[quote=vancexentan]
I'll only say this about death note season two. While it exists and it may be canon for me the series ended at season one. How Near won in the end was stupid to be honest. Light didn't 'lose' he got screwed by the people who followed him.
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Which was kind of the point. The further in Light got, the more he began to trap himself and see himself as untouchable. His hubris in believing he was literally a God is what fucked him over in the end because he constantly underestimated his adversaries. 

End of season 1 wasn't even really his victory as it was a stroke of like that Rem did his dirty work for him to protect Misa.