Death Note: Why Was L’s Death Crucial for the Entire Plot?

 

In Death Note, we meet Light Yagami, one of Japan’s brightest young minds. His father, Soichiro Yagami, is chief of the NPA and one of the most respected men in the country’s police department. It would appear that Light, who comes from such an honorable family, is destined to achieve great things in life and has a bright future ahead of himself. Unfortunately, his life takes a dark turn when he picks up a Death Note. It gives him immense powers, and he ends up becoming a mass-murdering maniac, publicly known as Kira. He sets an unrealistic goal for himself to make the world free of criminals, and his twisted moral judgments turn him into the kind of person he once set out to eliminate. 

Light Yagami’s indiscriminate murders draw a lot of media and public attention. People start to recognize that there is someone who is targeting criminals. Although he does have a lot of support from the public online, the government around the world is shocked at their failure to capture the man behind the murders. In one of the meetings, the case is taken over by the world’s greatest detective, L. Only after he starts working on the case, the governments finally see progress in capturing the mass murderer. It is the beginning of a complicated relationship between L and Light, which fans know from day one that it will end in the death of either one of them. 

Most people got to know how good L was when he made Light confirm from which part of Japan he belonged by challenging him to kill a man posing as him on live Tv. It was an impressive move, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before L got his hands on the mass murderer and put him behind bars. But even though L was right in identifying Kira, he was never able to successfully possess conclusive evidence that confirmed that Light was doing all the murders. The story takes an unexpected turn when Light makes Rem kill L by manipulating her emotions for Misa. It was a massive shock for every fan, and no one was ready for his sudden demise. The end of the arc opened gates of uncertainty, and it was impossible to guess where the story will go from that point. The manga writer is often criticized for killing L because most fans expected him to win over Light, but if he hadn’t died, would Death Note have got the success and popularity that it has now?

The death of L was undoubtedly depressing and hard to comprehend. It didn’t make sense since everyone was expecting him to win eventually. Still, the plot twist did successfully arouse curiosity and helped the writer explore the depth of Light’s character development as the anti-hero, which was the critical element of the entire plot. We see Light’s journey from being a bright student who is destined to do great things turn into a mass-murdering monster with a god complex. It is riveting to watch how he uses people and disposes of them as if they were his toys. He traps honest people like Raye Penber with his master plans and murders them with no regrets. It is as if the whole thing was just a game for him. But Raye Penber was not his only victim, there were others who loved him dearly, but it didn’t matter when it came to Light, who would indiscriminately murder everyone and anyone in order to become the god of the new world that he creates. 

He manipulates Kiyomi Takada, who has helplessly fallen in love with her, to do his dirty jobs, and as soon as she has done everything she can, he kills her without a second thought. His second in command, Misa, faces a somewhat similar fate although she is luckier than Kiyomi. However, the most shocking moment of the entire story is when Light’s father, Soichiro Yagami, is on his deathbed; without much care for his father’s wellbeing, he repeatedly pleads with him to kill Mello using the Death Note. It is shocking to see that he has little remorse for his dying father, and all he wants is to get rid of Mello. It is a crucial moment since it portrays how little he values others and shows a clear shift in his moral judgments compared to the start of the story.  

If it hadn’t been for L’s death, the viewers would not have seen Light resort to such despicable tricks in order to accomplish his goals. His descent from a bright young student to a remorseless mass-murdering monster is assisted by L’s death, which gives a temporary sense of superiority to Light, and it appears that he is going to win no matter what. Therefore, even if L’s death annoyed fans, it was critical for the entire plot. It is only because of that the viewers find themselves binge-watching the entire show to see the inevitable end of Light finally.

David Root is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Mcafee security products at Mcafee.com/activate.

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