This psychological thriller is a detective story about a mental battle between Light, a man endowed with a Death Note giving him supernatural powers, and L, the world's greatest detective.
This internal chess match keeps fans at the edge of their seat the entire time. When the anime adaptation came out most readers praised its faithfulness to the manga. Nevertheless, there are a few changes and details which are not found in the anime. There are 12 books and even a secret 13th book known as Death Note: How To Read which gives a rare insight into the story, characters and creative process of the series.
Fans everywhere would love to learn more about the mysterious detective L, so let's look through these 13 books and find 10 details you would only know about L if you read the manga spoilers ahead! Updated on August 23, by Kit Morris: L was always one of the most mysterious characters in the manga series.
Despite being one of the main characters, there was so much that fans didn't know. Though the original 10 details in this list were great, there are so many other things that readers can learn about L, especially the things that were revealed in the 13th book. A lot of hidden information about the manga's characters was revealed in Death Note: How to Read.
Though it's not important to the story, fans may find it fun to know some of these things, such as when the characters were born. L's birthday is October 31, Perhaps the reason he loves sweets so much is because he was born on Halloween. Along with his birthday, a couple of other things that was revealed about L, along with other characters, in Death Note: How to Read is his height and weight.
Though it may not seem this way because he often slouches, L is five feet and eight inches. And despite constantly eating unhealthy things, L only weighs lbs. Throughout his prosperous detective career, L solved more than 3, cases and arrested over three times that many criminals. But this is the greatest detective in the world. He won't just take any case, so what had to happen for L to accept one? According to Mello, there would have to be at least ten victims or over 1 million dollars involved before the genius detective could be called to the case.
When L introduces himself to the NPA, he urges them to call him Ryuzaki to further hide his identity. Throughout the series, he is referred to as both "L" and "Ryuzaki. The name Ryuzaki actually came from another child from Wammy's House, the orphanage that raises genius children and L's successors, Near and Mello. A child named B was obsessed with beating L, and eventually begins a series of crimes in an attempt to outsmart him. There she meets a man who calls himself Ryuzaki and L later adopts that name while working on the Kira case.
In order to use the Death Note, the users must know their target's name and think about their face while they are writing it down. Knowing their face is important in case someone else shares the name of their target. Even after L finally dies in the series, his name is not revealed.
That was until the 13th book came out and with it came a special golden bookmark with a picture of L that read "L Lawliet. L is always shown to be wearing a pair of blue jeans and a long-sleeved white shirt. He almost never wears shoes or socks, preferring to go barefoot, even while in public.
This was shown when he visited Light Yagami's school and was seen barefoot while sitting on a bench, not bothering to wear his shoes until he got up to walk. L also tends to hunch over when walking. L is quite secretive, and only communicates with the world through his assistant, Watari. He never shows his face to the world in person, instead representing himself with a capital letter L drawn in "Old English MT" or "Cloister Black" typeface.
After meeting the Japanese Task Force , he requests that the task force refer to him as "Ryuzaki" as an additional safety measure.
The Task Force never learns his true name, and it is revealed in neither the manga nor anime. L is very intelligent, though his disheveled and languid appearance masks his great powers of deduction and many question his abilities upon viewing him.
L tends to second-guess everything he is presented with, and is extremely meticulous and analytical. He is good at deceiving his opponents, and is willing to take drastic measures to solve a case. Some of his tactics are quite bold, such as having death row inmate Lind L. Tailor pose as himself on live TV in order to draw out Kira, while others seem bizarre to those involved, such as handcuffing himself to suspected-Kira, Light Yagami.
He is also shown to have a dry sense of humor, and he isn't above making sarcastic remarks to people. Although he tends to be polite, to some such as Task Force member Shuichi Aizawa , L can seem condescending at times. Using subterfuge, misinformation, disinformation, and an analytical knowledge of human nature to help lure a suspected murderer into a false sense of security and possibly make him carelessly over-confident, L sometimes gets what he wants through abnormal or possibly criminal channels.
Whenever L gives percentages to indicate how much he suspects a person of committing a crime, such as "five percent," he may in fact be over ninety percent convinced of their culpability. Although L tells Light that he is among the least likely suspects with one of the lowest percentages of probability, in reality L is "pretty certain" that Light is Kira.
As series writer Tsugumi Ohba said laughing, making light of L's tactics: "The truth is, he's a liar. He also has several quirks, such as preferring to crouch rather than sit, eating only sweet foods like desserts, candies and fruits and holding items by using only a thumb and a finger.
He also has an unusual way of sitting, with both of his feet on the chair. Interestingly, in the manga, he is seen sitting on the floor in a pose similar to how one would meditate, while thinking deeply about the Kira case. He is often seen arranging objects and very intently stacking, or in other ways playing with, his staple food items. L is almost always encountered while performing actions that are considered inappropriate or rude in public. With his status as the world's greatest detective, he, like Light, has a very sensitive pride, being afraid to be wrong in his deductions and theories, evident through his drastic measures torturing Misa and confining Light during an unnecessarily lengthy amount of time , and lethargic behavior during the beginning of the Yotsuba arc.
Although he is often seen sitting and inactive, L retains a high athletic ability. L stayed in England for five years, and during that time he was the tennis champion in the England Junior Cup. He also has a knack for martial arts, which is demonstrated in his brief fight with Light. In chapter 38 of the manga, L suggests that even though he eats only sweet foods, he remains underweight because the brain uses the most calories of any organ in the body.
When asked about L's ethnicity, creator of the series Tsugumi Ohba responded, "I think of him as a quarter Japanese, a quarter English, a quarter Russian, a quarter French or Italian, like that. At the age of eight, [4] L was found by Watari and taken to the orphanage known as Wammy's House, a home for gifted children. Sometime after, Watari realized that L had incredible intelligence and later assisted him in his cases. L notices the rapid rate of criminals dying of heart attacks, and suspects a person is behind this and that he is in Japan, so he seeks cooperation from the NPA.
He begins the Kira case by having undocumented death row inmate Lind L. Tailor introduce himself on television as "L" and say that Kira is "evil. It also reveals Kira's location, since the broadcast was televised only in the Kanto region.
Not long after this, because of the time of day during which the criminals die coincide with out-of-school hours, he deduces that Kira may well be a student. Not long after this incident, criminals begin dying during one-hour intervals, intentionally contradicting L's theory, showing to L that Kira has access to police information. Because of this, he requests that 12 FBI agents investigate those close to each of the members of the police. Shortly after the FBI's investigation begins, Kira begins testing his abilities using criminals and leaves behind meaningless clues, successfully distracting L from the agents.
Not too long after this, all 12 FBI agents die at Kira's hand. L books a hotel room where all six of them can regularly do their investigation, and he gives them counterfeit police badges as well as belt buckles which allow them to contact L in case of an emergency.
L finds footage of the death of one of the agents, and the footage shows that Raye Penber , who was investigating the families of Soichiro Yagami and Koreyoshi Kitamura , was reaching for something behind him when he died just outside the train. Because of these two factors, Kira must be among those whom Raye was investigating. L installs surveillance cameras and wiretaps in the Yagami household as well as Kitamura's house.
After seeing Light's alibi which was that he writes a name in a blind spot whilst studying , L senses something is very off about Light, deeming him "too perfect.
L attends To-Oh because he feels confident in his reasoning and interrogational skills and wishes to test his theory concerning Light's hidden identity by confronting him and perhaps provoking or tricking him to admit that he is indeed Kira.
L is well aware that this is something of a gamble, and knows full well that his act of direct confrontation could prove fatal, but as he's convinced he understands Light's thought process, he feels confident that the adversary will not yet risk revealing his secret identity by killing him.
When L introduces himself as Ryuga, Light becomes alert and somewhat alarmed but recognizes that it would be pointless to attempt to kill him—the name is conspicuously fake. Light has no way of knowing whether Ryuga is the real L or a proxy acting under orders. He also reasons that L would have already introduced himself to Light's father earlier, and thus, were he to somehow kill L, this murder would instantly unmask him, proving that he is indeed Kira. If this person proved to be L's proxy, and his name really was Ryuga, he might die, but L would live and know his identity, without ever having had to reveal himself to Light, so that L will have gained all the advantage.
Also, while writing the name "Hideki Ryuga" into the Death Note, the face of the pop singer bearing that name might enter Light's thoughts involuntarily, and that would cause the death of pop singer Ryuga, which would also lead L to the obvious conclusion that Light is Kira.
As such, L's expectations about the outcome of his daring opening gambit prove true, and Light finds himself in a stalemate situation, unable to act for the time being, as any attempt to rid himself of his hunters would result in confirmed suspicions, his subsequent and unavoidable unmasking, and, ultimately, his undoing.
L plans on getting closer to Light by asking him to join the investigation; this way, if Light is Kira, he would be more prone to slipping up, while Light not being Kira would still benefit the investigation. L begins by playing a tennis game with Light, in order to have grounds to get closer to Light and begin asking him about the investigation; during the game, L concludes that Light will attempt to meet with the Task Force members in order to confirm L's identity.
After losing the tennis match, in order to prevent Light from meeting with the Task Force members, L announces his suspicions, claiming his suspicions are only one percent high. L begins testing Light at the cafe, first by asking him about why L revealed himself, then about the file that the FBI agents received, and finally about three notes Kira left behind using criminals.
Light passes all the tests and doesn't slip up, and so L doesn't bother trying to test him anymore. L then asks Light to join the investigation, but Light takes advantage of this by claiming that he'll refuse to join the investigation unless the Task Force members confirm L's identity. Considering L wants Light to join the investigation and he has another countermeasure to keep him safe anyway, L allows Light to have the Task Force members confirm his identity.
Suddenly, L and Light receive news of Soichiro having collapsed of a heart attack due to stress, and at the hospital, L has Soichiro confirm his identity, while also asking for Light's thoughts on Kira's identity.
After Kira begins to kill innocents to prove the fact that they're Kira, the Task Force tries their best to stop the broadcast. After all the calls fail, Ukita attempts to barge in the station, only for him to somehow be killed. This shocks them and angers Aizawa as Kira shouldn't have been able to discover Ukita's name. Luckily, a recovered Soichiro barges in the station using a truck, confirming his safety, and retrieves the tapes from Demegawa, and hands them over to L and the Task Force.
Judging from the fact that Kira can now kill with just a face and that Kira is uncharacteristically killing innocents, L speculates that this is indeed a second Kira who seeks the collaboration and attention of the first. Because Light knows of L's identity, L has Watari pose as another L through a computer screen in order to prevent Light from killing L and the Task Force, as an outsider would notice their deaths should they occur.
Together, they both manage to have the second Kira, who wishes to have L seen on TV, respond to them. In one of the responses, the second Kira mentions " Shinigami ," and since their existence isn't implausible to L considering previous events, L is shocked and unsettled by the idea of him potentially needing to change his worldview.
After the second Kira sends a diary, Light goes to Aoyama on May 22nd under the guise of investigating, only for him to find nothing. On May 23rd, the second Kira releases a tape announcing that she has found Kira, which has L suspect Light further considering this is probably referring to when Light went to Aoyama the previous day, so L has Mogi secretly tail Light. It was actually a Death God named Gelus who did this first, although Remi tells Misa about it later in the series in the form of a flashback.
It's a sad story, partly because fans already know how bored and lonely the Shinigami are, and also because Gelus seems particularly pathetic. He's small and fragile, resembling a child's toy in a pathetic state of disrepair. He intervenes when a stalker threatens Misa's life and disintegrates as a result. This foreshadow's Remi's eventual ending in the same way, although she's prompted by Light, which adds another layer of sadness to this already tragic tale.
Yeah, he was a crazy serial killer and he probably got what was coming to him, but Light's death was still pretty sad. His manic rant and despondent cries for someone to help him show a side of Light that we're not used to seeing, and it's just enough to make us feel sad for the person he was before he picked up the Death Note or the person he might have become if he hadn't picked it up at all.
Kiyomi Takada is probably one of the least liked Death Note characters. Takada made her first appearance in the fourteenth episode of the anime.
When Kiyomi finds out that Kira is, in fact, Light, she falls even more deeply in love with him. In turn, Light promises to make her the Queen of his new world. Of course, Light was only using her. The moment she became more of a liability than an asset, Light wrote her name in the Death Note. Kiyomi committed suicide by setting fire to everything around her and herself.
While she certainly wasn't a fan favorite, her death was still far too cruel and tragic. While we can't forgive Rem for killing L and Watari, we do feel sad for her death because she did truly love Misa and she did everything till the very end to keep her safe, which makes Rem, a Shinigami, a much better person than most humans in this anime.
Watari was essential to L and the Task Force and remained committed to his duties till the very end. He surrendered peacefully, even making light of the situation with sarcasm. The bodyguards didn't much care for small talk, instead, they opened fire on poor Matt, who died instantly.
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