Death Note: Volume 1

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When Light initially attempts to thwart him by killing the hostage, the NPA director, Mello immediately pivots to a backup hostage, the deputy director's daughter and Light's sister. Backhanded Apology: Even after Light's Memory Gambit, L seemed to know that he is Kira, and "atones" with a painful foot massage. Teru Mikami sees himself as this when he is chosen as a stand-in for and by Kira, whom Mikami makes out to be a godlike figure.

Character-Driven Strategy: When Light and L play a casual game of tennis, the two's inner thoughts are shown, each trying to read and outmaneuver the other, setting the tone for their mind games going head-to-head in the Kira investigation. United States for domestic audiences to download while the title was still airing on Japanese television".Light Yagami, a brilliant-yet-disillusioned Japanese student, sees the notebook fall into his world and picks it up. Pepirium of IGN saying that Death Note 's "heavy serialized nature" is what "makes the show so engaging and discussion worthy".

Light himself claims that his goal is to cleanse the world, but ultimately he moreso loves the power that the Death Note gives him. note So, for example, if it were in the series proper (which it is not), it could bring back Mello, but not Matt, because Mello died from a Kira-induced heart-attack, while Matt simply died from gunshot wounds. It starred Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe. Bullying a Dragon: L is very aggressive in his pursuit of a criminal who could kill him remotely with a notebook. Misa's hyper energy and strange priorities give this impression, though it's ambiguous when it's genuine and when she's playing up an act.Accidental Truth: In the manga, when Kira's killings started, various tabloids put forward the crackpot theory that L was Kira, so it was harder for the SPK to seriously put this theory forward when it became true after Light killed L and took over as him. A collected volume titled Death Note: Short Stories ( DEATH NOTE短編集, Desu Nōto Tanpenshū), which includes the February 2008 one-shot chapter, the "Special One-Shot" (re-titled "a-Kira Story" ( aキラ編, a-Kira-hen), the series' pilot chapter and the "L: The Wammy's House"/"L: One Day" one-shot chapters and more, was released on February 4, 2021.

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: L is the world's greatest detective, despite being a twen who almost never sleeps, constantly eats sweets, and will only "sit" by crouching on the balls of his feet. How to Use" states that though the Death Note has the power to kill, nothing has the power to bring anyone back to life. Nippon TV aired the Death Note: Relight: L's Successors ( DEATH NOTE リライト2 Lを継ぐ者, Desu Nōto Riraito 2: L o Tsugu Mono) special on August 22, 2008. The series is based on a short story about a schoolboy who finds a Death Note and mistakes it for a diary. Light's three different ways to tell if someone was in his room, not to mention his Porn Stash just in case someone happens to be watching.A 37-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Madhouse and directed by Tetsurō Araki, was broadcast on Nippon Television from October 2006 to June 2007. The drama by contrast draws more attention to the amorality of his actions and he is generally far more smug and arrogant than most portrayals. Jonathan Clements has suggested that the Chinese authorities acted partly against "superstition", but also against illegal, pirate publishers of Death Note.

Under the suspicion that "Kira" could have family ties with members of the "Kira" investigation, L assigns a team of FBI agents to monitor the families of those connected with the investigation and L learns enough to designate Light as the prime suspect. In addition Weekly Shōnen Jump Gag Special 2005 included some Death Note yonkoma in a Jump Heroes Super 4-Panel Competition. Said Shinigami bears striking similarities to that of Light (though not in appearance since the Shinigami is a walking skeleton) leading to theories that the two are one and the same. Also (only in the anime) after Misora is killed by Light L mentions that they worked together on the LA BB Murder cases. Although Bertschy mentioned some manga readers will be surprised with the dark themes of Death Note, he praised the series for its "great art, great story, [and] compelling characters".However, while fixing one plothole, Relight 2 creates another: since the mafia get cut out, Soichiro making the trade for Shinigami Eyes and his subsequent death is omitted as well, leaving plotholes regarding Soichiro's absence as well as how Light was able to acquire Mello's true name. After volumes of Death Note were found at the February 2013 suicide of a 15-year-old girl in Yekaterinburg, Russia, a local parents' group began campaigning to regulate all media based on the series, saying that it had an adverse effect on the minds of children.