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Don't know about the latter, but I despised Light the entire time and was rooting for his downfall and disappointed that he got a semi-sympathetic end instead of (apparently; didn't read it) the original manga version

In just the 2nd episode, he attempts to kill a police detective for the high crime of...insulting him. How noble! A few more episodes in, and he's murdering a ton of totally-not-evil-actually-the-good-guys FBI agents and other cops because they're investigating him, and caps it off by killing one of the victim's widows after discovering she had nearly pieced the clues together.
Never once is any option explored to deal with lawful authorities who despite being against him are not evil other than "yeah, I'll murder them."
The entire time he's an insufferable narcissist about how brilliant he is....which I'd actually find entertaining if it were at all true. He is smart, but he's also such a huge dumbass that it more than counter-balances his ability to scheme. Nearly every problem of danger spot he finds himself in throughout the anime is of his own making, such as the (again) brilliant idea to kill off the investigator specifically assigned to him rather than...say...acting like a normal teen around him until he figures there's nothing to the case and leaves, like he was ABOUT TO.
He can't even defeat his rival with his own intellect, instead he's defeated there at every turn despite having so many advantages in the match-up with his supernatural nigh-untraceable powers. Instead, he has to resort to pressuring a Shinigami to take out L for him, as he was about to be defeated and was desperate.

There is nothing at all redeeming or endearing about Light. I watched Death Note after seeing incessant comparisons of his character and personality to Lelouch from Code Geass and after getting through the entire anime (if I hadn't cheated and skipped ahead to the last episode to make sure that prick actually got some karma finally, and had that to look forward to I don't think I could've even made it through the last plot arc) I feel genuinely insulted and angry that so many people would dare impugn Lelouch, who while no saint at least DOES have plenty of redeeming qualities and fights a blatantly evil empire instead of well-meaning cops, by equating him to this scumbag.