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Definitely Light's the better Kira, Mikami Teru went mad in such a short time using the Death Note but Yagami Light well did go mad too but with power.. Also, Mikami would get caught easily..

a question to beat all other questions.
my lord or the total hot piece of white chocolate that works for my lord...

SO. MUCH. PRESSURE.

i pick raito, no... mikami..
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To be fair, I'd have to pick Light.

But DAMN, you just gotta love crazy Mikami.

Ah, well, Light always gave Kira a good reputation...i will always think Light is the better Kira due the fact that he could handle L, Near and Mello even tho at the end well...it was stupid xD
Personally i think Teru acted too insane...but maybe he got too excited about being picked as the new kira xD who knows...maybe he would have acted differently if he got the dn first....i think both of them rock...i love theeeem heart xD

Light was definitly the better kira, he was just so much smarter and more calculating, however its those exact qualities that make me like mikami so much more

Rereading my original post again, your post, and specific sections of the volume, then I admit I'm wrong on some parts and could've worded it differently, such as the first one. Yes, he might not percieve the whole world as rotten, but I still think he's "trying to prove his own existence" by changing the world around him. In ch. 105, he thinks that he views his role as Kira as "a mission entrusted" to him, he was chosen to "make amends for this rotten world and to create a truly safe and ideal world," because he thought there was something special about him that would make him "the only one who could do it."

Well, yes, Mikami was negatively affected by this "power" at first, but it was without the use of the Death Note. It achieved the same effect, but even if he hadn't come into contact with the Note, he still went through that period of desensitivation. The process would be much smoother-and with that combined with that he saw it as God lending him divine power, he was eager to use the Death Note.

But if we assume that everyone accepts Kira, wouldn't that include the criminals, too (so that they wouldn't commit crimes)? The Kirera would go on indefinitely or invisibly until someone actually does something questionable.
But I do agree with the last point, if Mikami had taken the Death Note instead of Light in the first place and had to against L, he would be caught sooner. I did mention that when I had said that Raito was the more efficient Kira.

I was mistaken on saying that innocent!Raito was "fervently against Kira," looking more throughly into my volumes, but at that time his sense of justice still retains a bit of influence from his father's. He does consider the possibility and agrees that there are certain people the world would be better without, but he denies the fact that he would be able to go so far as to kill a person. And where did I mention that he would quit the Kira case?

I'm sorry for not replying to this sooner.



Thank you. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "subjective reasons" in my original posts, as my judging criteria was different than the other posters (personal, maybe? I didn't say it was because anime!Mikami was good entertainment or something along those lines).
One more thing about the bullying. Whereas we know that child!Mikami actively tried to stick up for the victims, in ch.1, we see Light witnessing the same situation (granted, it's not on the same level as some of what the bullies at Mikami's school did, but still falls under the bullying category) and he acts differently. He ponders killing the bully (but concludes that it's best to kill people that he didn't know), but never really intervenes.

Normally, when people say that Raito started out with good intentions I tend to disagree, but the way you worded it (that his motivations were good yet "flawed and clouded"), I agree.

I'm sorry for not replying sooner to this, too.

I would have said Light is the better Kira, with no question, except that I read Sonata's post, and you really made me think about it.

I agree that Light's original IDEA was good, perhaps not purely for-the-sake-of-mankind, but good. However, Light doesn't just have pride, he has a HUGE ego. So I also agree that Light's motives weren't completely for the sake of the world, but for himself. He SAID that he thought the world was rotten, but in later volumes, and by looking between the lines, we can see that his motives later become a bit off. For instance, the way he goes about things--black and white, wrong and right. If you're not good, you're evil--would technically make him evil, as Ryuk said at the beginning. But Light went farther than that, to the point where anyone who tried to stop him, regardless of his/her character, was defeated. I agree that in order to do his job, he would have had to kill those pursuing him, but that's a paradox--go against your morals and kill good people, or lose the ability to be a god in the first place?

Light is smarter and overall more witty than Mikami, that's also true. And inevitably, that makes him a better Kira since he would be the only one able to match L's intelligence even if he couldn't match Near's.

Mainly, the reason I dislike Mikami is because I felt the power of the Death Note ended up driving him mad, and he helped Light on the way to his downfall. Sure, Light would have eventually fallen on his own, or died, but Mikami didn't exactly help (toward the end. Without him, Light wouldn't have been able to get that far anyhow.)

However, I believe Sonata's got it right in the true spirit of Kira. Light was bored. This is stated several times in the first volume, and while Light did what I do not believe Mikami could have, he wasn't looking for a way to do it. In fact, it seems as though he wasn't sure what he wanted from the world until he found the Death Note. Technically it comes down to fate, or luck, or whatever you want to call it, that Light found the Note first. However, before the Note, he was not bent on cleaning up the world. Sure, he may have thought it was a rotten place, but he had no plans or passion to fix it until after he had the power.

Mikami, on the other hand, spent his life trying to help the weak and strike down the evil. We see this throughout his flashbacks and childhood.The spirit of cleaning up the world was circulating in Mikami's mind since a young age, and it didn't take a book falling from the sky to prompt his attack on the rotten people of the world, considering he was a lawyer. I agree that he had done nothing significant (in regards to the entire world, not just locally) until after Kira appeared, but the idea that was not present in Light's mind until he was able to execute it was in Mikami's before he could. And so, in regards to the spirit and ideals that should belong to a true Kira, Mikami is better suited.

It would really be best if Mikami's passion and Light's intelligence had modeled into one body, of course. ^^

definetly light
ftw
Light wrote down names of people who deserved to perish
he also was very smart with his actions...at least up until he went insane in the end


anyways
Mikami was insane. he disgraced Kira. He gave Kira a bad reputation. he wrote down names of any one who comitted any kind of felony


So....Light all the way