The film L: Change the World was also adapted into a light novel with the same name on December 25, 2007, by "M", [50] While the novel is similar to the film, there are many significant changes to the plot (for example, Near is not a Thai boy, but the same Near that appears in the manga). After pulling the trigger so that the audio is captured as proof to the team, Chief Yagami explains everything to Light.

The storyline is based on the second part of the manga, featuring characters such as Mello and Near.A sequel to the game, Death Note: Successors to L ( デスノート Lを継ぐ者, Desu Nōto Eru o Tsugu Mono), was released in Japan on July 12, 2007. It also received several nominations such as Best Manga at the 2006 American Anime Awards, [115] [116] the 2007 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, [117] an Official Selection at Angoulême International Comics Festival 2008, [118] and Obata was nominated for Best Penciller/Inker at the 2008 Eisner Awards. This is used by Light as a mechanism to attempt to gain the real name of Detective Raye Penber's girlfriend. Light regains his memories and uses the Death Note to kill Higuchi, regaining possession of the book.

Allergic to Routine: Tsugumi Ohba confirms "Boredom" is the most appropriate title for the first chapter of the manga: it's why Ryuk drops his Notebook and why Light picks it up. Even if L's brilliant deductions burn energy at a rate that's a many times faster than normal, it still wouldn't come close to compensate for all of that candy. Though the two have their own motives that aren't exactly heroic, Light being a Villain Protagonist makes it a case of a Big Bad Ensemble against a Big Bad. The most noteworthy instance of this is when he gives up his memories of the Death Note with a plan to gain them back later, which goes off without a hitch. For just a moment, L stops playing the game between him and Kira, and straight asks Light if he really is just that terrible a person.Asshole Victim: All of Light's earliest victims are this, sometimes as a criticism of the Japanese legal system, sometimes due to Bystander Syndrome.