This is the Death Note side story timeline.
We will be going over each and every one that’s on this list.
If you like the anime or manga, I’m sure you will learn a lot of new things in this video.
I'm sure we've all heard of Death Note before. It ended years ago and people are still talking
about it. Multiple Death Note analysis videos have already been made in the past.
However, I didn't see any on the side stories. If you didn’t know already,
there are six official Death Note side stories that give information on past and future events,
as well as an alternate ending to the Death Note manga.
I will be going over all of them in this video. If you are looking for anything specific, then
there will be chapters listen in the description below. Anyways, let’s get started with the 2008
Death Note one shot or chapter 109. It goes over what happened 3 years after the main series ended.
Near is shown as the new L and a new Kira emerges who had gained a Death Note from the
Shinigami Midora, who had received the additional Death Note from the Shinigami King by bribing
him thirteen apples that she had taken from the Human world. The new Kira murdered elderly people
in Japan to "relieve their pain." When Near's SPK or anti-Kira subordinates asked him why he wasn't
taking any action, he replied that he was trying to think what the previous L would have done.
The flashback of L's communication to the children at Wammy's House is shown,
where he’s talking through a computer and seeing the children through the camera.
Most of the time they were just asking L questions and he answered. Near states that this is the only
time he ever interacted with L. This is also where L admits that figuring out difficult cases
is his hobby, and not justice at all. He chose Mello and Near as his potential
successor as those two were the only ones not asking questions and just listening.
Near finally reaches a conclusion that the prevailing Kira was just
a killer without a purpose, and he labeled the killer as "C-Kira" for "Cheap Kira". He
announces on national television, under the alias of "L", that he was not interested in the case
and that he had deduced that this Kira was not the real one but only an "abominable murderer".
This resulted in C-Kira writing his own name in the Death Note after 3 days.
He was likely motivated to kill the elderly after perhaps killing their sick grandfather and
believing themselves to be the new Kira. It's apparent that their will wasn't very strong,
as one must have a strong will in order to truly perform justice like Kira.
Midora returns to the Shinigami Realm and offers Ryuk her notebook,
to which he accepts and this leads directly to the next one shot, which is a direct sequel.
Before I start with the next one shot. I’m going to be including a tier list off all
the side stories that are included in this video. The 2008 one shot is a B-tier for
me. There’s nothing too special about it, but I still think it’s pretty cool.
In the 2020 special one shot or the a-Kira story. After eating an apple from the human world,
Ryuk wants to find someone who can feed him apples and give him the same entertainment
Light did. He returns to Earth more than ten years after his last visit.
His plan was to give the Death Note to the top-scoring student in Japan, hoping that
he will follow in Light Yagami's footsteps. He is surprised when Minoru Tanaka returns the notebook
and asks him to come back in two years and that he will give him all the apples he wants if he does.
Now a high school student, Minoru accepts the notebook from Ryuk,
but has no plans to use it himself. He asks Ryuk how far he can travel while he
is in possession of the notebook. Ryuk says that he can travel around 14 kilometers.
This is a new rule added in the one shot, that was not included in the original Death Note manga.
With the Shinigami's help, and his own ingenuity, he asks Ryuk to write a specific message on a sign
in Japanese. On Sakura TV, the News Broadcast is interrupted when Ryuk holds up the sign
which states that the power to remotely kill people used by Kira would be on sale on Twitter
with #POWEROFKIRA and asked them to post the bid in USD. Matsuda breaks into Sakura TV
to try to stop the broadcast, but is recognized as one of the people involved in the Kira case,
which in turn proves the legitimacy of the auction.
Minoru had waited two years so he would be able to create a bank account. He couldn’t
transfer all the money to only his account, as he would be caught, but he had a plan.
Near names him a-Kira or auction Kira and deduces that he will have to receive the money online,
which would enable him to track him down, and decides to watch the auction and wait.
Minoru wanted the money to be split among every Japanese citizen under a certain age that had
a bank account. Numerous bidders around the world made offers for the notebook,
but the bidding is eventually whittled down to just the United States of America and China.
The United States of America buys it for a sum that leaves every Japanese citizen under the
age of 60 set for life. After confirming that the USA has paid what it agreed to,
Minoru gives the notebook to Ryuk to deliver to America's president,
ordering the Shinigami to never return once he has left, but the Shinigami King is furious,
he is not happy. He creates a new rule of the Death Note that ruins Minoru’s plan.
The new rule was that if a human who sells or buys the Death Note will die.
The seller will die when the money is received and physically in their possession,
while the buyer will die when the Death Note is in their possession.
Ryuk considers telling Minoru but decides not to, due to the latter telling him to never come back.
After withdrawing his money from his bank account, Minoru suffers a heart attack and dies.
It is revealed that Ryuk was the one who wrote Minoru's name in his notebook,
on the same page he previously wrote Light Yagami's.
Ryuk was willing to leave the Death Note behind if the president dies, so that the
Vice President can use it. Since the president values his life over patriotism, he declines
possession of the Death Note. Instead, he lies and announces to the world that he has it, but
will refuse to use it, believing this will boost his reputation. Ryuk congratulates him on his
shrewd decision and leaves with the Death Note. That’s where the death note story officially
concludes. Everything else is just prequel material or an alternate universe.
As for the tier list, this is easily A-tier. So much is going on. This Kira is so much better
than previous one. We see a completely new way of using the Death Note, very different to how Light
used it. The ending though, it’s unfortunate that Minoru’s perfect plan got ruined for
something out of his control, and he’s the first person to unknowingly outsmart Near.
Let’s go back to chapter 0 or the prequel manga that’s featured in volume 13.
The chapter starred Taro Kagami, a 13-year old boy and middle school student.
Taro finds a Death Note; not knowing the English word for "death" but knowing the English word for
"note," he assumes the book is a blank diary and takes it to replace a diary he previously lost.
He then writes in the book complaining about two students bullying him.
Which causes both of them to die. After hearing about the death of his classmates,
only to be subsequently bullied again, Taro searches up the word "death" in the dictionary,
and learns the true meaning of the "Death Note".
In disbelief, he continues to write in the Death Note, incidentally writing the names
of his new bullies. The next day at school, he finds out the bullies are dead. He runs home
to hide the notebook, only to meet its original owner Ryuk who, similar to the mainstream manga,
dropped it out of boredom. Shortly after, two detectives
show up at Taro's house asking questions, but Ryuk suggests that Taro memorize the
name on their badges and to kill the two. The following night, Taro has nightmares
of the bullies he accidentally killed. In response, Ryuk gives Taro the Death Eraser,
an eraser that can revive those killed by the Death Note as long as they have not been cremated.
Taro brings the two bullies Suzuki and Tanaka back to life, and they all return to school.
At school, the same two detectives from the previous night question the resurrected boys
about how they died and came back to life. However, Suzuki, Tanaka, three other bullies, and
the two officers all die of heart attacks. This causes the school to be temporarily shut down.
Days later, Taro finds out that Ryuk dropped his other Death Note. Taro finds his classmate Miura,
who had also been bullied had killed them all. Miura attempts to kill Taro
and then tries to commit [not alive] by writing his own name, but Taro stops him.
He erases the names and visits the two officers, whom were just revived by the
eraser. Taro and Miura tell the officers about the Death Note and prove its effect.
Miura's notebook is confiscated and burned; its existence is hidden away from the general
public. However, Taro never reveals the existence of his Death Note and keeps it.
The last scene presents the Death Note seven years later as a cultural phenomenon,
with its actual existence still in dispute. Ryuk is last seen with an older,
20-year-old Taro mocking a Death Note survey. Pretty interesting chapter, it was made way
before the original Death Note series. We see the Death Eraser a really cool concept,
but it’s never used again. There aren’t any super detectives like L, not like they were needed, but
we can see how the story started. This is going on the B-tier. I don’t have any major complaints.
Three down, three left, and coincidentally the three that remain are all books or novels. This
time let's do it chronologically, starting with L FILE No. 15. Two more one shots are featured
in this book, which combined only have 12 pages. It's narrated by Watari and goes over L as a child
and his time in Wammy's House. His first days at the orphanage were a little rocky,
as L didn't get along well with the other children.
He hoarded the toys that he liked "because he was stronger" and that he often played
alone. His abilities were clear even as a child. One day L tells Watari that he
wants to play with puzzles and games that are harder. Watari gives L his own room
to play in, and L says that having his own room is "nice." Three days later,
L asks for a computer because "communication through a computer would give him power."
L began telling Watari how to invest in stock, leading Watari to multiply his
fortune by twenty-thousand over the span of two years. Several years after that,
L suddenly stated while reading a newspaper that "This serial murder case is more difficult
than any puzzle or game." The case had no leads and Watari says that when L found the killer,
L's eyes "were shining." It was at that moment that Watari found the path he would walk with L.
The second one shot just goes over his life as an adult. By this time he developed his
signature sitting position and that he likes to be clean, but apparently,
finds the act of washing to be too much effort. Most of his
time is spent solving cases and eating sweets. For the tier list this is going on the C-tier
mainly because I'm not a huge fan of slice of life and there's not anything too important going on.
The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases is the next novel we will be looking at.
Parts of the novel are written with the character Mello as the in-universe author
with the expectation that it will be read by Near and Kira. It details the story of L's first
encounter with Naomi Misora. The story is about the killer Beyond Birthday loose in Los Angeles.
L and Naomi attempt to catch the killer as he leaves clues behind.
Mello uses different techniques while narrating: he begins as a typical narrator
but drops it to acquire a way of speech that is usually associated with a live storytelling.
The novel also switches from Mello's first-person view and opinions to Naomi Misora's point of view.
There is an FBI agent also helping with the case known as Ryuzaki. In case you forgot,
Ryuzaki is the alias L uses in Death Note to protect his real identity from Kira. Naomi is
suspicious of him, but the readers are led to believe that he is L. This is because of
his mannerisms and description such as black hair, dark bags beneath the eyes, bad posture,
love for sweets, etc. However, it's Beyond pretending to be L using his acting skills.
Whenever Naomi contacts the real L, Ryuzaki is nowhere in sight. The two of them are never in
the same room. Beyond was born with Shinigami eyes, the reason is not explained. This allowed
him to see and know when exactly people around him would die, as well as knowing their full
names. Why did Beyond do this? Well, he wanted to "beat" L by making a case he couldn't solve.
The eyes made Beyond a strange child, eventually causing Wammy's House to take him in. He uses this
ability to pick his victims and kill them when they have already been destined to die. Insight
is given about Wammy's House and it is revealed that L had two successors before Near and Mello.
A and B were supposed to be L's successors. The pressure of Wammy's House proved to be too great
for A, which caused him to commit [not alive], while B left Wammy's House at some unknown point.
Beyond Birthday's final victim was himself,
or rather, his fake persona, "Rue Ryuzaki." By [not alive]ing himself, he hoped to leave the
case unsolvable. He knows that his body will be identified as Beyond Birthday but because
he kept his name a secret from Wammy's House, he does not expect his body to be identified as B.
Beyond sets himself on fire in a locked room, but his plan is ruined by Naomi,
who shoots open the door and sets out the fire before he dies. Less than a
year and a half after his arrest, Beyond Birthday dies of a mysterious heart attack
and that's where the story ends. Presumably, he’s one of the many criminals who died to Kira.
This story is honestly pretty interesting, I’m debating putting it on A-tier or B-tier
but I’m gonna go with A-tier. I do like all the characters in this story and
it ends around the start of the Kira arc. Overall really solid and interesting story.
Last but not least, we have L Change the WorLd. While it is an alternate universe to Death Note,
it doesn’t go over exactly how it happened. In this novel,
L already defeated Kira and Light is dead.
The story goes over L’s final 23 days alive. He wrote his name in the Death
Note to be able to dictate his own death and to fail Light's plan to kill him.
L’s next case after the Kira case is basically L vs Covid. He has to stop a group of people
that's ready to wipe out most of humanity with a deadly virus in order to “purify the world.”
So L teams up with Maki and Near. Maki is the daughter of Dr. Nikaido, who's the assistant
of the creator of the virus. He's scared that his work will be turned into a weapon, so he
develops an antidote so Dr. Kimiko Kujo couldn't continue her plan to wipe out most of humanity.
As many of you know, L is a detective with a heart of a stone; not letting
emotions interfere with his sense of justice. In the novel, he starts out as being the cold,
emotionless detective everyone views him as but softens up to being more "human."
His goal is to protect Maki and stop the virus, which he eventually does near the end,
and since he wrote his name in the Death Note he ends up dying a peaceful death.
That's pretty much the super basic plot of the novel. There's a lot of twists and turns
that happen, it would take a while for me to cover them all.
If you're a huge fan of Death Note and L, I'd recommend reading this.For
the tier list this pretty easily A-tier. One of the best side stories,
probably my second favorite out of all of them in this video. If you enjoyed watching this video,
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