Ok, I get it people love this show.
To people like the show because of the 36 episode saga that tells the intricate story of Light Yagami, I really love these 36 episodes and these episodes include my favorite arc of a non-shounen archetype and if you want a review of anything aside from the end, this is not for you.
The ending seems like a sick joke to someone who committed time to understand the story and sympathizing with the characters, which the show masterfully introduces, progresses, and overall proves what other shorter shows should strive for. Why would you build up the perfect criminal, god even to tear him down? Light's intellect as a character seems to be uncanny and well... godlike. His ability to predict opposing moves, seemingly random occurrences, and how the world will operate including the American government at one point. We can never hope to have a person on earth come close to matching this intellect, let alone a second person in the form of the original L. The thought of him losing is very discouraging to someone who did watch the show but the reasoning behind L's successors "beating" him is the biggest slap in the face I have ever seen. Maybe I'm thinking of Light too highly but it would make sense for Light to figure out the fact that there are two different parties after him and that neither could've achieved what they did in the ways that they did without the help of the other.
As I said, maybe I've thought too much of Light Yagami, but with how much the show demonstrates his prowess, intelligence, problem-solving skills, and almost psychic-like ability to predict, you would think he could counteract the power of teamwork.
There was a potential to build Light to be the perfect criminal/Godlike entity but like most things, children ruined it.
