Anime Be WILIN on Instagram: "🎬 Fun fact: Death Note - Light Yagami, the brilliant student who discovers the Death Note, is a rare example of a protagonist who functions as the true villain of his own story. Interestingly, the creator Tsugumi Ohba intentionally made Light a “genius” to make the mental chess match with L possible, as a less intelligent character would have been caught almost immediately by modern forensics. The name “Kira” is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Englis