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Well, the overall outcome is the same as the manga, but they did make some interesting changes. I might like this slightly better than the manga end (I hated the manga end), but....I think I need to watch it again.

Spoiler for ep 37 v. manga:

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.