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I just can't get the Near hate...
he draws his conclusions out of thin air with none of L's reasoning, like this one scene where he's sitting in a room full of TV's and he just randomly points to one and goes YOU'RE KIRA. the end of the story that near is involved in just doesn't have the same cleverness and thought put into it and he's the embodiment of it. it's like the writer just threw his hands up and said "well I can't outdo L, so I'll just make a character that can see the truth without following any steps of logic to arrive at it because light is evil and can't win"