Is death note anime realistic?
Well, yes and no. You do have to keep in mind that characters like Light and L are far from being normal in certain respects, particularly where their intelligence is concerned. It isn’t like you or I are bound to know someone truly like either of them, because they’re brilliant people and, well, brilliant people are few and far between. So while such intelligent people obviously do exist, it’s not like I could ever imagine this sort of thing playing out like this where myself or anyone I know is concerned. In all likelihood, if a Death Note were to be dropped into our real world, an average person would pick it up, and everything would go down very, very differently. The probability of a genius like Light happening to pick it up — the chances of everything being just so, so that he could be Kira like that — are awfully, awfully slim, you know? Possible, I imagine, but rather unrealistic because, of course, the likelihood of all the circumstances fitting together just so (genius, pol