Death Note

[Psyke]

A more detailed explaination and breakdown of Light's name:

Japanese kanji: 夜神月
English: Yagami Light

But because the Japanese hiragana do not have sounds started with L the closest is R, thus his name is pronounced as Raito, using the hiragana らい for "Rai", and と for "to". As long as official names go, it's Yagami Light, or Light Yagami if you want the surname to go last.

And remember Misa reading his name wrongly when she first saw him? That's because the character 月 is usually pronounced as "tsuki", which means the moon. In Light's case, it is pronounced differently, and is based on the english word "Light". This is why Misa commented on how unique Light's name was.

Hope this clears up any confusion.

[masamuneehs]

nice explanation psyke

well, i just find it sorta funny that a week or so ago we were all worried about nobody continuing to sub Death Note. But now there's like 5 groups who started from episode 13! Under9000, White-Bunny, Death God Fansubs and Animenoobs Fansubbers are all ones I've never heard of before (and have done about a combined nothing in fansubbing before this point), so I'm extra happy that c1 is doing this awesome show as well. They did right with Mushishi, so I trust them.

[complich8]

well, i just find it sorta funny that a week or so ago we were all worried about nobody continuing to sub Death Note. But now there's like 5 groups who started from episode 13!

Welcome to the fansubbing world.

If people like it, it'll get subbed. Maybe not subbed _well_ ... but subbed.

[Deadfire]

[DG]EP 14

I don't know why but I'm following [DG]'s releases

[xDarkMaster]

Ep 14 is also out by animanda.

[zibo]

Just watched this ep, this anime is getting better and better. Can't wait to see if L's gonna die and how will Light kill Misa.

[BioAlien]

Just watched this ep, this anime is getting better and better. Can't wait to see if L's gonna die and how will Light kill Misa.

I don't think L is going to be easy to kill. He is after all, a "genius" and now he is Light "friend" so maybe Light will restrain himself(and misa) from killing him. But then again... we are talking about Light here, so.. we will have to wait and see what happen.

And as for killing Misa, if Rem kill L, she will die, so Light will just have to write misa name in his Death Note. Nothing big there.

[ktchris69]

I don't think L is going to be easy to kill. He is after all, a "genius" and now he is Light "friend" so maybe Light will restrain himself(and misa) from killing him. But then again... we are talking about Light here, so.. we will have to wait and see what happen.

And as for killing Misa, if Rem kill L, she will die, so Light will just have to write misa name in his Death Note. Nothing big there.

u sure about the part that rem killing L will make her die?? i though if it was done while interfering with another mortals death, then the shinigami wud die....if its normal killing rem will not die, right????

[BioAlien]

It's not normal killing, Rem is 'going' to kill L in order to protect Misa (and Light at the same time) so she will be killed, just like Jealous did before to protect Misa, Rem is going to die to protect her from L.

[ktchris69]

Hmmm. I thought Jealous protected Misa from DYING thats y he died, here were not taking about protection form DEATH, but from L, thats why i dont really agree on that point. from what i understood, if someone life's is scheduled to be taken away, trying to extend this life by taking another ones makes the shinigami responsible of this extension die and not protetion from another mortal. see what i mean?????

[Psyke]

Yup. I too think that by killing Light, nothing's going to happen to Rem because it isn't really "saving" Misa, but rather preventing Kira from being caught.

[ktchris69]

Yup. I too think that by killing Light, nothing's going to happen to Rem because it isn't really "saving" Misa, but rather preventing Kira from being caught.

hmmm u made a mistake in ur post, lolz, u mean "by killing L, nothing's going to happen to Rem because it isn't really "saving" Misa, but rather preventing Kira from being caught."

[Kraco]

Thinking like that would certainly make them quite lowly beings: To prevent someone from dying when her death should happen would be the gravest offence, yet killing someone when his time should not be over wouldn't be an offence at all. I don't know, that just seems illogical to me. Unless there are beings other than the shinigami we haven't yet seen that would oppose them. If that was the case, then there would be a balanced dualism: One side killing, one side preventing death, and doing the opposite would be punished.

[ktchris69]

hah, isnt it the whole basis of Death Note???? You can kill whenever you want, its only recently that shinigamis are punished if they try to extend the lifetime of someone

[Psyke]

You are right about the part on balance. Shinigami who kill to protect or prolong some body's life is deemed as useless and if then destroyed or killed. However, in the case of L and Rem (and yes I did make that stupid mistake earlier... darn), this is not what's happening. To Rem, L is just another regular guy, and killing him does not make a difference at all, because he is NOT a direct threat to Misa's life.

So to summarize:

Case 1: L tries to crack Kira case. Light gets caught. Rem kills L before this happens.

Case 2: L tries to kill Misa with sacharrin overdose. Rem kills L before this happens.

Obviously, Rem is going to die in case 2. For case 1, no direct saving/prolonging one's life takes place.And of course, Misa's going to be much happier should Light be safe. And lastly, my point would be that to Rem, L is just another human being that is not a threat to Misa directly.

On a side note, the DVDs of the 2 movies have been announced and their covers released! Check out here if you want to get a glimpse of the cool cover art. No spoilers, but you do get to see the live actors.

*edited spelling mistake

[Kraco]

hah, isnt it the whole basis of Death Note???? You can kill whenever you want, its only recently that shinigamis are punished if they try to extend the lifetime of someone

Indeed. I wasn't saying that like it would be some problem for me. But this series has been full of all kinds of rules right from the beginning, so it's not "only recently" that people must mind all those twists.

On a side note, the DVDs of the 2 movies have been announced and their covers released! Check out here if you want to get a glimpse of the cool cover art. No spoilers, but you do get to see the live actors.

Light and L look pretty emo on the (first) cover, but I doubt that really reflects the films themselves...

[el_boss]

Best show ever? Possibly.

Just finished watching ep 14. Truly amazing, one of smartest shows I've ever seen.

Theory: L is undead (so he has no remaining life span) or maybe even a death note owner himself so Rem can't kill him. Also maybe there is some sort of faction called "life gods" or something and L has a life note or something. Anyway I don't think that Rem will succed in killing L.

Rem said something about increasing Light life span by killing L but that it would not effect her. So I'm guessing that she won't suffer any consequences for killing L they way the situation look now.

I found a miss in the show. In one of the commercial info thingys it said "If you misspell a name more than four times the death note will be rendered useless" or something like that. When Light killed that moped riding rapist guy he wrote his name like 20 times and it still worked.

[David75]

Best show ever? Possibly.

Just finished watching ep 14. Truly amazing, one of smartest shows I've ever seen.

Theory: L is undead (so he has no remaining life span) or maybe even a death note owner himself so Rem can't kill him. Also maybe there is some sort of faction called "life gods" or something and L has a life note or something. Anyway I don't think that Rem will succed in killing L.

Rem said something about increasing Light life span by killing L but that it would not effect her. So I'm guessing that she won't suffer any consequences for killing L they way the situation look now.

I found a miss in the show. In one of the commercial info thingys it said "If you misspell a name more than four times the death note will be rendered useless" or something like that. When Light killed that moped riding rapist guy he wrote his name like 20 times and it still worked.

If I remember correctly:
Four times mispelled, the death note won't follow the way the person will die, instead this person will die from a simple heart attack.

That means that any scenario won't be followed if the name is mispelled.
We can think that the scenario includes its chronology.
So that could mean that four mispells leads to immediate simple heart attack.

That's quite important, because light sometimes is very imaginative in the scenarii he uses, this rule could expose him if he's not careful enough.

c u

[High Wind]

Just finished 14, man that was good.

On the whole "Rem killing L will kill Rem" issue. I'm going to have to agree with the people that say Rem will be unaffected by killing L. If I recall, a Shinigami will only die if they prevent someone else from DYING, not protecting someone from possible dangers. Also another thing I thought about while watching this episode was the question "does Rem still have the eyes?" The Eye agreement hasn't really been elaborated on as far as I can remember. They simply stated that to get the Shinigami Eye's you need to trade half your remaining lifespan. They didn't say anything about whether the Shinigami involved in the trade gives that human their eyes or just creates a new pair for the user.

As always, Death Note remains to be one of the most intriguing shows I've watched.

[Kraco]

Four times mispelled, the death note won't follow the way the person will die, instead this person will die from a simple heart attack.

What person dies? You have to write a person's name in the book in order to kill him. If you misspell a name, it's not the person's name. It could be somebody else's name in the incorrect form, but not that person's name, so I can't see how that could kill anybody, no matter how many times you write it.

The two simplest rules of the book are writing a name and having the corresponding face in your mind. A misspelled name doesn't fulfill that simple rule.

And besides, the series even says: "The Death Note will be rendered useless if the victim's name is misspelled four times."

Edit: Maybe L's real name is some totally bizarre foreign name that nobody can spell correctly (especially using katakana)...