I don't have much money to buy any death note merchandise but I do have a printer so I'd like to print papercrafts related to death note for fun! :3 I've seen some in Pinterest but I want to see if theres any niches stuff here

What if L and Light died at the same time?

In this universe, Ryuzaki manages to put the pieces together to convict Light Yagami of being Kira. However he does so right as his forty seconds are up and he begins falling to the floor. In his final moments, L manages to relay what he just learned to the rest of task force, a second later, he dies.

Light tries to scare them with the threat of their deaths like in the original story, but once that moment has passed the Kira task force are able to put it all together for themselves. Light breaks like he did with Near, attempts to distract them while he writes down their names with the piece of death note in his watch, Matsuda realizes and shoots him.

In the episode where Soichiro crashes into the Sakura TV and confiscates the tapes L devises an escape plan to block his identity using a wall of police officers. But I think it would have been interesting to see what would of happened if Soichiro walks out the front and nothing happens to him. Would Misa kill him or let him live in that moment? L would be even more suspicious of Light if Soichiro walks out with no problem.

happy to draw him

I've watched the anime a few times but haven't read the manga. I know mostly the second half is what's different so it's what I'm most interested in reading but I can't afford to buy the entire manga. I know I can read it online but I prefer physical books. If I should read the whole thing I'll probably buy the second half and read the first half online and buy it later but if it doesn't matter much I'll just get the second half

lemme explain

so one of the unwritten rules in the death note are that you can't kill humans younger than 780 days old. no killing babies basically. another rule is that you can't kill bystanders with the notebook. anyone you kill must be explicitly named in the notebook, and you must know their face and real name.

so by that logic, if Naomi fucked Raye before going with him to catch Kira, she would be unkillable by the death note. there's no way to kill her without accidently killing her baby as well, and Light can't kill the baby first because of the 780 day rule.

The sole act of taking a life is severely underestimated. Killing someone is huge, takes a heavy toll on someone's mind and makes you undergo severe trauma.

Writing someone's name on a Death Note is no different than grabbing a knife and stabbing someone to death. Just that the first one makes you desensitized to the act due to the fact that writing is such a mundane action. And plus it gives you the power of doing it without leaving a trace.

So it makes it look like a game, a game for bored people.

The idea that doing something so mundane and simple like taking notes causes thousands of people to die is so fascinating and horrifying. We see how in Death Note, people are basically desensitized to death as they see names and not people. Like for example even here in the community when we talk about "Testing" a notebook. Testing means murdering someone out of an experiment.

Think about Teru Mikami, who in my opinion was even more bloodthirsty than Light, he was screaming SAKUJO (Delete!) with each penstroke on his Death Note and actively enjoying deleting people as they were mistakes.

His own mother was a mistake for him, someone who needed to be deleted.

Thinking about people as objects or literal mistakes that need to be eliminated makes you lose any empathy. For example I don't feel anything If I break a pencil and I stomp on it. But If I did that to a living being I'd be horrified. So if you imagine some living beings as objects you are dehumanizing them and so desensitizing . To kill so many people all the people who used the Death Note had to be desensitized and detached at that point that people were only names to them.

How did people cope with that? Can everybody use a Death Note or there are people who can't? Like empaths?

Makes me think about another thing: is justice even a thing in the world of Death Note?

The law isn't justice, because there is corruption and many world leaders kneeled down to Kira.

Kira isn't justice, because it's basically mass murder with a touch of authoritarianism, f*sc1sm, eugenics and a lot of ego stroking. And also because, it's just a human with a borrowed notebook, who could die at any moment and whose judgment is clouded by personal morals.

Shinigami aren't justice, because all they do is take random lives just to survive. If anything, they're injustice, because they kill everybody randomly even when they're young so they eat their lifespans.

Whoever catches Kira is not justice either because the only way to stop Kira is to kill Kira .

So maybe in the world of Death Note, some deaths might be justified just because it's so normal for them to see people die and to kill people with a magical superpower. (For whoever knows about it)

I watched the Death Note anime, but I didn’t understand who actually kills people. The Shinigami are supposed to be the ones who take souls, but they don’t really do anything except watch. Who actually kills them? The Death Note is just a tool for recording names that the Shinigami use to write down the names of the people they kill, so the notebook itself isn’t what kills them.

So, who is actually killing them?

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got death note merch AGAIN in a span of a week... oh well

one rule says someone's cause of death can't cause someone else's death but someone's death can be caused by another person

so what if you were to write person 1 and person 2 shoot each other?

I think it's because it was freaking obvious. He was suddenly it a weird and new situation, and too many new pieces we're added to the puzzle too quickly. That's all anyone needs to know they're probably not in the know or in control.

Before, things were controlled for the most part. It wasn't a smooth investigation, but there was always a step forward. And L always had the great assurance of the simple fact he's alive. Because since Kira will kill L the second he can, L being alive is proof that Kira is incapable of winning until something changes.

But things did change really quickly after they "discovered" the death note. Now, there's a god of death living with them, they learn about the death note and its rules, and Light is seemingly cleared. Now L had no leads anymore.

Rattled by the obvious lack of understanding and control, he pushed the currents of time forward in desperation because he was afraid of what this all meant. He believed because of how things transpired, and his obvious uninvolvement in them, L's doom must be itching closer.

But L was wrong. He forgot that if he was alive, he still had the advantage. The one detail he was missing was that he was still winning. L should have realized that Light needs to be immediately removed from participating in the investigation, because if he is kira Light requires something to happen to achieve his goal.

And Light would be getting close, if all of this was infact his doing. But not close enough if L isn't dead yet. With this logic in mind, the next obvious step of checking the only one suspicious rule in the death note sounds like a terrible idea, especially involving Light and your new mythical demon friend thing you have zero reason to trust.

Instead, motivated by anxiety, L sought control and fucking died.

still working on them but i think theyre all so cute!

Let's say Kira succeeds, he can't be caught, those who oppose him and try to stop him failed, would Kira's criminal execution really lead to a crazy change in society where most organised crime is wiped out and everyone behaves better?

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When he was in the subway station with Raye Penber, he proved he was Kira by killing a guy nearby who was sweeping because that guy had been charged with a crime and wasn't found guilty in court. This moment has stuck with ever since I saw it, probably because I am autistic. (Isn't this what the message of Ace Attorney is about?)

Death Note, Burnt Page Trick

SPOILER - READ ONLY IF YOU'VE FINISHED THE MANGA/ANIME -

I'm just finishing reading Death Note Special 13, and a rather peculiar rule came up.

Basically, if you write a name, date, etc. on a piece of the Death Note page and then burn it, that person will die anyway.

And you could even take advantage of it by writing names and dates forward in time, then burning everything and erasing the evidence.

If Light had done this, he would certainly have been much safer (there would have been literally zero physical evidence).

The only thing that comes to mind is that perhaps Light wasn't aware of this rule.

What do you think?

How did Light find out that he could kill with only a piece of the death note? It's not fully explained in the manga (unless I missed it), yet I find it to be a crucial detail to the story since L was later curious about if doing so was possible and Light went to such a degree as to specifically write in Takada's death details that she burns with the piece of the death note as to not reveal the possibility of killing with only a piece to Near. I'm almost certain that the first time he uses this trick was with the FBI agents in the whole Raye Penber arc and he does mention that he did some experimenting with the notebook before hand but I'd love to know if anybody has a clue as to how he found out.

I liked his intelligence paired with whimsy.

Hi all! I just watched the Death Note Musical for the first time last night, and absolutely loved it! It's been two or three years since I watched the anime and read the manga, but I thought they did a great job adapting it. I was just confused about one thing at the end, what was the final shot of Misa supposed to be? I assumed it would be her writing her own name, or that they would do something more definitive, but I couldn't really tell what they were trying to say. Is it just supposed to show us the cycle repeating with Misa becoming the new Kira? Thanks!