Spoiler Alert for the ending, I guess
I’ve finished reading most of the manga, I just started 108, but the ending doesn’t make full sense to me with how the story happened.
Ryuk writing down Light’s name only make sense in a justicey way, not exactly a lore way
Earlier on in the manga, Ryuk and Rem switch ownership of their Death Notes as part of Light’s plan, (and it later being revealed that Ryuk actually dropped Sidoh’s death note doesn’t help the ending even more, in my opinion), but during the final chapter Ryuk says “I told you in the very beginning that I would be the one writing your name in the notebook when you die. That is the rule between the Shinigami who brings the notebook into the human realm and the first human who picks up the notebook.” So with the swap happening, Light wasn’t the human that first picked up Ryuk’s Death Note, he picked up Sidoh’s, but there’s also the fact that the remaining Death Note was Rem’s (which was also originally Gelus’), which Misa picked up first, meaning there is no logical lore reason for Ryuk to say that and write down Light’s name. There’s plenty of things that didn’t make sense to me after they killed off L, but to have the ending be such a failure to keep the story straight is crazy to me. I feel like I followed the story as closely as it allowed me to, so is there something I missed, or is that really how the story was meant to go?