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. 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. It also reprinted all of the yonkoma serialized in Akamaru Jump and the Weekly Shōnen Jump Gag Special 2005. 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.

In relinquishing the Death Note, he loses all memory of ever being Kira and turns genuinely upstanding and moral—apart from the whole "not mass murdering criminals" thing, Light also refuses to manipulate Misa, whereas Kira! Often the original draft was too long and needed to be refined to finalize the desired "tempo" and "flow". Light's final moments after Matsuda shoots him in the finale turn him from an evil mastermand to a pathetic mess. 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.Battle of Wits: Once L establishes himself as Kira's number-one adversary, the main conflict of the series is Light trying to hide being Kira from L, a mastermind detective. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light vows to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Even Light is given some posthumous dignity in the manga, which ends with a cult commemorating his actions as Kira. 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.

Obata's art is "[rendered] in stark strokes characterized---fittingly---by a complex interplay of light and shadow". An American film adaptation was released exclusively on Netflix in August 2017, and a series is reportedly in the works. The ban has been extended to other Chinese cities including Beijing, [146] [147] Shanghai and Lanzhou in Gansu Province. Though the two have their own motives that aren't exactly heroic, Light being a Villain Protagonist makes it a case of a Big Bad Ensemble against a Big Bad.

Though he largely works from the background, Near demonstrates himself as one in the final confrontation with Light, in which he destroys Light's final master plan. The former is an honorable, highly empathic, very idealistic teen, who believes in the inherent goodness of man.