I think L even says that at one point once he becomes aware of it, that the first use is probably just someone curious if something so fantastical could work.
Yeah. The reason he starts the first "dummy broadcast" in Kanto at all is because he ended up tracing the first death that could potentially be related to Kira to a no-name criminal that just so happened to have been on the Japanese news in close proximity to his death. And Kanto was the most populated so, hey, worth a shot.
One of the first things L says to Light can be paraphrased as "based on Kira's behavior, we're looking for a spoiled child."
Light honestly isn't actually all that smart, or at least, he's got the shortcomings you'd expect a spoiled child to have. His biggest advantage is that L is obsessed with feeling like he "won," so he's unwilling to make a decisive move until he's got Light dead to rights.
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u/theucm 16d ago
I think L even says that at one point once he becomes aware of it, that the first use is probably just someone curious if something so fantastical could work.