Light “faking” his emotions at his father’s death is a myth. According to Tsugumi Ohba in Volume 13, that was the last time Light felt any emotion.

Light is such a complex morally questionable character that always pushed the core themes of Death Note to its fullest, without him the whole experience would've been half as engaging.

What I love about the show is Light’s eyes. So much symbolism. In the beginning his eyes are round and innocent. But the more evil he does as Kira the more they become sharper and emotionless. Their personality split, sharp eyes is Kira, round innocent eyes are Light. More proof of this is his dad’s death. When he’s trying to get his dad to kill Mello he’s still got sharp eyes. But when his dad passes he drops the pen no longer Kira and his are a mix of sharp and round the two sides battling for control as he cries for his dad.

In my analysis, in the end of the anime, Light had gone through the 5 stages of grief upon being found out and was done for.

Denial: Of course throughout the series, Light would deny that he is Kira. In the end, his denial reaches to it's peak where he denies that he is wrong with his ways. After near's speech, Light thinks that everyone are fools.

Anger: In a fit of rage, Light Yagami tries to kill Near. Logically, best case scenerio, he won't survive as there are many others who can and will kill/apprehend him. But he tries anyway and fails. He screams out for Matsuda to kill them all but fails to convince him.

Bargaining: Upon getting shot down even more and being left in a pool of blood, Light begs for Mikami to write everyone's names, even though he is already aware that Mikami lacks an actual Death Note. It is here that he really is desperate, trying to find anything that can save his life. As he breathes in panic, he calls out for Misa and Takeda, only to remember that he had tossed them aside, with the latter being straight up dead. In his thoughts, he wonders what he must do.

Depression: As Light runs away in his desperation, he starts thinking/hallucinating about his younger days, showing how decent he and his life were before he started using the Death Note. At then climaxes with him seeing his younger self passing by, a self that Light could now only dream of living as. But now, he can only try to flee for his fleeting life for a few moments. Eventually, he is given a heart attack and realizes that his death is sealed.

Acceptance: Since he is dying, all Light can do is lay down and calmly wait for the last second of life to pass. In his final moments, he sees a vision of L standing above him, showing him that in the end, L had won. At last, Light eyes close and he passes away.

A lot of people are talking about how Mikami “betraying” light…. But the real betrayal was when matsuda found out light was Kira.. matsuda loved light and never wanted to believe he was Kira. The amount of pain and rage matsuda felt after finding out light was Kira is what made matsuda go mad at the end of the show. Matsuda was fucking underrated he was a real ass one.

I just finished death note yesterday and light is the most unique protagonist I've seen

A lot of Light's big flaws had to be forced upon him to 1) make him not too sympathetic and 2) make him fail despite having such an OP power. If he was a bit more careful with whom he chose to execute, if he focused more on big picture stuff (e.g. politicians, big business, corrupt officials and warlords in developing countries) too many readers would like him and support him and the whole work would become about politics instead of a battle of wits between eccentric geniuses.

So it feels unfair to hold these things against his character. He had to be written to make stupid as fuck mistakes at times to even have a chance at failing and he had to be clearly shown to be more concerned with ego and winning then with moral consideration to keep the focus on his battle with L. On the meta level, Light wasn't allowed to be anything other than what he was as a sacrifice to the stories overall direction. So not very much can be deduced from these aspects of his character.

"The villain was doomed to lose because he was arrogant and evil!" Nah, he was doomed to lose because readers want it that way. In reality, arrogant and evil people win all the time. By the same line, Light's failures feel like concessions the author made for the greater good of his work. So, if you want to convincingly address Light as a character, you have to steel-man his perspective first. Otherwise you are arguing with Something that was artificially handicapped by necessity and expecting your victory to carry any weight with people who don't already agree with you.

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For your issue with Mello:
He (and everything else in the second half) have A LOT more screentime in the manga. They skipped a whole mini arc with him and let out lots of his moments, even one more moment where he talks with Near over the phone to get information out of Mogi. Not to mention more of Light's true colours shine through in the second half.

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Great analysis, but there's one detail that I think could be described better. In the manga, the beginning is titled "Boredom" rather than "Rebirth", and this is because Light and Ryuk were both bored at that point in time. In Light's case, it was because he had nothing to test his genius intelligence enough. Light's motivation was to sate that boredom; it wasn't merely a narcissistic desire to become a god, with his ideas of justice just being lies to himself and to the world. There's plenty of evidence that Light did genuinely care about what he thought was justice even when he became Kira, such as how he was fastidious about how Kira's world-views were represented to the public. Light thought that killing wasn't good, but when he decided to use his Death Note, he had been thinking misanthropically and he had already killed two people to see if the Death Note was legitimate, so on top of his boredom and how he genuinely had brilliant capabilities that most people don't have, he decided to internally reject his former identity and he figured that he was suitable to be the divine judge, exempt from his moral compass. This made him devious and cold, solely focused on his goal and the satisfaction of sating his boredom, even if it meant killing innocent people for what he thought was the greater good. Of course, there are many reasonable standards that regard Kira as evil, and ultimately Light was just a human, regardless of his genius intelligence, so his aim for divinity was futile.

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This is off topic but I think the reason why Light underestimated Near was because he never lost. Every time when he came back home from a test, he always got a good grade…. Everyone liked him and thought of him as a smart and perfect person. And when he found the Death Note he also never lost as he managed to avoid getting caught, and he killed L. So no matter what he did, before the Death Note, or when he got the Death Note, he never lost… he underestimated Near.

You could talk about Evangelion, It has a lots of hidden messages

I really love your analysis of characters. One thing I disagreed with was when you said he faked grief. I honestly think when lights dad died, lira went away for a second and light yagami showed his sorrow.

He wasn’t tempted to use it. He was curious.

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Light is so goated that even Near even respected him.
Near said that calling C-Kira "Kira" is disrespectful to Light.

One thing to add about Light vs L in terms of intelligence, if you think L is smarter, that is not a problem. There are plenty of arguments and evidences for him being smarter than Light. However, if you think L is smarter because he almost caught Light despite him having the advantage, then no, Light did not have that much of an advantage compared to L.

"A criminal has to be lucky all the time, every time. A cop has to be lucky one time, any time." - idk who.
This quote perfectly sums up the situation and the fact that L and Light were on an even playing field.
Light had the Death Note, a magical notebook that could kill anyone by writing their name. And that's it. That's all he had.
L, on the other hand, had the ENTIRE WORLD's police force to work for him, including FBI, CIA, NPA, etc.
He has the fact that no one knows his name, no one except Watari knows his face, and the fact that he is the world's top 3 detectives all at once.
Light mainly killed inside Japan, which was a dead giveaway that he was in Japan and that he was Japanese, so L knew that. Light knew that L exists. He did not know anything else about L at the time. In fact, if L had not gone on the offensive, there was no way for Light to find and kill L.
On top of the fact that for criminals, once their method of doing crimes, or clues to their abilities are revealed, the police know more and more, on top of there being extras if the previous ones die. The information never disappears, and everyone from that point onward knows how to deal with such a criminal. While for criminals, it's not like there is an endless supply of them that could just take over for one another.

L had to narrow down Light's identity down from the entirety of Japan to Light and Light alone.
Light had to narrow down L's identity down from the ENTIRE WORLD to L and L alone, while not being able to move freely due to his family and stuff, on top of the fact that if he does ANYTHING suspicious, the police would notice.
I would say Light would have a harder time finding L than L does finding Light. All L has to do is search inside Japan, root out unlikely suspects, and go from there. For Light, where does he even start? He has NO CLUE who or what L is, there is no info on him ANYWHERE. The only chance he has is for L himself to provoke him the way he did in the anime.

Light did not have the advantage, or, if he did, he did not have a big one.

Lowkey teared up near the end 😭