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Kira Sings! First Glimpse at Death Note the Musical with Japanese Cast Members

13/11/2014

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It's entitled 'The World Premiere of Death Note the Musical in Production' and it's been uploaded onto YouTube by promoters HoriPro. Beyond that, there's not too many details attached.

It seems that we're watching both Kira actors sing what's presumably a key song from the Death Note stage show. 
Kenji Urai kicks us off, before Hayato Kakizawa picks up the second verse, then the pair continue in their duet.

I'd assumed that they shared the role - as in each actor working alternate nights - but this suggests that both actors will be playing Light Yagami for all performances.  Perhaps a younger and older version? Though that makes no sense. They're both whippersnappers!  Plus Kira never gets old enough to require a more senior actor.

We're not even given the title of this Death Note tune. The blarb beneath is merely a general announcement, listing star cast members, while telling us that Frank Wildhorn composed the music, and Tamiya Kuriyama is directing the performance.

Nevertheless it's a first glimpse at Kira in the musical (times two). What are your first impressions?

And many, many thanks to Logan for catching this, then giving us a heads up.
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Death Note the Musical Shinigami Unveiled - Tokyo Actor Kotaro Yoshida Cast as Ryuk

11/10/2014

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Kotaro Yoshida Death Note Ryuk actor (Musical)

Death Note Musical actor Kotaro Yoshida as Ryuk.
No Death God mask, but plenty of dark make-up, for Kotaro Yoshida's portayal of apple loving Ryuk in Death Note the Musical.

At 55 years old, Kotaro is a veteran theatrical, movie and television actor, though his stage performances usually tend towards Shakespeare rather than shinigamis. He's played the lead in Titus Andronicus, Othello, Anthony and Cleopatra and Henry IV, while supporting roles in various Shakespearian productions make up the majority of his acting credits.

When it's not Shakespeare, the classics abound in his theatrical resume - be that dramatic plays like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Clockwork Orange, or musicals such as Blood Brothers.

We always knew that Death Note was something special, but viewed from the context of Kotaro Yoshida's CV, the story becomes a classic by default!

But just in case you thought it was all centuries old lovey stuff with our new Ryuk, then here he is on guitar, with a (presumably) spontaneous recital of Radiohead's No Surprises in a restaurant.
Kotaro Yoshida was born in Tokyo on January 14th 1959. He was inspired to become an actor while still in High School, after being encouraged - as part of his studies - to watch a troupe perform Twelfth Night.

His love of Shakespearian productions continued throughout his time at Sophia University. Upon graduation, he joined Shiki Theatrical Company in order to indulge that passion. The group were well known for staging the Bard's plays.

From there, he became part of Japan's Shakespeare Theatre troupe - which did precisely what it says on the tin - where the actor was generally credited under his alternative stage name Yoshida HaganeTaro.

Within nine years, he was a recognised Heisei showman. The accolades poured in, some as part of the company, but others were personal. In 1998, Kotaro received the 6th Yomiuri Theatre Award for Excellence for his performance in Merchant of Venice at the Tokyo Globe Theatre. In 2001, it was his starring role in Hamlet which added the 36th Kinokuniya Theatre Award to his trophy cabinet.

By 1997, Kotaro had formed his own Shakespearian theatrical company - Troupe AUN - with fellow showman
Kurita Yoshihiro.  Here he was able to direct, as well as act in, the productions. As Yoshida HaganeTaro, he remains the president of Troupe AUN.

He is currently touring Japan in a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar Japanese production

Poster for Julius Caesar, directed by Yukio Ninagawa.
Though Kotaro's acting credits include television and movie roles, none have been quite as illustrious as in his theatrical career. His casting as Ryuk in Death Note the Musical will do little to reverse that trend, though it is likely to become his most famous performance amongst the like of us.

I wonder what his take is on apples...?
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Musical Shinigamis in Death Note Stage Show

9/10/2014

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When the story calls for two supernatural entities to take centre stage, then there's a variety of ways in which a director might go.

Death Note's shinigami pair have been illustrated (manga), animated (anime) and brought to life via CGI (live action movies). For the theatrical production of Death Note, I did wonder if audiences would be treated to an awe-inspiring puppet element a la War Horse, or something arty produced with shadows on a light board.

None of the above. For the first time ever, Death Note fans are going to see Ryuk and Rem portrayed live by actors. Cosmetics will create the requisite Death God look.
Kotaro Yoshida Ryuk actor Death Note Musical

Kotaro Yoshida as Ryuk in Death Note the Musical
Actress Rem Megumi Hamada Death Note Musical

Megumi Hamada as Rem in Death Note Musical
What do you reckon?  Disappointed? Relieved? How did you envisage your all singing, all dancing shinigamis in the musical Death Note?
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Death Note the Musical's Misa Amane Actress Announced - Fuka Yuduki to play Second Kira!

7/10/2014

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Fuka Yuduki as Misa in Death Note Musical

Misa Amane played by Fuka Yuduki
You are looking at the face of Misa Misa, as she will be known to theatre audiences in Tokyo and Seoul. Does Fuka Yuduki match the Misa Amane imagined by you through all those Death Note manga chapters?

Actress Fuka Yuduki has already blogged about landing the role of Misa in Death Note the Musical. Unfortunately I'm relying upon the vagaries of Google Translate to learn what she said.

From what I could glean, she's going for high octave 'cute', but also aiming to bring out Misa's 'will' and 'feelings' in her performance.  Fuka views Misa as someone who feels 'with all one's heart the light'. Or should that be Light?  Apparently Fuka is only now reading Death Note for the first time. She found it to be 'interesting'.

However the translation is extremely scrambled, so if anyone can check the original Japanese, that would be fabulous. Thanks! 

Fuka Yuduki did share two more photographs of herself as Misa Amane though.
Death Note Musical Japan Misa Amane

Death Note Musical's Misa Misa
From Fuka Yuduki's blog
Death Note actress Fuka Yuduki (Musical) Misa Misa

Fuka Yuduki as Misa Amane
From Fuka Yuduki's blog
Misa Amane actress Fuka Yuduki has just turned eighteen. She was born in Hokkaido, Japan, on September 8th 1996.

Fuka's big break came in 2012, after winning the Special Jury Prize in the
37th HoriPro Talent Scout Caravan. HoriPro - a top talent agency in Japan - held open auditions for females aged 12-20. They were looking for a 'Super Idol', a young lady who could sing, act and dance, along with '
inner beauty and the strength to give dreams to people'.

Then just fifteen years old, Fuka fitted the bill quite nicely. HoriPro gave her the opportunity to work with their own coaches, while adding the up and coming star to their books.

Here's Fuka in a promotional clip presented by HoriPro on YouTube. I can certainly picture her bringing Misa Amane to life!
Fuka Yuduki is now quite at home in musicals produced for Japan's main theatre circuit. Her diary is already looking quite full before the actress gets anywhere near to the Death Note stage show.
In 2013, Fuka took the lead role in Peter Pan - the 10th actress to do so, since the Broadway Musical began its Japanese run in 1981.

A lot of tough acts to follow! Yet there was plenty of critical acclaim during Fuka Yuduki's Peter Pan tenure in that high profile performance.

The company recently announced that she will continue in the role for the 2014 season too.  In July/August, Peter Pan returns for its 34th year as an widely anticipated, established fixture within Japan's theatrical calendar.
Theatre goers can catch Fuka Yuduki in another musical stage production too.

She is currently rehearsing the role of Chloe in Alice in Wonderland. Performances begin at Tokyo's Aoyama Theatre on November 5th 2014, before moving on to the Umeda Arts Theatre in Osaka and Chunichi Theatre in
Nagoya, for show dates in December.

Then perhaps she will be able to squeeze in the time to portray Misa Amane in Death Note the Musical! 

Watch her in action as Peter Pan - performing a song during a public appearance - to see how that might work out.  Could Fuka Yuduki be Misa Misa for you? Leave a comment below to let us know!
Fuka Yuduki Peter Pan

Fuka Yuduki as Peter Pan.
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Death Note Musical Actors in Costume as Kira

23/9/2014

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Hayato Kakizawa as Light Yagami

Hayato Kakizawa as Light Yagami
in the stage show musical Death Note.
Kenji Urai as Light Yagami

Kenji Urai as Light Yagami
in the Japanese stage musical Death Note.
We've already introduced the two actors cast as Kira in Death Note the Musical, but here they both are in costume as Light Yagami.
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Takeshi Kaga to Reprise his Role as Kira's Dad in Death Note the Musical

23/9/2014

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While I've been off gallivanting again, there's been a lot of news coming out of the Death Note Musical camp.  Fortunately Logan was on the ball, noting it all and giving me the heads up when I returned.

Most of the cast has been revealed!


I'm going to go through them one by one, so we can have a good look, starting with a very familiar face.
Soichiro Yagami played by Takeshi Kaga

Soichiro Yagami played by Takeshi Kaga
Death Note fans already know all about Takeshi Kaga. He is the actor who plays Soichiro Yagami in the live action movies!  Therefore it feels only natural that he will bring the same hapless parent to life on stage.

But what do we really know about Takeshi Kaga?  Well, for a start, his name isn't Takeshi Kaga!

This well-known stage and movie actor was born
Shigekatsu Katsuta, in his native Kanazawa, Japan, on October 12th 1950. He was already singing in a local boys choir aged seven, but didn't begin acting until he was an adult.

His talent quickly emerged though. He was snapped up by one of Japan's top theatrical groups Shiki Theatre Company, where he was soon cast in the leading roles of Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar and Tony in West Side Story. In short, there's a long history here which assures us that Kaga can sing, act and dance more than adequately for his part in the musical Death Note.

Though leaving Shiki in 1980, Kaga has returned to the stage several times during his long career, often in starring roles. He's played Jean Valjean in Les Misérables twice!  Once in 1987, then again in 1995, wherein he represented Japan in a 10th Anniversary performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. That latter show saw seventeen Valjeans from seventeen different countries appear one after the other!

He was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in a stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde.  Here he worked with Frank Wildhorn, who is now producing Death Note the Musical.

Kaga has also starred in non-musical theatrical performances, including playing MacBeth in the eponymous Shakespearian play, and Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Japan 2000: Takeshi Kaga as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.
However, for the rest of the world (and indeed most of Japan), it wasn't the stage performances which made Takeshi Kaga so famous.  That was his appearances in movies and on television.

Let's be honest here. It wasn't all of them. They just kept his name out there and his face familiar. The real biggie was his casting as Chairman Kaga in the internationally syndicated
Ryōri no Tetsujin, or Iron Chef, as it was known in the English speaking world, usually with each country's name tagged on the end.

This stylized cooking show pits top chefs against one another in a crazy cook-off, all presided over by Takeshi Kaga as the loud, flamboyant Chairman Kaga. It's all about as far away as the staid, sensible Soichiro Yagami as it's possible to get. Nevertheless those two are Kaga's biggest roles in most minds around the globe.


Here he is, as Chairman Kaga, getting very, very excited about food ingredients for each cook off:


For gamers and anime fans (that's us), Takeshi Kaga is best known for his voice acting. The former group heard him as Golbez in the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy IV, and Dissidia: Final Fantasy for the PSP.

He was the voice of Teridax in all the Lego related media for their Bionicle line (which is credited with saving the Lego Group from complete collapse and bankruptcy in the 1990s).

As an anime voice actor, Kaga appeared as Jirarudan in the second Pokémon movie Revelation Lugia - also singing the theme song Ware Wa Collector; Dr. Kiriko in Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness; and Tokimune Shochikubai in Yukan Club, amongst many, many more roles.

But for Death Note fans,
Takeshi Kaga's big moment for international fame came in 2006, when he was cast as Light's dad Soichiro Yagami in the first two Death Note live action movies.

Here he is during that tense final scene from Death Note 2: The Last Name (obviously full of spoilers for anyone who
hasn't encountered Death Note before, which I'm assuming isn't any of us), as the stunned father of Kira unmasked:
For many fans of Death Note, those performances in Death Note (2006) and Death Note: The Last Name (2007) have already ensured that Takeshi Kaga wears the face of a live action Soichiro Yagami.

Therefore it's no great leap to imagine him reprising the same role in the Death Note stage show. In fact, it feels only fitting.  Do the rest of you agree?  Over to you.
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Death Note the Musical Gets its L

15/9/2014

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Teppei Koike as L in Death Note Musical
Teppei Koike will be performing the role of L in Death Note the Musical, it was revealed today. The production's official Twitter also put out the above image of Teppei as L.

The 28 year old is best known as one half of the singer-songwriting duo WaT, along with his extremely close friend Eiji Wentz.  In addition to albums and singles, Teppei and Eiji also host a variety show called Ame ni mo makezu! (Fuji Terebi).

As an actor, Teppei played Hideki Ogata in the Japanese television drama Dragon Zakura. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Ijyuuin in another drama, Iryu. 
Love*Com: The Movie

Love*Com The Movie
Teppei went on to take the starring role of Atsushi Otani, in a live action adaptation of the manga Lovely Complex entitled Love*Com: The Movie.

Nakahara Aya - author of Lovely Complex - was so taken with him that Bokura no Ibasho was penned, as a manga biography of Teppei Koike's life to date. It particularly focused upon the period when he left home, then formed WaT.

Teppei hails from Ōsakasayama, in the Osaka Prefecture, Japan, though he's lived in Tokyo since 2002. 
He lives alone, but he is usually to be found in the company of Eiji Wentz, including holidaying and spending every Christmas together. Read into that what you will, because I know every L/Light shipper will read tons.

So does Teppei Koike wear the face of L for you?  For the cast and audiences to Death Note: The Musical, he most certainly does that.
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Double Kira! Death Note Musical Stars Pose

4/8/2014

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Hayato Kakizawa and Kenji Urai  Death Note Musical
Hayato Kakizawa and Kenji Urai give us the victory sign, as they both turn up at the Death Note Musical rehearsals.

The actors will both be playing the role of Light Yagami in the stage show, though obviously not at the same time, as that would be silly.  The picture was posted by a new official Twitter account for the musical. Follow them on @dnmusical.

Death Note the Musical will begin its run from April 2015, at the Nissei Theater in Tokyo, before moving on to South Korea.

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Poster for Death Note the Musical

31/7/2014

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Death Note Musical poster
Above is the newly released poster advertising the stage-show musical of Death Note.  The rumours were correct the other day, Kira will be played by Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa.

Tickets are now being sold for Musical Death Note.
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Hayato Kakizawa and Kenji Urai: Light Yagami Cast in Death Note Musical?

28/7/2014

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Hayato Kakizawa
Hayato Kakizawa
Kenji Urai
Kenji Urai
Kira may just have been cast in Death Note stage shows rolling out in Japan and South Korea next year.

I say 'may' because - let's be completely honest here - I have no Japanese, and so I'm relying upon the vagaries of Google Translate to tell me the news. I've seen what that program does to Welsh, so I'm not confident that it's any better in Japanese.

For those able to read the rumors in its original language, here is the source. And please do report back, if I've totally misread the gossip.

However, my current understanding is that Frank Wildhorn has found two actors in a dual casting.

They will each take on the role of Li
ght Yagami, though I'm unsure whether that's in one city, sharing the performances (even Kira has to schedule in some nights off!) during its entire three-month run, or else one actor for Tokyo and another for Seoul.


The two gentlemen in the frame are Hayato Kakizawa and Kenji Urai.  Neither are quite the High School teenager that's at the heart of Death Note (Hayato is 27 and Kenji is 33), but their resumes show promise for an all singing, all dancing Kira.

Kenji Urai has a long history performing in musicals, including those adapted from manga and/or anime. He was third long-serving actor to play Mamoru Chiba (aka Tuxedo Mask) in the Sailor Moon shows.

He also portrayed Alfred in the Toyko musical of Roman Polanski's Dance of the Vampires, and Rudolf in the Osaka staging of Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay's life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria - eponymously titled Elisabeth.

Here he is in action as Tuxedo Mask in Tuxedo Mission.  Look like a potential Light Yagami to you?

Though Hayato Kakizawa is billed everywhere as an actor in musicals, it's a little harder to track down which ones. I've found four recent live action movies (Kaiji 2, Akko-Chan: The Movie, Koi and Bad Boys J: The Movie), but none which involve hearing his tonsils vibrate to the big notes.

He does seem to have the dancing part covered though. Hayato Kakizawa portrayed Romeo in a 2013 Toyko ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet. 

Hold on!  Victory!  I've found him in the title role of Melchior in a 2009 musical production of Spring Awakening. Does THIS scream possible Kira to you?
As always, you'll get more when I've got it.  Enjoy!
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Death Note: The Musical Reading in New York City - Character List Revealed

19/4/2014

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Andy Kelso as Light Yagami
Andy Kelso isn't your obvious Light Yagami. Cute as he is, he's way too old to play a schoolboy in the Death Note stage show.

Nevertheless, the NYC actor was the one chosen to act the part of our favourite teen megalomaniac, in the first read through of Frank Wildhorn's Death Note: The Musical.

The show has been written in English, but will be translated into Japanese and Korean ahead of their world premiers in 2015.

The cast arrayed in New York, on April 14th 2014, will not be those performing in the actual Death Note theatre show. They were just there as part of a workshop to see how the script works as a physical performance.

We do know who they are though:


  • Andy Kelso played Light Yagami
  • Drew Gehling played L
  • Robert Cuccioli played Soichiro
  • Adrienne Warren played Misa
  • Eric Anderson played Ryuk
  • Jackie Burns played Rem
  • Deborah Lew played Toko
 
Supporting cast members were: Alysha Deslorieux, Sean Jenness, Sara King, Dan Kohler, Adam Pribila, Rashidra Scott, Sara Sheperd and Jason Wooten.

Two things spring to mind. The first is 'who's Toko?' and the second is the Musical will only cover the opening arc of the story. Unless it retells it completely. I see no Mello, Near, Hal et al in that character list.

Any thoughts out there?

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Round Up of all the Death Note 10th Anniversary Announcements

4/3/2014

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Death Note 10th Anniversary
Now the dust appears to have finally settled on the Death Note bonanza, I thought it would be useful to have a quick check through all that was on offer.

Death Note's 10th Anniversary was celebrated, with much hype, on March 3rd 2014. The fandom received the following goodies and event notifications:

  • Death Note Real Escape Game. This is what the much-vaunted website counted down towards. But it's only available in two Japanese cities.
  • Online Mini-Story. Playing out over Facebook and on the website, this was just a promotional event for the above. It didn't affect the canon.
  • Reissue of the Death Note Manga. 10th Anniversary editions of all seven volumes will be in the shops on March 18th 2014.
  • Digital Death Note Manga. Two online (and downloadable) versions of the full story are available. One is in full colour from start to finish.
  • Death Note Facebook page launched. This social networking portal is in Japanese. It keeps folk abreast of all new developments in the Death Note franchise.
  • Smartphone App for Death Note fans. Play the Real Escape Game on the move.
  • Death Note as a Musical Stageshow. Now Kira et all really will be all singing and dancing.

There was quite a lot there, particularly for fans in Death Note's home country Japan.  Yet I can't help concluding that there was a lot of fuss over really not very much at all.

What do you think?
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 Ivan Menchell to Write the Script for Death Note the Musical

3/3/2014

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Ivan Menchell Death Note Musical scriptwriter

American playwright Ivan Menchell has been announced as the scriptwriter for Death Note the Musical.

This is hardly shock news. He habitually works with composer Frank Wildhorn and lyricist Jack Murphy, both of whom were on board with the project last month.

The trio have collaborated on the Broadway productions of Bonnie & Clyde and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The former, at least, holds potential for working out how his Death Note script might look.

Bonnie and Clyde were real world criminals/folk heroes/psychopathic robbers (depending upon your point of view), who were the scourge of Texas law enforcement agencies during the Great Depression. The lovers basically went on a murder spree, holding up anything with money that they could stick their guns into, as an alternative to crippling poverty in the American south.

Dark and dramatic enough for Light Yagami? Possibly. Let's listen to a song from the Broadway show to find out:

Not sure how helpful that will be. The music is Frank Wildhorn, but the lyrics are Don Black on that track! I failed on giving us any insight into Jack Murphy OR Ivan Menchell.

Moving swiftly on...

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, you may be more familiar with Ivan Menchell's television work. He was both writer and producer on episodes of CBS's The Nanny and Fox's Time of your Life.

Ivan Menchell's scriptwriting credentials will also be exhibited in the upcoming Adam Sandler movie Blended. That will hit the silver screens in March 2014.

Do we think that the musical Death Note script is in safe hands?  You may follow Ivan on Twitter at @TheIvanMenchell to keep in with the gossip.

Also announced this week is precisely when and where the premier of Death Note the Musical will take place. In April 2015, it will launch at the Nissay Theater in Tokyo, Japan.

After a two month run, the Death Note stage show will move to South Korea, where it'll be performed at the LG Arts Center, in Seoul, duing July and August of the same year.

Anybody hoping to see it?

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What is the 10th Anniversary Death Note Project?

24/2/2014

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Death Note 10th Anniversary website
By now the whole Death Note fandom is agog at the notion that something new is coming. But what is it?

The first hint was posted in
Shueisha's Jump Remix of the Death Note manga. In the fifth edition, an advertisement was posted on the underside of the fly cover. It stated that there was a 'special project' coming soon to mark Death Note's 10th Anniversary.

That was followed up quite sharply by the appearance of an intriguing website.

The site displayed a countdown towards March 3rd 2014 - the same date heralded in the manga advert as the launch date of the 'special project'. The Death Note website featured a familiar black notebook, with the legend warning us that '
'If you touch this note, your memory will revive''.

Naturally every Death Note fan in the known universe touched it. It would take more than the cautionary tale exhibited by Raito Yagami to see us off.

Yet all we got for our troubles was an image of Ryuk flashing into view. All...

Mmm... so what it's all about?  The main buzz on the internet seems to be that a new edition of the original manga will be issued. But that's been done several times during the intervening ten years. It's already happening with the Jump Remix right now.

Others have guessed that the Death Note anime will be remade. Does it really warrant that? The extant one isn't very old, and it's hardly dated. It's just about perfect as it is.

Could it be a new story being written as we muse in anxious anticipation? Perhaps a stand-alone tale updating us on the fortunes of those left alive, or following through on ambiguous clues that Light himself is now a shinigami. Maybe even a whole follow on series, wherein another person picks up a Death Note and Near scrambles a squad to hunt that new Kira down.

Or another live action movie following another tangent not covered in canon?

The most potentially disappointing scenario I've heard is that it's merely a countdown to an official announcement of Death Note the Musical. But we already know about that. It wouldn't be any surprise at all.

How about you? Have you any major guesses that haven't already been covered here? There's surely little that it could be!


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