Death Note - Special Episode (Coming this Summer)

[Pellissier]

This thread is meant to discuss and share expectations about the special episode of Death Note, announced straight after the end of episode 37.

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Feel free to talk about it. Once it will air, a canonic episode discussion thread might pop out as well.

[Shiroth]

So i take it this is going to be the one year after part that we get in the manga. Madhouse probably feel it is best to end it with something like that --- doing it for the fans.

[tsukari]

It isn't really necessary, but still i'm glad that there's going to be a special episode. I haven't read all the manga yet, so i don't really know what they left out of the story in the anime.

[zalem]

I'm guessing it's going to be a recap of some sort along with new scenes cover the last chapter of the manga. Not totally necessary imho, but I suppose it's nice to have for more closure.

[Vicious108]

I dont think

Spoiler for manga last chapter:

Matsudas theory will make as much sense it did in the manga, since Near wouldnt have had Mikami die right there in the warehouse instead of the original 10 days later in prison in the manga.

But yeah, still happy about this special episode coming out. At least we can say Death Note isnt over for good just yet.

[Auro]

Endless Twilight, that's exactly what I was thinking about the end of the anime vrs manga.
It would be could to have the one year later - just showing the world going back to normal, and the Kira worshipers (like he had become a God after all) but I felt that whole theory was out of place in the manga anyway.

Well in any case, I don't really care what the special is about, its just more death note! I just wonder when it'll come out heheh.

[Frazzlehoon]

Ahaha, I can't wait for it to come out. >________>

[Lendial]

i would like to think light did some good even if the means was wrong. the world returning back to its original state is really depressing, it makes all those deaths meaningless and light's entire masterplan(and DN plot) meaningless. i really hope they dont show that. the followers praying to lord kira is fine tho :P because in a way he is immortal.

[Draender]

Originally Posted by zalem

I'm guessing it's going to be a recap of some sort along with new scenes cover the last chapter of the manga. Not totally necessary imho, but I suppose it's nice to have for more closure.

I think it will be a made for TV movie using material from the anime. They could start with episode 1 where everything is set up, use episode 27 where L narrates the events of the first arcs, a postmortem from Mello narrating the last arc, replay episode 37 and then finally give us the epilogue. Overall, the new material will only be equivalent to one episode.

Originally Posted by Lendial

i would like to think light did some good even if the means was wrong. the world returning back to its original state is really depressing, it makes all those deaths meaningless and light's entire masterplan(and DN plot) meaningless. i really hope they dont show that. the followers praying to lord kira is fine tho :P because in a way he is immortal.

I don't think it's possible for the world to return the same rotten state it was in. Are all the wars that stopped just going to resume? At the end the people who agree with Kira became the majority; the Kira followers are certainly going to have some influence and they may be able to create a deterrent. We'll have to wait for the epilogue to see what happens in the anime. In the manga they said the world returned to how it was before.

[QwertyAccess]

shame they wont do alternative ending

[MihawkXGP]

Cool. Can't wait. I wonder what new stuff will be in the episode. The stuff from those chapters shouldn't be able to occupy a whole episode...or could it?

[kaoruky]

dont matter to me, raito already death

[ShoyzX]

Possibly an extra explination of Light's red eyes, appearence in the Shinigami World in Intro 2, or just the final chapter?

[LightningZERO]

Series recap

[mist2123]

Originally Posted by ShoyzX

Possibly an extra explination of Light's red eyes, appearence in the Shinigami World in Intro 2, or just the final chapter?

he may have become a shinigami himself

[Albert-Wesker 3rd]

I say new material with a recap.

[Suhaki]

I'd like to see an alternative ending. ^^

[Vicious108]

Light's eyes were red for the same reason his hair turned red and L's turned blue before: just for show. Nothing to do with Shinigami.

[Cheezy]

The red eyes are just for appearance, as Twiligt said.

Also, YAY FOR SPECIAL EPISODE

[ShoyzX]

Originally Posted by Endless Twilight

Light's eyes were red for the same reason his hair turned red and L's turned blue before: just for show. Nothing to do with Shinigami.

Yeah, but it seemed as if the hair colors changed to show when the characters were thinking. Light's eyes would always turn red when he was doing the most evil things. And judging by the looks he was getting as he was laughing, you're not really sure if the others can see it or not.