Star:	Mamoru Miyano (Light Yagami),  Brad Swaile (Light Yagami (English Version)),  Shidou Nakamura (Ryuk),  Brian Drummond (Ryuk (English Version)),  Kappei Yamaguchi (L),  Alessandro Juliani (L (English Version)),  Nozomu Sasaki (Mello),  David Hurwitz (II) (Mello (English Version))
Recurring Role:	Naoya Uchida (Soichiro Yagami),  Chris Britton (Soichiro Yagami (English Version)),  Ryo Naito (Touta Matsuda),  Vincent Tong (Touta Matsuda (English Version)),  Keiji Fujiwara (Shuichi Aizawa),  Trevor Devall (Shuichi Aizawa (English Version)),  Aya Hirano (Misa Amane),  Shannon Chan-Kent (Misa Amane (English Version))
Guest Star:	Hirofumi Nojima (Reiji Namikawa),  Ted Cole (Reiji Namikawa (English Version)),  Hiroyuki Yokoo (Suguru Shimura),  Brian Drummond (Suguru Shimura (English Version)),  Hiroshi Ohtake (Roger Ruvie),  Ron Halder (Roger Ruvie (English Version)),  Hideyuki Umezu (Narrator)

According to the interview with Takeshi Obata (artist of the manga) in Death Note Volume 13: How to Read, upon making the designs for Near and Mello, he initially "switched" the two's designs; the current Mello was Near's design and vice-versa. However, his editor wrote in the wrong names when submitting the designs to Tsugumi Ohba (writer of the manga), who soon approved of them. After getting the approval, Obata did not have the heart to admit that their designs were supposed to be the other way around, so as he continued the series, he always thought of Near as "the more evil one while Mello was more calm and feminine." (edit) Canada (YTV/Bionix) Airdate: April 25, 2008 (edit) US (Cartoon Network/Adult Swim) Airdate: April 20, 2008 (edit) Manga Correlation*:
- Chapter 059, "Zero"
- Chapter 060, "Kidnapping" (Pages 1-6, 12-13)

*Note that while the episode also recaps the series so far, this manga correlation only covers the new footage that played afterwards. (edit)

Narrator: In April 2012 Light Yagami age 23 joined Japan's National Police Agency. In the Summer of 2012 Kira's killings increased at an unprecedented rate. Numerous people around the world were terrified of Kira, and yet there was just as many cheering him on. Gradually their private thoughts became public opinion, and soon certain nations began to accept Kira's judgment. The world was heading into a dark age in which Kira's will was the only law. (edit) Mello: What is it?
Roger: L is dead. (edit) Ryuk: Hey, are you really going to take L’s place?
Light: Yeah.
Ryuk: Then… there won’t be anything interesting to see.
Light: That’s not true, Ryuk.
Ryuk: Hmm?
Light: From here on, I’ll show you the creation of a new world.
Ryuk: Oh? (edit)

Altered Scene: The Time Period

The narration near the end of the episode reveals that after the time skip, the year is 2012. However, at the same point in the manga's story, the year is 2009, meaning that in terms of the year, the anime is three years ahead of the manga. This was most likely done in order to keep the beginning of the story coinciding with the actual year in the real world (ie: the anime began airing in Japan in 2006; the current year in the Death Note series was 2006 as well). (edit) Goof: At the beginning of the recap, the first confrontation between L and Light is shown. However, in the dubbed version, L's scrambled voice is not the same as the one L actually uses and is instead merely a different sounding voice. Though if one listens carefully, the voice is the same one normally used, but is missing the "deep sounding scrambled" voice that plays alongside it. (edit) Goof: At the end of the series recap, a farewell message from L to his successor is shown typed out in English. However, the message is not grammatically sound, with the opening sentenced seen as:

"The following is the record which contains everything I have investigated on Kira Incident."

In the Viz dubbed version, the footage is not changed, but they did make an attempt to fix the "Engrish error," having L narrate the message and reading the opening sentence as:

"The following is the record which contains everything I have investigated on the Kira Incident." (edit) Altered Scene: The Task Force

The Task Force's conversation following the series recap is much shorter in the anime, cutting out some of the less significant details. Near the start of the scene, the manga has Mr. Yagami address how he hid the fact that L has died to the higher-ups for the sake of keeping the Japanese Police involved in the Kira Investigation.

Later in the scene, the manga has Aizawa bring up the point of Rem's sudden disappearance after L and Watari's deaths. Mr. Yagami adds on, mentioning how even Rem brought up the possibility of there being multiple notebooks in the Human Realm. Aizawa continues, saying how Kira must have been able to gain information on L to be able to kill him. However, Matsuda brings up that with the shinigami now gone, it is difficult to confirm anything.

Light closes the scene in the manga, saying how although a shinigami was the source of all this trouble, Kira is the one who took the notebook from the shinigami in the first place. His father agrees, saying how they will definitely capture Kira in the end. (edit) Listen Closely: Upon being asked to live with Light, Misa claims victory over Kiyomi, Yuri and Mayu, women Light has previously dated. Yuri only appears in episode 4: Pursuit while Kiyomi first appears in episode 14: Friend. Mayu, on the other hand, was never shown and is only mentioned in this episode. (edit)

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