How big of an asspull was it that Light miraculously bumps into the one person that had the right lead on his ass?

How big of an asspull was it that Light miraculously bumps into the one person that had the right lead on his ass?

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This big?

>how big of an asspull was every L move from the beginning?
my boy Light gotta have some advantages too

Asspull and Plot Convenience aren't the same

Why do normies love this show so much?

>normies

Normalfags like any show with a wacky or over the top premise

DA DEATH NOTE KILLS PPL JUST BY WRITING???

WTF DIE IN VIDEO GAME DIE IN REAL LIFE?!??

GIANT WACKY PPL EAT HUMANS!?!?

do you even remember where they were when they met user?

Comfy entry point in a weird foreign media genre. Plot is fast. Reminds a lot of Sherlock Holmes, another thing everyone loves, because its twists are tight, easy, and clever.

Light is the son of the chief. That was always his advantage. What he is literally doing, going to the station, is fine. Lucky timing, but it was luck born of a convenience that was mentioned and exploited earlier in the story. This kind of offense-first attitude bit Light in the ass in the second half though.

It's well thought-out. There are some ass-pulls here and there, but there aren't any plot holes or inconsistencies. It's also different from the usual trash that gets pumped out.
>moe trash yawn
>shounen trash yawn
>oh what's this? something ORIGINAL?
It's okay if you hate it, but at the time it was really the best thing there was

Also, Light still has to put in the work to convince her to give up her name. Think about what he did there. He was composed enough to face the danger and persuasive enough to make a former FBI agent whose husband was just murdered by Kira give up her real name right AFTER giving up her fake name. Just seeing Misora means nothing if Light can't capitalize, which was an endeavor he had to put in seriously impressive work for. And STILL L thought: 'This woman wouldn't just disappear. She was killed. Who was Raye Penber following? Let's look more into Light.' So in the end, the incident increased overall suspicion for Light either way. Not an asspull.

>the incident increased overall suspicion for Light either way. Not an asspull.
Arguably, killing Raye Penber increased the overall suspicion.

It’s an anime. If this worked like real life he would never have been caught.

It goes: Penber --> Misora --> L sets up the bugs. Remember that Light had Penber receive the email to kill the rest of the agents third, so L didn't think he was too peculiar until Misora died, which led him to see the train footage and say 'Let's put up bugs in the homes of the two families he followed.' L worked with Misora extensively on a case that is actually a novel you can read, a case Light doesn't know about obviously, but because of that case L knew Misora would not commit suicide and that Kira killed her. You can say it was a lucky incident for both.

To be fair, just the fact that the one FBI agent who followed Light happening to have an EX-FBI agent girlfriend who is actually better than her boyfriend AND used to work together with L in the past is at least just as much, if not more of bad luck for Light compared to Light's good luck of conveniently running into her at the station. I'd say the unprobable bad luck and good luck balance each other out, though on the other hand having this sort of combination is even more unlikely as a set in terms of probability, but if we think that way, then might as well mention how unlikely it was for Light to run into the Death Note in the first place.

I still think it's funny that if the bus driver happened to remember Light's face, Light would have been completely fucked.

its fairly cut and dry, Light was leaking information at every step and realized it much too late. Here is a neat article that explains this in more detail.
gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity

I mean, she only exists for that scene. The character was made so Light would miraculously bump into her like that. It's just lame, but it doesn't feel like an asspull because the author didn't really need to add her to the story in the first place

I skip-skimmed to 'Mistake 4' and--though he must do this to focus on information theory--his criteria for a 'mistake' is wrong. Leaking the information related to Light's identity is not bad. The goal is not to NOT be caught. Light's goal is to kill L, L's goal is to capture Light (ie to find evidence, not to solve the puzzle; L figures Light is Kira immediately), and they both say so, simultaneously, immediately after their first live interaction. The projective impulse is so strong that people forget this simple point and misunderstand their moves.

Light deliberately leaked information so that he could get closer to L. He used police information to advertise to L 'I can kill whenever I want and I am associated the police force, therefore, doubt the police force.' What did this do? It got the FBI agents to descend & be killed, got America off the case; it got Japan to distrust L and it got the government in Japan to also abandon the Kira case. If Soichiro Yagami does not have an extreme sense of justice and form an independent group right there, L's is done for there and then. In exchange for an information leak Light achieved extreme tactical supremacy. Think about it like this: at the end of part 1, he was both L and Kira. That is the best of all possible possibilities for Light's character specifically. His identity is irrelevant; Light wants to be known and revered. Mistakes should be measured to the capacity it did not allow him to kill his enemies and push the Kira agenda.

his entire goal after episode 2 was to get close to L and kill him. he could have continued to purge the world as user killer but his massive ego and desire to be popular got the better of him.

unlike most retarded Shonnen, it didn't involve a retarded main character behaving like a retard for 90% of the show until it's time to fight and he turns beyond retarded powerful to fight a retarded fight that most often than not ends in nothing happening until the next retarded villain appears

I love how light mentally abuses women

Light says multiple times that "even if this shinigami isn't on my side, it seems another god is". Basically he has a shit ton of luck. It's the same thing as when he was looking for the second Kira, only for her to come to him first.

What's more jarring is the way he plays a detective for a fool. Succeeding from behind his desk and with careful planning is one thing, but out in person and on the fly? Why isn't he dropping at least a little spaghetti?

Yeah, that was too much of a coincidence for me.

We need more MCs like him.

Man, I really liked her

But light did act like a retard

This is kkinda wrong. It assumes killing Lind Tailor wasn't a huge deal because Light "only" lost x bit of anonimity because it was narrowed to the Kanto region, but it has bigger implications than that. It singlehandedly proved everyone that
>Kira is real
>Kira is a person
>Kira can kill in real time
>Kira can't kill without name and/or face
whereas up until that point everyone including L was unsure on whether "Kira" was just a weird disease or the work of a god

It's not wrong, but by "anonymity bits" the guy only refers to narrowing down the population. Killing Lind Tailor was a big thing because, as you said, it proved Kira was a person (the face/name isn't much, they already knew about those, they only confirmed it).

But overall Light's biggest fuckup was killing the FBI agents and ending on a list of 100 people