Yeah, that's what really makes it the anti-WJ series. XD No hugging! No learning! (Oh, okay, people can hug, but just as long as they don't really mean it.) L is the 'good guy,' but I don't really connect on an emotional level with him, because Raito has protagonist status, and because we have so little sense of his motivation. I have a sense though, that in the future some of this reader/authorial detachment will come crashing down.

Naruto: See, that is why Kishimoto is evil. >_> He is Lord of the Twenty-Five Chapter Exposition!

Togashi: I dunno, I didn't think the giant bug thing was really much fun.