You think OG Light Yagami was dangerous with a 2006 flip phone and a Windows XP laptop?
Now imagine him in 2025—armed with modern social media, AI surveillance, deepfakes, the blockchain, facial recognition, and a million people live-streaming their lunch.
Let’s not play:
If the Death Note dropped in 2025, Light wouldn’t just become unstoppable.
He’d be trending on X, farming Discord cults, faking L’s voice with ElevenLabs, and executing his plan in 4K ultra HD.
And still get caught… because we, my fellow nerds, are terminally online.
So let’s break it down.
Act 1: The Rise of Kira.exe
2025 Light is still top of his class. Still bored. Still disgusted with how broken the world is.
Light Yagami
But this time? He’s not flipping through paper textbooks in his room.
He’s in a Tokyo high-rise, with four monitors running Reddit, Twitter, Kaggle crime stats, and ChatGPT prompting ideas like:
“List of unsolved murder cases that might be mafia hits disguised as natural deaths.”
He doesn’t just test the Death Note on a news broadcast.
He pulls real-time Twitch streams of crimes in progress.
He waits, watches, and writes.
The world sees petty thieves collapse on camera. The chat spams “W Kira.”
Within days, Kira becomes a viral enigma on TikTok.
Light doesn’t hide Kira. He engineers Kira.
Trend cycles. Reaction edits. Edgy moral debates. Kira fan-cams set to slowed Kanye.
He gamifies morality and lets the internet spread his legend for him.
Act 2: The Age of AI vs. Kira
Here’s where it gets scary.
Light’s greatest asset in 2006 was that no one believed a killer could be this surgical.
In 2025, he has access to the same tech L would’ve used to catch him.
He scrapes hacked facial recognition databases.
Builds bots that auto-identify violent criminals from leaked police footage.
Trains custom GPT models on legal documents and prison databases.
He builds an algorithm.
He becomes the algorithm.
Kira goes full SaaS:
A decentralized AI that suggests death candidates. Light only has to approve.
The public starts thinking Kira isn’t even human.
Just a ghost in the machine.
A force born from data.
And honestly? They’re not wrong.
Act 3: L vs. Light, But It’s Cyberpunk Now
L would still be L — but 2025 L is playing defense in a digital warzone.
He’s got VPNs, burner iPhones, real-time darknet crawlers, and maybe a secret deal with Elon Musk’s satellite data.
He suspects Kira’s using machine learning.
He starts feeding fake crime reports into the web — watching to see who dies, how fast, and if the algorithm can be fooled.
Light notices.
So Light turns his AI against L’s AI.
It’s basically GPT-vs-GPT.
Deep learning trying to reverse engineer L’s behavior pattern.
ChatGPT goes lethal, and the Death Note becomes its API.
And in the middle of this?
Ryuk is eating apples watching this cyber-horror unfold like it’s a Black Mirror episode.
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Act 4: The Flaw in the System (a.k.a. Us)
Here’s where it crashes.
Light’s flaw was never the Note. It was always his ego.
And 2025 gives him more chances than ever to inflate it.
He starts livestreaming judgment.
An anonymous Kira voice (text-to-speech, perfectly scrambled), judging people via public votes.
Think: “Death Court, hosted by Kira.”
At first, it’s murderers.
Then white-collar criminals.
Then “people who ruin society.”
Then influencers he doesn’t like.
Cancel culture goes literal.
Kira edits trend faster than anyone else can speak.
The algorithm eats nuance.
The public, once loyal, starts whispering:
“Who gave this guy the right to kill us all?”
And that’s when someone leaks his prompt logs.
Yep.
Light didn’t realize his AI stored his queries.
One anonymous hack drops the receipts:
He’s been Googling “how to manipulate public sympathy,” “bypass face obfuscation,” “lethal diseases that look natural.”
Suddenly, it’s not Kira the ideal.
It’s Light Yagami, the megalomaniac.
On every news feed. Every Discord. Every “leaks” subreddit.
And the best part?
It’s L who leaks it. Through a sock puppet TikTok channel.
With the caption:
“Kira is human. Too human.”
The Death Note in 2025 Would Be a Morality Apocalypse
Light would rise faster.
Kill smarter.
Scare deeper.
But he’d fall harder.
Because 2025 isn’t about control.
It’s about attention.
And the second Kira goes viral, it’s already too late.
The internet doesn’t keep secrets. It chews them up, memes them, then spits them out in 480p montages.
And Light, for all his brilliance, couldn’t resist the spotlight.
Just like always.
So…
Would a 2025 Death Note even work?
Or would Light just become another Twitter thread, canceled in 10 tweets or less?
Let me know what tech he’d break, who he’d manipulate, or what you would do with the Death Note in 2025.
And if you want L vs. Near in the AI era next?
Say the word, and I’ll drop it like an apple from heaven.
