Trivia

• The number of humans Light claims to have killed in the alternate ending is 124,925.
• It is questionable if Light will experience all these deaths forty seconds apart from each other
since it takes forty seconds to kill a human (if no cause of death is written within that time)
which could mean Light has roughly 58 days before disappearing.
• Noticeably, before Light asks Ryuk to kill him, Light is seen writing in the Death Note. This could
mean that Light's goal to purify the world wasn't completed, even many years after the main
storyline. However, the state of crime is not mentioned in the alternate ending, so whether

Light reduced it or didn't affect it much is unknown.

Light in the Shinigami Realm, at the end of second opening.

• Light is standing in the Shinigami Realm during the end of the second Intro (it could possibly
relate to the Death Note alternative ending).
• Light's clothes change between some pictures (for example his tie disappears), which could
mean, that someone took different scenes from the original manga and put them back together
to create the alternative ending.

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Scene of the Death Note alternative ending’s purpose being explained

The Death Note alternative ending is a possible ending to show something else that might have
happened to Light Yagami after his death. It is unknown if the ending is real or fake. There is a
lack of evidence to prove the ending to be real. It has really only been seen on the Internet and
there are mainly English versions of the ending circulating, but it has become popular in the
Death Note fandom.

Due to the fact that there is no proof, it’s left to fans to decide for themselves. The ending only
exists in manga form; there is no anime adaptation for the ending.

Plot

The story starts off in what appears to an alternative future to the primary Death Note story.
Light Yagami is an old man and he is sitting in an office, writing criminal names in his Death
Note. After a short while, he tells Ryuk to kill him by writing his name in his Death Note.

Light claims that after so many years of being Kira, he is finally tired of a life of killing others.
Ryuk agrees to Light’s request, and so Ryuk writes Light’s name in his Death Note and Light
dies. Straight after Light’s death, Light wakes up in a mysterious valley and is no longer an old
man. He now has the same appearance that he did towards the end of the primary Death Note
storyline.

Suddenly, Ryuk appears before Light and tells Light that he is in the Shinigami Realm. Light
begins to wonder what will happen to him and why was he brought there.

Suddenly, Light hears a voice saying “Kurou Otoharada. Heart Attack,” starts to feel a pain in
his chest and then dies of a heart attack (resembling the Kurou Otoharada heart Attack of Light’s
first victim he killed with his Death Note). However, Light comes back to life again and hears
the voice again, saying "Shibuimaru Takuo Shibuimaru. Car Accident," and is then run over and
killed by a truck that appears out of nowhere (resembling the Shibuimaru Takuo car accident of
Light’s second victim he killed with his Death Note).
Yet again, Light comes back to life and wonders to himself what is going on, until Ryuk
interrupts and tells him he is experiencing the atonement that a human does whenever a human
being uses a Death Note. Ryuk tells Light that he will die the same amount of times (and in the
same ways) as the humans he had killed in his lifetime of using the Death Note. Light hears the
mysterious voice yet again and this time it says “Naomi Misora. Suicide.” and Light says out
loud, "What is this voice?" Ryuk answers Light’s question and he says it is the Shinigami King's
voice and that only his Death Note can kill the same human again and again.

Light starts to lose control of his left hand and he starts strangling himself to death (resembling
the suicide of Misora Naomi) and he begs Ryuk to help him but Ryuk says that it is no use. Ryuk
tells him that from body and soul, even from people's memories and all the records in the human
world Light will still experience all the deaths of all the people he killed and will disappear from
existence in the end.