Light Yagami became a Shinigami in the Death Note Anime after his Death

"They are nothing more than quotes from the Manga, probably included to make things more interesting. I do not think a single clip like that is convincing enough to alter the possible Anime reality." REBUTTAL: The clips of the rules are definitely not there to make the anime appear more "interesting." The screen clips of the rules are there to inform the audience about how the Death Note works and how the rules can be enforced in the anime's plot. Rules such as: 1.If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen. 2.If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack. Were included in screen clips of the anime in the first episodes, and are there not to make it more "interesting," but to show how the Death Note works. For example, people die within 40 seconds of thier name being written in the Death Note in the anime. Light did not specify the deaths of the many criminals he killed, thus they died of heart attacks. It would fallacious to disregard the last rules regarding MU/Nothingness as obsolete when all of the other Death Note rules in the manga were regarded in the anime as well. "Ryuk: "I wouldn't worry. Even without the eyes and the wings. You're already a WORTHY Shinigami." This implies that it is possible that the MU rule no longer had a lot to do with Light and he then somehow had been brought into a covenant with the Shinigami realm are no longer classed as fully Human. Also nobody knows how Shinigami are created; it could be possible they were all once Human Death Note users like Light." REBUTTAL: Shinigami can be translated as "Death God." Shinigamis are like Grim Reapers, in the sense that they go around and kill people. Ryuk referring Light as a worthy Shinigami does not imply that he will or would become an actual Shinigami. The role of a Shinigami is to kill humans with their Death Notes and that's exactly what Light did; kill humans with his Death Note. This doesn't mean that he would turn into an actual Shinigami, it just means that he was playing the role of a Shinigami as a human. Later in my next point, I will explain why reincarnation cannot be possible in the Death Note universe. "This particular rule can very well apply to being sent to the Shinigami Realm. In this realm, 'living' means having an empty existence of what appears to be NOTHINGNESS amidst the grey, grunge and greed of the Shinigami Realm. That is something I recalled from the Death Note Manga stated here: http://read.mangashare.com...; REBUTTAL: My opponent claims that the Shinigami realm can be MU/Nothingness. If Light went to the Shinigami realm after he died, this means that /everyone/ in the world would go to the Shinigami realm because of theses rule: 1.When they die they go to MU (nothingness). 2.All humans, no matter what they do in life, will go to the same place after they die. All humans are equal in death. Every human goes to MU (Nothingness) and if the Shinigami realm /was/ MU, then there should billions upon billions of Shinigami in the Shinigami realm because billions of humans have died throughout the history of mankind. There are only a few Shinigami in the realm, compared to the billions that should be there. Hence, it the Shinigami realm isn't a place where all humans go to in the afterlife. According to Dictionary.com, MU (Nothingness) can be described as: 1.The state of being nothing. 2.Something that is nonexistent: a view of humanity as suspended between infinity and nothingness. Definition source: http://dictionary.reference.com... When a human dies, their bodies stop working and their bodies eventually decompose. They will no longer exist; they will enter a state of nothingness. This is what MU (Nothingness) can mean in the Death Note series. Being existing and being conscious as a Shinigami in the Shinigami realm isn't exactly "nothingness." "Purgatory refers to the realm where souls go when they have lived a life that is, morally, neither right nor wrong. When most people die, they are judged and go to Heaven or Hell. However, in the case of those who do not choose a clear path of right or wrong, they are sent to Purgatory. In this world, souls exist in a morally grey area which is less divine than Heaven, but more righteous than heathens which are sent to Hell." REBUTTAL: In this point, Pro contends that Light (and other Death Note users) go to the Shinigami Realm, a Purgatory because they using a Death Note can be either morally wrong or right depending on one's perception. Light indeed did not have a clear moral path of right or wrong by killing off criminals who harmed innocent people. My opponent asserts that Light was sent to the Shinigami realm because Light lived a life of doing neither right or wrong, thus a purgatory would be a suitable place for him to be after death. While this may sound logical in a sense, this notion completely contradicts this rule in the Death Note: 1. All humans, no matter what they do in life, will go to the same place after they die. All humans are equal in death. http://deathnote.wikia.com... In the Death Note universe, where you go in the afterlife is NOT dictated by whether you've done good or bad while being alive in the human world. By this logic, a person who murders seven people and commits suicide afterwards goes to the same place after death as a baby who was killed by that same person. That murderer would not go to Hell, that baby would not go to Heaven and Light would not get reincarnated into the Shinigami realm/purgatory. This means also that reincarnation is not possible in the Death Note universe because all deaths are considered equal. In reincarnation, you are reincarnated into a realm of existence depending on what you did and what your desires were when you were alive. In Buddhist reincarnation, you are reincarnated into an animal if you possessed a large amount of stupidity in your previous lives. You go to the Naraka/Hell realm if you were extremely hateful in your previous lives. Source on reincarnation: http://en.wikipedia.org... Light can't be reincarnated into a Shinigami because reincarnation is a concept that implies that your afterlife is dictated by who you were as a human. It is made clear in the Death Note rules that everyone is the same in death. Nobody can go to Heaven, Hell, be reincarnated or go to the Shinigami realm/purgatory after death. The Shinigami realm cannot exist as a purgatory Death Note universe because the concept would be similar to that of Heaven and Hell. Heaven and Hell does not exist in the series. Therefore, a middle-place cannot exist as a realm in the afterlife. While I do agree with Pro that the unidentified Shinigami lappears a lot like the reincarnated version of Light, the purpose of this debate is to argue whether or not that Shinigami was really Light by using reasoning. It's simply not good enough to claim that the Shinigami was Light because "the directors wanted it that way, and that's that." The reasoning that I provided in my points above argues why it's not logical for Light to be reincarnated into a Shinigami. That Shinigami doesn't have to be Light just because it was there. I eagerly await for my opponent's response.