I took it so seriously as a young teen but I am rewatching it as an adult with my partner and this is one of the funniest animes I have watched. Would recommend a rewatch to anyone who hasn’t seen it since they were a kid. Completely different vibes, the dub is great as well.
The best part of it is the Roadrunner/Coyote ass hijinx mindgames between Light and L. Like one could imagine a scene where L paints a fake tunnel on a wall and tries to convince Light to run into it, until Light psyches himself out into running face first into the wall to somehow prove he’s not Kira.