"Light Yagami Did Nothing Wrong" - Death Note 

What else makes Light detestable is he hinted at desires to wipe out the lazy and those who felt didn't contribute enough to the world after he finished with criminals so really as he thinned the line on who should get wiped out it would mean nobody was really safe from what he considered a person not welcome in his perfect world.

Power attracts already corrupt people far more often than corrupting regular ones, highly doubt L would've used the Death Note the same way Light did if he was the one who stumbled upon it first.

I think people severely downplay the sheer brutality of light's killings. Light could have chosen not to kill the detective who opposed him on TV, ignored him, and kept on killing criminals as is (although that's already extremely fucked up by itself, for reasons I'll give at the end). But no, he deliberately led L all the way to him, just so he could get close and kill L. Why? Because he's an egomaniac who hates to lose. He would freely risk his "perfect world" for a literal power trip, he deliberately used his father's data as a police officer at tthe start so he could bring L to him. (He started killing criminals every hour instead of the evening as soon as he was suspected of being a student to tell L that he had connections to the police.) Hell, he fucking murdered thousands of FBI agents just to "avoid suspicion" he would otherwise garner if he only killed Ray Penber, a guy he never needed to kill anyway, because Ray was going to report Light as innocent. Light killed upstanding citizens to feel like a God, risked his own plans for power trips, and was otherwise a psychopathic maniac who killed people without remorse, and without giving an absolute shit about what people wanted. He literally killed thousands of people each day just because they appeared on TV. Forget fair trials, hell forget even trials, the mother fucker never even spent more than 5 seconds deciding deciding whether someone deserved the death penalty or not. The idea that this classifies as "justice" is so stupid it hurts. He was utterly irredeemable, and a garbage human. Light did absolutely everything wrong.

I remember someone saying something about Walter White: that he was never 'good', only 'harmless'. I think you can say the same thing for Light Yagami before he gets the Death Note.

I am kinda sad the manga's ending was not adapted in the anime but the one we got actually was not too bad

I refuse to cut Light slack tbh. I don't like the "the Death Note corrupted him" interpretation. Light has signs of always having been an arrogant sociopath. And he was always a childish coward. The loss of his memory just restored the superego, without absolute power he kept up his good boy persona that formed likely due to regular social pressure.

Regarding the possibility of the Death Note corrupting him: I think it did to some degree and we can see this with him returning to being good when he gave up the Death Note and lost his memories. And it’s been stated by the authors that had me not found the Death Note he would have become one of the world’s greatest police officers. At the same time though Ryuk stated that Light was abnormally murderous for someone who finds a Death Note, that most people who find one write one name in it just to see what would happen and immediately become horrified and never use it again.

I don't get why people keep saying that Light was always like this deep down inside when the author has stated what his life would've been like without the Death Note. It feels like people are just nihilists and can't comprehend that good people are objectively good IF they never run into a corrupting force at the time of their life where they're susceptible to it. No one is perfect, saints don't exist, no one is born evil. Bullshit.

As a writer with a small god complex I've always loved Death Note. Not because I see Light as the good guy (He very much isn't and I know this even while relating to him a little) but because he's really well written.

I don't know what to say, in the Death Note sequel, someone else receives the notebook and I wouldn't say it's corrupt. I think Light has always had this in him, desired to be something other than a mortal, a god and Death Note just brought it to light.(I don't know, does that make sense?)😑

I disagree strongly with “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It has a similar theme to the statistics phrase: “correlation but not causation”. Is it true that often times having unchecked power leads to the worst time of people? Yes. But there have been those who have turned down similar power; one example being George Washington who implicitly turned down the offer to become King after the Revolutionary War (he wasn’t technically offered it, but was suggested that there should be a strong executive called “King” that would rule the new nation under military authority; by vehemently refusing such an idea he was indirectly removing himself from the opportunity (he also had considerable influence at the time)). In other words, if someone has strong, virtuous ideals the temptation can be resisted. Having unlimited power in itself will not corrupt someone. In my opinion, it only reveals who you truly are. I full-heartedly agree with the adage that “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” So then, what person do you really think you are? Would you be any better, morally, than Kira?

Shogo makishima, Gilles de rais, Griffith, fujino asagami. There’s some more characters for you And just in case. Psycho pass, fate zero, berserk, the garden of sinners

Anyone who thinks he was doing nothing wrong probably needs to be on some meds js 😂😂😂

The question of if someone does something wrong has to boil down to their actions in the context of their situation. I find an argument oriented around his worldview to be uncompelling. He's egotistical, but he has every reason to be as such: he's brilliant for his age, he's effortlessly capable as an athlete, girls highly desire him, he's from a good family, he was handed the power over death itself, and his only confidants as Kira believe in what he is doing (or at least tacitly support it for fun in the case of Ryuk). Of course he's going to prioritize himself over his purported ideals, almost anyone would. People who want to tear Kira down risk taking away whatever benefits came from Kira's activities, therefore represent not only a threat to Light as an individual, but his entire new social order and religion, he hates them for the same reason that governments make treason a capital offense (even if they were born from treason, as is the case with the United States). I can't say that mentality is wrong. As to his actions, his killings were not calculated to efficiently bring about the world as he wanted it. There are clearly ways he could have gone about things better, and that difference is measured in lives lost. Light is very intelligent, but his priorities are definitely scrambled at times, which results in people who didn't deserve to die occasionally dying. While the stakes of mistakes are high, I don't think the perfect ought to be the enemy of the good. If total societal reform is the goal, there has to be some room for error, which can excuse some deaths resulting from misplaced priorities or of some people who didn't truly deserve to die. The question then becomes would the juice have been worth the squeeze - did Light at least have a reason to think that his society would actually be better than the current one? Light isn't given a whole lot of reason to distrust the authorities and their ability to bring criminals to justice. There is a lack of a personal motivation to commit vigilante acts, it's mostly an accident of circumstance that led him to have the power to do something. That "something" quickly escalated from experimentation with the notebook on subjects no one would miss to play God. His direction was more influenced by a domino effect rather than a grand vision from the outset. Ironically, he had more personal motivation early on (actual disgust for criminal acts as opposed to viewing them as props in his mental chess game), so the experimental deaths at the start of the series are more justified in one sense and less in another. The whole "god of the new world" thing was essentially a post-hoc rationalization to justify the crimes he had committed out of curiosity. But this post hoc rationalization would present a deterrent effect on crime, therefore minimize suffering except to the extent that people suffer if they commit crimes and have to fear Kira's wrath. It's not too far removed from how the government takes years away from people's lives and denies them future economic opportunities to discourage crimes. I think regardless of if Kira would be an effective deterrent, Light had enough justification to believe that it could have been although the situation prior to the show's events is not dire enough to necessitate a Kira. It could also be that once Kira would die, there'd be total chaos if he couldn't find an effective replacement, so I don't think the consequences of Kira were adequately considered by Light. So I wouldn't say Light did nothing wrong, but I would say what he did wrong was acceptably proportionate to his goals and to the fact that he's a human.

It's been a while. And yes he wronged his intentions were never good only appeared to be good on the surface

It is ironic that despite having what one could consider the most "altruistic" goal (at least how it was initially presented) Light might be the most reprehensible person in this series so far, at least the others had gradual falls, tragedies, or extenuating circumstances surrounding their actions and chatacters, Light had the book for all of an afternoon before going full on "I will become the the god of the new World, and fuck anyone who even remotely gets in my way"

I just found your channel and I really love these did nothing wrong videos!

You have no idea how much I love these vids. I appreciate every upload

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Light did everything wrong🤣. He wanted to create a new world shaped in his image. He can’t be defended

yeah Light acts like a strongman dictator eliminating anyone who dared to pose him or was in his way. He's so much of an egomaniac that he caused his own downfall along with any movement/ideology he could have made. Killing the L stand in and going after L just led the police to him (apart from not having any valid reason to kill him) had he just ignored the whole investigation they never would have gotten to him

Me: * reads title * Oh! It seems like someone choose violence. Here we go.

I'm still not over the fact that there are some sick-minded people who actually side with Light's character. The bastard was just a power hungry, egotistical person who was presenting himself as a god. He wasn't killing criminals to help others, he was doing it to clarify his image as a god. I say, why'd he kill the guy on T.V in the first place when L was onto him. He didn't know the guy was a criminal yet he still killed him just because he wanted to get rid of the only person who could put a stop to his horrific acts. Light was a selfish psycho who would eradicate anyone who gets in his way of doing things even if they haven't done anything wrong. The detective and his fiance whom Light killed in the starting episodes, and many other innocent police officers. He killed L, laughs like a maniac everytime he kills a person who he seems to consider as an "obstacle" in his way of becoming a "god" saying that "I've won" like killing people is like a game to him. Anyone who supports Light's character has some really weak ass morals. Once again, the bastard was just an egotistical maniac and a dictator sort of guy who hated to lose and would kill anyone who gets in his way of doing things.

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Ah Light, one of my favorite garbage people character. Gotta say that I agree with what seems to be the general sentiment in these comments in that I don't think the Death Note corrupted Light exactly. And I'll never consider Kira to be some different personality. At the end of the day, it's still just Light who got the 'right' outlet through which he could 1. Escape his daily boredom and 2. Create a perfect, just world. What I've always found interesting about him as a character is this great mix and even paradox of a selfish yet very selfless desire. His need to get out of routine and his egocentric self drove the mantle of Kira just as much as his wish to see what he considers to be a better world. Which ultimately plays why he and L are such great foils. L himself is driven by the challenge, the puzzle, the stimulation and he is much less of an upstanding guy that most viewers consider him to be. He's obviously not a mass murderer but I think this cynycal situation, of these two guys having all this power and talking about values and what is good while battling each other in what is basically a dick measuring contest reflects how things tend to be run in real life.

PLEASE do Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan), Tanya von Degurrechaff (Saga of Tanya the Evil), Kokichi Oma (Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony) Itachi Uchiha (Naruto), pretty much anyone from Fate/Zero but especially Kirei and Kiritsugu, and Kyubey (Madoka Magica)

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From the start, its pretty obvious lights attention from the L Taylor scene,he could of simply from the start not killed him, he did but for what reason I ask you Not for power,somewhat for his ego, but the main thing that’s definitely not justices is simple He was bored,you can see how disappointed he was when the first person challenged him dies in a instance, but when L gets to talking he gets excited as all can be The justices was the first layer,ego was the second but at the core of it all,boredom made Kira Ryuks basically represents all the thoughts and feelings lights have but more upfront about things, he’s the pure outlet of light Boredom, light could of chilled in his room like ryuk could of chilled in the shingami realm, but they both wanted more I don’t think the death note really corrupted him more of gave him another option,before he could of been the basics shingami like ryuk that just lived life normally But the second he got the death note his cards were in a game that awaken something more in him then pure justices ever could,there was no morality in the center of the game

Light is the best

People really hate how light just lost cause bad luck but most high intellect criminals loose cause bad luck -Unibomber -Ted bundy -Chris Chan

graveyards are full of indispensable men

I’m just going to ask, did you see the musical? It feels like it’s closer to the manga you describe (haven’t read it yet, my to-read-manga-list is enormous, I’ll get to it one day. Hopefully.)

Next video: Johan did nothing wrong

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Can you do one on the anti spiral from gurren lagan

Just remember a show and was wondering if Squaler from Shinsekai Yori did anything really wrong

Oh the amount of times I wish I had a Death Note

know what light could have done in the end he could have made a death note forgery an kept the real one at home an stopped using the real one till he got his own apartment placing multilabel forgeries throughout different places along though ryuk with even pacing between writing in it he would have been harder to find along with not going on the world wide web at home but those are just food for thought

It’s painful how many viewers of the anime see light as a good guy😢

The first time watching the show I was like "I agree with everything he's doing so far. But it looks like he's gonna take it too far later." After I finished the show: "yup"

"There are 4 letters in my name. The most anyone's ever gotten were 2." *Later opens the book to see a note written in it regarding RYUK with his full name written in it.* Lol

I would love it if you made a video on code geass and monster. The way you speak of the characters and their motivations feels like you understand them instead of stopping at the superficial and common outlook. I particularly liked your video on Bondrewd

I love the video make more videos like this like do a video on char aznable from Gundam are the main character from code Geass

Something that not a lot of people doesn't mention is that Epilogue chapter in the manga after Light loses. In Epilogue, it was clear that everything went back to as it was, criminals and crime returned. Obviously Lights crime affected the world in many ways, but no matter how many criminals you give heart attacks to, you will always be fighting a losing battle because crime will always exist and it will return no matter. If light truly cares about protecting the innocent and decreasing crime rates, he could've used the death note on corrupt politicians and used them to change laws and government to create a better world that would force less people to commit crime. I don't know, what do you think?

Where did the hierarchy page come from?

Light definitely did do wrong light yagami was simply wrong. i dont mean he deviated to a wrong path cause of the power he got getting to his head or whatever. he was simply wrong from the very beginning

Request: Johan did nothing wrong.

Please do Lelouch Did nothing wrong

I think lord diago from dororo would be a good fit for this series.

List did nothing wrong I did it boiz, I solved moral dilemmas 😎

3:07 Yeah,ı am glad they removed that line in the anime. Since its makes Near a hypocrite,because himself is aware that removing Light will eventually start a domino affect that cost extreme chaos at global scale. Season 2 shoudnt exist. Do not look at me 12:47 And that to,ım glad they also removed that. Since it makes things more interesting for Light. Let me explain: Sure,it makes him look smarter. But cmon. İt removes the very important question of "Will you sacrifice your afterlife for your dream?". Since at that moment,Light did not killed anyone innocent yet. And still can rid of his ownership of the book. He still can walk away. And he choose not to. This shows how far Light willing to go to even before he goes full physco mod.

I'm surprised this video has so few views compared to your other ones! I pretty much agree with your view on Light. What you mentioned about the author wanting to focus on the chess game, I do think that was the only way to keep the series entertaining. I hope one day to see a spin-off or re-imagining that more explores the associated philosophical questions, though it doesn't have to be Death Note in particular, it could be any god-power story. That being said, have you seen ""? The main character Rimuru is set up to be one of the most powerful beings in his world, and he makes use of his powers to build a society for monsters. His actions can be framed as "for the greater good" but I wonder if that holds true as the story goes on. Anyway, if you haven't seen/read it, I think you'd like it.

My biggest complaint with the anime is we never see what a pitiful little man Light is. In the manga, when Light learns that Ryuk put his name in the notebook, he actually begs for his life and shouts “I DON’T WANT TO DIE!” until he actually does die. The so-called “God of the New World” actually begged for his life like a whimpering dog. And do you think any of his victims wanted to die? In the anime, he actually dies peacefully of a heart attack, and accepts his fate. I wanted to see him beg for his life like the coward he was.

I honestly think that if you write down the names of everyone that is mean spirited or cruel on the death note then you might as well wipe out the entire human species

If you have not seen Shinsekai Yori, STOP READING THIS and watch this great series. Please do a Squaler from Shinsekai Yori did nothing wrong video. He is one of my favorite antagonists in anime. Once a lowly messenger became a general and leader of his people,. He attempted a rebellion to try to save its species from humans, he also unified independent colonies and institutionalized democracy, all these while implementing merciless methods to achieve his goals.

why doesn't he just print out the names instead of writing it? or is it exclusively supposed to be written

Tbh ngl i see Light as another dictator and i hate any dictators. But problem that in our life people will call you egoist even if you truly want to help them and make their lives better so like you just think what you all want from me? So as 22 yo guy i wanna somehow act good but I don't care much how others will see me as good or bad cause i think its will lead me to nothingness its not will lead me to successfull changings of other lives of humans and our world

*finds Death Note on the ground* I wonder who's name i should write down first 🤔🤔

Hope Angron wins next

I feel like it's really interesting to compare Light Yagami with Emiya Kiritsugu from Fate/Zero, because they're so similar, yet such opposites. They're nearly Identical at surface level, they are both relentless killers who target bad people, and will even kill civilians if they think it's necessary, all in favor of 'justice' and their ultimate goal of an ideal world. However, Kiritsugu's methods are for more extreme, while light will sometimes target civilians, he'll rarely kill someone who doesn't oppose him, while Kiritsugu will sacrifice as many innocents as necessary for 'the greater good'. But I feel like their biggest difference, is that Kiritsugu is what Light 'pretends' to be. While Light's ideals are just a mask to hide his real reasons, which are his ego and God complex, Kiritsugu genuinely believes in his ideals, everything he does, is for the sake of a better world. While Light places his ego above his 'perfect world', Kiritsugu sacrifices himself for the sake of his ideals. (Sorry, I know it must look stupid, the guy with the Fate pfp writing an essay about a Fate character in a death note video. But I just think it's interesting to compare characters who are so similar at their surface, yet so different at their core, and I think Kiritsugu would also be a good candidate for a 'did nothing wrong' video.)

What's interesting is that Walter White from BB dies in peace and in the end, acknowledges he did all of it for himself. Kira was unable to recognise that for himself and died in misery. Kinda interesting.

I am still firmly in the "Light is a hero" view. He had to commit evil in order to vanquish evil, yes - largely in self-preservation. But in a way it's a noble sacrifice, to become evil to end evil. Much like Lelouch vi Britannia. his most questionable kills or outright immoral ones were all to preserve himself...which is a necessary evil in order to maintain "Kira"'s existence. The only true flaw is the lack of forethought on what you do after you're gone. Society would eventually fall back to how it was when they realise Kira is wrong. So in short, ultimately Kira should not only continue as before, but also begin creating a successor, a system of some sort in order to maintain the standards of kira. It could be prone to failure, but if the Watari orphanage can do basically the same thing with L mentality, Kira can too. At the end of the day, the world WAS becoming a better place thanks to Kira. There's nothing inherently wrong with capital punishment, but the real trouble with kira is his standards for WHO should die. Because he typically uses the news, he tends to go after people from the accusation or charge stage, rather than focus on those actually convicted. He also has rather low standards for what constitutes a death-worthy punishment. But, nevertheless, the general ideal is something I'd say is worthy of respect at least. That said, if I had to choose between Lelouch and Light as the one most worthy of respect when both commit evil to eliminate evil, I'd have to go with Lelouch over Light, merely because Light severely lacks forethought, and his ego meant that he wasn't truly making use of it in the best way possible. His desire to make an "entity" by using the same MO to kill is foolish and folly; if justice were the greatest concern, then he could have had a more interesting MO like forcing people to confess their sins before death. Rather than mere abstractions of punishment, the fear of absolute exposure could have done so much more. I mean, I say he's a hero, but that doesn't mean I think he did nothing wrong. I merely see his general aspirations as admirable, and he merely botched the execution.

He did some dodgy things but stats don’t lie, crime did go down 80%, wars did stop, more innocent productive people were saved than evil and useless people were killed, it’s not a matter of did nothing wrong it’s a matter of the positives outweigh the negatives

He did do wrong things. That's a fact. Did he also do good? Yes. That's what you get with anyone. Everyone does good things and bad things. The question is did you get more good than bad. With Light, yes, the 70% reduction in crimes and stopping of wars does so much good that it outweighs everything bad he did. Yes, he is evil. The results of his actions are not.

Now I'm regretting not reading the manga😔

I had never thought Doomer Den would tell me to watch Netflix Deathnote... /:

In my opinion light was neither a hero or a villain he was more Anti Hero and the reason why say that is because he had a great idea of making a world a better place by killing criminals but he also used people and Even thought about killing his sister and I can go on but we will be here all day

Great video. But the real question which you did not answer nor attempt to answer is whether using the death note on criminals is wrong. Light absolutely got lost in the sauce, but he still lowered crime rates by 70% and ended war. So did he really do anything wrong? Law abiding citizens had nothing to fear

I disagree on 1 thing. Light would totally be a shitty cop

Himemiya Anthy did nothing wrong.

No, one person in the sequel does not use it that way, and even one of the follow up kiras does, dont they euthanize r?! That, is relective of ones value and those kira actually had decent ones. Yes its stil murder but euthanizing isnt bad. And it shown that people act ate their own values and lights, he might just have become a policeman or politician abusing his power , but he would go there eventually wih his mindset. Its not the one ring, its just a tool. Power dont corupt, it reveals.

Well I can't believe I'm saying this ,but light is like Hitler, yes ,he could have been an artist that ppl will admire his work over time ,but he instead forced an ideology on himself by himself, began to have a superiority complex ,and create a world where he ruled over everyone he conquer.

EREN YEAGER DID NOTHING WRONG NEXT!

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the thing is light is a great main character, he's just a really bad person.

Am reminded of how much the Netflix movie butchered the material

Do L Lawliet did nothing wrong. :P

I'm honestly seeing this tendency of cheering for absolutely questionable character once again in AoT, with Floch and the yeagerists in general

I disagree that power brings corruption. Power just brings out things that were hidden and sealed. These bad sides and characteristics were hidden and sealed is because it is disadvantage to indulge in it, they were of lower priority. But with absolute power those things no longer need to be hidden or sealed and when they surfaced they were seen as corruption. Though I cannot truly deny that power brings corruption. As with power you are faced with more temptations, your perspective of things become more broad and you get to know more things. Perhaps it is more appropriate to say that absolute knowledge corrupts absolutely.

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Rushed ending. Was still good I guess it didn’t RUIN it like AOT or promised neverland but I didn’t dig it Lights death was beautiful and that wasn’t my issue it was just how fast N finishes L’s work 🤷‍♀️

Guess who.

In short terms, Light Yagami is an analog to the christian religion