Black-and-Gray Morality: At first, the series relies on Gray-and-Grey Morality to keep things interesting. A third game, L the Prologue to Death Note -Spiraling Trap- ( L the proLogue to DEATH NOTE -螺旋の罠-, L the proLogue to DEATH NOTE -Rasen no Wana-), was released for the Nintendo DS in Japan on February 7, 2008. Cavalier Consumption: Despite the high stakes of the Kira investigation, L is always munching on sweets while on the job.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the show holds an approval rating of 100%, based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 8. Sound of Death Note the Last name is the soundtrack from the second Death Note film, Death Note the Last name.He has a skyscraper built in Tokyo while he stays in different hotels, and has trusts set up to cover his team's lost salaries should they be let go from the police force.

They don't, because the Death Note Mikami was using was fake—finally bringing Kira's reign to an end. Later, Near is just as bad, equaling L's deductive abilities while spending all his on-screen time sitting on the floor and playing with toys. She felt that once vital characters fading into the background, the ending brings back what the fans loved about the first volume and the supporting cast are "given a chance to shine". L comes off as this, as a nameless, sequestered man who only eats sweets, breaks down every possible event to a percentage, and takes on the task of bringing down a dangerous serial killer with a blasé attitude. The ban has been extended to other Chinese cities including Beijing, [146] [147] Shanghai and Lanzhou in Gansu Province.Instead, Ryuk tells him of all the events leading up to the last story arc, about Light Yagami and his rival L. The anime adds a scene of Light and L talking in the rain and later sharing a rather tender moment with L giving Light a foot massage that has some Biblical symbolism to it, a scene that is nowhere to be found in the manga. In May 2010, the Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico held a hearing to ban the Death Note manga from their district's schools; it was unanimously voted down. However, the show was removed from the schedule at the last minute [62] and the Canadian premiere was pushed back to October 26, 2007, at 10:00 p.

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. Matsuda turns out to be yellow, Mogi is a different shade of red, Aizawa is green, Misa is light blue, Naomi Misora is dark blue, and Mikami is purple.Ohba commented that "reading too much exposition" would be tiring and would negatively affect the atmosphere and "air of suspense". Deciding that this design would be cumbersome, he instead opted for a more accessible college notebook. He proudly declares that he has won, and waits for everyone around to drop dead by Mikami's Death Note. Obata's art is "[rendered] in stark strokes characterized---fittingly---by a complex interplay of light and shadow". After pulling the trigger so that the audio is captured as proof to the team, Chief Yagami explains everything to Light.