hey shannel federator I would just like to request um 107 facts about death note I'm a huge fan of Death Note and I'm a huge fan of yours so if you could do that for me that'd be [Music] amazing creepy death Gods notebooks that kill people sugar ejected spy Geniuses Death Note is a shade darker than your usual anime and relies on suspense rather than action-packed fighting to tell its story that's why the bestselling franchise has earned itself a huge fan base as well as the enemity of many parents and even some governments think you
know the whole story think again I'm Kirsten and whether you're a Die Hard fan or just curious what all the fuss is about we're here to give you the inside scoop on your favorite morally dubious anime and its numerous offshoots so sit back relax and take some notes not in that notebook because we're counting down the 107 facts you should know about death note let's get started number one Death Note began its long successful Journey as a manga written and conceived by tkumi Oba and illustrated by teshi obata number two how wildly successful you ask
it has spawned not only the manga series but an anime series two remix films based on the anime three liveaction movies a liveaction TV series a possible Hollywood treatment and a stage musical number three the manga was first introduced to the world as it was serialized in weekly shown and jump from December 2003 to May 2006 number four there are 108 chapters of Death Note published in 12 volumes there's also a 13th death note that serves as an encyclopedia containing extra info on characters and interviews with the creators number five Oba wanted to create a
suspense series he felt he couldn't create a combat heavy manga and that there were few other suspense manga available number six even though he submitted a pilot chapter to the parent company of Shonen Jump Oba didn't expect Death Note would be picked up he thought his suspense heavy Zero fighting manga didn't quote fit with jump luckily for us he was wrong number seven OA wanted to take advantage of serialization so he knew up front he wanted the series to follow one long plotline instead of being episodic it was always intended to focus on one cast
dealing with sequential events triggered by the Death Note number eight obata said he quote didn't really get it the first time he read through the rough drafted Death Note but was drawn to the series primarily because of the shinny gami and he definitely went all out on those guys number nine obata drew the pilot to appeal to himself and still wondered if the series would be picked up since it had little action and the main character didn't drive the plot along number 10 Oba and obasa did not meet in person while working on the pilot
chapter communicating through their editor instead the two didn't meet in person until an editorial party in 2004 number 11 tekashi obata's first big exposure was winning the prestigious tzuka award in 1985 for his one- shot gokaku Conan woa he also got a job at Conan jump out of the deal oh and he was was 16 at the time no big deal number 12 there is speculation that suum Oba is a pen name and that the reclusive writer is actually Hoshi Gamo known for the strange superhero series totemo Lucky Man from the 1990s proponents of the
theory point out that lights cram school offers a Gamo seminar and that a character in his later manga Bakuman works on a very similar manga it's farfetched but hey we're all about weird conspiracies a frederator number 13 Opa felt he worked best in visualizing the story of Death Note when he was relaxed he pictured the panels in his mind while he was in bed drinking tea or just walking around his house number 14 when designing the color covers for the graphic novels abata wanted to assign colors to each of the characters hence the whole blue
red L light Trope in the anime number 15 the death notes were originally supposed to have a different design obata wanted them to be Bible like something you would automatically think was a Death Note this idea was scrapped for the look of an ordinary notebook number 16 it was also discussed that death notes could change form Depending on time and location for example a Death Note in ancient Japan could be a scroll obviously this idea was never used in the series although it'd be really weird to come across a mangled notebook in ancient Japan number
17 the pilot chapter featured a scrapped concept for a death eraser that could revive people killed by the Death Note as if the person in charge of the Death Note wasn't already playing God enough number 18 the the word Shinigami literally means death God the first character shini means death and the second gami means god in Japanese culture Shinigami are gods or deities that kill humans to extend their own lives number 19 obata said there are no physical difference between separate male and female Shinigami the sole differences are design details that he added subconsciously number
20 as of April 2015 and despite all the fanss Death Note currently has 30 million copies in circulation number 21 Opa had trouble creating G at first he envisioned him as a handsome man with dark hair and wings he later changed the design when his editor pointed out that the God didn't necessarily have to be human Opa began to think of ryuk's face as a mask with his real face underneath being attractive number 22 obata considered basing the design of shigani on Wizards but decided against it the rags on their body are remnants of the
idea number 23 Shinigami all have their own unique written languages tekashi obata says he assumes all Shinigami can understand each other's languages number 24 the Shinigami world has a hierarchy with the Shinigami king on the top and all his subordinates below death gods are given numerical levels depending on their power where UK cranks is up to your personal inference number 25 if a Shinigami Breaks the Rules of the Shinigami World they face one of nine punishment levels severity increases from level eight down to level one and if you're wondering where nine came from there's also
an unnumbered extreme level below one if a level three or worse is applied the Shinigami will die killing a human without a Death Note warrants an extreme level punishment but can you imagine a Shinigami just strangling some guy instead of scrolling down his name neither can we number 26 ruk is 6' 6 in tall he might be a born basketball player if he wasn't so gangly number 27 the early version of ruk featured in the the pilot was later described by the authors as really lazy and incompetent number 28 in the pilot chapter ryuk drops
two death notes into the human world one to a character named Taro kagami and one to his classmate mua however as the old saying goes no light no fun that's a thing right number 29 ruk wrote the instructions of the death note in English thinking it was the most popular language in the human realm number 30 after being given the description quote a brilliant honor student who's a little out there obata had no trouble coming up with light's design although he had to reference fashion magazines to see what a brilliant person would wear number 31
as the manga went on obata started to streamline light's look by taking out what he thought were quote unnecessary lines however he had to backtrack and make him resemble his initial look when light loses his memory hey friends Tim here with Channel frederator taking a small break to announce the launch of our new channel in Spanish at tomomo Network there you'll be able to enjoy some programming in Spanish including 107 facts about your favorite cartoons you won't hear my voice because I can't speak a lot of Spanish and to that I say lento so go
ahead and subscribe and join our house of Animation now back to the facts number 32 light's last name Yagami was the suggestion of oba's editor Yagami is made up of the kanji characters for Knight and God number 33 light's first name is written as the character for Moon RTO or light aren't the proper readings of the name which is why in the anime Misa reads it as susuki or Moon number 34 Opa envisioned light's father soy chiro as quote an honest police officer with a strong sense of justice he wanted the reader to feel sorry
for everything he has to go through and boy do we number 35 according to Oba if light had never found the death note he would have become one of the greatest policemen in the world and worked alongside L to solve crimes just try not to be a little sad about that now number 36 taturo oraki the director of the anime said that if he was one of light's friends light would have surely used and killed him number 37 light's birthday is February 28th 1986 now we can all celebrate Kira day number 38 's birthday is
Halloween 1979 which actually makes him significantly older than light older than I had imagined anyway number 39 L's full name is l Lite but it kind of looks like lolot so it's very fancy number 40 both obata and Oba say that L is their favorite character light is oba's second favorite human character which is probably code for ryuk and the other Shinigami all rank above Light number 41 a lot of the character design of L was left to obata Oba wanted a character about the same age as light since making the detective much older might
not hold much interest Oba also wanted his name to be quote a single letter with a lot of significance number 42 although Oba admits it wasn't his intent fans have said that El's fighting style resembles the Brazilian martial art of capera opa has said that he was just looking for an effective way for someone to kick a person while handcuffed but if fans see a resemblance it makes him happy number 43 when asked about El's ethnicity Oba said quote I think of him as a quarter Japanese a quarter English a quarter Russian and a quarter
French or Italian number 44 OBO wrote l so incredibly quirky because he quote wanted L to be an extremely unorthodox character to contrast with light who is supposed to be a brilliant and outstanding student number 45 when asked if El had any friends Opa said no when he told light that light was his first friend it was a lie El could never have a friend because he found humans to be a very cunning species number 46 which naturally means we have to bring up the foot massage now Death Note is actually full of a lot
of biblical references light is portrayed as being crucified at the end of the series and that's scene where El m light's feet mirrors the story of Jesus watching his disciples feet although the original story probably had a lot less awkward sexual tension and light is a pretty disturbing interpretation of Jesus number 47 rari's name was originally supposed to be Shadow but oba's editors discouraged it probably because it made what tari sound like an epic superhero sidekick number 48 obata used oba's suggestion that watari should be an old man purely because he felt that older characters
were more fun to draw but with the quote weird angles created by their wrinkles number 49 obata was left to come up with the design of near and melow with only the instruction from Oba being that they should both look quote a little ellish obata therefore struggled with the designs since most of them looked too much like l number 50 near and Melo were originally conceived as Twins and even at one point they were L's Sons but the idea was dropped probably because you absolutely cannot imagine El successfully flirting with the lady much less raising
children number 51 n's fondness for toys and stacking objects are a direct reflection of L's habit of stacking sugar cubes Oba wanted childish elements to exist in both characters Oba actually expected n's Tower of match scks to be too difficult for obata to draw and was surprised when obata pulled it off number 52 the end designs for near and Mello were actually switched the design for Melo became the final design for near and vice versa number 15 3 n's given name is Nate River while melo's is Mel Keel number 54 Opa feels he personally is
a lot like near since he rarely leaves his house I mean neither does l but maybe Oba doesn't consum massive amounts of sugar number 55 even though spoilers he's not the one to eventually OU light Opa says that Ella is the smartest character in the series because quote the plot requires it number 56 speaking of intellect Oba said that Misa had to be spontaneous and not too bright and that he determined her personality from the start number 57 Opa admits that Misa was created primarily so that Death Note wasn't one big sausage fest which are
our words not his number 58 Oba said that misa's name was quote kind of random but I think it was from kurom Misa or black mass it must have been based on something end quote how's that for conclusive answers number 59 Oba and obata wanted Misa to have a Gothic Lolita design to reflect the design of the Shinigami World although Maybe that the lead ofart is the more interesting understated part of that description given the role of her character number 60 obata said his editor warned him that the scene with Misa in restraints was on
morally thin ground for a children's magazine a title was therefore placed over the drawing in chapter 33 number 61 Misa was born on Christmas Day 1984 and Major Spoilers Misa died on Valentine's Day 2011 although her fate is only inferenced OA speculates that Misa quote committed suicide or something like that when she also spoilers learned to flight's death number 62 a character with Shinigami eyes can see the lifespan of a person by looking at them the lifespan is represented as a number that needs to be converted into human time Oba originally had a formula for
converting the lifespan but forgot it number 63 when a human makes a deal for Shinigami eyes their eyesight becomes 3.6 also known as 2010 Oba considered this as quote very CL close to being a stupid rule number 64 ram is obata's favorite Shinigami because she is a good person or death deity either way a moral compass is impressive in this series number 65 the design for rem's head was inspired by the mythological Greek creature Medusa number 66 originally the Shinigami gellis was portrayed as beautiful but abata decided to design him as a Patrick doll instead
since he's such a pitiful character number 67 abot to face the do's design on a bird specifically a canary maybe a mummy Canary a 2007 survey done by the ministry of culture of Japan named Death Note the 10th greatest manga of all time number 69 obata wishes he could have drawn Iber to be more comedic obata believes that if he drew IA and wedy to look a little more original Oba would have given the characters a larger role number 70 the anime series was produced in Japan by mad house Studio who is also responsible for
Black Lagoon chai sweet home and death parade the anime aired in Japan on NE pal television starting on October 3rd 2006 and ran until June 26th 2007 number 71 tets oraki director of the anime quote literally begged to join the production team number 72 araqi has also directed several other notable anime including High School of the Dead and Attack on Titan number 73 tet oraki admits that he felt an urge to support and cheer for light even though we learn earlier that he thinks light would have killed him now that is Devotion to your characters
number 74 the series was licensed for legal downloading in North America through visas direct to drive which can be seen as a precursor to simoc cassing this was the first time an anime was released in North America while it was still airing on Japanese television number 75 desno premiered on American television on Adult Swim and ran from October 20th 2007 to July 4 2008 number 76 the series has two opening themes the World by Nightmare and what's up people by Maximum the Hormone the L of which is totally insane and pretty darn great mostly because
of the screaming oh the screaming number 77 on the other end the series has three ending theme songs alumina by Nightmare Zesto Billy by Maximum the Hormone and Kota Death Note by yoshihisa hanano which was only used for the finale number 78 in episode 13 Misa is listening to the World by Nightmare we also see that her cell phone ringer is the Show's first ending alumina we also learn that matsuda has the same ringtone number 79 the score was composed by yoshihisa huano whose work also includes the 2011 Hunter Hunter adaptation and Hideki taniuchi who
also scored Kaji number 80 the chancing heard in the first episode is the Kyrie Lin which is part of Catholic Mass the chant translates to Lord have me Mercy the Lord will probably not have mercy number 81 the number of the abducted bus is 174 this is a reference to an incident in Brazil in 2000 where an armed man took over a bus and held it hostage threatening to shoot all the passengers number 82 seven voice actors in the English dub have also done voices on X-Men evolution Brad SW plays late Yagami and Nightcrawler alisandra
Giuliani plays Ellen Gambit Kirby Morrow plays mikami and Cyclops Colleen wheeler plays REM and Mystique Michael Adams W plays Ray penart and Colossus Tabitha St Germaine plays Naomi misora and Danielle Moonstar and S Vincent plays the do and Forge oh God number 83 ruk's English voice actor is Brian Drummond he also plays Vegeta yaji Obe and Baba and Dragon Ball Z so it's his voice when you hear anything is over 9,000 Drummond auditioned for the role only after seeing a picture of the character in the studio number 84 speaking of Dragon Ball Z Light Yagami
is played by Brad swell who is also known for voicing Gohan from Dragon Ball Z as well as rock and Black Lagoon moose and RMA 1 half and Maxwell and hamaro oh hamaro number 85 episodes 36 and 37 were the only ones of the series to be rated dbma number 86 and Major Spoilers for this one a character with a striking resemblance to Light Yagami appears in an episode of the anime death parade one of the rules of the death note is that humans who use it can neither Go to Heaven Nor Hell the setting
of death parade is a sort of limbo in the afterlife it's the closest we're going to get to closure folks number 87 Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Volume 14 features a comic parody of Death Note where Bart finds the notebook and naturally crusty plays ruke number 88 in February 2007 Konami released a game for the Nintendo DS Called Death Note cira game the player fills the shoes of either l or light and has to figure out who the other their character is in July of the same year a sequel game was released based on the
second part of the manga a third Death Note game was released in February 2008 that takes place before the kir investigation do all of these sound awesome guess what none of them were released in America number 89 there have been two liveaction film adaptations death note and Death Note the last name in addition to a liveaction spin-off film revolving around L called L changed the world and a liveaction TV drama which began in 2015 number 90 shizuki Koo director of the films chose to have ruk rendered in computer Graphics because he felt that using a
human actor would be quote too realistic and might make the audience doubt that he's a death God Keno told the graphics team to design fuk as if he were an actor inside a rubber suit number 91 when coming up with the film Keno wanted to change how L gains the Death Note in order to make the character more sympathetic in the beginning of the film now number 92 kinichi Matsuyama who played Ellen the live action movies said that he and tatsuya fujiwara who played light would get so immersed in their roles that they would not
speak to each other on set number 93 Warner Brothers owns the rights to make a Hollywood adaptation of Death Note Nat wolf known for being part of Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band has been cast as Light Yagami do with that information what you will number 94 Shane black who directed Iron Man 3 was originally slated to be the director and you can thank him because Warner Brothers wanted to change SL yagami's background to make the story about revenge but black opposed it but as of April 2015 Adam Wingard who directed segments from vhs1 and its
sequel is now directing Death Note Hollywood politics seems miserable number 95 in 2015 a musical adaptation Called Death Note the musical ran in Japan and South Korea the musical centers around the first half of the series Number 96 in 2014 prior to the Japanese Premiere the Death Note musical was workshopped in New York City with an English speaking cast which means that you can listen to the English versions of a few songs which we at frederator cannot recommend doing highly enough because it's so horrifically awful it is amazing take the duet between light and L
for instance pure Fool's Gold number 97 yet despite all this well success death out has not been without its fair share of controversy the Albuquerque Public Schools district held a hearing in May 2010 to ban the Death Note manga from schools in the district luckily the measure was unanimously defeated number 98 other areas weren't so lucky in 2007 Death Note was banned in Beijing with officials scouring shops with the intent of confiscating any copies of the manga number 99 as of June 2009 the Chinese Ministry of culture blacklisted the series along with Attack on Titan
and 36 others from being distributed in the country at all number 100 yet the anti-death note craze has some solid foundations in 2007 there was a Belgian murder case dub the Monga Mor or Manga Murder By the Belgian media near the remains were not asashi kires which is Japanese for I am Kira four men were arrested in connection to this case in 2010 number 101 in May 2008 one Middle School student was expelled and three others suspended for having their own death note with 50 names in it one of the names was then President George
W bush number 102 in May 2010 another Middle School student was suspended after his death note was found on a school bus the kids list included the names of classmates and pop star Justin Bieber number 103 in September 2009 an 8-year-old Australian boy went a little more chillingly hardcore with his death note in addition to names the note included a battle plan detailing places inside his school where bombs could be placed we remind you this kid was eight number 104 in April 2008 two sixth grade boys from Alabama were arrested for having a Death Note
containing the names of students and staff members number 105 after four volumes of the manga were found near the scene of a suicide of a teenage girl in yakatan BG Russia in February 2013 a local parents group wrote an open letter to President Vladimir Putin calling for a complete ban of all death note related media number6 in response to all this controversy surrounding the series shizuka Keno the director of the first life action Death Note film said if preventing them from seeing this movie is going to make kids better then why not prevent them from
watching all bad news which while death not is definitely not the kind of series a parent would necessarily encourage their kid to watch is a valid point and number and seven after death note Oba and obata reunited to work on the series Bakuman which ran from August 2008 till April 2012 and then again in 2015 on the series Platinum end thanks for watching 107 facts you should know about death note which fact is your favorite did we miss anything leave us a comment below and be sure to like this video And subscribe to cartoon hangover
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