Light, L, Misa, and Ryuk were the only characters made into the primary Nendoroid figures, but they were also made into Nendoroid petites. If you make this Note unusable by tearing it up or burning it, all the humans who have touched the Note till then will die. After restoring Misa's memories, Light instructs her to begin killing as Kira, causing L to cast suspicion on Misa. When Ohba was deciding on the plot, he said, he visualized the panels while relaxing on his bed, drinking tea, or walking around his house.

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Obata felt that if Ryuk appeared to be more attractive than Light he would "appear to be the main character" and "things wouldn't work as well. When Ohba was asked, during an interview, whether the series was meant to be about enjoying the plot twists and psychological warfare, Ohba responded by saying that this concept was the reason why he was "very happy" to place the story in Weekly Shōnen Jump. 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. 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. In February 2015, a fifth-grade student of an elementary school near Pittsburgh was suspended for owning a "Death Note" and writing other students' names in it.

Hoping to apprehend Kira, Interpol requests the assistance of an enigmatic consulting detective, known as L, to assist in their investigation.The Simpsons' Death Note Parody Was Animated By the Original Anime Studio - IGN The Fix: Entertainment".

The show was removed from YTV's schedule on July 5, 2008, with its last airing being a rerun of the final episode at 1:30a.Besides Naomi's character, the novel focuses on how L works and one of the criminals L has to chase down. Ohba created "thumbnails," consisting of dialog, panel layout, and basic drawings, to be sent to Obata; the editor reviewed the thumbnails and sent them to Obata with the script set in stone and the panel layout "mostly done.