like 90% sure that Light was responsible. He's trying to convince Light that he's basically 1 step away from catching him without making it fucking obvious.

She was desperate to get the information to the investigation team, how the fuck was she suppose to know that by chance Kira just happened to be there at that moment? To be fair she was initially hesitant and gave him fake ID iirc.

She had literally no reason to give her actual name and had very good reason to find his behaviour suspicious. She didn't need to suspect him as Kira, she just needed to to the obvious thing and not give out her name to people without reason, a very obvious conclusion from the info she had. Undercover names are a thing for a reason. "I'm totes working with L and I'm here to recruit you but I don't know your name even though I need to know it and I'm part of L's team" is straight up retarded.

It's not like she wasn't suspicious of him. She rightfully suspected him for following her, being unreasonably friendly and knowing information that he shouldn't be privy too. His excuse of being a part of the investigation team makes sense if he's telling the truth. Like I said, she was aware of the risks but was equally desperate and Light is an exceptionally good bullshitter.

This.
Just pretend second season isn't canon.
Whenever I rewatch it I stop after L dies. Until then it's actually Kino.

She's a high profile ex detective who could easily go through the right channels and get the info through them, and despite this chooses to give her name to someone she knows nothing about and who has absolutely no good reason to ask for her name, all the while there's a supernatural killer out murdering people who are doing what she's doing with just a name. She's not some literally who. It's a world class undercover detective. You cannot write this off as "durr just carelessness from being desperate". This is building someone up as a threat and then suddenly writing them as a drooling retard for no other reason than to make your MC come off more menacing for your shitty edgy shounen power fantasy porn. It's terrible writing.

Hubris

Severe mental retardation. Even average Yea Forumsnon would fare better.

Average user has 135 IQ atleast.

I doubt it. Most anons seem more stupid than I and I am at most top percentile.

Fucking idiots