>>3855491There's a very good analysis about this over at tumblr :^)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/casuistor.tumblr.com/post/148774472866/two-boys-one-post-or-why-anime-light-is-not-the/amp It goes into how differently Light is introduced in the anime vs manga.
This person has written a lot of very good (manga) Light analyses, if you ever feel like it, I'm linking you another work of theirs too:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/casuistor.tumblr.com/post/148728910661/supernova-a-light-yagami-analysis/amp I believe it could enlighten you!
I will say: The anime does paint the picture that Light was always Kira, and was only missing a way to enforce his skewed way of thinking. The manga on the other hand...
I also want to comment on episode 25: I am glad it exists, and I'm grateful for the yaoi they gave us lol, and it also majorly changes the way Ls death comes about. In the manga it's extremely sudden and abrupt, while in the anime it's implied L feels his incoming death. Ultimately that's why I think he talks to Light the way he does in the rain scene - I think it's a sort of bid of connection, like "We both know what's going to happen, so why won't you be honest to me for once?" That's how I see it anyway.
L's death is something that deeply solidifies Light's change in character - more specifically his God complex. ("God complex? I find it quite simple...")I think that's the moment where he truly "becomes" Kira, if you will. Or, I would say it starts from the moment he gets his memories back. Augh, I have many thoughts about the helicopter scene.
Yotsuba arc Light... is, something, and it's also one of the facets of Light's character that really enforces the idea that, if the situation hadn't called for it, /if he really didn't find it absolutely crucial and necessary to do so/, he wouldn't have become Kira. Hell, during Yotsuba arc Light literally /cannot/ imagine why he would possibly do these things.
I hope you check out the posts anon!
