Explanation- In this version, Light makes Mikami to tear some of the pages of the death note and to hide them, so that even if Near finds the real notebook, Light still would have the real pages. Mikami hides the pages by disguising them as documents, and before hiding the page, he made many fake documents(of normal pages). In between these documents, he added some more pages(the pages of death note), he made these death note pages look like the pages of a normal document, but in these pages, he made sure that the name of any alive person isn't written, only the names of dead, or just random names. Now, the real death note pages were hid in between the huge no. of documents Mikami created, and it was impossible for just the 4 members of SPK to check all those pages. Although the SPK managed to acquire the death note, it didn't help as Light was prepared for all this.
my plan is way better if light said "i also figured out mikami is second kira" and "i introduced myself to mikami as kira before hand" (to make sure he doesnt die ofc) (yes near also had a similar plan that worked for everyone but light didnt know which is ok but it was only way so), it would make sense light is addressed as god and he would make everything A OK with near
It may sound smart but you are forgetting something.Light always had that risk of them searching everything of Mikami. Even though they most probably didn't search his house(idk about manga tho),Light definetely considered this possibility. So,his only option was bank. Because,they wouldn't suspect the bank as the hiding place.And,he couldn't hide those on some jungle since he was being followed. So to summarize,even if Light had followed your plan,there was a chance that they would find that thing since everything of Mikami was being checked(most probably or at least Light would think like that)
@@notjeff7833 i have read the manga and honestly , light preparing even more does make sense. he could tell mikakmi through takada and when he told them where to meet he could have said to use the pages. also if he had pages they couldnt even find out about the real notebook since he would never have gone to the bank for the second time
@@Captaindark900 there was literally no reason to. Form light's perspective, near had already fallen for the fake death note mikami had created. Telling mikami to get the pages would carry unnecessary extra risk. Near explains that light thought how there was a chance cameras may have been planted by the spk in mikami's home so him using the pages over there would expose him. Which makes perfect sense since light himself was watched by L through hidden cameras. Going the extra mile was not only unnecessary but risky as well from his perspective. Not to mention that neither of it would matter if matsuda's theory (which was accidentally confirmed by the illustrator takeshi obata in the volume 13 interview) is true
This is what I always imagined. He could just have given Mikami several sets of watches like his own too, since no one had any clue about that strat. Or write names down and then put em in a paper shredder, redesigning the cover of the death note as if it were a journal, and then have mikami with a whole bunch of other empty journals just like it. And he could some of those college ruled notebooks multiple subjects, too. Could’ve stuffed the real pages in random pockets(along with normal pages) that he kept track of in each, and then use them when the time arose-likewise, putting them in the paper shredder when fully used
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 for real, man had a lot of creative ideas from early on. That thing with the door knob being turned a few degrees downward was crazy 😂
This is what light actually would of done , but it was obvious that the author of this series had to dumb light down to make him lose. Light always had a backup plan for everything in the first 25 episodes , so why not now? The second part of this show was so unnecessary
No he wouldn't. He was too egoistic and thought his plan was perfect. Can you blame him? Near fell for the trap and wasn't behind the kidnapping so there is no reason for light to make a back-backup plan. However light didn't consider Mello because Mello was killed by takada. Light had made this mistake in the past as well thinking that killing someone would fix the problem regarding that person i.e killing L and Raye Penber
@@notjeff7833still ending was impossible if you noticed gevanni literally copied that in a way notebook that even microscope cannot tell the difference lol and gevanni copied whole notebook you can fill up something if it's incomplete and I'm not fan of anyone I support none of them
@@UnknownEdits_19867 mikami didn't even use the microscope on gevanni's copy. He used it on his own fake to see if near tampered with that. Neither light nor mikami were expecting near to create his own fake and swap it with the real one in the bank. The ending wasn't impossible, you're just confusing the series of events and which death note was checked
Yes, in terms of planning light outsmarted near and near himself admits that he lost in fact but Mello and Mikami's mistake saved him, but still the ending doesn't make any sense, the only way that it could make sense is if the theory of near controlling mikami with the death note is true@@neet_preparation685
@@TotalAnalyst2 it doesn't matter what his weakness is, he's still far smarter than near, and it's literally impossible to copy all those names in one day, in perfect hand writing, in a completely different language. The ending was bs
It would've been great if it were by L or someone else of his level. But a copycat? That is just so unsatisfying. However, the plot to replace the notebook with a fake is pretty good in terms of outsmarting. It's a game of who can outsmart the other the most, after all. But yeah this is plot armour, even if ego and boredom caused characters to do things not logical, the plan is quite good. If things had gone to plan and [I forgot the lawyer's name] had simply not taken out the notebook from the bank, then Light would've won. Light simply forgot to take into account that his trusted proxy/minion would've done something unpredictable. Even the smartest of people make mistakes. Plus Light could've possibly gotten so distracted by the excitement of finally winning, along with his pride, that this distraction caused him to make a few mistakes. Genius or not, he's still human. Plus, Near was groomed into becoming an L copycat, they could only be at such a level too. Near just got lucky that events occured in his favour.
3:23 For those who didn't get the hidden meaning here, it actually represents the journey of light, with bold lines representing his comfortable time as the judge with no one to stop him, while the un-continuous lines represent the obstructions he faced. The shorter these un-continuous lines are, the more obstruction he did face, which is why it narrows down to mere dots, as it's the time after the appearance of Near when he struggled a lot. The bold line after this represents his same comfortable time, as Near is dead and there's no one left to be able to stop him (Refer the reply to understand why this ending suits better for Light)
And for those who are saying that Light was too egoistic to be cautious about all this, remember, taking care of the notebook was mikami's job. And although Light did choose and trust Mikami, but as he's egoistic, he wouldn't have complete trust in Mikami to pull this out. Which becomes more the reason that he should have been cautious like in the video
it was already very weird that light actually entursted someone with his life that easily, that was the first crutial dumb mistake, the second is that why the hel would you not make sure death note you are writing on works 100% before teru mikami came like you could have sent him a message teling him to do that, that was the second bulshit mistake he made, that didnt make sense and wasnt like light at all, and its all because he saw himself superiror to anyone no matter what after he defeated L. but again how did you just think that you would be done after jus killing L, there is 8 bilion people on earth and milions of other genious people who could came after you. how could you lower your guards that easily, well the answer is clear, he was just a teenager when he first started his plan, (also the author wanted to finalise the story so he had to make the character make a mistake for that to happen) and he is just a simple human, with less control over his emotions than L and high ambitions, he was to quick to asume he won, and that became his demise.whatever light yagami did, and could, unless there was an amazing coincidence happening or an intervention from the gods, there was no way he could win anyways. but we can see that light would have been same as L or maybe outsmart him if he was a detective that solved over 3,000 cases starting from childhood like L did, so for someone that is coming from an ordinary family and childhood, light was very impressive. but from the start of the anime, ther was no chance Light yagami was going to survive until the end. he had so many flaws.
The original ending was stupid because some guy broke into a bank twice and made an exact copy of the death note in a day, while Mikami who is obssesed with detail did not notice the different handwriting.
Ending 0: Light dies Ending 1: Light hires snipers as hitmen Ending 2: Mikami takes some pages as backup, Near dies Ending 3: Light never kills Lind L Tailor... OR EVEN RAYE PENBER, and becomes hidden Ending 4: Light burns the book Ending 5: L burns the book
This is great. And I'm perfectly fine with light dying, I just thought it should be due to an elaborate master plan, for a series so based on meanings and intelligence, and not because some guy slipped up, and near copying the entire deathnote in one night, which would have thousands upon thousands more pages than any normal notebook.
Exactly people keep trying to lampshade the fact that the notebook is an Eldrich artifact that grows and shrinks its number of pages for the user while remaining the size of a normal notebook that thing had hundreds of pages if not thousands Used compared to about 100 in the average notebook. There’s no way they can make a fake that would pass any amount of scrutiny because just simply flipping through the pages which show that a lot would be missing or the book wouldn’t be behaving properly. Tearing out the back half of the notebook would do nothing because more would grow in its place even if you inserted normal pages, the book would just grow more cursed pages after the fact or reject the normal pages outright. Supposedly near left the spine of the real book and Mikami’s hands that should’ve been more than enough for them to lose and if the note was considered destroyed by that sabotage Ryuk would have vanished from sight tipping their hand.
Iirc, 135,412 people were killed by the death note, so this means that it wouldnt be physically possible to copy the entire death note in one night, especially considering that your hand can get tired.
It’s confirmed they have 60ish pages(I believe 68-69) and when the owners runs out of pages or space he could just ask the shinigami for a new notebook
For those who didn't understand: This is truly much closer to reality than what was shown in the anime. Light would rather prefer that Mikami wrote in pages of the death note that he knew for certain were real. How to do this: when mikami was writing in the real death note, ask him to tear some pages out and replace with fake pages. Mikami would store these pages with him elsewhere. If mikami ever used the fake page, it would only have names that were extremely random and unknown, or those that were already dead. This would ensure that the guy(near’s aide) who ultimately copied the death note and replaced it with a fake one, wouldn't realise somethings off. On the final, day, light will tell mikami to bring the fake notebook that was placed there by near’s aide, but use a real page instead(one of many which mikami had stored previously), and that way, the names written by mikami that day would face certain death
Light would have done this not as a back up but as part of the plan itself, I think one extra detail would be that light i believe would predict an unorthodox move to be made by near or mello at some point in the plan (aka the Takada kidnapping that happened in the anime) he himself said L would have considered the possibility of a fake notebook from the start and tested it, meaning he already knew there’s a good chance his fake notebook will be found out and near would have to get to the real notebook, and that unorthodox move would be the one to lead near to the real notebook, so light definitely would have seen the Takada kidnapping coming and so I believe what would change is that light would actually tell Mikami not to use the real notebook until this unorthodox move happens, basically allowing near to find the real notebook on purpose and eventually kill near with the torn page instead Why? Cuz if Mikami was ordered the same as in the anime despite this backup plan, then in theory, near should never be able to find the real notebook and so near if he doesn’t find the real notebook may cancel the meeting This extra step ensures that near successfully finds the real notebook and almost gaurentees that near would follow through with the meeting since they will think they have won since they got the real notebook
Actually I was thinking the same thing. Why not just give Mikami a page that you know for a fact was real and he'd keep that in his pocket and only kill people he wad directly instructed to kill. And his death note could just have random criminals.
light probably: i do not have a death note.....BUT WHAT I DO HAVE IS A DEATH GLOCK! *proceeds to shoot near and then get shot to death by gevanni or someone*
I was also thinking about how Light's death was rushed by the authors. Even I thought of tearing up pages and having Mikami use them but yeah they wanted Light to be dead. Also, the way Light lost doesn't make sense as Giovani's overnight copying of the death note is undeniably impossible. Still makes me happy to see people remember Death Note as one of the best anime
My idea was for Light to have small hidden camera attached to him. They put some in his room so its not impossible. Waste time at the warehouse and than after nothing happens the meeting is dismissed. Light kills them later by sending Mikimi the footage.
What if when light was surrounded by all task force members he got back in o his pocket press button all m60 machine gun loaded and kills task force members and mikami and light sees their body and said look like i won near hahaha light goes to out of the mansion fire the mansion and evil smiles got blast off the mansion light thinks i became god of the new world -the end
Oh c'mon guys, much dumber than this showdown is that L allowed light to regain his memories by holding notebook even though he (and light himself) said few chapter earlier that light got rid of notebook by his own will with a plan to regain it somehow.
I don’t understand despite the death notes being the gotcha, lights “master plan” would have worked anyways, but was fumbled by mello getting Mikamk to make a mistake, Light could have won but decided to share his power. Your just adding extra possible plans to make it sound like he could have won, and calling it “him being smarter” but it wasn’t entirely his fault in the first place. It’s writing choices, if that’s how we’re deciding the intelligence of the character you could just add extra plot for Near to expose this next layer of planning as well? Not a big fan of just adding more and more layers to make characters smarter, just accept the outcome, and if you think Light is incapable of making a mistake realize Mikami was the one who made a mistake anyways.
@@EthanShopovick I don't understand why you're overcomplicating it. For how light is shown, I think it was common sense for him to have a page prepared for these crucial moments. And yes Near obviously is smart enough to think of this possibility, but that's why Mikami hid the DN page(that looks like an ordinary file page) among so many files. Making it practically impossible for them to fetch the page
Iirc, didn't ryuk already talk to light about how things would get boring if he killed L, and i think light had answered with smthn like "i'll show you the new world"? I dont think that Ryuk would do that if light won
Light was too egoistic at this point. He thought his plan was perfect and even considered mello's kidnapping to be "idiotic" not realizing that near had taken advantage of it and in one swoop had the upper hand against light for 3 days straight. Light had proven himself to be impulsive and repeat mistakes (killing lind l Tayler and 5 episodes later killing Naomi and revealing that he was kira). It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when and who would defeat light. According to Tsugumi ohba, Mello was originally planned to win but he drove himself into a corner and had to kill the character and make him win through near as his death exposed Light's plans. Also, light wouldn't have given the pages to mikami. In the manga's finale, it is mentioned that light wanted to make the death note mikami had look as authentic as possible, and there was a chance that gevanni had bugged mikami's room at that time so he would've easily noticed any mail (which was used to send the death note to mikami but wouldn't have worked now since near had found him) as mikami wouldn't be aware of the blind spots. Interesting alt but doesn't captures light's faults and underestimates near and Mello.
It's true that Light had committed mistakes in the past, but those mistakes were the ones in which he was just egotistical and the ones in which he was unaware of the excellence of L. But through the series, we have seen that light used to be extra precautious, for eg, at hiding the deathnote inside his room. But in this, he simply didn't think of a possible event of death note being discovered by SPK, which had a fair probability to happen. What I have shown is that Light should have ordered Mikami to save some pages of death note, when they were able to meet each other. I tried my best not to underestimate any one, but I can certainly say that the author sure underestimated his own character Light. Also, as stated in the video, when it's the case of life and death, light can't easily rest his future on another person no matter how impressed he would have been from that person
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 he had made several mistakes post L as well. Having the npa make direct contact with near in order to make himself less suspicious. In reality, aizawa gave important pieces of info to near which made near realize that the current L was kira. Not making the kidnapping known to the rest of the npa and then killing sayu made it so that light gave away the notebook on a silver platter to the kidnappers. Launching an attack on near's hq thinking near hadn't made a plan for such situations and making that attack right after aizawa provided critical info made near suspect light even more. His biggest mistake post L (believe it or not) was not trusting mikami enough. If mikami was provided enough info he wouldn't have made a move when Mello kidnapped takada, light could've delayed his downfall. Also, the writer added matsuda's theory in the very next chapter after 107 in which the theory states that near controlled mikami's actions to ensure mikami doesn't test the notebook. In your alt, (correct me if I'm wrong) the spk get their hands on the real death note in which case it's game over. Mikami would be controlled by near and dies 10 days later in prison. Takeshi obata himself said on being asked who the smartest character is "near because he cheats" that's why this theory is also known as "near cheated theory" (although I don't like that name as all is fair in war) light was smart. Not on the same level as L but near there. But near and Mello combined were far superior to light. That was one of the minor themes of death note as explained in volume 13 "one man isn't enough to play god" and someone like L couldn't escape a god of death while someone like light couldn't escape his nature of making the same mistakes over and over again thanks to his ego and dying because he got too relaxed after 2 months (same as when L died)
@@notjeff7833 That's the reason why the episodes after L's death aren't that much liked by the people. There is a significant difference between the abilities of character pre and post the ep25, to me, it always seemed like Light IQ just dropped. For eg, it was very obvious that there could be a way of other people to get info of the people holding onto the death note, but light just kinda ignored it, which resulted to the kidnap of Sayu. Also, it was kinda unrealistic for Mello to just kidnap Sayu so easily. And also, Near suspecting mikami as second Kira didn't quite seem fair. Of all the people, he just made mikami the main suspect on baseless assumptions and reasons. And then ordered gevanni to follow Mikami, which lead to us to what we've seen. Honestly, throughout those all episodes, there were many instances in which Light could have easily got through the situation, but I just manipulated the last episode a bit, which still makes Light win. Even the writer intended to end this thing on ep 25, but the ending just wasn't acceptable to the audience
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 actually that was debunked in volume 13. Tsugumi wanted to end at exactly 108 chapters (some Buddhist symbolism like Mu) and it wouldn't make sense to end it at chapter 58 because it was only the midpoint of volume 7. Furthermore, only slight alterations were made. For example Mello was supposed to defeat light not near however Tsugumi changed that because it would be too easy and anti climactic. Near finding mikami's scene was butchered in the anime. The manga one makes much more sense (volume 10 iirc) I don't remember that many details from the anime but in the manga Mello kidnapped sayu because takimura told him about those working with L and among them the one who had the most influence was soichiro yagami. Knowing that someone with higher authority would be in possession of the death note, he wanted to trade it for soichiro's daughter. Light got sloppy because he was unopposed for 5YEARS. Anyone would think of themselves as unstoppable and would slip up. My advice is to read the manga from volume 7 (phase two starts there) as it was horribly adapted in the anime.
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 Also The First L did the Hard Work and the Second Split the Skills and got much Support.. Light should have been Smarter Multiple Pages dropped everywhere Imagine Kira Supporter JackPot and they could Pick up Real Pages Dropped From a Helicopter / Plane if Light does not Call his People Back or is Able to Leave.
Next Light says to Mikami that now u know my identity and you are not useful to me. light tries to write teru Mikami name in death note piece in watch but he will not die because Mikami real name is Mikami teru not teru Mikami and the Mikami writes light yagami name in death note
it's not a fan theory, it's actually canon. this theory was first mentioned by matsuda in the last chapter of the manga (a year after light's death). it has never been confirmed if it's true or not, but honestly it makes sense considering how ocd-like mikami is.
This was denied by the author himself in the last manga chapter. He stated that ppl with shinigami eyes cant be controlled by the death note, so the theory was wrong. Near won honestly, eventhough the ending seems unrealistic.
@@mathman9751that rule.....is a mistranslation. english translation: humans that have traded for the eye power of a god of death will see a person's primary life span, and will not be influenced by the death note. if the victim is killed using the death note, the remaining lifetime of that victim will be provided to the god of death. japanese original: the lifespan visible by shinigami eyes is the person's original lifespan, one that is not affected/influenced by the death note in the human world. If the victim is killed using the death note, the remaining lifetime of that victim will be provided to the god of death.
Explanation-
In this version, Light makes Mikami to tear some of the pages of the death note and to hide them, so that even if Near finds the real notebook, Light still would have the real pages. Mikami hides the pages by disguising them as documents, and before hiding the page, he made many fake documents(of normal pages). In between these documents, he added some more pages(the pages of death note), he made these death note pages look like the pages of a normal document, but in these pages, he made sure that the name of any alive person isn't written, only the names of dead, or just random names. Now, the real death note pages were hid in between the huge no. of documents Mikami created, and it was impossible for just the 4 members of SPK to check all those pages. Although the SPK managed to acquire the death note, it didn't help as Light was prepared for all this.
Bro is Near's successor
my plan is way better
if light said "i also figured out mikami is second kira" and "i introduced myself to mikami as kira before hand" (to make sure he doesnt die ofc)
(yes near also had a similar plan that worked for everyone but light didnt know which is ok but it was only way so), it would make sense light is addressed as god and he would make everything A OK with near
It may sound smart but you are forgetting something.Light always had that risk of them searching everything of Mikami. Even though they most probably didn't search his house(idk about manga tho),Light definetely considered this possibility. So,his only option was bank. Because,they wouldn't suspect the bank as the hiding place.And,he couldn't hide those on some jungle since he was being followed. So to summarize,even if Light had followed your plan,there was a chance that they would find that thing since everything of Mikami was being checked(most probably or at least Light would think like that)
This concept sounds more realistic than orginal ending
The original made perfect sense if you read the manga
@@notjeff7833but this is anime not manga
@@123Conqueror .....which used the manga for the story. It trimmed down some stuff towards the end
@@notjeff7833 i have read the manga and honestly , light preparing even more does make sense. he could tell mikakmi through takada and when he told them where to meet he could have said to use the pages. also if he had pages they couldnt even find out about the real notebook since he would never have gone to the bank for the second time
@@Captaindark900 there was literally no reason to. Form light's perspective, near had already fallen for the fake death note mikami had created. Telling mikami to get the pages would carry unnecessary extra risk. Near explains that light thought how there was a chance cameras may have been planted by the spk in mikami's home so him using the pages over there would expose him. Which makes perfect sense since light himself was watched by L through hidden cameras. Going the extra mile was not only unnecessary but risky as well from his perspective. Not to mention that neither of it would matter if matsuda's theory (which was accidentally confirmed by the illustrator takeshi obata in the volume 13 interview) is true
This is what I always imagined. He could just have given Mikami several sets of watches like his own too, since no one had any clue about that strat. Or write names down and then put em in a paper shredder, redesigning the cover of the death note as if it were a journal, and then have mikami with a whole bunch of other empty journals just like it.
And he could some of those college ruled notebooks multiple subjects, too. Could’ve stuffed the real pages in random pockets(along with normal pages) that he kept track of in each, and then use them when the time arose-likewise, putting them in the paper shredder when fully used
Really shocking to imagine that someone like Light did none of them
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 for real, man had a lot of creative ideas from early on. That thing with the door knob being turned a few degrees downward was crazy 😂
Miscommunication on Light’s part tbh
aizawa was watching light 24/7. it was already difficult to communicate through takada (which caused A LOT of miscommunication btw).
This is what light actually would of done , but it was obvious that the author of this series had to dumb light down to make him lose. Light always had a backup plan for everything in the first 25 episodes , so why not now? The second part of this show was so unnecessary
No he wouldn't. He was too egoistic and thought his plan was perfect. Can you blame him? Near fell for the trap and wasn't behind the kidnapping so there is no reason for light to make a back-backup plan. However light didn't consider Mello because Mello was killed by takada. Light had made this mistake in the past as well thinking that killing someone would fix the problem regarding that person i.e killing L and Raye Penber
Why Not Have Multiple Death Note Pages and Even Killer Squads Show Up
@@notjeff7833still ending was impossible if you noticed gevanni literally copied that in a way notebook that even microscope cannot tell the difference lol and gevanni copied whole notebook you can fill up something if it's incomplete and I'm not fan of anyone I support none of them
@@UnknownEdits_19867 mikami didn't even use the microscope on gevanni's copy. He used it on his own fake to see if near tampered with that. Neither light nor mikami were expecting near to create his own fake and swap it with the real one in the bank. The ending wasn't impossible, you're just confusing the series of events and which death note was checked
@@notjeff7833 dude copying 21 thousands word is impossible in one day
Honestly, i prefer deathnote to have ended with the death of L, with near in the picture it just felt like L was…overshadowed?
Nah thats not the right word.
To be fair, the legacy of the battle between light and L was, in a way, mocked and insulted.
it's Lflation, the more L the less value an L has
No death note is not about l vs light,it's about the nature of power and corruption
It did. Everything after was just dumb fanfic.
Well actually it was gonna end on L’s death originally but the author got forced to make more
I'd much prefer this, not because it is smarter but because I can't imagine how embarrassing it was for Light to get beaten by Near.
The author just wanted Light dead, he was smarter than near in every way and this is more realistic.
@neet_preparation685 True
Yes, in terms of planning light outsmarted near and near himself admits that he lost in fact but Mello and Mikami's mistake saved him, but still the ending doesn't make any sense, the only way that it could make sense is if the theory of near controlling mikami with the death note is true@@neet_preparation685
No light biggest weakness is his ego been that way since the beginning always will be
@@TotalAnalyst2 it doesn't matter what his weakness is, he's still far smarter than near, and it's literally impossible to copy all those names in one day, in perfect hand writing, in a completely different language. The ending was bs
It would've been great if it were by L or someone else of his level. But a copycat? That is just so unsatisfying.
However, the plot to replace the notebook with a fake is pretty good in terms of outsmarting. It's a game of who can outsmart the other the most, after all.
But yeah this is plot armour, even if ego and boredom caused characters to do things not logical, the plan is quite good. If things had gone to plan and [I forgot the lawyer's name] had simply not taken out the notebook from the bank, then Light would've won. Light simply forgot to take into account that his trusted proxy/minion would've done something unpredictable.
Even the smartest of people make mistakes. Plus Light could've possibly gotten so distracted by the excitement of finally winning, along with his pride, that this distraction caused him to make a few mistakes.
Genius or not, he's still human. Plus, Near was groomed into becoming an L copycat, they could only be at such a level too. Near just got lucky that events occured in his favour.
This would've probably happened if the author didn't want Light to lose.
3:23 For those who didn't get the hidden meaning here, it actually represents the journey of light, with bold lines representing his comfortable time as the judge with no one to stop him, while the un-continuous lines represent the obstructions he faced. The shorter these un-continuous lines are, the more obstruction he did face, which is why it narrows down to mere dots, as it's the time after the appearance of Near when he struggled a lot. The bold line after this represents his same comfortable time, as Near is dead and there's no one left to be able to stop him
(Refer the reply to understand why this ending suits better for Light)
And for those who are saying that Light was too egoistic to be cautious about all this, remember, taking care of the notebook was mikami's job. And although Light did choose and trust Mikami, but as he's egoistic, he wouldn't have complete trust in Mikami to pull this out. Which becomes more the reason that he should have been cautious like in the video
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 exactly
it was already very weird that light actually entursted someone with his life that easily, that was the first crutial dumb mistake, the second is that why the hel would you not make sure death note you are writing on works 100% before teru mikami came like you could have sent him a message teling him to do that, that was the second bulshit mistake he made, that didnt make sense and wasnt like light at all, and its all because he saw himself superiror to anyone no matter what after he defeated L. but again how did you just think that you would be done after jus killing L, there is 8 bilion people on earth and milions of other genious people who could came after you. how could you lower your guards that easily, well the answer is clear, he was just a teenager when he first started his plan, (also the author wanted to finalise the story so he had to make the character make a mistake for that to happen) and he is just a simple human, with less control over his emotions than L and high ambitions, he was to quick to asume he won, and that became his demise.whatever light yagami did, and could, unless there was an amazing coincidence happening or an intervention from the gods, there was no way he could win anyways. but we can see that light would have been same as L or maybe outsmart him if he was a detective that solved over 3,000 cases starting from childhood like L did, so for someone that is coming from an ordinary family and childhood, light was very impressive. but from the start of the anime, ther was no chance Light yagami was going to survive until the end. he had so many flaws.
The original ending was stupid because some guy broke into a bank twice and made an exact copy of the death note in a day, while Mikami who is obssesed with detail did not notice the different handwriting.
Ending 0: Light dies
Ending 1: Light hires snipers as hitmen
Ending 2: Mikami takes some pages as backup, Near dies
Ending 3: Light never kills Lind L Tailor... OR EVEN RAYE PENBER, and becomes hidden
Ending 4: Light burns the book
Ending 5: L burns the book
wow
To be fair, L didn’t burn the book because Light added a fake rule that destroying the book would result in the death of the person destroying it.
This is great. And I'm perfectly fine with light dying, I just thought it should be due to an elaborate master plan, for a series so based on meanings and intelligence, and not because some guy slipped up, and near copying the entire deathnote in one night, which would have thousands upon thousands more pages than any normal notebook.
Exactly people keep trying to lampshade the fact that the notebook is an Eldrich artifact that grows and shrinks its number of pages for the user while remaining the size of a normal notebook that thing had hundreds of pages if not thousands Used compared to about 100 in the average notebook. There’s no way they can make a fake that would pass any amount of scrutiny because just simply flipping through the pages which show that a lot would be missing or the book wouldn’t be behaving properly. Tearing out the back half of the notebook would do nothing because more would grow in its place even if you inserted normal pages, the book would just grow more cursed pages after the fact or reject the normal pages outright. Supposedly near left the spine of the real book and Mikami’s hands that should’ve been more than enough for them to lose and if the note was considered destroyed by that sabotage Ryuk would have vanished from sight tipping their hand.
Iirc, 135,412 people were killed by the death note, so this means that it wouldnt be physically possible to copy the entire death note in one night, especially considering that your hand can get tired.
It’s confirmed they have 60ish pages(I believe 68-69) and when the owners runs out of pages or space he could just ask the shinigami for a new notebook
Can you go back in time and convince the author to make it like this?
Or make it so light won but is killed by Ryuk anyway because he got bored of Light at this point so no one wins and everyone dies
@missing840 that would be satisfying also. Grim but would fit the story
For those who didn't understand:
This is truly much closer to reality than what was shown in the anime.
Light would rather prefer that Mikami wrote in pages of the death note that he knew for certain were real. How to do this: when mikami was writing in the real death note, ask him to tear some pages out and replace with fake pages. Mikami would store these pages with him elsewhere. If mikami ever used the fake page, it would only have names that were extremely random and unknown, or those that were already dead. This would ensure that the guy(near’s aide) who ultimately copied the death note and replaced it with a fake one, wouldn't realise somethings off.
On the final, day, light will tell mikami to bring the fake notebook that was placed there by near’s aide, but use a real page instead(one of many which mikami had stored previously), and that way, the names written by mikami that day would face certain death
Light would have done this not as a back up but as part of the plan itself, I think one extra detail would be that light i believe would predict an unorthodox move to be made by near or mello at some point in the plan (aka the Takada kidnapping that happened in the anime) he himself said L would have considered the possibility of a fake notebook from the start and tested it, meaning he already knew there’s a good chance his fake notebook will be found out and near would have to get to the real notebook, and that unorthodox move would be the one to lead near to the real notebook, so light definitely would have seen the Takada kidnapping coming and so I believe what would change is that light would actually tell Mikami not to use the real notebook until this unorthodox move happens, basically allowing near to find the real notebook on purpose and eventually kill near with the torn page instead
Why? Cuz if Mikami was ordered the same as in the anime despite this backup plan, then in theory, near should never be able to find the real notebook and so near if he doesn’t find the real notebook may cancel the meeting
This extra step ensures that near successfully finds the real notebook and almost gaurentees that near would follow through with the meeting since they will think they have won since they got the real notebook
This is smart asf ngl
Actually I was thinking the same thing. Why not just give Mikami a page that you know for a fact was real and he'd keep that in his pocket and only kill people he wad directly instructed to kill. And his death note could just have random criminals.
Then O through Z all team up to catch him.
LOL
The canon ending.
Death note alternate ending: light pulls out a gun
light probably: i do not have a death note.....BUT WHAT I DO HAVE IS A DEATH GLOCK!
*proceeds to shoot near and then get shot to death by gevanni or someone*
I was also thinking about how Light's death was rushed by the authors.
Even I thought of tearing up pages and having Mikami use them but yeah they wanted Light to be dead. Also, the way Light lost doesn't make sense as Giovani's overnight copying of the death note is undeniably impossible.
Still makes me happy to see people remember Death Note as one of the best anime
It's all good until Ryuk comes in and says: "Yeah, sorry, but I'm gonna need my notebook back now."
You deserve way more subs, mate - this is better than the original and far more realistic
people arent realising Light got arrogant at this point. and he was throwing basically
A much better ending than what we got
My idea was for Light to have small hidden camera attached to him. They put some in his room so its not impossible. Waste time at the warehouse and than after nothing happens the meeting is dismissed. Light kills them later by sending Mikimi the footage.
What if when light was surrounded by all task force members he got back in o his pocket press button all m60 machine gun loaded and kills task force members and mikami and light sees their body and said look like i won near hahaha light goes to out of the mansion fire the mansion and evil smiles got blast off the mansion light thinks i became god of the new world -the end
Oh c'mon guys, much dumber than this showdown is that L allowed light to regain his memories by holding notebook even though he (and light himself) said few chapter earlier that light got rid of notebook by his own will with a plan to regain it somehow.
this is great
I love the video
we were acting our death. you are kira.
I don’t understand despite the death notes being the gotcha, lights “master plan” would have worked anyways, but was fumbled by mello getting Mikamk to make a mistake, Light could have won but decided to share his power.
Your just adding extra possible plans to make it sound like he could have won, and calling it “him being smarter” but it wasn’t entirely his fault in the first place. It’s writing choices, if that’s how we’re deciding the intelligence of the character you could just add extra plot for Near to expose this next layer of planning as well?
Not a big fan of just adding more and more layers to make characters smarter, just accept the outcome, and if you think Light is incapable of making a mistake realize Mikami was the one who made a mistake anyways.
@@EthanShopovick I don't understand why you're overcomplicating it. For how light is shown, I think it was common sense for him to have a page prepared for these crucial moments. And yes Near obviously is smart enough to think of this possibility, but that's why Mikami hid the DN page(that looks like an ordinary file page) among so many files. Making it practically impossible for them to fetch the page
And then ryuk kill light like in the Stage-Play.
Iirc, didn't ryuk already talk to light about how things would get boring if he killed L, and i think light had answered with smthn like "i'll show you the new world"? I dont think that Ryuk would do that if light won
@@dylanzlol7293 that's the end of part 1, in the end of part 2 is different
Let's be honest Light only lose because the author write his name in his death note
this ending would be the best
I wanted Light to win wish this were the real ending
Well done light 👏👏
thank you
too realistic
Light was too egoistic at this point. He thought his plan was perfect and even considered mello's kidnapping to be "idiotic" not realizing that near had taken advantage of it and in one swoop had the upper hand against light for 3 days straight. Light had proven himself to be impulsive and repeat mistakes (killing lind l Tayler and 5 episodes later killing Naomi and revealing that he was kira). It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when and who would defeat light. According to Tsugumi ohba, Mello was originally planned to win but he drove himself into a corner and had to kill the character and make him win through near as his death exposed Light's plans. Also, light wouldn't have given the pages to mikami. In the manga's finale, it is mentioned that light wanted to make the death note mikami had look as authentic as possible, and there was a chance that gevanni had bugged mikami's room at that time so he would've easily noticed any mail (which was used to send the death note to mikami but wouldn't have worked now since near had found him) as mikami wouldn't be aware of the blind spots.
Interesting alt but doesn't captures light's faults and underestimates near and Mello.
It's true that Light had committed mistakes in the past, but those mistakes were the ones in which he was just egotistical and the ones in which he was unaware of the excellence of L. But through the series, we have seen that light used to be extra precautious, for eg, at hiding the deathnote inside his room. But in this, he simply didn't think of a possible event of death note being discovered by SPK, which had a fair probability to happen. What I have shown is that Light should have ordered Mikami to save some pages of death note, when they were able to meet each other. I tried my best not to underestimate any one, but I can certainly say that the author sure underestimated his own character Light. Also, as stated in the video, when it's the case of life and death, light can't easily rest his future on another person no matter how impressed he would have been from that person
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 he had made several mistakes post L as well. Having the npa make direct contact with near in order to make himself less suspicious. In reality, aizawa gave important pieces of info to near which made near realize that the current L was kira. Not making the kidnapping known to the rest of the npa and then killing sayu made it so that light gave away the notebook on a silver platter to the kidnappers. Launching an attack on near's hq thinking near hadn't made a plan for such situations and making that attack right after aizawa provided critical info made near suspect light even more. His biggest mistake post L (believe it or not) was not trusting mikami enough. If mikami was provided enough info he wouldn't have made a move when Mello kidnapped takada, light could've delayed his downfall. Also, the writer added matsuda's theory in the very next chapter after 107 in which the theory states that near controlled mikami's actions to ensure mikami doesn't test the notebook. In your alt, (correct me if I'm wrong) the spk get their hands on the real death note in which case it's game over. Mikami would be controlled by near and dies 10 days later in prison. Takeshi obata himself said on being asked who the smartest character is "near because he cheats" that's why this theory is also known as "near cheated theory" (although I don't like that name as all is fair in war) light was smart. Not on the same level as L but near there. But near and Mello combined were far superior to light. That was one of the minor themes of death note as explained in volume 13 "one man isn't enough to play god" and someone like L couldn't escape a god of death while someone like light couldn't escape his nature of making the same mistakes over and over again thanks to his ego and dying because he got too relaxed after 2 months (same as when L died)
@@notjeff7833 That's the reason why the episodes after L's death aren't that much liked by the people. There is a significant difference between the abilities of character pre and post the ep25, to me, it always seemed like Light IQ just dropped. For eg, it was very obvious that there could be a way of other people to get info of the people holding onto the death note, but light just kinda ignored it, which resulted to the kidnap of Sayu. Also, it was kinda unrealistic for Mello to just kidnap Sayu so easily. And also, Near suspecting mikami as second Kira didn't quite seem fair. Of all the people, he just made mikami the main suspect on baseless assumptions and reasons. And then ordered gevanni to follow Mikami, which lead to us to what we've seen. Honestly, throughout those all episodes, there were many instances in which Light could have easily got through the situation, but I just manipulated the last episode a bit, which still makes Light win. Even the writer intended to end this thing on ep 25, but the ending just wasn't acceptable to the audience
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 actually that was debunked in volume 13. Tsugumi wanted to end at exactly 108 chapters (some Buddhist symbolism like Mu) and it wouldn't make sense to end it at chapter 58 because it was only the midpoint of volume 7. Furthermore, only slight alterations were made. For example Mello was supposed to defeat light not near however Tsugumi changed that because it would be too easy and anti climactic. Near finding mikami's scene was butchered in the anime. The manga one makes much more sense (volume 10 iirc)
I don't remember that many details from the anime but in the manga Mello kidnapped sayu because takimura told him about those working with L and among them the one who had the most influence was soichiro yagami. Knowing that someone with higher authority would be in possession of the death note, he wanted to trade it for soichiro's daughter. Light got sloppy because he was unopposed for 5YEARS. Anyone would think of themselves as unstoppable and would slip up. My advice is to read the manga from volume 7 (phase two starts there) as it was horribly adapted in the anime.
@@mypfpsaysnothing5430 Also The First L did the Hard Work and the Second Split the Skills and got much Support..
Light should have been Smarter Multiple Pages dropped everywhere Imagine Kira Supporter JackPot and they could Pick up Real Pages Dropped From a Helicopter / Plane if Light does not Call his People Back or is Able to Leave.
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Light says to Mikami that now u know my identity and you are not useful to me. light tries to write teru Mikami name in death note piece in watch but he will not die because Mikami real name is Mikami teru not teru Mikami and the Mikami writes light yagami name in death note
light can manipulate mikami into giving his real name
No because
Mikami has shinigami eyes so mikami is still useful for light
Good ending but you can't compete the creator
There's a fan theory that Near used the Death Note to manipulate Mikami
it's not a fan theory, it's actually canon. this theory was first mentioned by matsuda in the last chapter of the manga (a year after light's death). it has never been confirmed if it's true or not, but honestly it makes sense considering how ocd-like mikami is.
This was denied by the author himself in the last manga chapter. He stated that ppl with shinigami eyes cant be controlled by the death note, so the theory was wrong. Near won honestly, eventhough the ending seems unrealistic.
@@mathman9751that rule.....is a mistranslation.
english translation: humans that have traded for the eye power of a god of death will see a person's primary life span, and will not be influenced by the death note. if the victim is killed using the death note, the remaining lifetime of that victim will be provided to the god of death.
japanese original: the lifespan visible by shinigami eyes is the person's original lifespan, one that is not affected/influenced by the death note in the human world. If the victim is killed using the death note, the remaining lifetime of that victim will be provided to the god of death.
Why Not Have Multiple Death Note Pages and Even Killer Squads Show Up
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Synced Japanese!?
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Near wrote mikamis Name in the Book and controlled him Into believing his Note was real without checking
This is just a hypothesis but Near is the type of person that could do that kind of stuff
Wrong, this theory was denied by the author himself in the last manga chapter: Death Note How to read.
@@mathman9751read htr 13, nowhere it was stated. and that rule is a mistranslation anyways.
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Mello should have won
dope
Booo !!
it is relastic thoug