So you know how there’s a superhero that is blind and orients himself via sound, and there’s a superhero that doesn’t have any superpowers and just goes against villains with the gadgets he made himself? One of them is named Batman, and the other is Daredevil
My favourite description of Light Yagami : a man who saw a slippery slope, and grabbed his sled.
Saw his bad ending and decided on a running start.
Honestly I really like when things aren’t so damn formulaic. Most media is so damn predictable I get mad when I know what’s coming and it comes.
I know there’s a rule not to make the audience feel dumb, but if the audience is already dumb then you’re just making even dumber media…
There’s a saying in software development: If you make something foolproof, someone will build a better fool.
Wait…. They’re not all the exact same guy?
I do love a good 
Light Yagami, one of my favourite characters. A single reason why is this; he looks unassuming as this description described. One of other reasons, he is just relatable.
You’ve had villain protagonist, and you’ve had relatable villain, but only in deathnote do you get relatable villain protagonist. Usually gotta read a century-old russian novel for that kind of stuff.