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Depicting the Darker Shades of Light Yagami with Graphite Pencil Artist Lei K 

26/2/2016

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Lei K draws upon her own experience to outline - via the Month of Kira artist questionnaire - how budding Death Note fan-artists might tackle a portrait of Light Yagami. Just like her own, reproduced below.
Lei K - Light art on Death Note News Month of Kira
Lei K's Light is just one of the many pieces of artwork on display in her gallery on DeviantART.  She's an artist from Nānākuli, on the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii, who specialises in graphite pencil art.  Her Light Yagami portrait was completed in May 2014, using graphite, charcoal and colour pencils.

To see more of her most up-to-date artwork, including another showing of her pencil drawn Kira, you really need to visit her website - La808Lei. 
Wherein you can view Lei K's works in progress; completed art in varying media; and, oh bless you!, a link back to Death Note News!  Not to mention social media links to keep up with all that's new from this talented lady's studio, and opportunities to purchase selected artwork from her gallery.

Low-Down on Drawing Light Yagami with Nānākuli Graphite Pencil Artist Lei K

Do you/have you created Kira art now or in the past?
Yes - in the past

Any anecdotes about your experiences as a Light Yagami artist?
I developed a strong appetite for potato chips, preferably Sour Cream and Onions.

How would you go about creating a Kira drawing/sculpture?
Find good references of Light. What I like to do is use the anime itself as a good reference for a Light. Also it's good to know what mood you want to give off in the drawing. It'll make it more visually appealing.

What attributes, clothing and/or scenarios, do you feel are essential to include in Light Yagami artwork?
His red eyes. I normally work with graphite pencils, but this time I added charcoal pencils into the mix. I wanted darker tones, so those red eyes could stand out. I also wanted the tone dark to give the drawing a dark vibe. Of course I had to have the smirk smile of his and the Death Note.

Is there more to recreating Kira visually than the outfit? (Expression/stance/slogan etc.)
Yes there is. I don't really want to quote another artist, but in this case it's the best answer I can give. Get his personality. It has to come across no matter what. Also get Kira expression right...either it's him writing names in the Death Note, doing the evil laugh or even eating a bag of potato chips. Having his expression right helps recreating Kira visually.

What, in your professional opinion, are fundamental tips/advice in producing art that's recognisably Kira?
Use good references and have them at a decent size. The larger the better, so you could zoom in on certain details. Also get all the references you might need beforehand. It's better to have references before you start, so they are ready for you to use while you are drawing. It’s a huge time saver.

What are the common noob errors made in drawing/modelling Light Yagami?
Not getting the details of Light right...like his eyes, hair, clothes, expression, etc. Having a reference from the anime, manga or even action figure is a great way to make sure you have the right details of Light.
Detail from 'Light Yagami' by Lei K - Death Note News
Any last tips for anyone reading, who wishes to start creating Kira artwork?
Draw what moves you. If it's a certain scene, emotion or you have a feeling to just draw Light...than draw him. When that creative mood hits act upon it. If you don't...it'll nag you until you do. Also you don't have to draw exactly how Light looks in the anime. As long you have his details right, you can do your own style of Light. That would make your artwork stand out more, because it’ll have your own personal touch to it.

Creating something is better than creating nothing.

Artists!

Would you like to have a go at answering these questions on your own behalf?

If you are a Death Note artist - or indeed an artist per se - and you're willing to share your tips, thoughts and advice with the fandom, then visit our fan-artist's questionnaire page to fill in the form.

Thank you in advance!

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Death Note News Light Yagami Gift Store (Sort of) Open

26/2/2016

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Death Note Light Yagami gift ideas collage

Matti Learns Dave McKean Makes This Collage Malarkey Look Too Easy

Death Note Light Yagami merchandise art
- created by Matti for Month of Kira -
in the WTF?!IsThatSupposedToBe Tradition
If you have no artistic talent, you might as well go surreal.

At least it gives folk something interesting to look at and wonder at the mindset that created such a collage.  Plus, of course, what the sweet actual they are looking at.

The masterpiece you're currently enjoying (left) is entitled Matti Learns That Dave McKean Makes This Stuff Look Too Easy.

Alternatively known as Thumbnail for a Kira Gift Shop on Death Note News.

We needed something to adorn the slidey 'heads up' thing over to your right.  But mostly what we need is an artist actually on the staff.

The situation is thus:  We're coming to the end of Death Note Month of Light Yagami. This means that we're systematically checking all of the inboxes to ensure that no-one's submission got missed, and that everyone as yet unpublished is in our big planning grid somewhere.

That done, it was a return to the start, back to that big list made of possible content, when we thought hardly anyway would join in. Ha!
Anything missed?  Any great ideas sizzling away on a back-burner, in danger of becoming charcoal, because no-one's checked that list since we wrote it?  (Being too busy organizing, liaising, coding, formatting, chasing and all other manner of orchestrating e-mails zooming back and forth, coz folk beautifully, fabulously and brilliantly did join in.  In absolute droves.)

Finds a whole article written in advance, and promptly forgotten about; has a frightened little gasp over the short list pertaining to Light Yagami's birthday on the 28th.

Never did source an astrologer to tell us about the propensity of Pisceans to become Kira; nor anyone to explain why it matters that his Light Yagami's blood group is A; nor whether the Fire Tiger of the Death Note manga birth year for Kira, or Earth Snake of the anime, best suits Light's personality as described in the Chinese Zodiac.  If anyone actually knows any of this stuff - or related charts, no-one mentioned Indian astrology yet! - then you have two days to jot your knowledge down and rush it to us in time for Kira's birthday on February 28th.

Pretty much guaranteed to ninja yourself into our already chock-a-block publishing grid for Light Yagami month though!

Then there it was, a faded, pencilled little note - create a gift store for Kira on Death Note News.  It would tie in nicely and we have a freaking website to pay for!  If we could just start remembering to populate (and promote) our Death Note Gifts area (tick), we might get a dribble of commission in to put aside towards hosting costs (He Moves Me Differently, not really here); domain name retention (here); Kira crossword prizes etc.

So when things get tough, we wouldn't have to resort to desperate measures, like launching an appeal replete with photographs of the wide-eyed, cute, beseeching faces of our two kittens and boa constrictor.

(Incidentally, and remarkably, that worked!  Yow and Jiji are currently nowhere to be seen, out playing without risk of our kittens creating more kittens; plus they got their travel home, all their inoculations and insurance to cover them at their friendly, lovely vet. Tinkerbell is having a vivarium built especially for her. Until about two days ago, I'd have said she's the happiest boa constrictor alive. Then she got mites.  This is not a great learning curve, but we're winning nontheless. No infestation of snake eating mini-spiders noms Tink on OUR watch. And yes, Anonysnake did raise Anonymous to help haX0r said mites.  Two Anons anyway.  No more about that here.  This is a Death Note news site!  If you want to keep up with kitten/boa gossip, follow them on Twitter like normal people.)
Anyway, utterly side-tracked.  Have a reject Death Note Kira merchandise thumbnail to get us back on track.

I nearly went with this. It seemed to me to have possibilities, which in the hands of a real artist might have been teased out.  Then again, it wouldn't have got to this stage with a real artist.

There would have been art.

Much waffling later, we arrive at the point.  Bulleted recap for TL;DR:
  • Death Note News staff are great at researching, writing and generally enjoying discovering and sharing all things Death Note.
  • We're universally rubbish at creating and/or maintaining the stores that might (eventually) pay for the means to do the sharing bit.
  • Death Note Month of Kira was supposed to have a gift filled store attached (tied in to incentivise us more than you);
  • We forgot.
BIG DRUM-ROLL! 
  • Then remembered three days before the end of the event;
  • And a Death Note Light Yagami Gift Store now exists with some stuff in it!  Go and see!  Gape and wonder!  Count all the things you already have and what you wish to buy for Matti as a present.  *a-hem*
Death Note Kira fan gift ideas - Death Note News
LIGHT YAGAMI SHOP - THE SEQUEL!
  • There will be more items there soon.  Assuming that we spend more time adding Kira gift ideas, than we do writing long rambling blog-like articles and/or creating bizarre collages from images of Light Yagami merchandise.

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Monster Designer Shinji Nishikawa at California's Monsterpalooza

25/2/2016

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Godzilla concept artist Shinji Nishikawa will be at California con Monsterpalooza, at the Pasadena Convention Center, from 22-24 April 2016.

Why do we care?  Other than he seems to be a lovely and rather talented gentleman?

Because Shinji Nishikawa was also responsible for setting production on the Death Note anime back in 2006-2007.

Our guess is that he'd much rather be asked about that, rather than all this Godzilla stuff he's become quite famous for in the meantime.  So we're counting on you, Californians, to nip along, question him and report back on our behalf. 

If only to find out what 'setting production' is.

Billed as a manga artist, illustrator and Godzilla series creature designer (with Death Note setting production strangely omitted), Shinji Nishikawa will be at Monsterpalooza taking fan requests for art, whilst sketching some original monsters too. 

More about the convention at Monsterpalooza's website; and check out their announcement re Shinji Nishikawa via the Monsterpalooza Facebook stream.
Shinji Nishikawa at Monsterpalooza, CA, April 2016
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Award-winning Mexican Artist Nell Fallcard Tells All About Drawing Light Yagami

21/2/2016

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Professional artist Nell Fallcard is the first to complete our Death Note Month of... questionnaire - aimed at advising Kira artists on perfecting their craft.
Death Note News: Light Yagami by Nell Fallcard
Nell knows what she's talking about. She makes a living from her art in her native Mexico.  Her portrait of Light Yagami (above) was lifted from her DeviantART portfolio.  Later (non-Death Note related) portraits netted first place prizes art competitions like the Photoshop User Awards (2008) - Illustration category and Royal Flush magazine's Portrait Illustration Contest (2008). More recently, Nell was short-listed for the Share One Planet Worldwide Illustration Contest Award.

You can find more of her art on her website. Be prepared to sit there going, 'Wow!' for the next few minutes, as you peruse its gallery.  We did.

Nell Fallcard on Portraying Light Yagami in Traditional Art

Detail from Nell Fallcard's Light Yagami portrait
Have you created Kira art now or in the past?
Yes - in the past.

Any anecdotes about your experiences as a Light Yagami artist?
I used a reference of a guy I found attractive back in the day for the piece, he stumbled upon it and now we are good friends! Going to massacre his sassy ass in Smash Bros this Sunday. :D

How would you go about creating a Kira drawing?
Find references, get a basic sketch for composition and values, then render out!

What attributes, clothing and/or scenarios, do you feel are essential to include in Light Yagami artwork?
The K-pop boy band member hair and the red eyes are a must.

Is there more to recreating Kira visually than the outfit?
(Expression/stance/slogan etc.)

His personality has to come across, so get a pose / body language that fits it!

What, in your professional opinion, are fundamental tips/advice in producing art that's recognisably Kira?
Using references is an absolute must in order not to get lost.

What are the common noob errors made in drawing Light Yagami?
Not using references! :'D  The general public tend to think anything that comes from your head has more value than anything you copy, and they are right to an extent. But if you are in your early stages as an artist, your mission is to be able to get your fundamentals right before jumping into relying entirely on the contents of your mind.

Professional artists usually do a mixture of both: they look for references and they change them in their head to come up with their own creations.

Any last tips for anyone reading, who wishes to start creating Kira artwork?
Nowadays there are tutorials for everything (what a beautiful time to be alive!), you just need to put the hours of work. So get yourself into training everyday and you will eventually be able to create anything you imagine!

Artists!

Would you like to have a go at answering these questions on your own behalf?

If you are a Death Note artist - or indeed an artist per se - and you're willing to share your tips, thoughts and advice with the fandom, then visit our fan-artist's questionnaire page to fill in the form.

Thank you in advance!

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Asked Kira Yet?

Three Light Yagami voice actors are waiting to take your questions in interviews for Kira Month on Death Note News.

ASK BRAD SWAILE
(English question form)


PREGUNTA SERGIO ZAMORA
(Forma de pregunta
Español)


STELLEN SIE KIM HASPER
(Deutsch Frage Form)


The deadline is closing in!
FEBRUARY 23RD 2016

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Are You Enjoying This Month of Kira on Death Note News?

16/2/2016

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It's been an exciting month so far, with much more to follow.  Let's recap!

Light Yagami - The God of the New World cosplay by FaustotheEndless

Fausto the Endless cosplays Kira: The God of the New World
(Reproduced with permission - FaustoTheEndless at WorldCosplay)

Kira Seiyū Interviewed by You!

Anime actors Brad Swaile, Sergio Zamora and Kim Hasper are answering your questions backstage as we speak.  They ALL played Light Yagami, providing the voice for him in the English, Spanish (European) and German dubs of the Death Note anime respectively.

Each actor has a new profile page - which will later transform into their individual interviews conducted by all who sent in queries to be asked.  The buttons beneath their pictures below will take you to that seiyū's profile too.

To make life easier on all, we even translated the question form into English, Spanish and German.  Though any of those languages may be used to ask what you will of all three Light Yagami voice actors.
Sergio Zamora interview Death Note News
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Brad Swaile interview Death Note News
Ask in English
Kim Hasper interview Death Note News
Fragen in Deutsch

All about Raito: Kira Profiles, Light Yagami Analyses, Papers, Discussions & More

Death Note News writers and readers alike have been sharing their thoughts and research expertise on all things Yagami. Thus far, we've read profiles penned by us:
  • Death Note Profile: Who is Light Yagami?
  • Casting Kira: Light Yagami Actors Across the Globe

Philosophy:
  • Nathaniel Overthinks Death Note #04: The Utilitarianism of Light Yagami
  • The Concept of Kira: Can you Really say Light Yagami is the God of the New World? (Guest Post by Lua)

and Linguistics:
  • Why is Light Yagami's Name Read as Yagami Tsuki? (Guest Post by Amaryllis)
  • What's in a Name? The Reason Why Light Yagami is Called Kira in Death Note (Guest Post by Renchan)
Then Death Note News columnist Lucas King was here to discuss and play us his piano version of Light's Theme from the anime. Whilst also ninja-ing in an appeal on behalf of a friend.

Meanwhile, an old friend of all who once haunted MangaBullet - the very epitome there of a Light Yagami fan - took centre-stage in a (not coincidentally) very relevant Focus on a Fan for this Month of Kira. 

Who better than Maru-Light for that?

Got anything more to add?  A paper, insight, opinion, commentary, review or general Thing About Raito to Share lying about your hard-drive or bouncing about your mind?  Then let us have it!
Kira Month Submissions

Where the Kira Fans Meet

In our aim to uncover the communities, forums, groups and other places where Light Yagami fans hang out - and to give such areas a little boost of publicity too - we had ComicVine's Light Yagami Forum respond, while also bigging up our own Pinterest Community Board for Kira fans.

Let us know if there are more out there!

Light Yagami Cosplayers Unite!

We've had Kira cosplay galore!  In addition to the fabulous God of the New World above by Fausto the Endless (of whom more later in the month), the whole thing kicked off with Cayanna Carma as Light Yagami welcoming us to this event.

She returned later to answer questions about cosplaying Kira, as did Squad Six Cosplayers and Light Yagami.  We're still to hear from Maru-Light, whose insight is already in and queued waiting to be published.
Kira Cosplayer Questionnaire

Paging the Writers of Light Yagami Fan-Fiction

There's been slightly less of a response from those penning Kira fan-fiction.  Matti gave it a go with Mu Amongst Fools; while the ubiquitous Maru-Light came clean on whatever happened to her co-authored Death Note novels The Redeemer Series.  Fascinating, even if you never read the books!

However, there may be more interest now that we've finally got our Death Note fan-fiction author questions up and running.  Will you be sharing your writing secrets there?
Kira Fan-Fiction Writers Questionnaire

Drawing in the Kira Fan Artists

The lovely Tate Forkel started us off with the fan drawn Light Yagami artwork.  Arrowchild added her own to the Redeemer piece already mentioned above. But then nothing more.

Come on Kira artists!  We're all dying to see what you have created.  To a given value of 'dying' obviously; thought we'd better mention that, given the subject and circumstances.  You may be interested to note that you have also now got a series of questions aimed at uncovering your artistic know-how!
Kira Artist Questionnaire

Did We Miss Anything?

There's much more to come from whence all of this derived, so keep reading and don't forget that everything Light Yagami related this month is being archived for a permanent display: The C0llected Archives of Death Note News Month of Light Yagami.

And next month, Matsuda.  Are you ready?

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What Happened to The Redeemer Series? (Guest Post by Maru-Light)

15/2/2016

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Redeemer Cover Art by Arrowchild (DeviantART)

The Redeemer Series was a nearly 5-book long, epic tome of a Death Note fanfic series written by Maru-Light and Andariel (under the combined avatar cocoacoveredgods).

It focused on the premise that the Yellowbox Warehouse was essentially the pinnacle of L's 6-year long offensive against Kira, who believed L to be dead, when he really wasn’t.

Over the course of thousands of pages, the drama of Death Note’s protagonists (including Mello and Matt, Misa, Near, etc.) post-canon rolled out in a sordid tale replete with angst, erotica, violence, and horror.

It spanned at least five years of solid writing and regular posting, from the first book Redeemer, through its sequels: To Be or Not to Be, Our Time is Running Out, Sins of the Father and I’m Not Okay.

It gained a loyal audience on Adult Fanfiction.net, and an equally loyal audience on DeviantArt where its authors also cosplayed and promoted it. It seemed to be endeavoring to continue through two more solidly planned novels: End of Days and Chasing the Dragon.

But then suddenly, there was a twist.

And now all the books of the series, save the first (Redeemer)—are gone.

So what happened?

As one of its two authors, please allow me to tell you the story of Redeemer’s creation and subsequent disappearance.
Image: Redeemer cover art by Arrowchild

Success of the Redeemer Series - Death Note Fan-Fic by Maru-Light & Andariel

The Redeemer Series began as a private passion project between myself and Andariel (Anda-Chan on DA) as we were entering into our own romantic relationship back in 2008. (We’re now engaged, living together and wedding planning).

We were cosplaying often as Light and Mello back then (and later L, B and Matt) and writing together became part of our raison d'etre. It was a full package deal, the writing feeding the cosplay and vise versa. We had a habit of telling our fellow DN friends about this huge fic we were working on, and they began asking us to read it, so after some thought we eventually relented and put Redeemer up on AFF.

From there the series seemed to generate an audience on its own. We rarely promoted The Redeemer Series much outside of our own DeviantArt accounts, and later, our own forum; but on the rare occasion I sought it out online to see if it had some presence, I often came across it on various Death Note fic rec lists, and even a listing on TV Tropes.com. (LOL)

It was fantastic to suddenly have an audience that didn’t just invest in reading our story, but reviewed and even joined our forum to chat all things Redeemer Series. We had fabulous artists doing fan art, we had an active Character Ask section, we were embroiled in discussion every day about the Death Note of our fic world, and we made some truly great and supportive friends (several of whom are still with us.)

So really, what happened?

Writing on The Redeemer Series Begins to Break Down

Later on we had some of our nearest and dearest readers tell us that they could pinpoint just where the series started to fall apart. At some point in the fourth book, Sins of the Father, around the quarter mark, long after we reached what we felt was an apex in the finale of To Be or Not to Be and then cruised through a very alternative continuation supported largely by OCs in Our Time is Running Out, we started to lose momentum. 

We’d been writing about Death Note for five years. However, we were two writers (in my case a life-long writer) who sought to have real-world careers in writing, but were beginning to realize that we were spending all of our time writing about someone else’s work. It was fun, it was engaging, we loved it while it lasted, but we were beginning to long for something more and we weren’t getting any younger.

It wasn’t an immediate revelation. It came slowly as we pounded the keyboard to push through Sins of the Father. After all, we had two more huge books planned. We had enormous story arcs to cover! The nature of Kira’s God-ness was going to be explored in epic proportions! We were heading toward the End of Days!

Instead, what we were actually heading toward was the end of the Redeemer Series.

The Restrictions of Redeemer

As co-authors, our method of writing was to often volley paragraphs back and forth at each other to propel the story along, and then before upload, I would comb through chapters, as the principle editor, to make sure everything was fluid and had a cohesive voice.

I started noticing, that in scenes involving more canon contexts, the writing began to get painfully repetitive, plots were stalling, we were echoing literal sentences back and forth at each other. I remember distinctly, one sex scene we were working on sounded so painfully done before, that we literally tore it out and fought to write it with entirely new dynamics so it wasn’t boring.

And that was it. We’d grown bored.

The only things that seemed to pique our interests were no longer the sex scenes, or the drama between the Death Note characters, but the original concepts we’d steadily been bringing in over time.  Stories of madness and asylums and insane serial killers.

We whisked L off at one point and set him on a modern Sherlock Holmesian plotline by himself in Edinburgh, and it was the most enjoyable part of the book for me to write (and has since been reworked as the opening chapters of the original series.) I had inspiration again, I had drive, I didn’t want to return to the previous Death Note arcs.

I wanted to be free.

I wasn’t the only one. Anda had tired of everything. Getting her to pitch in on the books was like pulling teeth, when previously it had been so exciting and so fun.

It was time for a change.

But neither of us wanted to accept that the series had come to its natural end. Too much work had gone into it. Too much love and sweat and tears. Too many years and hours. Hours and hours and hours. So we came to a compromise.
Redeemer Fan Art: '...le beau petit garcon...' by Arrowchild (DeviantART)

'...le beau petit garcon...' Redeemer Series
fan-art by Arrowchild,
featuring Beyond Birthday and Mello
We were going to write a spinoff called I’m Not Okay (we were having a love affair with My Chemical Romance at the time). The spinoff centered on one of our OCs (his name was Adonais back then) with the Death Note characters as a peripheral presence. The idea was to tell Adonais’ origin story as a flashback novel, and lead into Sins, where he’d been coexisting as a Wammy’s student with the likes of L and Light. It was supposed to be a break for us, a way to get out and play with something new, and hopefully return to the Redeemer Series with renewed vigor. That was our plan.

But what happened was not according to plan.

Backlash of Death Note Redeemer Series Readers

Not long ago, we came across a blog post somewhere, belaboring our ‘underhandedness’ of ‘tricking’ our readers to read a book about an OC with promises of Death Note and then not delivering. “If they wanted to stop writing Death Note, just come clean and tell us, don’t trick us into reading about your OC.” That was the complaint, or something to that effect.

Let me say, it wasn’t that simple. If it was, we could have saved ourselves a lot of angst. After all, we weren’t lying to our readers; we were lying to ourselves.

Frankly, we weren’t ready to let go. It was a lesson we learned the hard way, writing I’m Not Okay. The more we wrote, the more that book began to do what it wanted apart from Death Note, but we kept trying to force the enduring intent that we were going to bring it all back around to the Redeemer Series. Slowly, our audience started to drop off, frustration began to show in reviews. The longer names like Kira and L and Mello were absent from the text, the less people stayed with us, and the more that happened, the more we began to wonder at what point did we have to accept the truth: that we’d moved on.

The readers that remained and invested honestly in our burgeoning original tale, weathered our indecisiveness, but started to agree that we needed to break it off. Not Okay was becoming its own thing, and to proceed without letting the book organically grow as itself, was proving a hindrance to the work and to our efforts. And clearly it was pissing off the people still holding out for L and Light to make an appearance.

So we decided to call it, and we removed I’m Not Okay from AFF and put the Redeemer Series on indefinite hiatus.

The Redeemer Series Transforms into The Breaking Across Devotion Series

Breaking Across Devotion - CocoaCoveredGods forum
We squirrelled our new work off to our private forum where some of our long-term readers were keen to beta. From there, Pandora’s box syndrome kicked in and we realized there was a huge untapped OC cast with untapped potential just waiting to move in on our little story and blow it wide open.

Because all of this siphoned down from The Redeemer Series, there were initially some similarities between concepts we'd been exploring beyond canon when it came to characters like Beyond and L particularly. Those similarities eventually diluted until we can really just shout out to their original incarnates like a sentimental homage. 

However, as we planned the world of our new original universe, we realized there were still elements we'd incorporated in To Be and its compatriots that we wanted to explore and adapt. We began to pull some of these concepts back in, revisiting ideas we had for the Redeemer Series with new eyes as we constructed a world, while removed from Death Note, was not necessarily removed from our signature subjects.

Our explorations of madness and the asylum culture, our crazed characters who often speak in sing-song~ Our off-beat, anarchist, angst-ridden, pretty boys. That’s who we are as writers, and that’s what we have been building into our new work--The Breaking Across Devotion Series. Literally a tale about rock stars and serial killers. I’m not even kidding.

We made every attempt to spread the word about why the Redeemer books were coming down, but our reach is none too wide these days, and I know there are a great many readers out there who are angry and disappointed. Trust me, I get it and I’m sorry.

The Redeemer Series had a great long run. We had a lot of fun writing it, we had an amazing experience with the audience it garnered. We’re grateful and we thank you guys who latched on to it and enjoyed it so much. Redeemer itself is still public on AFF and won’t be going anywhere. It is undeniably, a Death Note fanfic.

However, I am going to echo what I’ve said repeatedly in statements about the series’ removal: that if you so happen to have downloaded copies of the novels, you are free to keep them for you own reading pleasure. Just please do not share them online, or post them for download, and please do not plagiarize them (have some humanity, I beg you).

Anda and I are hard at work on The Breaking Across Devotion Series (BAD for short) and are very active on our new forum, CocoaCoveredGods.

Anyone is free to join if they want to get in touch with us, want to ask us anything about Redeemer, or want to check out what still exists of the Redeemer Series content regarding the removed books, Character Asks, fan art, etc. And yes, there’s even a thread where we speak to the unsolved mysteries of the series and where future plans were heading, so what was left unfinished can at least have some closure. (Was Matt ever going to die as predicted? Short answer: no.)

We’re also open to betas of the new series. Since we’re planning to publish, it’s not open membership, but if you're interested, come over and let us get to know you, get to know us, and we’ll be more than happy to consider you as a beta. Chances are, if you enjoyed the Redeemer Series, what we’re doing now will be right up your alley. It’s just as dark, and twisted and saturated in atmosphere as books like To Be, Our Time and Sins were.

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Death Note Kira - Fan Art by Tate Forkel

4/2/2016

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Tate Forkel Death Note Light Yagami pencil drawing
DEATH NOTE was my first entry into anime, with Light being the character that I was most drawn to.

From his intellect to scheming, lust for power and ridding the world of evil, I felt a deep connection. This piece is my love letter to not only the anime itself, but to the character of Light, with the watch face signifying his sanity ticking away.

Tate Forkel
You may catch up with Tate at Instagram or via his account on Facebook.
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Join Team Kira! Death Note News Light Yagami Pinterest Community Board

2/2/2016

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As many of you already know, there's a thriving Kira Pinterest Board - run by Death Note News - which you may join and post your Light Yagami goodies to the world.  It's open to the entire Death Note fandom, though you'll need us to invite you in before you can pin.

No real rules there.  As long as it's on topic, then you may instantly pin Kira art; cosplay pics; fan-fiction links; commentaries; screen-shots; merchandise; links to your own group or community; photographs of your Kira crafts; or whatever else morally, ethically, musingly or amusingly takes your fancy to do so.

It's like our Death Note Month of Light Yagami every day!
Follow Death Note News's board Light Yagami Death Note News Kira on Pinterest.
If you follow the Pinterest Light Yagami Death Note News Board, you should eventually get an invitation from one of us anyway.  All a matter of due course and the admin being on the ball.

However, if you want to speed things up, either comment before with your Pinterest name and/or a link to your profile, or else post the same privately via the form on our Contact Page.  The first person to pick it up will rush in and get you instantly up and running.

Incidentally, it's not just Kira Pinterest Boards that we're hosting for the community. We have a growing number of other Death Note character boards, not to mention many other categories of Death Note boards on Pinterest too.  You can hop onto the majority of them as contributors - and/or all boards as followers or folk merely breezing through, passing a moment or two looking at the pretties (then wondering where the last hour went).

Same drill as before, if you want an invitation to any Death Note News Community Pinterest Board.
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It's Here! Limited Edition, 10,000 Run of Takeshi Obata's Blanc et Noir in English Just Became Available for Pre-order!

28/1/2016

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It's finally out! Takeshi Obata's book of artwork - Blanc et Noir - in the English language!

We've been promised this by Viz Media for quite some time. Now it's actually upon us - in a limited edition run of only 10,000 copies available for pre-order. 

That's just 10,000 editions of Blanc et Noir to serve the entire English speaking world.  Expect a rush on.

Takeshi Obata's art book is officially out on May 3rd 2016. But early bird buyers can snatch a copy now - or at least a guarantee that they'll eventually own one - via retailers like Amazon.

This special edition print of Blanc et Noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations includes three laminated double-sized posters alongside 132 pages of exquisitely illustrated Obata artwork - the vast majority of which is Death Note, including several of the posters.

These are the kind of full colour, highly detailed pieces that the mangaka would have pulled off, if he'd had infinite time to dedicate to each panel. It's a glimpse of Death Note as it could have been, if it was literally Takeshi Obata's life work.

The artist himself chats for a further twelve pages in explanatory commentary about his pics; ten shares his expertise in a How to Draw tutorial.

I do want. It's beyond 'sell my granny' territory. For this you can have my entire extended family, the missus and both of my kittens too. Gimme!

And naturally, we've already shoved it into the reference section of the Death Note News books and manga shop.
Blanc et Noir: Takeshi Obata Illustrations

Cover of this limited print, Death Note rarity the
Takeshi Obata illustrated Blanc et Noir art book
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New Fan-Art Based on MRSJeevas's MelloxMatt Fan-Fiction It Matters Series

23/1/2016

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He Moves Me Differently MelloxMatt It Matters website banner MRSJeevas
It's only taken months (years...) but there have been some art updates over on the He Moves Me Differently website.  It's not that the art hasn't been there to update, just that Matti hasn't got round to coding the pages to make it so.

Walls Came Tumbling Down and Ghosting the Street now have fan artwork sections.  In the case of the former, that's just about the only thing it has in it!  In addition there's artwork for the smaller stories by MRS Jeevas too.

They include such gems as these:
Walls Came Tumbling Down: Young Mello in Bumblebee Hat by Aqua Cola

WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN

Bonnie, Little Thing...
by Aqua Cola
December 13th 1994: Mello and Matt Nightmare Before Xmas by Chiroptera

DECEMBER 13TH 1994

Mello and Matt: Nightmare Before Xmas
by Chiroptera
Ghosting the Street: Rockabilly Bubbles by Chiroptera

GHOSTING THE STREET

Rockabilly Bubbles
by Chiroptera
Ghosting the Street: Matt's New Hair Do by Chiroptera

GHOSTING THE STREET

Matt's New Hair Do
by Chiroptera
There are more pieces of artwork inspired by the It Matters series to be added to the website.  Mostly it's a case of tracking them all down from where they've been languishing on-line awaiting this moment of industrious coding on Matti's part.  However, there's plenty more already up there, in He Moves Me Differently Artwork area, from many artists amassed over many years gone by.

There also promises to be much more to come in the future too.

AquaCola has returned to art after a period of enforced Real Life occurring. She appears to be getting back into the groove largely by sketching scenes from Matti's novels.  You can see her works in progress over various threads in the forum, alternatively find her on Tumblr.

Meanwhile, Chiroptera is on her fifth read-through of Matti's Mello and Matt fan-fiction novels.  The muse has most definitely taken her, with the three pictures above, another two artworks in progress AND a thread asking for requests from the rest of the readership.  You can catch up with Chiroptera (and glimpse even more works in progress) on her Tumblr account.

In fact, during the time it's taken me to write this, she's sketched another - fairly risque - image of Mello and Matt, which would certainly hold resonance in the Death Note Matti!Universe.  Hurrah!
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Yûsuke Murata - Once Assistant to Takeshi Obata, Now Mangaka in his Own Right - Profiled in French Magazine AnimeLand

19/1/2016

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Yûsuke Murata won a manga art competition when he was just twelve years old.  He served his artistic apprenticeship with Death Note's Takeshi Obata; now he's known in his own right for work on such seminal manga as One-Punch Man and his debut work Eyeshield 21 (2002).

Taking the mystery from the art, Murata wows his fans with live streams, as he works on his pages from famous manga.
Mangaka Yûsuke Murata

Yûsuke Murata
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All of this we know from French magazine AnimeLand, which is currently running a profile on Yûsuke Murata, highlighting his work, artistry and current projects.  People may also follow him on Twitter.

Of peripheral interest to Death Note fans, but nevertheless still interest.

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School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei Manga Volumes Launched February 2016, Co-Created by Death Note Artist Takeshi Obata

15/1/2016

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Viz Media has announced a February 2nd 2016 publication date for the first volume in its collection of School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei manga chapters.

The series has been running in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since December 2014.  Penned by Nobuaki Enoki, it features artwork by Death Note creator Takeshi Obata.

School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei's (improbable) storyline takes place within the walls of Tenbin Elementary School, where crimes, misdemeanours and quarrels occur on a regular basis - and their resolution by-passes all teachers and education authorities.

Instead, the country's top lawyers are drafted in to settle matters via frequently tense courtroom battles.  Said lawyers just happening to be fellow students at said secondary school.

Because that's the way this manga rumbles, and why not?

Chapter one - thus volume one - opens with a murder in the school, with Tenbin Elementary pupil Tento accused of being the killer.  Can his classmates get him off?  Wild, young attorney Abaku Inugami gives it his best shot.

February 2nd will see the launch of Takeshi Obata's School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei in both paper and digital form.

It's already available for pre-order on Amazon US (along with the second volume too!), plus Amazon UK.

As well as the print version appearing in bookshops, the manga's first volume can be read via the Viz Media app, Kobo, Kindle, Nook, iBooks, comiXology and Google Play.

All are published under the Shonen Jump Imprint and the recommended retail price is currently $9.99 (US), $12.99 (CAN) or £6.99 (GB).
School Judgement: Gakkyu Hotei manga volume 1
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Death Note Summed Up in a Single Panel

10/12/2015

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Isn't this pretty much Death Note in a nutshell?  All that's missing is the fine detail.
Death Note Ryuk 'Because I was bored'
Can you think of any Death Note manga panel that more perfectly encapsulates the whole damn story? 
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Fabulous Death Note Ryuk Lego Display by Neo's Bricks

5/12/2015

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A Shinigami sculpture!  Isn't this wonderful?  Built entirely of Lego, Ryuk from Death Note was created by Neo's Bricks:
Neo's Bricks Ryuk in Lego
Lego Ryuk from Death Note by Neo's Bricks
Courtesy of @NeosBricks, reproduced here with permission.
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Death Note Tarot Tales I: Near & the Use of Tarot in Death Note

23/11/2015

 
Setting foot on a Fool's Journey through Death Note in a new column by Tarot card reader, Tarot Mikami
Death Note News column: Death Note Tarot Tales with Tarot Mikami
Many dramas, books and films make use of tarot cards to symbolic effect.  Death Note is no exception. There's no doubt that the cards were chosen for shock value. Yet remarkably, Death Note's tarot usage is often - and perhaps inadvertently - correct.
The appearance of tarot cards in Death Note is heralded by Near's shopping list, presented to Anthony Rester, of things that he requires in order to investigate the Kira case. Amid items such as 'plastic models', 'inflatable pool', 'secret base set', 'radio controlled rubber duck' and a 'Christmas tree', Near asked for 'Tarot cards... $250'. That's a pretty expensive deck of tarot!

It's to Near we return, time and again, to see how tarot is used in Death Note.

Death Note Near's Tarot Deck

Death Note Near's Tarot Cards

Near's tarot cards in Death Note Episode 30 (anime)
The deck of tarot cards used by Near in Death Note appears to have been invented by Takeshi Obata (or prompted for him to draw by writer Tsugumi Ohba). At least it's not one that I've ever seen outside the Death Note universe, nor have any fans apparently found a real world set.  Surely a marketing opportunity lost right there.

Anthony Rester's tarot purchase on behalf on Near was first revealed in the manga: Death Note Chapter 78 Prediction.  Those scenes later appeared in the anime: Death Note Episode 30 Justice.
Death Note tarot Near's deck

Back of Near's Tarot in Death Note
Death Note The Devil tarot card

Death and The Devil in Near's Death Note Tarot

Near's Tarot Spread in Death Note Manga and Anime

In both the Death Note anime and manga, Near lays his tarot cards out in a very specific way.  They are arrayed in a circle around himself, with most of the cards used in this manner, while a small pile remains to sit inside with him.

While I can't claim to know every single tarot card spread in existence, this one is a new configuration on me. It's difficult to know how it would - or indeed could - be read in a predictive context.
Death Note Near tarot spread

Near's tarot spread in Death Note - Prediction manga chapter 78
There are roughly 40-44 tarot cards precisely placed in a circle around Near.  As there are seventy-eight cards in most packs, this constitutes the majority of them.   They appear even more densely packed in version shown in the anime of how Near lays out his tarot cards.
Near tarot spread Death Note anime

Near's tarot spread in Death Note anime episode Justice
Circular tarot spreads tend to use far fewer cards. The most I've encountered are sixteen piles, with thirteen or twelve (or zodiacal spreads of tarot) being more common.  This isn't to say that Near hasn't invented his own, or else knows a way that I haven't seen before.  Just that it's rather surprising and probably for visual effect only.

The question being - for whose?

Themes and Motifs in Death Note's Tarot Scene

Death Note Episode 30 Justice title page
Death Note Episode 30: Justice
The titles of the Death Note scenes where tarot cards are featured contain hints of their usage.

In the manga, this is Chapter 78 - there are usually 78 cards in a tarot deck.  The chapter is entitled Prediction. Fortune telling is how tarot is most famously employed, though by no means the only way in which they might be used.

Moreover, in Death Note 13: How to Read, author Tsugumi Ohba claimed that he chose the title based upon the predictions given by Near and Light respectively.  Namely that there is a fake rule (Near) and that Mello would contact the Japanese Kira Task Force (Light).  No mention of tarot in this context at all, though it would seem the obvious source.

In the anime, the scenes in which Near reads tarot cards occur in Episode 30: Justice.  There's nothing particularly meaningful about the number 30 in tarot, but there is a card usually labelled Justice.

Death Note Chapter 78 Prediction Near and tarot

The opening panels of Death Note: Chapter 78 Prediction
depicting Near reading the tarot

Death Note Near's Tarot Card Reading - Death

Absolutely the most clichéd use of a tarot card in popular culture comes with the misuse of the Death card.  The problem is that viewers, or readers, think they know what it means. You don't have to be a tarot reader to interpret that Death is bound to translate into a fatality. It doesn't look good for the person whose fortune is being told, which is why it works so well for dramatic effect.

Unfortunately for the storytelling plot, the Death card in tarot rarely means actual, physical death for any individual uncovering it.

As an aside, a group of us tarot readers once challenged ourselves to come up with a configuration of cards which would genuinely denote an imminent loss of life. As in unequivocally could not be read in any other way.  It was hard work, with much toing and froing and debate, but we eventually arrived at something. Every card was one of the minor arcana.  They did not feature the major arcana card Death.

So how did Death Note do with its use of the tarot Death card?
Death Note Death tarot card - Near plans to kill Mello

With the Death card on view, Near offers to kill Mello
At first glance, quite badly.  Near waves the Death card about whilst discussing Shinigami, rules of the Death Note and finally focuses upon it as he tells Light and the Japanese Task Force that he plans to murder Mello. None of which are particularly covered by that card's tarot meaning.

At least not in isolation.

Though, of course, Near could just be using the Death tarot card as a symbolic prop and not reading it at all. In which case, it very nicely indicates a Death God, an instrument of death and a vigilante brand of enacting capital punishment upon his erstwhile foster brother.

However, that's not precisely how and when Near links events with his Death card.
Death Note anime episode 30 Death card tarot

Near flips the Death card to conclude that the 13 day rule in Death Note is fake
In tarot, the Death card signifies an ending of something - usually a situation or circumstance, rather than a life. It might just as well have been called a breakthrough card or closure of a chapter, than the more evocative Death.

Near doesn't turn over  his card until the moment when he's found a rule which can't be proven true given the known facts of the Kira case.  Unless, of course, Light Yagami really was innocent, which Near doesn't believe.

Therefore the appearance of the Death card in Death Note marks a watershed moment whereby Near's investigation genuinely threatens Kira's security, and Light's previously watertight alibi.  It's also the first fruits from the beginning of a new arc, in which Mello and Near (not entirely willingly) work together to defeat their mutual adversary.

Death Note's creators may have employed this tarot card in a purely symbolic way or not, but it also fits the plot.

Death Note Near's Tarot Reading - The Devil

A second card gets flicked over, as Near realises that the second L - à la Kira - can see and speak with a shinigami. Bringing another of the major arcana into play seems to denote that some progress has been made.  Two cards to signify that they've taken a step forward.

It could also be seen very symbolically without recourse to knowledge of tarot cards.  If Kira is Death, then he was tempted into it by a supernatural force, i.e. the Death God.  (Who was no doubt seen as demonic anyway, especially in the Western mind, amid all that Christian imagery dotted throughout Death Note.)  Who better then to represent Ryuk in tarot than The Devil?
Death Note Near with The Devil and Death tarot cards

Near storytelling via tarot illustrations in Death Note
However, as it happens, The Devil in tarot is exactly the right card for Ryuk, particularly in this situation.

If you're reading from an Abrahamic background (Jew, Christian, Muslim etc.), then please put aside all you know of The Devil/Satan. This tarot card skirts about the edges of that persona, but it isn't an exact fit. For that you need to reach further into the inspiration for the modern Devil - Pan, Bacchus/Dionysus etc.  This is a deity/demi-god who exists for hedonistic pleasure. He will grant your every desire and give you tools to satisfy your greatest craving.  Thus teaching the individual the meaning of the old adage: be careful what you wish for, it might come true.

You only have to see the addict in thrall to their next hit, or those crushed beneath debt because they really couldn't afford all those things that they bought, in order to see how instant gratification and receiving all that you wanted might go badly wrong.

In the case of Kira, it was that Ryuk presented him with power usually beyond the scope of any mere human. Light Yagami's wish for a better world made him reach for the Death Note.  His use of it ultimately controlled him, rather than the other way around.  Ryuk has frequently stated that he's on nobody's side.  He's there for the lulz, as it were. But here he is providing Light/Kira/2nd L with the lie required to continue satisfying his need to remain in power.

That is The Devil of the tarot, and the Death God of the manga/anime alike.  At any time, Light could have stopped. Ryuk doesn't force him into this course of action.  He just facilitates it.

That Near turns over The Devil card at the point whereby Ryuk lies on Kira's behalf is exactly right. That was the moment of facilitation, not merely that of being present. 
Death Note Ryuk, Light and Ide Chapter 78

Ryuk and Light exemplify The Devil in Death Note Chapter 78

How Near Uses Tarot Cards in Death Note

In both the manga and anime, Death Note's tarot scenes with Near aren't so much fortune-telling - nor the Prediction of its chapter title - as seeing the cards used as commentary upon what's already occurring.  Near isn't 'reading' tarot cards per se.  He's providing illustrations to highlight the important clues unfolding.

If he'd merely picked those cards at random from the tarot pack, then they really were worth the $250 in precision, and Near is undoubtedly the most intuitive character in manga history.

But he didn't pick either of them at random.

Look again at how the sequence with The Devil tarot card in the Death Note anime plays out to witness how Near selects his tarot cards quite purposefully.

Psychological Profiling with Near's Tarot Deck in Death Note

Near shuffles tarot cards in Death Note episode 30
Step One:  Near sits in the midst of his circle of tarot cards. He's selected just a handful - five or six at most - and flicks through them overlooked by Hal Lidner and Anthony Rester.  As his conversation with Light Yagami goes on, Near's index finger pauses upon a single card among the tarot in his hand.  His fingertip strokes back and forth along its rim.

Analysis:  Near hasn't yet reached a firm conclusion upon what's occurring with the Second L (Light/Kira). Each tarot card in his hand represents a possibility.
Death Note Near with The Devil tarot card ready Episode 30
Step Two:  Near suddenly whips the card free of those in his hand. But he holds it away from himself, with its picture aspect concealed from his own view.  His gaze is actually upon the Death card upturned on the carpet before him.  Meanwhile, Near tells Light that he knows there is a fake rule in the Death Note and asks his opinion upon which it is.  Light - in the guise of (second) L - answers that it's the 13 day rule.

Analysis:  Until now, The Devil card has symbolized one of a final handful of strong contenders for what's going on. Near has promoted it to most likely scenario, but cannot acknowledge it as fact until he's tested his theory.
Death Note Near smiles over his tarot card (The Devil)
Step Three:  As Light asks Ryuk to confirm whether or not there is a fake rule in the Death Note, Near smiles and turns The Devil card towards himself.  He does so at the moment that Ryuk asserts that there are no fake rules, thus lying to maintain Light Yagami's prior alibi against accusations of being Kira.

In that pose, Near clarifies that there is indeed a shinigami present, and confirms that the answer was that all Death Note rules are truly stated.

Analysis:  Near has already deduced that there should be a shinigami present, as he suspects that Light Yagami is Kira.  What he was testing was whether the relationship between Kira and Ryuk is akin to that state of affairs governed in tarot by The Devil card.  Near knows there is a fake rule, so Ryuk's denial of the fact confirms Near's favoured theory.  

From a pack of 78 tarot cards, Near has now homed in on one - The Devil - to describe Kira's inner sanctum and mindset, and Ryuk's position within the scenario too.  This sets the tempo for what will later play out in the Yellow Box warehouse.  In short, Near just nailed Light Yagami's psychology; Ryuk's facilitative indifference; and his own end game.  All with a single tarot card to provide context.
Near smiles from a tarot circle, clutching The Devil card to himself
Step Four: Near might hold his card close to his heart, but only physically.  In actuality, he's crowing his victory - repeating to Light precisely what just happened.  That the confirmation wasn't that the Death Note rules aren't fake, but that a shinigami will lie in capitulation to Kira's will.

Whilst speaking, Near throws down The Devil card, so it lands upturned upon the Death card.
Death Note anime Near turns over The Devil card
Analysis:  Thus Near is able to finally play his card - The Devil previously selected - whilst spelling out to all listening (the remaining SPK, plus the entire Japanese Task Force, in addition to Light and Ryuk) that the shinigami's presence confirms Kira's presence too.

Moreover, Near's just shown that the Death God will lie for Kira, inserting fake rules to provide him with an alibi. Therefore Light Yagami's innocence is no longer proven.  He could still be, and almost certainly is, Kira.

He never once mentions The Devil, though Hal, Anthony and the unseen Stephen would be able to see Near deal his tarot card.  Nevertheless, Near has tripped Light up by triggering the weakness inherent to all in that state of being highlighted by The Devil in tarot.

Conclusion:  Near uses the tarot in Death Note as psychological profiling tools.  Not fortune-telling at all, just props for his own thought processes and theory categorization.
Death Note Near surrounded by Tarot cards

Surrounded by his tarot, Near contemplates The World to attain in Death Note
 I hope you enjoyed the first editorial in my Tarot column for Death Note News.  Next time I'll be looking at the way Near uses tarot in the Death Note One Shot manga.
~ Tarot Mikami

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