If light Yagami was real, would the world be better or worse?

If light Yagami was real, would the world be better or worse?

I would be jerking it all the same

In one of the first chapters Light believes the Japanese police cannot possibly spy on him because it is against the law there. The manga is set in 2006, a time when spying was commonplace. Realistically he would've been caught within a year and now, in the real world, "the elites" would have the Death Note. This would result in a much worse world.

He would be disappointed in how ineffective the police are for investigation, also he would find that real rulers of this world hide in the shadows, so even political murders will have only a temporary effect

Realistically, how fast would the world be in chaos if the first few pages he writes are politicians, business CEOs, leaders, etc?

Light spots a camera in his room later. he was probably just assessing that no one would be eavesdropping through the wall lol. not that I remember the manga that well.

OP never specified that he had a death note.

Probably worse since he could have potentially developed from a vigilante to a full blown serial killer. He's shown no qualms with killing innocent people in order to avoid getting caught, had he not received such opposition from law enforcement trying to capture him in the first place, he most likely would have gotten bored with just killing random criminals left and right and would eventually target other people for kicks. And even if he stayed true to only killing criminals, society at large would change as many would end up idolizing him, forming cults and shit that probably does summary vigilante executions of people accused of criminal behavior without any definitive proof.

Yeah my initial thought was that he'd just be a detective like his dad. He'd probably be a minor celebrity because of his looks and support Hiro for PM.

There is no way they would know that the murder weapon was a book. He would never be caught if he just continued killing in obscurity.

he gets caught in like 12 hours max after he kills 1000 people and is the only person who googled that set of names in the last day

It doesn't matter since he will eventually die anyway. Even if his world was a paradise it will either end with his death or it's fate will be in the hands of the inheritor of the death note, who in it's turn can be a literal who psycho.

It all comes to the beginning of the manga where it's stated that dropped death note is only an enternainment for the bored shinigamis and not a tool for humans to improve the world.

Why would he google them? Not to mention he'd probably be using his dad's sources instead of google.
Light would likely be a lot more tech savvy in the modern day than he was in the original series. So even if the government did say "Hm, backtrace the IP of everyone who was on these public and likely highly trafficked web pages. ENHANCE" he'd probably have some bullshit superVPN to hide his actual IP from those websites.

killing a bunch of nogs in jail

better place, but why didn't he target the jews mainly?

world would quickly heal because those guys literally don't do any real work

From the everyday man's perspective the news anchors freak out constantly but nothing changes. You could snap everyone above middle management out of existence and most businesses would work just fine

better

If Light Yagami took the place of the protagonist of the last anime/manga/whatever you... observed? Is that the right word to apply to all of that?
Whatever, if Light was the protagonist of that, would it be better, or worse?
This is Light before getting the death note, to be specific.

Why would investigators who don't know magic exists even consider pursuing that avenue?

20 years later, people still argue

How did Death Note do it? Most other series are forgotten a few months at most after they end.

The idea of being able to kill someone simply by writing their name down in a book stands out to people because, at one point or another, everyone fantasizes about having such abilities. Apart from that, it gives way to interesting moral questions.

The latter
Ryuk did spot them, not him
If not for Ryuk he wouldn't even be on the lookout for it

light yagami would've been able to watch his own anime to learn from the mistakes though

The world can't be better or worse. It's always the same. Humans just make a bunch of noise and gyrate their already-dead bodies over it.

The manga starts in 2003. The anime changes it to 2006.

Majority of so called "innocent" people are not actually innocent and would commit evil acts if they could get away from it.

VPN to hide his actual IP

How naive and retarded.
You need more than vpn to hide yourself, ever heard of digital fingertprint, browser id or user agent?
And i am not even talking about hardware backdoors.
He would need actual magic computer.

Yes,if things were different the world would be better or worse.

Ryuk did spot them, not him

If not for Ryuk he wouldn't even be on the lookout for it

wrong, Ryuk noticed the "stalker"(i.e. Ray Penber), it was Light who noticed that "someone has been in his room, but it wasn't my mother or sister". He then tricked Ryuk into looking for them. But as Ryuk mentioned, they were all over the place, as if they intended for Light to find them by accident anyway

can't he just write wildly different times of death for them
it would be harder to connect him to their deaths if they occur with month long discrepancies

He wouldn't be able to accomplish anything significant unless the Death Note were real as well.

yeah, if there's a new death note the author's going to have to make him a superhacker or have some omniscient knowledge power that lets him find people without the internet

the elites who can suicide anyone at anytime with the death note would make the world a worse place

nah

The ids of high profile individuals are common knowledge

yeah but, there's cookie tracking and stuff like 5 eyes. big data being farmed so that if some kid's search queries matches all the dead rich dudes, he'll get pinged

I don't think the world would be better by any stretch if some arrogant moralfag teenager had the power to kill anyone he wanted. I hate smug bastard midwitts like Light and the world would need none of them.

In the manga they waste months to spy in Light. No real police or crime investigation unit would pour so much resources into trailing a random teenager. He also doesn't fall into any risk group since he's popular, has good grades and a gf.

Some low-level employee would say something like "let's put a spy camera in the bedroom of the handsome teenage boy" and be promptly fired for being a creep.

It came out in 2006, when the pickings for anime were much slimmer compared to the ocean of seasonal series we get now that wipe our memories of the last season the moment a new one starts.
It has what I consider to be, bar none, the best elevator pitch in anime history. A guy has a notebook and he can kill people by writing their names it in. So simple and easy to understand, but raises so many questions about what (You) might do if you had it before you even watch the series.
And then the series itself raises even more questions. Morally in terms of how he chooses to use it, which splits the fanbase into discussions of how right he was and how they would have used it better. And also logically in terms of the cat and mouse game and how he could have used the notebook in smarter ways to have one. The fact that the magic notebook has a clearly established ruleset compels people to consider how they themselves would try to game the system.

It really has everything going for it in terms of continued relevance, and that's not even getting into the factors that made it so relevant and popular to begin with.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Light was an idiot, the anime tries to write him as smart, but he wasn't, his incompetance was how people on to him in the first place.

Never mix stupid people with power

What if he didn't start killing random gangbangers and just wrote down the names of politicians and tech moguls and the such? Literally do it at random points in time. No pattern, no tech as in googling, nothing. Just writing down in his Death Note at random places and times. How would they catch him then? Wouldn't that change the world completely?