| Re: Light or L whos smarter?
Regardless of how the manga and anime end up happening...and don't read this if you haven't gotten up to at least episode 25...as in NOT where [adult swim] is currently. It would be good if you've seen the movies, as well.
I think L is smarter. Light really had more advantages, simply because he held all the cards (knowing what Shinigami are, all the rules, no restrictions, etc.) while L had no choice but to follow Light, really. L even backed Light into a corner and forced him to forget everything he knew. Light couldn't beat L without help from a Shinigami. Could L have gotten help from a Shinigami? No. L was also restricted in a big way, because he had plenty of ideas to force Light to lose, such as testing the rules that Ryuk made up. In the movie he was able to do this, and guess what? He won. He couldn't have won in the manga because the taskforce was so closed-minded.
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