You can vote for as many of your favorite characters as you want on this poll, as go nuts and let us know who the best Death Note characters of all time are! Ryuk (, Ryku) is a bored Shinigami that drops a Death Note, a notebook that allows the one in its possession to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face, into the human world in order to have fun. The film is directed by Adam Wingard and written by Charles and Vlas Parlapanides, and Jeremy Slater. Like her daughter Sayu, she is unaware of Light ever being Kira even after his death. Ide later returns and plays a relatively minor role in the Kira investigative team. Naomi Misora She is a character we only see for a few episodes. It was the last time Maki would see L again before his death. [31] Misa Amane acknowledges that Mido bears a resemblance to Light Yagami. Pre-registration for the event began on April 26th, 2021. After witnessing her father's death at the hands of Kujo, who was in fact, the leader of the bioterrorist group who created the virus that destroyed a Thai village, Maki fled the laboratory with the virus sample and antidote formula her father inexplicitly entrusted to her to pass to Watari, and eventually she reached L's headquarters and sought refuge from him. L could only find her bag and teddy bear left abandoned at the harbor where Maki told Kujo to come meet her before her capture. He constantly plays with toys, building towers of dice and playing cards, and illustrating his exposition with small finger puppets and Lego minifigs. The Long Dark - THE LONG DARK: SURVIVAL EDITION - This edition of the game features the award-winning Survival Mode as a stand-alone product.THE LONG DARK - This edition of the game includes both Survival Mode & the WINTERMUTE Story Mode.Bright lights flare across the night sky. His remaining years are added to Misa's lifespan. The only thing known about his past before going to Wammy's House is that his father was beaten to death by a thug and his mother died in a train crash. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 1 / 2. He individually contacts the members of the committee. Are you a good guy? In contrast, he is quite easily bribed, as Midora was able to trade thirteen apples for a second Death Note after getting them from the human world.[21]. It is not made clear if he creates them or just has a certain supply, as he is unwilling to replace lost ones. Unbeknownst to her, Maki had witnessed her murdering Nikaido, which gave birth to hatred in the heart of the 10-year-old, who quickly escaped the facility with grief for her father's death. The crossover was based off the Death Note anime and manga series . He is a small, doll-like Shinigami who appears to be patched together out of mismatched fabric. He has four tentacle-like arms, each with only three fingers on the hands, which hang from his body. Shibuimaru rides a motorcycle and travels with a group of bikers. She does the same for Higuchi's car, allowing the team to watch his desperate attempts to kill Matsuda. His killings are eventually labelled by people of Japan as the work of "Kira." Ohba chose names for his characters in a way that, as he described, "seemed real but could not exist in the real world", due to the fact that most of the characters were criminals or victims. However, he is forced to hand the tapes over to Soichiro, who crashes a police wagon into the studio and threatens him at gunpoint. Date of Birth: October, 31 1979 (1982 in anime) Date of Death: November, 5 2004 (2007 in anime) (He will live on in our hearts T^T) Age: 22 (In Death Note: Another Note . Aoi is killed by Shien, leading the notebook to fall into the hands of Mishima's Death Note task force. [33] Many of the SPK are later killed with the Death Note by the mafia due to leaked information. During L's probe on the group, Higuchi kills Hatori after Hatori produced a "careless outburst. Soichiro Yagami ( , Yagami Sichir) is Light's father and detective superintendent of Japan's National Police Agency. Gevanni is assigned to follow Mikami for much of the case, and it is his meticulous analysis of Mikami's personal habits which allow him to find Mikami's Death Note and swap it with a fake. Shien attempts to kill both Mishima and Ryuzaki when the three men all meet in an abandoned building, but police officers ambush the building and shoot Shien to death. Also, while Ryuk is ambivalent to Light's success or failure, Rem actively assists Misa, having inherited Gelus's love for her. Light manages to force Rem to work for him by presenting a situation in which harm would come to Misa otherwise. He has blond hair, dresses extravagantly, and is rarely seen without a bar of chocolate.[5][6]. Osoreda boards a bus and holds a gun to the driver's head. Kiyomi Takada (Japanese: , Hepburn: Takada Kiyomi) is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.Takada is introduced in the series as a classmate of Light Yagami, with whom she briefly dates in college.She later reappears in the post-timeskip story, in which Takada is recruited by Teru Mikami to become Kira's spokesperson to . L places Tailor as his decoy on television in exchange for being pardoned by the government. [31], The Vice President of Marketing, Arayoshi Hatori is the illegitimate son of the company president and uses this fact to benefit himself. Anime & Manga Main Characters note Light Yagami Misa Amane L Lawliet The Task Force note Shinigami note Side Characters note Other Media Novel, Pilot and Movies note 2017 Netflix Movie note Blood Type: Unknown. At one point, he actually expresses some sympathy with Kira only to be severely . Matt (, Matto), real name is Mail Jeevas (, Mairu Jvasu), is a cohort of Mello's. open/close all folders. Matt was also a former resident of Wammy's orphanage, being one of its most talented despite his laziness. To regain his Note, Sidoh agrees to help Mello's gang against Near's SPK and the Kira investigation team. He is the eldest and most influential member and he appears to control the conferences. Chess is a game centered on getting your opponent's King in check- unable to move. She's a major character, but she's not the protagonist. He is seen completing blank puzzles, which emphasizes his problem-solving skills. In 2015, Mishima kills Mikami in order to claim the notebook Light entrusted to his son, Hikari. Although being returned unharmed, Sayu falls into a state of shock, eventually becoming unresponsive to the presence of others. He is eventually thwarted by a masked police blockade set up by L's task force. Gevanni skillfully follows and monitors suspects and has abilities such as the skill of picking locks.[34]. 6. Toward the end of Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba decided to make Aizawa the chief of the NPA because he did not want to create a new character in the final chapter. While they realize that one of them is Kira, they initially do not know it is Higuchi. He is the assistant director during the filming of Misa Amane's "Misa-Misa's Happy Sweets" video. Madhouse. 404. Membership of the group remains small to preserve secrecy and the group decides to work separately from the Japanese task force. As part of her next strategy to catch Maki, a television broadcast by Kujo 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. Though his background and part to play in the Death Note series are not that typical. He shares Mello's great liking for chocolate, similar to Ryuk's liking of apples. Let's live the fantasy again. Where to Stream. or maybe even someone in-between? [27] He has a talent in shogi at the professional 4-dan level. While Ryuk takes amusement in everything in the human world, Rem is almost the exact opposite. Gelus, a shinigami watching from the Shinigami realm, kills him to save Misa's life. Matsuda initially befriends Light and believes that he is not Kira, but at the end of the series, during the final showdown between Light and the SPK, Matsuda, enraged and grief-stricken over Light's apathy in regard to his father's death and to stop Light killing Near, fatally wounds Light by shooting him repeatedly. [21] In the Death Note Rewrite 2 special, the mafia plot is omitted. [13] Matsuda's "risky moves" sometimes place him in danger, and his "quick thinking" sometimes aids the investigation, such as his actions in the Yotsuba case that lead to Higuchi's detainment. Presumably, Kujo was sentenced to imprisonment or at most, sentenced to death for her crimes. Midora tells Ryuk about this, and he relates Light's claim that someone must have great spiritual strength and conviction to use the Death Note; Midora simply picked a "weakling". With the timely intervention from L, the antidote is administered to Maki and the infected passengers, as well as the surviving infected terrorists (including Kujo herself), thereby stopped the crisis. At the very end of the novel, the narrator, Mello, states that Beyond Birthday died of a mysterious heart attack several years later in prison. After they met Dr Nikaido's lab partner Matsudo and ask for his help to create the antidote, Matsudo, who was initially reluctant due to a past incident of an accidental death as a result of his creations, finally relented and agreed to do the job after hearing L's persuasion. Near (, Nia), real name is Nate River, is the young detective who succeeds L after his death. [29], The Vice President of Rights and Planning, Masahiko Kida controls the finances of the committee and contacts "Eraldo Coil." Having fallen in love with Misa, Gelus uses his Death Note to kill Misa's destined murderer, a crazed stalker, against Rem's protests. Near trusts Rester and sometimes reveals certain information solely to Rester. L is the most intelligent of all the Death Note characters. The main characters of Death Note. A list of characters who have appeared in the Death Note franchise. Matsuda believes that Near wrote in the Death Note to manipulate and restrict Mikami's actions. After L's death, he is sent to retrieve the Death Note stolen by Mello by obtaining Shinigami Eyes and infiltrating Mello's hideout, though Light had planned for Matsuda to fill the role. Kyosuke Higuchi ( , Higuchi Kysuke) is the third "Kira", receiving the Death Note from Rem, who was instructed to give it to a "greedy", forceful, and selfish" individual who would use the Death Note to attain a higher status that was out of his reach. Yuki Shien ( , Shien Yki) is an expert hacker who begins to worship Kira after Light kills the murderer of Shien's parents. Soon, the police arrived to arrest Kujo and her surviving associates. Using his Shinigami Eyes, he would intentionally kill people on their destined day of death. She is Light's girlfriend, classmate at To-Oh University (, T Daigaku),[39] and childhood friend. First published Jun 22, 2015. He is aware of L and Watari's detective work. Light realizes that he can use this connection with Takada to his advantage and sets up a meeting with her, presumably for the benefit of the investigation. She is a member of the Task Force. In the film, she simply drops it and it lands near Misa. Matt is Mello's helper[15] as he performs espionage work and acts as an accomplice in Takada's kidnapping, which results in his death when he is shot by Takada's bodyguards. She is portrayed by Miyuki Komatsu. She was designed based on the shinigami Sidoh.[42]. He only has one eye, despite having two eye sockets. Like Ryuk, Rem possesses two Death Notes; however, Rem did not get hers through trickery. [36] He works as Matsuda's junior, and was seen troubled by Matsuda bothering him with going to a bar. In the movie, prior to the murder of Dr Nikaido, Kujo had a close relationship with Maki, Dr Nikaido's daughter. Since Rem was the first Shinigami to touch the dead Gelus's notebook, she gained possession of that one. Light Yagami ( Japanese: , Hepburn: Yagami Raito) is the main protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is the holder of Sidoh's Death Note after it is given to the gang by the Kira investigation team. Also Known as: Hideki Ryuga, Ryuzaki, Eraldo Coil, Deneuve, Suzuki, and L-Prime (in L: Change the World) Race: Human. "[29] Rem aids the capture of Higuchi by revealing his identity to Misa. He appears to at least write the rules for the Death Notes, but whether or not he enforces them himself is unclear. She views most humans with contempt, seeing Shinigami as the more evolved race. Mido appears to have a sense of appreciation for Yotsuba. The Death Note anime is famous for its many antiheroes and morally complex characters, and here are 10 of its most likable personalities, ranked. Death Note, the manga series which later received an anime adaptation, has been considered one of the greatest stories in recent media, if not one of the best anime or television series that exists. A Death Note User's Guide. Sidoh is fairly timid; Mello frightens Sidoh, despite the fact that Mello is a human. Kanzo Mogi ( , Mogi Kanz) is one of the most dedicated members of the Kira investigation team, but also one of the most reserved. He is seen sitting in awkward positions and usually eating sweets.. Shingo Mido, the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and the Director of Financial Planning, feels reservations regarding the Yotsuba Kira and ponders leaving the other board members. Ohba felt that Aizawa is the best person to be the NPA head because Aizawa held connections to the Japanese police and knows Near. Well, let me tell you, he is the one who informed Sidoh that his death note had been stolen. He is also a fatherly figure to L. On the surface, he is Quillish Wammy (, Kirushu Waim), a famous inventor and founder of Wammy's House, an orphanage for gifted children in Winchester, England. In the chapter, Ryuk's actions have made apples a commodity among the Shinigami. 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A former first rate FBI agent,[22] Naomi left the Bureau in October 2003[23] for the sake of starting a family in the United States. Despite being calm and collected, he is not able to deal with surprises, leading him to panic when "Eraldo Coil" asks for more money. Touta Matsuda ( , Matsuda Tta, (romanized as Tota Matsuda in Japanese media[12])) is the youngest member of the Kira investigation team. A placid character with a sharp tongue, he has white hair and wears pale clothes. After the police arrived, Kujo and her surviving associates were arrested. As she did so, Maki began to cry as L approached to console and hug her. Seeing Dr Nikaido succumbing to the virus, Kujo incinerated the laboratory which Nikaido was in, leaving him to die in the room. Soon after, Kujo and her associates reached L's headquarters, having traced Maki's whereabouts and there, Maki faces them alone in a corridor. When he receives the Death Note, he is instructed by Rem to carry out routine killings of criminals, then do whatever he pleases with the Note outside of the killings. He later helps the investigation force to lure out Higuchi by running a television program. Watari: INFJ, The Advocate. Mello (, Mero), real name is Mihael Keehl, grows up in competition with Near to succeed L. After L's death, however, he concedes the position to Near and leaves to hunt Kira through criminal means, eventually joining the American Mafia. [22] Little information is given about the character himself, aside from Rem's assertion that the King is not easy to trick, which Ryuk successfully did. He is portrayed by Kensei Mikami in the film.[10]. 1 Main characters 1.1 Light Yagami () 1.2 L 1.3 Misa Amane () 1.4 Near 1.5 Mello 1.6 Shinigami 2 Supporting characters 2.1 Kira Investigation Team 2.1.1 Soichiro Yagami 2.1.2 Touta Matsuda 2.1.3 Shuichi Aizawa 2.1.4 Kanzo Mogi 2.1.5 Hideki Ide 2.1.6 Hirokazu Ukita 2.2 Watari 2.3 Kiyomi Takada 2.4 Kyosuke Higuchi 2.5 Teru Mikami Maki then contacted Kujo to meet her alone at the harbour where she planned to murder Kujo to avenge her father's death. Leave me requests if you want a certain character included, and tell me if you want me to write a certain scenario or character trait. Death Note is a game of chess. Misa is a major character, and she's well written, she serves her narrative purpose pretty decently. As his name is easily known, Light kills him. Rem is a character in the anime series Death Note. Otoharada's name is announced on television as he holds eight hostages in a nursery school. 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