SWIMMING LESSONS fans got trolled. However, it was a CANDID CAMERA ending.

- There is no swimming lesson!! WHAT!!~'

LOL. No swimming?

Light goes for Olympic gold!

We had Swimming Lessons, although brief, but they were there.

A very melancholic end for Light. Mikami kills himself in a very gruesome way. Near still wins. Misa possibly kills herself, it's not shown but heavily implied.

The montage of Light running while flashbacks of his younger self waking down the street was done really well.The final scenes with Light laying on the stairwell and seeing the silhouette of L as he dies were perfect. I chance to say I prefer this to the manga's ending.

I wanted to see the look on Light's face when Ryuk told him there was only nothingness after death. The manga's ending alot more, I guess action. Can anyone who understand Japanese tell me what Ryuk said when he wrote Light's name down? This ending makes it seem like there is a heaven and hell, while the manga's said there isn't.

It's good that they show that with Misa...though technically she's not supposed to kill herself until a year later. They also totally skipped the last few scenes in the manga when they go a year into the future and you see that the world has gone back to how it was before Kira.

But I like it better ending at this point instead. Light was still pathetic, unfortunately, but he wasn't quite as pathetic as he is in the manga. We don't see the begging and screaming he did at the end of the manga in the anime. So it makes it slightly more tolerable.

I really like the scenes where he's running and we see his younger self...sort of sad. Also the end where he sees L is fitting. This ending is actually more melancholy than the manga ending.

I still would have preferred that they kill Near off at least. *sighs* Oh well...I really wasn't expecting them to change anything.

that when human dies, place they go is MU.

Ryuku said Light lost, completely, and as a rule, he had to right the name of the one who used the DN anyway, it's not interesting anymore since Light had lost and he hates to wait for Light to die in prison so he wrote Light's name in his own DN. Ryuku said they both had a good time :D.
And I like the manga ending more, want to see Light's face when Ryuku tell him he'll write his name instead of the others

Well, during those commercial break Death Note rule scenes they *did* have the whole "when humans die they go to Mu (Nothingness)" thing, so I guess that still applies? Though Ryuk didn't actually say the line himself in the anime.

MU = Nothingness