He even goes as far as playing the part, and calling Suruga "Honey" while in disguise, much to his annoyance. Not too long after this, all 12 FBI agents die at Kira's hand. He enjoys seeing Light overcome the various challenges put to him, and often waits until the worst possible moment to inform him of a certain aspect of the Death Note just to get a laugh.

The novel also states that L helped in the prevention of World War III when he was only eight years old. Obata said that he based Sidoh's design on the appearance of a bird with his mouth being based on a beak of a Armonia Justin Beyondormason, is a briefly featured Shinigami who informs Sidoh that his Death Note was stolen by the Shinigami Ryuk and gives him the rules for different situations. This is most likely a homage to the on-going fan speculation of L's capoeira like fighting style in the Also, in the novel, L for the first time completely loses his composure and calm attitude: when Maki is kidnapped by Blue Ship, L breaks down and screams toward the sky after realizing that this was what Light meant about feeling helpless to protect the people he cares about. While the other members of the group realize that one of them is Kira, they do not know it is Higuchi. He tells Light in the first volume he doesn't always look at what Light writes because he finds it more amusing. At the end of the first film, L eats potato chips in front of Light; Light understood this to mean that L was still suspicious of him, as Light had used a potato chip bag to hide a mini LCD television from security cameras while L filmed his room. Together, they both manage to have the second Kira, who wishes to have L seen on TV, respond to them. Arma is a white female shinigami who becomes romantically involved with Ryuzaki after he finds her notebook.

Osoreda boards a bus and holds a gun to the driver's head. Both the book and its owner must follow the laws of physics. As there is no time delay between the first and second films, the second film begins soon before L supposedly dies. After Ryuk kills Light, Ryuk offers L the Death Note. Death Note Lyrics: I got demons in my brain / They want me to let her go / They want me to let her go / Bustdown glass all in the Patek / They just tryna kill me 'cause I have it / Demons in my brain When Ryuzaki and Mishima are ambushed by police, Arma sacrifices herself to save their lives. His feelings about Light are also revealed, and it is described that L did consider Light to be his friend, going as far as holding on to Light's broken watch as a memento and saying, "Light, I'll see you on the other side. Obata said that he encountered difficulty while drawing Ryuk in the pilot chapter since he did not "have a good handle" on the "bone structure of his face." She records the encounter and shares the tape with the Japanese Task Force. The actor also ate sweets that L would eat, and carefully considered the details of L's signature gestures. He did not want Light to kill him, so he wrote Soichiro's death as an accident.Touta Matsuda is the youngest member of the Kira investigation team. While Mikami dies in prison after going insane in the manga, he commits suicide by stabbing himself with his pen in the anime. Teppei Koike as L (Tokyo, 2015) L's role in Death Note: The Musical is essentially the same, but there are some notable changes to the plot. Obata said that he remembered seeing the thumbnails and asking his editor "Who's this character?!" Having fallen in love with Misa, Gelus uses his Death Note to kill Misa's destined murderer, a crazed stalker, against Rem's protests. Obata added the trait of Gelus having difficulty writing names into the Death Note. Death Note 2017 TV-MA 1h 40m Teen Screams Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class. Obata said that Rem is his favorite Shinigami since she is a Shinigami and "a good person. He is aware of L and Watari's detective work.

She tells him that he will continue his work in a fake book made to look like the real one. As such, L had Maki changed into a red dress (to prevent anyone from recognising her) and they both, together with Near, had to stop using public transport to travel and used bicycles instead. Ide trusts Light more than any of the other Task Force members, except for Light's father. Twenty-three days after writing his name in the Death Note, and after burning all the remaining Death Notes and having a conversation with Soichiro Yagami, L dies peacefully while eating a chocolate bar, with a picture of Watari lying right beside him. Near, whose real name is Nate River, is the young detective who succeeds L by default.

In the live-action films, her character is portrayed by actress Though not having any real concept behind Sayu's design, artist Takeshi Obata states that he often encounters difficulty in drawing female characters not central to the storyline.Koreyoshi Kitamura is the deputy director of the NPA and Soichiro's superior. Later, after L's death, he rejoins the investigation, though he states that he only did so to be with Aizawa. Filled with hatred towards Kujo for causing her father's death, Maki injected herself with the virus and was about to kill Kujo (and herself was going to get shot too) when L rescued her, taking her and Near out of the headquarters and managed to flee from the terrorists with the help of While they were travelling on the train to locate Dr Nikaido's lab partner, a television broadcast by Kujo (as part of her strategy to capture Maki) announced to the public that Maki was a patient infected with a lethal virus who escaped the hospital and her photo of herself in her school attire was presented on-screen. He is also portrayed as far more bold, evident in episode 2 when he accuses Light and several other suspects as being Kira over the phone without even using a voice scrambler. L is very wary of Near’s “Mello” personality and does not hesitate to scold Mello when he comes out.

According to the timeline that is presented on each page of the novel, it appears L was to have only According to page 151 of the novel, it is revealed that the reason why L has acquired so many eccentric quirks is because of the heavy strain of upholding the name of L. From the novel: