Death Note: Volume 1

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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. The music from the anime was composed by Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi, while the CDs were also published by VAP.

Backhanded Apology: Even after Light's Memory Gambit, L seemed to know that he is Kira, and "atones" with a painful foot massage.The series was aired on YTV's Bionix programming block in Canada and on Adult Swim in the United States with a DVD release following.

Ohba claims that the series ended more or less in the manner that they intended for it to end; they considered the idea of L defeating Light Yagami with Light dying but instead chose to use the "Yellow Box Warehouse" ending. 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. Bystander Syndrome: As pointed out in Death Note Abridged "in this footage you can see various pedestrians who clearly don't give a shit that somebody near them just collapsed and died. In the final couple of episodes, Near's hair turns a light blue, probably in emulation of his precursor, the deceased L. Additionally, she praised the story as it is "building a climax" with each detail introduced in the first chapter, making the reader look forward to upcoming chapters.Chained Heat: Still distrusting of Light, L mandates that he must remain handcuffed to him and Misa as a means of surveillance, much to their annoyance. All Love Is Unrequited: The only instances of requited love in the series are those between couples already together: Raye Penber and Naomi Misora, Soichiro and Sachiko, and Aizawa and his wife Eriko. Obata said that while there is little action and the main character "doesn't really drive the plot", he enjoyed the atmosphere of the story. Many of their most clever moves against each other rely on the other party being smart enough to figure out clues that the average person wouldn't even consider, then acting accordingly. Cast from Lifespan: The Shinigami Eyes trade, which gives a human the power to see anyone's name and lifespan, at the cost of half of their own time left.

Alone with the Psycho: Naomi Misora confides all of her thoughts about Kira's identity, motives, and limits to Light, thinking him to just be the Chief's son who wants to help. Learning that Death Note had received approval and that Takeshi Obata would create the artwork, Ohba said, they "couldn't even believe it". A Shinigami named Sidoh goes to Earth to reclaim his notebook and ends up meeting and helping Mello.DVDs of the series have also been released, [56] containing both an English dubbed audio track, produced by Ocean Productions, and the original Japanese audio track with optional English subtitles. The 2019 video game Jump Force features Light and Ryuk as non-playable characters, playing a key role in the game's story mode. To give you an idea, the two parts are almost equal in length in the manga; in the anime, the first part is covered in 25 episodes, the second in 11. Asshole Victim: All of Light's earliest victims are this, sometimes as a criticism of the Japanese legal system, sometimes due to Bystander Syndrome. 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.