![]() Ryuk has a great fondness for apples, stating the addiction to be an equivalent of cigarettes and alcohol for humans. Ryuk is intelligent, but Light's ability to understand his desires easily makes him able to be manipulated. As his only purpose in dropping the notebook was because he was bored, most of his actions are primarily motivated by wanting to see something interesting, as he sees Light's use of the Death Note and the way humans react to it as truly entertaining. At times, he withholds important information from Light and only assists him when he has something to gain from it. Though he finds Light interesting, he does not care whether Light lives or dies and does not actively assist him. Ryuk regards Light as "interesting," specifically due to his experiments and the loopholes he discovers regarding the Death Note's rules and instructions, occasionally discovering abilities of the notebook even Ryuk did not know existed. Ryuk is different from most Shinigami in that he does not want to simply pass time away in the Shinigami Realm but find something to relieve his boredom, and he is unaffected by the mocking he receives from other Shinigami for it. He has large, round yellow eyes with bright red irises and retractable feather-like wings on his back that enable him to fly. His limbs are abnormally long, and he wears rings on his fingers. He is extremely slim and has light-gray skin, almost blue-ish in color, with spiky black hair thin, blue-gray lips and sharp, pointed teeth. The whole scene is reproduced below, though no-one on YouTube - insofar as I can find - has captured that final part beyond the credits with the chocolate.Ryuk has a fairly humanoid appearance. But with Mello alongside him, they could collectively succeed where L had failed. Is that not a nod towards Near's own Yellow Box denouncement of Light in the manga? When he said that he alone couldn't surpass L. In Lawliet's little speech to his young mathematical genius companion, he advises him, 'There is one thing I want you to remember, no matter how gifted, you alone cannot change the world.' ![]() By that, I mean the last one before the credits, wherein L takes the tiny Thai child to Wammy's House and names him Near. There was another obscure Mello hint in the previous final scene of L: Change the World. However, we haven't finished with Mello and this movie yet. That acknowledgement was admitted by Ohba in How To Read - the official guide to Death Note. It's reminiscent of our final glimpse of Near, in the manga, nomming chocolate out of respect for Mello. And perhaps we do, at least in nodding acknowledgement towards those who died in the cause of Kira. For a instant, we suspect we're about to see a blond Mafioso smirking from the shadows. We hear it before we see Lawliet perched in situ. More blatant is the fact that the sequence begins with a loud snapping of chocolate. We're not told which ones they pertain to, but my imagination tells me that there are three cases in there and they'll be referenced or retold in the novel Another Note. So what's this got to do with Mello? For a start, those case-notes. At least that's the only interpretation which salves the heart of onlookers. The scene ends with a black screen, upon which white words form: L Lawliet, Rest in Peace. L stares at a photograph of Mr Wammy for long seconds, before stepping from his crouch upon the chair and walking off camera. It depicts L sitting before a desk, upon which lies a lever arch folder, closed over a pile of tidy case-notes. ![]() Which means that we all missed the semi-secret poignant scene sneaked in there - beyond all acknowledgements, but one. Particularly when they're not subject to subtitles translating the beautiful kanji sailing past. It never occurred to me to continue on.įor some, it's painful enough to get to the credits, let alone sit through them. ![]() Admit it, you've never watched beyond the final credits in L: Change the World.
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