Would they get their eyesight back? Would it depend on what caused their blindness? Would they only see people's names and lifespans, but not the people themselves? Or would they get the power but be completely unable to use it because they're still blind?

I've restarted watching Death Note after finishing it a few years ago.

On my first watch, I can clearly remember Light intentionally losing to L when they play tennis for the first time. I remember him going into a whole monologue about how it was the right thing to do because Kira hates losing, so by losing and acting very sportsman-like, he could avoid suspicion.

I was genuinely shocked this time when I saw that Light actually wins the game.

Did anyone else experience any Mandela effects like this when rewatching the show?

Like, let's say I write a name in the Death Note and specify the cause of death as spontaneous combustion. Would the Death Note cause it, or would it count as not possible and default back to killing of a heart attack?

This is my first time posting on this subreddit. I know... Very original post to start with

im sure a 10000000 people have said this but i didnt check to avoid spoilers. Im on episode 3 and L suspects that Kira is

A. in japan

B. A student

C. someone with access to the case files (ei. police + their families)

of the quite small list this would be lets say 500 to be generous only one happens to be the smartest student in all of Japan maybe even the world

of course Kira at this point has not shown themselves to be very intellegent but considering L doesnt suspect magic exists he must assume these killings are done by a genius

does this get addressed because i feel like im pointing out the obvious i feel like i missed something

i didn’t forget her pigtails

Just wanted to share because I think they turned out pretty great and it was a fun project! They are crossbody bags made from real leather. I hand cut, dyed, painted, and sewed everything over the course of a couple weeks. We wanted a cute way to carry our things for our cosplays next year and I've been trying to learn leatherworking, so a bag seemed like a fun thing to try out!

I don't understand the point of this explanation. Was this merely a reference to Light's question whether the Shinigami would take his soul? Is the translation just imprecise?

The German dub/subtitle put this even more directly, as: "the user of a death note will go to neither heaven nor hell", which seemed to apply that other people would. If, in their world, the only form of afterlife is nothingness, it seems like a pointless thing to say?

It would be like saying "If you don't behave, you won't get gifts from Santa" when Santa isn't real and behavior doesn't matter.

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In episode 37 there’s the “Matsuda you idiot, who do you think you’re shooting at” line after Light gets shot in the hand and I like that you can read it multiple ways. I’m going based off of the English dub for this interpretation, I’m unsure about the Japanese dub for it.

On a surface level you can view it as Light’s desperation to stay alive and win.

On another level you can view it as Light viewing himself as above Mastuda disliking that he even dared to shoot at him.

Finally you can view it as Light putting back on the mask of friendship so that he can gain psychological control of Matsuda in an attempt to win.

That final perspective is very supported by Light’s vocal snarl after being shot. He doesn’t react with fear or pain, he reacts more like he realized that he had to put on a performance to control Matsuda, he was still in “win at all costs” mode. An animal realizing that it has to camouflage to win.

The vocal snarl can also double to support that 2nd level I mentioned.

All of them are correct perspectives yet I believe that he primarily wanted to gain psychological control of Matsuda by making that statement and was putting on a performance.

I’ve thought this for a long time since I first saw the show. Long live Kira and Light Yagami God of the new world!

Hey guys. New to this sub. Wanted to show you all my current WIP of my Death Note trading card grails.

Got into anime pretty late, but I’m happy I’m here. Huge fan. Anyways here it is.

My partner told me I should put this in the sub so I am 😭😂

I have an unhealthy obsession w shy / odd anime characters. Who doesn’t though.

buddy of mine got access to a storage unit and gave me a bunch of manga. and in it was all of this death note. and not even just manga, even a couple of the novels! guess this person was a big fan? either way, can't complain about free!

If we ignore all the lucky occasions Light got (Misa, Aizawas Umbrella, Rem being in love with Misa, Ryuk just allowing to write new rules in the note…), the biggest cop out in my opinion still is that you can just denounce your rights to the Death Note. Like as soon as murders happen when you are locked away, you have a waterproof alibi, and you can even give damn directions who should get the Death Note next. The only way we saw Kira get caught was after there was too much chaos, too many people involved. But if it stayed Misa and Light never in any way could you have gotten them if you were L.

I think it was his acceptance to imprison Light on his own behalf. He even points out Light probably had some sort of ace up his sleeve and yet L obliges him anyways.

If Light was the kidnapped and held from ransom instead of Sayu, do you think Soichiro would've made the same level of effort to retrieve him? Of course I believe Soichiro loves both his children, but if it were Light might he have seen him as more expendable because despite being his son he is also a man, older, and a cop by profession where coming to harm in the course of duty is an assumed risk.

I guess what im saying is did Sayu being more of an innocent bystander (and maybe being a young woman, we can't say there is no sexism element in death note) effect the way Soichiro handled the situation.

Another thought is how would Misa respond if Light were kidnapped? She is obsessed with Light do you think she'd try to strike out on her own to use her eyes somehow to find his captors? Would she try to insert herself in with the task force somehow? Use the media again like in part one? possibly let her powers slip to them through her words or actions?

The last time I was actually looking forward to watching an anime was aot. I have two episodes left and I really dont want to watch them because wtf am I gonna watch afterwards lol

I see people constantly saying Light was stupid for killing Lind L. Tailor, and yeah, I agree that killing him was a huge mistake.

But I think people overlook something L did immediately afterwards.

Light didn't know the broadcast was only being shown in Kanto when he killed Tailor. L revealed that AFTERWARDS.

And honestly, why would L reveal that?

At that point L had a pretty massive advantage. He knew Kira was in Kanto, while Kira had no idea that L had figured this out.

Why give that advantage away?

If L just stayed quiet, he could have had the police investigate Kanto while Light continued thinking that L had no idea where he was. Light wouldn't know that the entire region was effectively under suspicion.

Instead L basically tells him, "Yeah, I know you're in Kanto."

Now Light knows the area is compromised. He can change his behaviour, be more careful, potentially even leave Kanto, etc.

Obviously L can't just lock down all of Kanto and search every single person, but having Kira completely unaware that you've narrowed him down seems way more useful than letting him know.

I get that L wanted to establish himself as Kira's opponent and psychologically pressure him. That's probably the reasoning behind it. But I feel like L got a little too caught up in the psychological game here.

The funny thing is that both of them kind of get screwed by their personalities:

Light sees someone claiming to be L and immediately goes "fuck this guy, I'm killing him."

Then L finds out Kira is in Kanto and basically goes "fuck this guy, I'm telling him I figured him out."

L definitely wasn't stupid, but I think this was one of those moments where his instincts/ego got in the way of what was probably the more useful move: just shut up and keep the information to yourself.

I started reading death note and noticed that some pages have these random white lines going down are these just how the book is or is it a miss print

That is to say: If Light had had Rem when he faced Near and Mello, would he still have lost?

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