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** Tsugumi Ohba's and Takeshi Obata's next series, ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' had a thinly veiled SelfDeprecation in which a series that was a stand-in for ''Death Note'', was being pressured by the Editor to continue dragging the story out past the main rivalry. This leaves the impression that Ohba and Obata ''originally'' did not plan for the series to continue pass the "Light vs L" plot.

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** Tsugumi Ohba's and Takeshi Obata's next series, ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', had a thinly veiled SelfDeprecation in which a series that was a stand-in for ''Death Note'', Note'' was being pressured by the Editor editor to continue dragging the story out past the main rivalry. This leaves the impression that Ohba and Obata ''originally'' did not plan for the series to continue pass past the "Light vs L" plot.
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* Mello and Near's character designs were accidentally switched during character creation explaining why they have [[IronicNickname Ironic Codenames]]-they were originally going to be [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]]-Mello was intended to be the "mellow" one and Near was intended to be the AxeCrazy one who was drawing "near."

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* Mello and Near's character designs were accidentally switched during character creation explaining why they have [[IronicNickname Ironic Codenames]]-they Codenames]]--they were originally going to be [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]]-Mello Names]]--Mello was intended to be the "mellow" one and Near was intended to be the AxeCrazy one who was drawing "near."



** Tsugumi Ohba's and Takeshi Obata's next series, ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' had a thinly veiled SelfDeprecation in which a series that was a stand-in for Death Note, was be pressured by the Editor to continue dragging the story out past the main rivalry. This leaves the impressions that Ohba and Obata ''originally'' did not plan for the series to continue pass the "Light vs L" plot.

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** Tsugumi Ohba's and Takeshi Obata's next series, ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' had a thinly veiled SelfDeprecation in which a series that was a stand-in for Death Note, ''Death Note'', was be being pressured by the Editor to continue dragging the story out past the main rivalry. This leaves the impressions impression that Ohba and Obata ''originally'' did not plan for the series to continue pass the "Light vs L" plot.

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Removing unnecessary entries, per ATT.


* In the first episode (blink and you miss it) one of the names written in the Death Note is Uwe B[[note]]oll?[[/note]]...
* One subtle indication of Light and L's opposition: Light uses a PC whereas L uses an Platform/AppleMacintosh.
* In episode 24, when L pilots a helicopter, he sits normally. There's an in-universe reason for this, as helicopter controls cannot be used from L's usual sitting position.
* During the English dub scene in the helicopter in episode 24, when L is holding the Death Note and giving a stream of thoughts showing how this notebook proves that Light is Kira, that last thing he says at the end of the stream is 'Yellow Box'. As this is the name of the abandoned warehouse mentioned and used in episodes 36 and 37, this can either be considered an accidental spoiler or epic {{Foreshadowing}}. In original audio he just says "two notebooks".
* The "13th" issue of the manga (basically a Death Note encyclopedia) notes that any time L gave a percentage of the likelihood that Light was Kira, he was lying-- it was always 100% - in fact, "any time L throws out a percentage, it basically means that he suspects that person by over 90 percent." (this still doesn't explain why L throws out the same statistics even in his ''inner monologues'') It also notes that he was lying when he called Light his friend.
* L has enough traits to be diagnosed with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome. Same with Near, but he doesn't have enough traits to be albino.
* Even though he is shown mostly sitting, Near is shown standing while meeting with the President.
* Minus Takada if you count her as the fifth Kira, the Kiras die in alphabetical order. Higuchi is killed by Light, Light is killed by Ryuk, Mikami dies by Near's actions (I follow the Near manipulated Mikami with the DN theory) and a year after Light's and Mikami's deaths, Misa commits suicide. H,..L, Mik, Mis... Clever, eh?
** It's the same with L and his successors. L, then Mello, and eventually Near. So it's L, M, N.
** Mello and Near's character designs were accidentally switched during character creation explaining why they have [[IronicNickname Ironic Codenames]]-they were originally going to be [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]]-Mello was intended to be the "mellow" one and Near was intended to be the AxeCrazy one who was drawing "near."
* In the crepes van in [[Film/LChangeTheWorld L: change the [=WorLd=]]] you can see an apple decoration.

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* In the first episode (blink and you miss it) one of the names written in the Death Note is Uwe B[[note]]oll?[[/note]]...
* One subtle indication of Light and L's opposition: Light uses a PC whereas L uses an Platform/AppleMacintosh.
* In episode 24, when L pilots a helicopter, he sits normally. There's an in-universe reason for this, as helicopter controls cannot be used from L's usual sitting position.
* During the English dub scene in the helicopter in episode 24, when L is holding the Death Note and giving a stream of thoughts showing how this notebook proves that Light is Kira, that last thing he says at the end of the stream is 'Yellow Box'. As this is the name of the abandoned warehouse mentioned and used in episodes 36 and 37, this can either be considered an accidental spoiler or epic {{Foreshadowing}}. In original audio he just says "two notebooks".
* The "13th" issue of the manga (basically a Death Note encyclopedia) notes that any time L gave a percentage of the likelihood that Light was Kira, he was lying-- it was always 100% - in fact, "any time L throws out a percentage, it basically means that he suspects that person by over 90 percent." (this still doesn't explain why L throws out the same statistics even in his ''inner monologues'') It also notes that he was lying when he called Light his friend.
* L has enough traits to be diagnosed with UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome. Same with Near, but he doesn't have enough traits to be albino.
* Even though he is shown mostly sitting, Near is shown standing while meeting with the President.
* Minus Takada if you count her as the fifth Kira, the Kiras die in alphabetical order. Higuchi is killed by Light, Light is killed by Ryuk, Mikami dies by Near's actions (I follow the Near manipulated Mikami with the DN theory) and a year after Light's and Mikami's deaths, Misa commits suicide. H,..L, Mik, Mis... Clever, eh?
** It's the same with L and his successors. L, then Mello, and eventually Near. So it's L, M, N.
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Mello and Near's character designs were accidentally switched during character creation explaining why they have [[IronicNickname Ironic Codenames]]-they were originally going to be [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Names]]-Mello was intended to be the "mellow" one and Near was intended to be the AxeCrazy one who was drawing "near."
* In the crepes van in [[Film/LChangeTheWorld L: change the [=WorLd=]]] you can see an apple decoration.
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* One subtle indication of Light and L's opposition: Light uses a PC whereas L uses an UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh.

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* One subtle indication of Light and L's opposition: Light uses a PC whereas L uses an UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh.Platform/AppleMacintosh.
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the original one-shot with Taro was released in the 13 How to Read Volume, all the way back in 2008


* NoExportForYou: The one-shot chapter has never been released in North America. Also unreleased in are the three DS games produced by Konami, four of the DVD collector's figures (Soichiro, Takada, Mikami and the King of Shinigami) and the anime guidebook. Luckily, Viz released the one-shot with the Omega Edition Blu-Ray set of the show.

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* NoExportForYou: The one-shot chapter has never been released in North America. Also unreleased in There are the three DS games produced by Konami, four of the DVD collector's figures (Soichiro, Takada, Mikami and the King of Shinigami) and the anime guidebook. Luckily, Viz guidebook, all not released the one-shot with the Omega Edition Blu-Ray set outside of the show.Japan.

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