In the June 2019 issue of Shueisha's Jump Square it was announced that a new one-shot chapter of Death Note would be published. Learning that Death Note had received approval and that Takeshi Obata would create the artwork, Ohba said, they "couldn't even believe it".

Obata's art is "[rendered] in stark strokes characterized---fittingly---by a complex interplay of light and shadow". The Death Note concept derived from a rather general concept involving Shinigami and "specific rules". Light arranges a scheme in which he and Misa temporarily lose their memories of the Death Note, and has Rem pass the Death Note to a less morally driven individual, Kyosuke Higuchi of the Yotsuba Group.Throughout the series, he carefully manipulates events to his advantage, with those around him none the wiser. In April 2015, it was announced that a live-action television series based on Death Note manga would begin airing from July 2015 on Nippon TV. Cavalier Consumption: Despite the high stakes of the Kira investigation, L is always munching on sweets while on the job. Light takes the bait, and kills the criminal — prompting L to reveal that not only was the man Kira just killed a decoy, he actually only aired the broadcast in one specific region of Japan. The show also streamed online free on Adult Swim Video, with a new episode available every Saturday afternoon, on the day of its broadcast premiere.

Julie Rosato from Mania Entertainment found the story to be very entertaining, having liked Light's development in the story and L's introduction as well as how the latter starts suspecting the former's identity. Big Bad Friend: At one point, L says he would be disappointed if Light turned out to be Kira, because Light is one of the only friends he's ever had.

Death Note is a supernatural thriller series that zeros in on a very delicate question: is all life worth saving or are there some that we'd be better off without?

Author Tsugumi Ohba wanted to create a suspense series because the genre had some suspense series available to the public. Besides Naomi's character, the novel focuses on how L works and one of the criminals L has to chase down. b] [20] The series' 108 chapters were collected into twelve tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, released from April 2, 2004, [23] to July 4, 2006. Bittersweet Ending: Light's quest for godhood ends in disaster, and he meets a brutal and heartwrenching end, as do the other Kiras and their allies.On June 12, 2015, the Chinese Ministry of Culture listed Death Note among 38 anime and manga titles banned in China. On the one hand, he makes it very clear that he doesn't care whether Light wins or loses, and almost never helps him unless there's something in it for him. By contrast, Donald Trump gets to make a fully informed choice; Ryuk is even nice enough to consider him not to have bought the notebook as long as he refuses to take it. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Bowdlerise: In the anime, Misa's cross necklace is replaced with a fleur de lis, and all crosses worn by Mello are removed.

Being Watched: Light very quickly picks up on the cameras that have been hidden around his house, and enlists the invisible Ryuk's help in locating them all. And one of the few things he ever expresses a firm opinion on is that if two shinigami who are attached to humans see each other, they shouldn't talk to each other without getting permission from their respective humans; he never elaborates, so it's not clear why he feels this way, or why he has an opinion on it at all. Jonathan Clements has suggested that the Chinese authorities acted partly against "superstition", but also against illegal, pirate publishers of Death Note. 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.A one-shot chapter, titled "C-Kira Story" ( Cキラ編, C-Kira-hen), was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump on February 9, 2008.