Tactics | Death Note S1E5 Reaction

[@gremlinedits]

The popular fun fact here is that since Raye wrote the names in the Death Note, he can also no longer go to heaven or hell.

[@Bebe_yeon]

Poor Raye..

[@TheHelpfulHelmsman]

This fact was not fun at all 😭

[@SarahPavanAnime]

Light is truly evil

[@tesshh1]

@@SarahPavanAnime Can you believe some still defend him?

[@g_g...]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ heaven and he'll doesn't exists in the death note universe. Everyone goes to Mu. Which is the lack of existence.

[@bradleyatom]

17:00 So you guys paused at a very important part and picking it back up, I'm not sure if you caught what Light actually did. Raye didn't know the identities of the other agents but he DID know the name of his superior. So Light had him write his superior's name in the first block and in the death note wrote "Send an email to all your agents with the faces and identities of each agent," which is why Raye was asking "If he already had the identities, why does he need me?" Genius play.

[@apoorvjoshi2383]

Yes, adding to that. Raye and others dont know that "name + face" is the requirement. While he indeed hesitated, he did end up writing the real names mainly because he thought without their faces, they ll be safe. But what he did not realize, was that he himself could see their faces and names in the file, thus completing the requirement for deathnote to activate. As if this was not enough, light made their boss send the same file to every agent, thus making sure that Raye wasnt the only one who got it(i mean then it would highlight Raye's case who was tailing Light)...and then Off'ed them all at once.

[@t3cchan]

Light took a nice big triple jump over the line in this episode. There's no way to justify his actions at this point. Very excited to watch L, Mr. Yagami, and Naomi continue to work the case.

[@SarahPavanAnime]

Triple jump is right! He's the worst.

[@-piras]

Fr Fr, Naomi is a BIG RISK for Kira, but he doesn't know about her

[@marc68521]

@@SarahPavanAnimedefinitely evil. I do wonder if he could technically justify it as the FBI members and their leaders are technically committing crimes by being in Japan investigating the Japanese police force without their governments permission. It’s a stretch but at this time I don’t think they were given permission which would make all of their acts illegal including stalking (which is what it would fall under since the FBI has no legal position in Japan and would at best be a tourist stalking Japanese citizen but could likely be seen as worse since they are agents of a different government.

[@gbjustify6386]

@@marc68521well in his head he believes that he still has a plan to take place so if he doesn’t kill them then he will be stopped and the world won’t become a better place. So basically he believes he has no choice and that the means is justified in the end

[@wildpokemon2]

Sarah’s delivery and the editing on “go have some kids!” has me cackling 😂😂 That’s exactly how it sounded to me too haha

[@eduard60]

Don't need to think the worse of it. Maybe she wanted to be a mother, but can't control herself if there is a investigation in front of her

[@7thDilemma]

Adam: "I think killing the FBI agent would be a mistake." Sarah: "Oh yeah, he's not a bad guy. And his morality is so important." Adam: "So important. Yeah... mhmm, that's what I meant."

[@kurokawaii6597]

17:00 He doomed Raye Penber to never know paradise or hell and killed him. Truly evil

[@SarahPavanAnime]

For real though 👿

[@g_g...]

Again, no one in the series goes to heaven or hell. It's a huge misconception. Everyone goes to Mu.

[@fajarkurniawan9434]

​@@g_g... spoil

[@g_g...]

@@fajarkurniawan9434 well it's either that, or they'll keep misunderstanding till the end like everyone here

[@JerryO1995]

​@@fajarkurniawan9434 It's not a spoiler. It doesn't affect or modify the story, at best it's trivia, and the anime doesn't even explain this fact because it's just that irrelevant. It's a misconception that you only understand properly if you read the manga.

[@FunZoneer]

I think you misunderstood what Raye said. He said that "you wouldn't get involved in the kira case and you wouldn't do anything that would endanger your life. That's what you promised me"

[@mani3001]

Yeah, because telling your future wife that once she has *your* kids she will forget ever being an investigator is a cool thing to say. Women don’t just lose all identity when they become mothers Those skills don’t just vanish No matter how you look at it, Penber was horrible

[@fosterbennington6405]

@@mani3001Man just didn’t want his wife to be involved in the case where people magically perish with no counterplay, it’s not that complicated. He also likely didn’t literally mean that she would forget being an investigator, that kind of phrase it pretty common and it’s never used like that.

[@reialmero]

@@mani3001 Holy shit, is that the interpretation of Western people of this scene? You guys are really horrible at media literacy, huh?.... He said that you'll mind would be occupied by that and you'll forget being an investigator, therefore, lightening your burden. You don't have to do this dangerous thing, just let me be the one in danger. I can't with you people, you seem to take offense to everything. Crazy. Must be so tiring living like that.

[@FunZoneer]

@@mani3001 I agree that penber may have phrased that poorly but his intentions were always pure and to safeguard and protect his wife especially with respect to a case where supernatural power is involved and people are dropping dead by some mysterious act committed by some unknown person wanting to play God over the world

[@Lord_Cynrik]

@@reialmeroPlease don’t generalize the entirety of the West due to a few crazed liberals. I was born and raised in America and I didn’t see the slightest bit of disrespect from Raye to his wife when watching this scene. In fact, after Sarah made those uber feminist comments I went back and rewatched it to make sure I didn’t miss anything, and yeah he was respectful the entire time, even praising her multiple times throughout the short conversation.

[@mad_max103]

i mean, Raye is going to meet Naomi's parents so they can get married because they both want a family together, that's why she quit her job, i immagine it's difficult to raise kids when both parent's are FBI agents what's this? spy x family? XD, and why she's going to have kids, it's not like he's forcing her, she even smiled when he said she's gonna be busy once theu have kids i can't be sure but when he ignored her opinion i think the show wanted to show us how the fact that he was so preoccupied with his private life, meeting the in-laws, marriage, having kids and whatnot, and scared for his fianceè that he didn't want to involve her in any way and he was unconsciously ignoring possibilities to close the case as soon as possible, which is still a stupid and irresponsible thing to do, as much as it's understandable tho, not that he thought her opinion didn't matter because her job is to make kids XD then again i can't completely analyze a character with so few lines and screen time, i just thought it would be useless for the story to show this "wife has to shut up, stay at home and make kids" side of him, especially since his girlfriend cared so much for him that is now on a whole revenge quest meanwhile if you interpret it like this it makes sense, it was to explain why light was able to manipulate him so easily

[@unnwas]

"Hey Sarah, I know you used to be a top volleyball player, but you are now Adam's wife and you should stop talking about Volleyball" 😂

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

@@unnwas tbf, volleyball doesn't involve investigating and possibly getting targetted by an egomaniac highschooler that can kill you with a notebook as long as he knows your name and face. Or is professional volleyball really THAT hardcore? 😨😅

[@ketsunoAna123]

this one episode already showed what a real "hero" or character that actually good and against evil, that is light father, where he is ready to put his life on the line to chase kira while light yagami is the opposite, he is evil, he only care about his life, will kill everybody and never care about get rid of evil/criminal to begin with

[@BuKorostearu]

Emmm. Light is sending those massages to L because he wants him to understand the meaning of it. Not just sending them with an information just to see can he read the code or not )))))

[@Jchomze]

lights mocking look towards his victim(s) is spine chilling every time

[@gabrielesolletico518]

This time he has a cold, ferocious like looks. This is the first time he kills an INNOCENT in presence, being phisically near to him, and watching him die. This must have been crossing the line for him. In the next episodes...

[@BuKorostearu]

I dont understand why anyone would not think that it was all accident after Ray explanation of the hall situation.

[@g_g...]

Exactly, Naomi's deduction was exceptional. The only reason we as a viewer can notice that they can die in other ways other than heart attacks is because we are shown and told. And then everyone pretends to be smarter than the characters.

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

@@g_g... I mean, is L dumb? It's pretty obvious that Light IS Kira as we literally see him use the notebook to kill people. Like, just watch the show, dummy. World's best detective my ass. 🙄 /s

[@sailorkimmy]

Naomi stans rise 🤩

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

I feel like the subs made it sound way off than it should be, but what Raye basically said is that he doesn't want her to get involved in dangerous cases anymore and that THEY already planned to have kids which might help with her getting out of her habit of wanting to get involved in dangerous cases despite having quit the force already. I don't think he's dismissing her input because "I should be the only one thinking in this household, so go make some kids", but more about worrying about her getting dragged into shit he thinks will put her in jeopardy. Which unfortunately still happened because they got tangled with a mass murdering novelist, lol.

[@g_g...]

Exactly, everyone criticizing the scene are being self-righteous and projecting

[@Che1seabluesdrogba11]

Netflix Subs at it again 😭

[@anisecandy3108]

Not exactly disagreeing with the subs making it worse, but the thing is that Tsugumi Oba has a not great track record when it comes to writing women or talking about them in their mangas. Like, they have a pattern with them. I think most examples would include spoilers... But Bakuman, for one, has at the beginning a scene, where the main characters talk about one girl being smarter than another one, because she instinctively know that in order to be attractive she has to be nice and cute and keep her grades average and her dream of becoming an actress is another proof of that, because it's a dream popular among girls, and quote (I have the Polish translation of the manga, so I'm translating it in English myself, the wording won't be an exact match with the English version) "She knows, she was born to be happy as a beautiful wife by her man's side"

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

@@anisecandy3108 I'm not arguing that this series, or anime in general, have pretty degrading tropes when it comes to women. Cue a montage of the countless fanservice scenes in 90% of fantasy/isekai anime out there. Lol. I get that, and I'm not refuting that it's a recurring pattern within the media. But that shouldn't change the fact that this specific scene isn't anything worse than a husband worrying about his retired wife getting into trouble with a global mass murderer. She seems to have not let go of being an agent despite having retired already, and that habit of hers was a valid concern for Raye as he doesn't want her to get involved with the Kira case. And it's not like his worries were unwarranted, because (as we'll see in the next episode) both Raye and Naomi should've quit the FBI way sooner. Lol Edit: fiance, my bad they weren't married yet as Raye was in Japan specifically to ask for her family's approval.

[@anisecandy3108]

@@idiosyncrasy7703 See, I think that in a vacuum you're right about this scene. But that's why I wanted to bring the wider context into it. If, for example... There were some female characters in the police, also working to catch Kira, then Naomi's decision to leave the FBI and stay out of danger to have kids would read as purely character choice specific to her (also, I want to clarify that there's nothing wrong with putting having family above work btw). But with all of the women in Death Note being defined by their relationships to men and in general not matching them in competence, the only woman who is as competent as men leaving her job that she was great at and clearly cared a lot about to become a wife and have kids... (and having the plot develop around her the way it did...) Seems to reveal the author's biases. I'm not saying that it should be read as sinister or sth. Just that it can read different on the meta level than on the purely textual.

[@blacktoon2231]

The editing is so funny i love it😂😂😂

[@kobarsos82]

All we can ask, please bring in the episodes faster :D one week for each one is killing us. ^^

[@JosephPinkney-o5l]

Adam is correct, nothing has happened but it’s about to get WICKED. So prepare yourselves

[@jujuchonk]

"OH SHHH----- DANG."

[@SarahPavanAnime]

Keeping it kid-friendly for all of the children who will not be watching this 🤣 🤣

[@gabrielesolletico518]

@@SarahPavanAnime Oh exactly!

[@deltahalo241]

Little disheartened at all the people in the comments dismissing Sarah's observations on Raye's attitude to Naomi. I've watched a lot of reactors watch Death Note and pretty much every single one of them has come to the same conclusion regarding Raye (That being that he's not a bad guy but is a little bit sexist) if so many people are reaching the same conclusion then perhaps it's not a bad take but rather an issue with how the show has framed the scene. There might be subtlties that are lost in the translation from Japanese to English but I'd say with the way the scene is shot, the lighting used and the camera angles used, they all help create a sense that Raye is being dismissive of Naomi's opinions, even if he loves her a lot there's a palpable sense of friction between the two. If Naomi and Raye's decision to start a family really was one born out of love then I think the dialogue and flow of the scene needed to be altered to reflect that. I mean compare the family meetings that the Yagami household have compared to Raye and Naomi's talk? Still, I don't think it's a bad depiction at all. I'm sure there are lots of people out there in relationships similar to Raye and Naomi's, where the two do love each other but there are aspects of their personalities that cause issues between them. In that way, Raye and Naomi feel very human in their depiction and of course, neither of them deserved being condemned to death by Light.

[@JaimeAGB-pt4xl]

Adam and Sarah match the sides of the brain

[@yamikamui]

Why are so many concerned with Raye not being able to go to heaven or hell? Wasn’t it revealed later that (spoiler) All humans will, without exception, eventually die. After they die, the place they go is MU.

[@gabrielesolletico518]

You're so right, many people seems to just FORGOT this. I think that Sarah is right here: people believe only what THEY LIKE to believe, and what is MORE CONVENIENT for them to believe at the moment.

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

@@yamikamui Yeah, but MU is revealed way later on in the story. Most people probably forgot it was even a thing, and the freshest memory they have is Ryuk explaining to Light that using the death note basically bans him from entering heaven or hell. People just put two and two together.

[@robertbretschneider765]

30:15 Nice one.

[@feliz2892]

They're not ready for episode 7.

[@rikenad5216]

I really appreciate the Naya Rivera cameo 🫶🏽

[@RobustPhysics]

I'm not sure how you feel about musicals, but at this point I think it is worth pointing out that there was a pretty decent Death Note musical produced in Japan. There is even a demo of some of the songs performed in English for a Broadway version of it (although it never went anywhere). I bring this up because there is a decent song in it that summarizes Light in this episode crossing the line. I mean, he already did, but this is the final nail in the coffin. It was a duet between Light and his father. I can't remember when it took place, but it was around this point in the anime. It's called "There are Lines". Here is the English version of the song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6TLd2OIlJuEgM0 There are no spoilers in that song, but note that some of the other songs WILL spoil you. The very beginning of the musical itself also contains spoilers. That said, the musical doesn't follow the anime exactly, some characters are changed a little, and it completely changes the ending. Currently, the other songs that don't have spoilers include: 1. "Where is the Justice" (kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3SzeH56eK6FitE) 2. "Hurricane" (kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWHKfqltpdeVoMU) The other songs will spoil characters and/or plot either in the image or lyrics. But if either of you are a big fan of musicals, I could try posting the ones you can listen to spoiler free each episode. Oh! And on the topic of the musical, it is worth mentioning that Japan actually produced some live action movies for Death Note (unrelated to the awful Netflix "adaptations"). They were actually pretty good. Like the musical, it makes a number of changes (big and small). But it could be worth checking out when you're caught up on the anime.

[@SarahPavanAnime]

Oh wow!! Yessss!! We will have to check out the musical at some point (I love a musical)

[@gabrielesolletico518]

Death Note musical? Must be BORING TO DEATH ahahahahahah... s-sorry. *Return in his little, shady corner, with no friends around him*

[@Lo0serx3]

​@@SarahPavanAnime replying to a month old comment to say that there are some good uploads on KZbin that include subtitles! the musical is great

[@FraXuu]

I agree that you Raye shouldn't be condescending towards her, but she also promised that she wouldn't meddle in the inevstigation, that was the rule they both agreed and it seems you got so triggered it went over your radar!

[@freakcan]

I am disappointed that the subtitles spoil a plot point in the future.

[@Delta350]

i think everyone already knows kira can kill from a distance,,

[@gabrielesolletico518]

Yes,

[@EverGardens]

5:53 yeah more or less 😂 Also brace yourselves there's more coming

[@-piras]

Next episode is a banger

[@gabrielesolletico518]

Next two. They hit harder than that car who killed the junkye.

[@TanyaPhilipose]

i think it was supposed to make raye look like a dumbass when he was talking to his fiance like that tbh. i don't think it aged badly bc i think that was the purpose him being an idiot, and he was wrong so it makes his fiance look better

[@chinlee0711]

A great reaction as usual! The next few episodes are going to be a ride!! Enjoy itttt!

[@minhinguyen]

21:10 I'm sorry but this is too funny i had to rewatch like 10 times already

[@thanossnap4170]

Wait... is Raye Penbers VA Itachi?

[@apollo4961]

Holy crap clicking on this after a 14 hour shift and expecting haikyuu and hearing the fbi are in Japan jolted me back to reality in a way I’ve never felt before lmao

[@adambialecki3162]

Maybe I'm projecting but when Raye shuts down Naomi and tries to make her stop being an agent she looks and sounds uncomfrotable with that. Like that's clearly not how she wants to look at it.

[@g_g...]

She likes the detective work, but she prefers a family life. She didn't feel uncomfortable, but rather understood that she had to accept in forgetting the job and living a life, because Raye Penber was also planning on doing so. He didn't want her to get associated with the case. And at the end, he was right. Her getting associated with the case ended her. He was being protective. Additionally, they made a deal for her not get involved, and she accepted. Yall are just looking too much into it. So yeah, you are heavily projecting.

[@yapnog603]

L looks like Ubogawa no cap

[@ЮлияЖизненко-н5л]

Death Note authors definitely do not think highly of women. All the ladies in the show are motivated by love, either familiar or romantic. Men here have ambitions, most strive to win and become somebody, but girls just fall madly in love and act to protect or revenge for them. I do nothing it's a bad thing, but showing this one-sided approach is kind of narrow-minded.

[@MayMay-20000]

Watching this again with y’all so many things are coming back to me, but Light remains as annoying to me as I remember him 😂

[@ladybookworms]

Wow Sarah's looking lovely here for watching Death Note!! P.S. Comments on this one getting a bit crazy. Raise your words not your voice. Calling people names to make your point or respond to someone's comment is rather immature. Get your shizz together. Keep it kid friendly.

[@LosersForgottenPride]

I'd recommend Code Geass for another suspense driven anime, but there's no way you'd make it through that

[@jm8080ful]

16:40 Adam's prediction is technically not wrong....his fiance continues the investigation

[@nikhilinaganti5975]

At this point ig uk what happens to naomi so i can openly say it but the fact that u guys have such high hopes for her😇, we are dealing with light alright , he is not just a random high schooler, he's the nation's best.

[@transientanus]

Except he doesn't actually do anything smart the entire series. The author constantly dumbs down every single person around him to the point of insanity just to make light the smartest bestest most special boy. He is lucky at best and only because all of the people around him who are supposed to be competent professionals always make the WORST choices. It's bad writing.

[@EsquirebobAnimations]

:)

[@svgftw351]

a new sports romance anime called blue box is comming out tomorrow y'all should really check it out when you have the chance. The manga has been excellent and I've been waiting years for the adaptation. It's so well done the sports the characters and its so sweet and cute too

[@dob861]

@5:00 uhm I think Sarah is a little out of touch on this one. In the real world, it's not unusual at all for a parent to quit/change careers when starting a family, especially when they're working very stressful and involved jobs (FBI agents). It's very common actually.

[@transientanus]

It isn't about that. it's about the fact that Raye is like, "You can't work this case; you're a baby maker now!" It sounds like you're the one out of touch. Raye suuuuuuuuuucks.

[@hegatatakashita994]

​@@transientanusBoth you and Sarah got this wrong with your over the top liberal triggered perspective. At the the beginning of the episode we saw that RAY was nearing the end of his mission as he's close to labeling LIGHT as not suspicious. RAY was simply choosing to overlook the details so he can turn this page of chasing this kid who might be KIRA (who's able to kill anyone at anytime) and focusing on meeting his future in-laws so he can marry the woman he loves. He did not suppress or minimize his girlfriend's abilities. On the contrary, he knew her abilities all too well that's why he did not want that discussion to continue because he didn't want to involve her in the case he did not want her to be in Danger. RAY PENBER is an American character so he's from a progressive society in the story, I think both Sarah and yourself are misrepresenting the intentions of that scene. If you want an example of mesogenic who thinks lightly of women then wait to see how LIGHT treats his Girlfriend ( no spoilers).

[@ladybookworms]

@@hegatatakashita994 I agree with you and the OP. People just want to read misogyny into everything these days. If he cares he's trashed if he doesn't care he's trashed. And usually by the same set of people. Give the man a break. He had other things on his mind that he wanted to discuss with her.

[@transientanus]

@@hegatatakashita994 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH **deep breath** HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

[@anisecandy3108]

As for not aging well... Yeaaaaah, Death Note, well, the writer of it in general isn't great with portraying women... It's something to keep in mind going forward

[@mitchr1619]

So Raye is going to purgatory?

[@g_g...]

No, everyone in the show goes to Mu, and nothing else

[@jeffreyjaudian8671]

can you guys please try 1 episode of dub its super good to me its better than sub im such a sub nerd too is so good

[@bustercannon6088]

Oh yeah….. this was 2008 guys. When people used to tell us to stop watching these stupid cartoons and watch movies like Twilight instead.

[@Lord_Cynrik]

You were being ridiculous about Raye. He didn’t make a single comment about his wife’s capabilities outside of praising her as one of the FBI’s best agents back when she was in the force. He didn’t belittle her suspicions, nor did he imply that she was wrong. All he did was remind her that she promised not to get involved with the Kira case. People die very mysteriously in this case, and she’ll be having his kids in the near future so he’s extra concerned about her safety. He also doesn’t want her to stress about a case that she isn’t involved in, as she isn’t in the FBI anymore. I genuinely didn’t see a single disrespectful or derogatory remark in that entire conversation, and his wife clearly reflected that.

[@benjobanjo7475]

Western womens interpretation of that scene is just crazy. He didn't want her to get killed. This reaction is why there are not so many women in these shows...way to much emotion is involved. Thankfully Naomi wasn't, which is why she's a good character and not insufferable.

[@iscariot2180]

I'm not surpised to hear from Sarah common feminist stuff. Self uncofident women are so easy to get insulted for such trifle. P.S. It's never getting old that people so naive to consider FBI agents as "innocent" people.

[@transientanus]

The fact that the author has to completely dumb down all the characters in this show who are supposed to be competent professionals just to make Light seem like the smartest, most special boy is one of the biggest writing failures in this series. Light isnt smart. Hes lucky at best. Everyone around him always chooses the worst decisions possible.

[@samoth5161]

Ironically a dumb take to not see the intelligence Light has for spotting and using opportunities to his advantage, and turn disadvantages into advantages. Dismissing an outcome you don't like as just luck is surface level

[@transientanus]

@@samoth5161 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Look at this situation. There are too many variables that light couldn't possibly have accounted for. Light didn't know about Naomi so he literally just lucked into Raye doing anything he said at all. You clearly didn't ride a full sized bus to school, huh? Also, that isn't what irony means. Are you fourteen years old?

[@transientanus]

​@@samoth5161And just look at next episode. Where light LITERALLY LUCKS INTO AN UMBRELLA BLOCKING HIS FACE FROM THE OTHER COP. Are you trying to tell me Light planned for that? Yeah you aren't smart enough to be part of the conversation.

[@ladybookworms]

@smashbrandiscootch719 DUDE WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE? Go do something else instead of throwing your shizz around at everyone. Or learn to make your point without talking like a 5 year old being all condescending.

[@gabrielesolletico518]

@@transientanus Nobody says that Light isn't lucky... he's. But saying that he's JUST lucky, but dumb, is dumb. The other user was right. You understimates him. Of course ep. 6 and 7 are ALL a BIG lucky trip for him. But that's not always the case. For example, you didn't get what he did in this episode. He wasn't LUCKY abut "the girlfriend". He was subtle, first saying "Your family" and "All who you love". Taye was stupid to say "How do you know about HER?". But to be in that situation, of course, you can't think clearly, since you KNOW you've a killer behing you that can kill you in an instant. So Light, one has heard "Her", knows that the first person who comes acroos Raye's mind, the person he loves the most, presumebily, is a woman. Now, Raye is 30-something years old. It's very LIKABLE (even if not sure) that he's talking about his wife, or his fiance, or maybe his daughter. It's LESS likeable, but not IMPOSSIBLE, that's he's talking about his mother, his sister, his gandma or his female best friend. So, Light makes A DEAL. He put his fiches on which he thinks it's the more PROBABLE (but not certain) right answer: "Yes, I know about HER (generic)." and then, later: "Your GIRLFRIEND will be dead. And also all of your family". Light wanna to threaten Raye, costantly, and not giving him the time to thinking coldly. He wants to scare him. So Raye falls for it. Even because a girlfriend is pratctically the same thing as a fiancé. Was Light LUCKY that Raye would not realize Light was trolling him? Yes, a little (the calculated the PROBABILITY). Was he dumb? No, in any way, no. In the worst scenario, if Raye was like "No, you don't know anything, I don't have a girlfreind!" and tried to catch him, Light would have simply written his name on the Death Note's fragment he has in his pocket. Please notice that Light keeps his hands inside his pocket ALL THE TIME, until Raye don't go outside the Yamanote Line. Because he really is afraid that something couldn't work. He probably have already wrote "RAYE PENBA" on the Death Note's scrap, and has only to write an "R" to kill Raye. What confuses me the most is: how did Light know that Raye would have been on that Underground Station that day, at that time? It's unlikable that he has tracked down Raye Penbar, who's a trained FBI Agent. But maybe he already wrote on the Death Note "THE DAY X, AT THE TIME Y, RAYE PENBAR WALKS INTO THIS STATION, MEET KIRA, FOLLOW ALL HIS INSTRUCTIONS, AND THEN DIE AT THE TIME Z IMMEDIATELY AFTER LEAVING THE TRAIN". Did you think about all this at all?

[@OsSas3]

I'm not justifying Light (I am, I watched this show when I was a teenager and I was easily impressed by morally ambiguios characters) BUT he's basically doing what they will do to him. Death penalty exists and what if they decide it's justice to kill him? Now is kill or be killed, for me it's fair game between the police vs Kira.

[@transientanus]

.....It's kill or be killed because he's a MURDERER. Seek help.

[@OsSas3]

@@transientanus It's an anime/manga and just an opinion, who hurt you?

[@transientanus]

@@OsSas3 Yes and your opinion shows that you're a low quality person. Your logic here is so ridiculous that it's clear you weren't burdened by an overabundance of schooling.

[@transientanus]

@@OsSas3 Also liking your own comments is just ADORABLE. Yes, it's an anime. But we aren't talking about the anime. We are talking about your opinion. "Innocent people are fair game because i may be caught for my crimes." Take a good hard look at yourself and seek help.

[@OsSas3]

@@transientanus I'm sorry that I'm able to differentiate between real life and a show and not taking an stranger's opinion to heart. Don't worry, you'll figure out the internet at some point. Take care.

[@RavagHer]

you will never forget the name raye penbar

[@apollo4961]

Holy crap clicking on this after a 14 hour shift and expecting haikyuu and hearing the fbi are in Japan jolted me back to reality in a way I’ve never felt before lmao