Death note how does light die

It was a major shock, the biggest twist yet. This changed everything. Who else could compare to the man who nearly exposed Light time after time?

Was this the end of the story? Would it be possible to create a character not only beloved as L but also one that could keep the tension of the story as high as it had been? For most fans, the series never recovered after this. Many jumped ship solely because L died. The characters of Mello and Near had some potential but it was never properly utilized.

Many of their attempts to apprehend Light fell flat in comparison to the first half. Which is a huge shame because the final story of Death Note , in particular the one that takes up the final episode of the anime, makes up for its entire second half.

It pulls everything together for what is an immensely satisfying conclusion that makes a critical judgement call on everything Light had done up to that point. By the time Death Note reaches this final episode, it seems as though nothing can touch Light. Yes, Near has turned some of his team against him except the loveable idiot Matsuda , but Light is still in control.

Light has Near cornered. Mikami writes the name of everyone present besides Light. Light, his ego at an all time, desperately tries to hold back his laughter. Light is exposed… and finally brings to the forefront a core question the series had been asking but refused to give a definitive answer on, not even in the first half: Is Light justified in his actions? He sees the note as his savior, as a thrill, and as a means to an end.

Power seems to be the primary motivator, as opposed to bettering the world. The two iterations of Light are different psychologically, which ideally makes them different characters.

Whereas manga light is destroyed from finding the Death Note, anime light is put back together. We established that manga Light is destroyed, while anime light is saved. What does make the manga version better is that he is a human corrupted, while the anime version views Light as an inherent sociopath.

The anime version would likely have done something drastic anyway, regardless of the intervention of the Death Note. The first issue arises from the setting. An example of this is how Light Yagami would be viewed as a straight-A student in American. A guy like Light Yagami would likely be bullied or at least considered a weird outcast. Our original introduction to him is an exchange of money for copying test answers for another student.

Regardless, the intent was to establish Light as someone who uses his smarts for monetary gain. If Light Yagami acted with as much grace and subtly as Light Turner, L would have caught him in less than 24 hours. Lucky for Light Turner, L in his universe is as much as a babbling buffoon as his intellectual counterpart.

An excellent example of this is how he reveals the nature of the notebook to another character named Misa, despite the fact he knows nothing about her and does this purely to impress her. As another example, he uses the notebook after Ryuk taunts him to do so, and quickly accepts the fact that this is his life now. Instead of his motivation equating to making the world a better place by killing criminals, his primary motive is questionable.

It seems that he wants to kill criminals because his mother was murdered by a mobster who received no prison time, and he wants to bring these criminals to justice.

The movie insists that Light Turner is intelligent, which accumulates to his master plan at the end. The two eventually meet on the top of the Ferris wheel. At some point, Light does take the notebook back, but Mia retrieves it from his grasp. Light states that he wrote her name in the notebook, but that she would only die if she took the note away from him.

Light survives in the water, gravity, and physics be damned. He even made sure to save his own life by making the piece of the book that Mia wrote his name on to land conveniently in a fire.

Then, L finds a page of the notebook and contemplates writing a name down. The Death Note ending was meant to be a cliffhanger, as the director intended for there to be at least three movies where L would eventually die, and two characters, Mello and Near, would take his place to catch Light. For example, once a name is written the person written will die, regardless if the page is distorted, burned, wet, or ruined in some way.

Mia, for example, takes the place of Misa who is originally a Kira obsessed fangirl who will do anything for Light Yagami. L is also more aggressive, chases Light down in a car, with a gun, and yells excessively. Light agrees. As Light approaches the yellow box, he is confident that he has everything in order. He plans on killing everybody that knows about the notebook.

So Light planned that when everyone enters the yellow box, Mikami will bring the original Death Note, peek inside the yellow box, write down the names of everybody in the room except his name so that they will all die.

Near notices that someone has peeked inside the room and has written all the names. So he tells Mikami to come inside. Mikami is skeptical at first but he enters the room.

Light asks Mikami how many seconds it has been since he wrote the first name and Mikami says 30 seconds. It takes 40 seconds for the person to die if their name is written in the book. After 40 seconds pass, nobody dies because Near has the original Death Note and The one Mikami has is fake.

Light is shocked that his plan did not work and that his cover has been blown. The whole room is surprised that they did not die but Near is not because it was his plan after all. Near collects the fake Death Note that Mikami and checks to see the names he had written. Light is confronted as Near and the special task force suspects that Light is Kira because his name is the only name not written in the Death Note.

He begins to panic and shout that it is a setup. But the evidence is glaring because the Death Note has been tampered with by Near. Near had collaborated with Mello and detective L to capture Kira because Near knew that alone he could not capture and reveal the true identity of Kira. We saw a fight brew between Light and L in the Death Note series during their first encounter.

We find out how skilled L is as a fighter when he showcased his mastery in the art of Capoeira. Fans got to see first hand that L knew how to effectively use the Afro-Brazilian martial arts style. However, we never figured out how he learned this fighting style in the anime.

The manga does reveal this intel in the 13 th volume when we find out that FBI agent Naomi Misora actually taught L this martial art after they working on a murder case together. When Light first encounters Ryuk , he was initially frightened by the sight of him.

However, it was the reaction to the death note at first glance that caught him off guard. His response was he thought of it as a simple joke in the manga and laughed at the notion of its rules. When he picked it up, he thought it was a mere prank once he reads it and tries it out for a spin out of curiosity.

In the anime, he scoffs it off as nothing when he picks it up in the first episode.