L basically does call him out on it. He immediately assumes Kira is young, before even meeting Light, because he has such a childish way of viewing morality
Light could've done exactly what he wanted to do by just simply Googling the 100 richest people on Earth.
Light's definitely written as a villain.
I think it's pretty neat that the recent one-shot kinda hammered the fact that "Kira was a fucking genocidal maniac" home with what the new user decides to do with it combined with what you learn about how society views Light/Kira in the wake of his actions.
I agree he's portrayed as a villain, but they don't really humanize a lot of his victims or indict the reasons for crime. He doesn't make the world a better place and Light made no real lasting changes to the systems that push people to crime.
I think he was written as a bad person. He did go on a killing spree with very little prompting
It's been a while since I watched it, but like, he was very clearly an irredeemable piece of shit.
As a side note, how the fuck did the movie suck. It had a very talented director, Atticus Ross doing the music, perfect casting for L and Ryuk, but just a terrible script that couldn't decide if it wanted to be its own thing or stick to the source material.
Could just be the story needs the space a show provides, like how a lot of movies would make shit tv shows
The 2006 Shūsuke Kaneko film and its 2007 sequel are supposed to be pretty good.
I remember watching those ages ago but i don't remember if they were 'good'. but i don't remember hating them either.
kira would be cool if he killed, like, george w bush and stuff. go after japanese corrupt ministers/ceos, making them confess before offing themselves. but nope.
That's what I was hoping would happen with the show. The way you could set up conditions before death, you could totally upend Epstein style groups and redistribute wealth so fast.
Imagine a leftist with a death note.
