| I sympathized with him but never really rooted for him. He is maniac who uses justice as an excuse for his God complex. |
slimepoop said: If you mean why do anime viewers root for Kira, it’s because you’re meant to. He’s set up to be the MC and you want to see him overcome every challenge he faces. Depending on your moral compass you may even approve of light being the executioner on convicted criminals, and the anime goes out of its way to highlight that crime has indeed severely dropped since light began killing criminals. The anime also tries its hardest to avoid stating the large amount of people light killed, so you focus more on him overcoming the challenge at hand instead of the hundreds of thousands of people he ends up killing. The same could be said about people rooting for Lelouch from Code Geass. Leleouch’s goal is to kill his entire family’s bloodline to destroy Britannia and its fascist ideals. Millions of people end up dying throughout his journey but the entire time the viewer still roots for Lelouch. I'd say Light and Lelouch are very different characters though, despite having similarities. The most simple way to compare would be to say that Light is egotistical, but Lelouch {spoiler stuff ahead, just in case} treats himself as a tool as much as he treats others that way. I think that it's an important fundamental difference. Also, I never understood the logic behind "root, because you’re meant to", a lot of people mention it. What does it even mean? Are people zombies? lol You root for the character you like, for whatever reason, or agree with, it has nothing to be with him being MC or not, or author's intentions. But if people indeed only do stuff, "because they’re meant to", it's quite sad. |
| I like his ideology of purifying all evil from this world. We live in corrupted society were you can walk freely out of a crime just because you have enough influence on the government or you have enough wealth to hire a bunch of big shot lawyers . In a system like this , we need a Kira. |
slimepoop said: -YaoiBoy- said: I brought up the comparison of light and Lelouch because they both commit very deplorable actions to achieve their goals. I agree that they are very different characters however, it wasn’t a very good comparison on second thought. I don’t know the exact psychology behind why people root for the MC, so I explained why I think people root for light instead of against him.I'd say Light and Lelouch are very different characters though, despite having similarities. The most simple way to compare would be to say that Light is egotistical, but Lelouch {spoiler stuff ahead, just in case} treats himself as a tool as much as he treats others that way. I think that it's an important fundamental difference. Also, I never understood the logic behind "root, because you’re meant to", a lot of people mention it. What does it even mean? Are people zombies? lol You root for the character you like or agree with, it has nothing to be with him being MC or not, or author's intentions. But if people indeed only do stuff, "because they’re meant to", it's quite sad. Nah, I think it was a good comparison :) you didn't mean to analyze their reasoning or something deeper, not really the point here anyway, you just said that they're both MCs, who committed deplorable acts, which is true, not to mention other similarities. Yeah, the psychology behind why people root for the MC may be a lot more complicated than it seems. |
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| Because Light is awesome, everything about him is awesome. Light is crazy and fun. I like L's intelligence, but he is ugly and the way he acts annoys me since the beginning. |
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| I rooted for him though I know what he did was evil. I don't think all he did was morally justified, but at his place I'd probably do the same things. Also, it's just an anime so why can't people root for evil characters in it? |
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| Kira is flawed but his reasoning is something that's easy to sympathize with. It's undeniable we live in a rotten world where the wicked go unpunished. Yagami Light seems to be the only one who actually aims to rectify the status quo while everyone else just preaches boring one liners like "Murder is wrong" or "You're just a killer." Sure, he becomes drunk on power and loses sight of his idealism to pursue the pleasure of the hunt, but at that point it's just more exciting to see how long he lasts. On another note, personally I would feel much safer in Light's ideal world. |
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_GinpachiSensei_ said: lmao but we don't have a death note irl so you can't be killed if only some guy knows your name. How can you compare it to our world??kalebsmoker said: 1st off, People who like kira do not necessary like light yagami. That's an important fact. 2nd, most people who support kira, support the death penalty in real life, like me, so kira does what our governments refuse to do. Kira kills criminals and the world saw peace. Governments stopped warring. Criminals hid like the crockraches they are. Even the lazy population decreased. Why would anyone hate kira? The cops literally fought kira to save scumbags from dying. How is that right? We civilians suffer from criminals daily and finally someone comes and takes out the trash and is demonized by the police. Yes light was a womanizing asshole himself with a god complex. But his goal as kira, to rid the world of crime. So I say long live kira The death penalty never lowers the crimes. Look at real-life examples, countries with death penalties do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws. He never got rid of world crime, he only killed people who commit violent crimes, what about other millions of crimes that happen every day? His actions were not correct imo |
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Aguy711 said: Light was strait up an authoritarian. Towards the end of the series he even wanted to kill lazy people. Also he didn’t kill them people like Jim John un or xi king ping. He was fine with people committing murder so long as they were in government. there are no jim jong un or xi ping in death note, what are you talking about |
| because he reduced the crime rate by 70% while L, The task force, governments from all over the world and the FBI were twiddling there thumbs |
TokuchiToua123 said: because he reduced the crime rate by 70% while L, The task force, governments from all over the world and the FBI were twiddling there thumbs It is not about anime anymore. I'm talking about people IRL who think he was morally correct. In my opinion, he was just a psychopath who killed everyone in his way for the so-called good world. He destroying the lives of both others and himself. People liked him just because he left a Lasting Impression. |
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| I used to roots on Kira but when he killed some innocent people that's where I stop rooting on him. |
| I liked his idea but not how he executed it |
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_GinpachiSensei_ said: TokuchiToua123 said: because he reduced the crime rate by 70% while L, The task force, governments from all over the world and the FBI were twiddling there thumbs It is not about anime anymore. I'm talking about people IRL who think he was morally correct. In my opinion, he was just a psychopath who killed everyone in his way for the so-called good world. He destroying the lives of both others and himself. People liked him just because he left a Lasting Impression. READ THIS ALL IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO KILLS CRIMINALS NOTE: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT LIGHT YAGAMI, JUST SOMEONE WITH POWER TO KILL CRIMNALS if someone like him existed in the real world i would be rooting for them, i used to live in a third world muslim country and my family is christian (i am not religious at all) but becauseof my family i had tp follow religion, as i said it was a muslim country other religions were oppresed, you'll hear often hear news about young girls getting raped by muslim men mostly police don't do anything police here is shit, you can bribe them and they won't punish you, there are several cases where a rich man would kill someone and the police won't do anything, although something like that didn't happen to us but there were a lot of opression, but once our family got robbed and when we got to the police station they completely ignored us because we were christians, now tell me is this law ?? and this is not just a one time thing, things like this happens on a daily basis, if that's how law works and supporting someone who kills criminals makes me an edgelord i am happy to be an edgelord, i think you haven't lived a life where you have to go through injustice on a daily basis sorry i think it got a little too emotional :) but you are right too light killed a lot of innocent people and that's bad no matter how you look at it, and also people who were falsely accused |
serialcowmilkerJun 8, 2021 11:51 AM
| I would absolutely NEVER kill someone, nor would I condone killing somebody, but since Kira makes a point of only killing violent criminals who don't regret their actions and have no chance of turning over a new leaf (all those criteria are outlined explicitly by Light during the Yotsuba arc) I understand how/why someone COULD justify his actions, even though killing people whose only "crime" was trying to get in Kira's way is absolutely 100% unforgiveable I did root for Light too, but my reason for rooting for him is that he's not real. Fiction and reality are two different things and I thought Light was more interesting than the other characters, so I rooted for him. Simple. Light may be a bad person (although I don't think he's AS bad as some people claim emphasis on "as") but he's an AMAZING character Just a thought, but I do find it funny how a lot of fictional heroes have the motivation of "vanquishing all evil no matter what" and they're considered by their series's narrative to be good people, but because Kira succeeds in vanquishing most evil, Light's considered the villain within his series. That's just fascinating, not gonna lie |
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| Honestly i couldnt stan L or Near, and i dont rlly have much of a reason for it. when i first watched it loved kira because he was doing justice, but now looking back he had a huge god complex and he wasnt all that smart either. He also killed plenty of innocent people |
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TokuchiToua123 said: _GinpachiSensei_ said: It is not about anime anymore. I'm talking about people IRL who think he was morally correct. In my opinion, he was just a psychopath who killed everyone in his way for the so-called good world. He destroying the lives of both others and himself. People liked him just because he left a Lasting Impression. READ THIS ALL IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO KILLS CRIMINALS NOTE: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT LIGHT YAGAMI, JUST SOMEONE WITH POWER TO KILL CRIMNALS if someone like him existed in the real world i would be rooting for them, i used to live in a third world muslim country and my family is christian (i am not religious at all) but becauseof my family i had tp follow religion, as i said it was a muslim country other religions were oppresed, you'll hear often hear news about young girls getting raped by muslim men mostly police don't do anything police here is shit, you can bribe them and they won't punish you, there are several cases where a rich man would kill someone and the police won't do anything, although something like that didn't happen to us but there were a lot of opression, but once our family got robbed and when we got to the police station they completely ignored us because we were christians, now tell me is this law ?? and this is not just a one time thing, things like this happens on a daily basis, if that's how law works and supporting someone who kills criminals makes me an edgelord i am happy to be an edgelord, i think you haven't lived a life where you have to go through injustice on a daily basis sorry i think it got a little too emotional :) but you are right too light killed a lot of innocent people and that's bad no matter how you look at it, and also people who were falsely accused I understand your point, people with heinous crimes deserve to die, but isn't it is a means of escape. It is more satisfying to see them suffer in jail for the rest of their lives than giving simple death. Also, there are some innocent people who are wrongly accused of the crime they never committed. In my opinion, nobody deserves to die. Killing criminals for their crimes is revenge, not Justice. |
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_GinpachiSensei_ said: TokuchiToua123 said: READ THIS ALL IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO KILLS CRIMINALS NOTE: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT LIGHT YAGAMI, JUST SOMEONE WITH POWER TO KILL CRIMNALS if someone like him existed in the real world i would be rooting for them, i used to live in a third world muslim country and my family is christian (i am not religious at all) but becauseof my family i had tp follow religion, as i said it was a muslim country other religions were oppresed, you'll hear often hear news about young girls getting raped by muslim men mostly police don't do anything police here is shit, you can bribe them and they won't punish you, there are several cases where a rich man would kill someone and the police won't do anything, although something like that didn't happen to us but there were a lot of opression, but once our family got robbed and when we got to the police station they completely ignored us because we were christians, now tell me is this law ?? and this is not just a one time thing, things like this happens on a daily basis, if that's how law works and supporting someone who kills criminals makes me an edgelord i am happy to be an edgelord, i think you haven't lived a life where you have to go through injustice on a daily basis sorry i think it got a little too emotional :) but you are right too light killed a lot of innocent people and that's bad no matter how you look at it, and also people who were falsely accused I understand your point, people with heinous crimes deserve to die, but isn't it is a means of escape. It is more satisfying to see them suffer in jail for the rest of their lives than giving simple death. Also, there are some innocent people who are wrongly accused of the crime they never committed. In my opinion, nobody deserves to die. Killing criminals for their crimes is revenge, not Justice. yeah i understand your point as well, everyone has different ideologies but killing them would be better so they can't commit a crime again, many people would commit crime after getting release from prison |
serialcowmilkerJun 8, 2021 12:34 PM
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_GinpachiSensei_ said: TokuchiToua123 said: READ THIS ALL IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I SUPPORT SOMEONE WHO KILLS CRIMINALS NOTE: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT LIGHT YAGAMI, JUST SOMEONE WITH POWER TO KILL CRIMNALS if someone like him existed in the real world i would be rooting for them, i used to live in a third world muslim country and my family is christian (i am not religious at all) but becauseof my family i had tp follow religion, as i said it was a muslim country other religions were oppresed, you'll hear often hear news about young girls getting raped by muslim men mostly police don't do anything police here is shit, you can bribe them and they won't punish you, there are several cases where a rich man would kill someone and the police won't do anything, although something like that didn't happen to us but there were a lot of opression, but once our family got robbed and when we got to the police station they completely ignored us because we were christians, now tell me is this law ?? and this is not just a one time thing, things like this happens on a daily basis, if that's how law works and supporting someone who kills criminals makes me an edgelord i am happy to be an edgelord, i think you haven't lived a life where you have to go through injustice on a daily basis sorry i think it got a little too emotional :) but you are right too light killed a lot of innocent people and that's bad no matter how you look at it, and also people who were falsely accused I understand your point, people with heinous crimes deserve to die, but isn't it is a means of escape. It is more satisfying to see them suffer in jail for the rest of their lives than giving simple death. Also, there are some innocent people who are wrongly accused of the crime they never committed. In my opinion, nobody deserves to die. Killing criminals for their crimes is revenge, not Justice. It’s not killing criminals that Light is doing, it’s the ability to oppressive those outside the reach of righteous law. You built your argument around law is absolute justice while he’s presenting a situation where law itself is corrupted. So if the authorities itself is the source of injustices who put them to jail. From 1st country with a refined justice system it’s the norm and easy but even 2nd world like India, Thailand, etc. having many history like these like alone 3rd world countries. Then there’s also situation where criminals don’t even cared about getting jailed and redo the same crime after their sentence is done. |
| Reading through the forums I can’t help but think many take it at face value. The symbolism of Kira is the exact reason why the death penalty remains controversial to this day yet many countries still practices it. It might seem like an edgy teenager playing god but it’s really a question of what justice is. What’s wrong with using absolute power to fear people from committing crimes? The series shows how psychological oppression worked. Taking a step back on why I think the author also condemned it simply because it’s too idealistic. Power almost always comes with corruption, many examples of monarchs and military countries. It’s shown in the series how the notebook corrupted Light and how he swayed from his initial goal. Rooting for Kira for its initial goal isn’t wrong in fact it was more so glorified in the first half of the series. This is why I’m ok with rooting for Kira and accepting that ending. |
LustKamisamaJun 8, 2021 4:59 PM
| Most people he killed are prisoner , murderer , and anyone who were against him . We didn't saw any POV of criminal who were killed by him so we can't emphatize to them, so yeah god complex go brrrrrrrrrrr |
| Хайде, хайде, хайде, това е първата зона, брато, първа зона, първа зона, добре, добре, добре, това става тук горе, отива тук горе, само спокойно, само спокойно... Ха, отдясно е, навсякъде отдясно отдясно къде е дясното ти о да добре добре добре тихо мълчаливо не успях да се съсредоточа върху това ЕХ ТЪПАК КОГАТО СИ БАВНО БАВНО ... ой е путката на моето момиче прасе куче, аз Чувствам се добре, о, мамо, *шамар*, какво е това госпожице татко- |
| This post is waaaaayyyy getting too political, I like kira (Light Yagami) because he's one of the most well written character I've seen. |
| Kira is obviously a sociopath... That being said I think some people approach the show with more nuance then simply "Kira bad. L good." Not that Kira isn't the bad guy, but on some level you can understand what he's doing. I think a lot of people have had the thought before that all the bad people out there are basically ruining the world and it would nice if most of them were gone. Most people will next understand though that justice has to be fair and you have to have proportionate sentencing. You can't just kill all the bad people in the world. In that sense, I think people identification with Kira may come from a more childish sense of justice that we may have once thought but now with a more mature mind recognize as wrong and flawed. |
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_GinpachiSensei_ said: not sure honestly not even the author likes Kira. hes suppose to be a VILLIAN protagonist. You might be a psychopath or something if you root for Kira because of his actions. What are your views about it? i think the only psychopathic character i think made good points in fiction was Kimbley, but that's because I like his philosophy about dedication and hypocrisy, but i don't root for him to win. |
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