How the fuck did he lose?

Asspulls on top of asspulls. If anyone ever tells me their suspension of disbelief remained intact throughout Near's explanation of how they duplicated and replaced the Death Note in Mikami's safe deposit box, I'll have to shake their hand. Because at that point, there cant possibly be any kind of media they wouldn't like.

It wasn't even a LITTLE plausible. Not even slightly.

umm... police confiscate whatever they want?

Near cheated.

She forced him to, in that timeline.

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That pissed me off. A bunch of tiny monitors in that large room and Near is just scanning them all and suddenly goes "Ah, I found him!" Fuck right off

at least the manga had him doing an extensive research on everyone, not like it made any difference on the ending anyway

Pussy jap writing

Near and his gang are not police. They don't have jurisdiction in Japan, and even if they did, getting a warrant for a safety deposit box would be very difficult unless they could come up with more for a judge than "we really think this guy fits the profile."

Mikami's plan was airtight. The only flaw was the plot needed Light to lose.

Plot armor

This is a problem of the Death Note story itself, it does not explore how governments would adequately respond. They literally just give up, which is the least accurate conclusion to how they would really respond. It would have been an actually interesting story to explore as shadow governments emerged to protect against Kira.
>The US government would never accept what happened to its FBI agents. It would be more likely to drop nukes before dropping the investigation
>China would blockade Japan in the face of something like Kira
>Every single great power would be looking for an explanation
Light and his family would have been locked away and tortured forever with the evidence available. Weebs are just fooling themselves if they think he was smarter than that fate

honestly light should have used the cops against the spk and driven them into hiding, and the spk should have launched an operation to try and assassinate light, a reverse of the first season

that'd have been infinitely more interesting

It really should have been explicitly people not concerned with justice at all
They would show how little Light could do when other players don't play fair and are willing to kill more indiscriminately than the Death Note could

2 > 1

yes. therefore making it morally grey again and forcing people to ask

"do I support morally grey people killing murderers, or morally grey people helping murderers"

far more interesting

Masuda pulling the trigger would have made more sense then too.

first of all, at the beginning of the series he was as stupid as possible. just not killing the fake L would have skipped the entire thing to the point where he dies of natural causes

second, near's right hand or whatever somehow was able to replicate the death note in just a single day, and also near unexplicably knew that mikami was the one killing for kira

Should've ended at the episode L died, I always watch up to that point and ignore the remaining episodes

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>first of all, at the beginning of the series he was as stupid as possible. just not killing the fake L would have skipped the entire thing to the point where he dies of natural causes
to be fair, he was still a beginner and who would've thought that an IQ powerhouse such as L existed and is working with the police

yeah

I think publisher interference tends to drive authors in strange directions. though, many of them just obviously have trouble finishing off arcs properly

Which is stupid in and of itself because if L is such a fucking renowned genius and has helped the Japanese police in the past then Light should have been aware of his existence on some level.

iirc, his existence is a secret

I liked Near more than L, L was too big of a generic emo fuck, Near is cooler, even his design is way better.

Still preferred the first part.

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By being a Brainlet.

On the other hand, the response would not nearly be as rapid.

Light would know he fucked up when people start reporting an pandemic of heart failure in the prison system. He would have the opportunity from that point to taper off or adjust the plan.

He'd get caught eventually of course; but he would have room to fuck up: It's not like stats and criminology are going to turn around and go "Someone's voodooing our prisoners."

Fake L is hardly the mistake that done him in, no reasonable person would expect the announcement to be a trap and even if it went perfectly at best you narrowed it down to roughly 40 million people and probably scared the fuck out of them, the dumb thing Kira did was trying to hunt down L and giving hints to his identity to the point he could be considered a reasonable suspect.

But he didn't, he won.
The show ended when L died and Light got away with everything.

It should have been only mello and the gangsters. Not Near!

He took L's bait. I guess he lost because of pride. If he had just sat there and did nothing while Lind L taylor was calling him out, he would not have revealed his location and proven L right about so many things. So yeah, he failed when he started to play their game.

If he had beaten Near, someone else would've come. He would never be able to claim final victory, because there'd always be someone trying to stop him. You can't beat everyone, no matter how good you are.

Near and his gang do what they want, anyone who resists disappears.

>Light and his family would have been locked away and tortured forever with the evidence available
The governments didn't have access to that information, only L and those he directly told. They didn't even know he had anything.

He should've known something was up when Near explained his "plan" to him. He should've known a smart guy like Near wouldn't do something as stupid as explaining his plan while Light still had a chance to do something about it. That would've tipped him off to it being a setup, and he'd start planning his escape. But noooo, he just had to go and be a dumbass.
It would've been better had Near set him in a really foolproof plan, with Light having absolutely no chance of figuring it out, like what L's death was like. It would have been much more respectful to the character.

By being an attention whore who could've gone on doing this anonymously forever if he hadn't risen to bait to stroke his own ego.

This. After that i checked out.

Based on Plantinum End, because Ohba is a massive faggot.

Not enouh potato chipsu.

give him some