Even as he dies, he sees an apparition of L watching over him, implying that he genuinely missed his old enemy. When Light initially attempts to thwart him by killing the hostage, the NPA director, Mello immediately pivots to a backup hostage, the deputy director's daughter and Light's sister. It starred Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham, Paul Nakauchi, Jason Liles, and Willem Dafoe. Mello's eyes were pitch black in the manga (to match L and Near), but changed to blue for the anime. The film was directed by Adam Wingard and was written by Charles Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides, and Jeremy Slater.

This is not explained in the anime, but in Relight 2, the mafia are cut, and Light blackmails the president to send their names to Kiyomi Takada.She also mentioned that the epilogue made no mention of what happens with Misa Amane and how Near and Mello were still treated like parts of L. This will play out in three phases: investigation, where the player will discuss the case and clues with other characters; voting, where each member of the investigation team casts a vote on who they suspect is L or Kira based on the player's performance in the previous phase; L/Kira, where the player can either focus their investigation on one member to see if they are Kira (L part), or force a member off of the team (Kira part). Before he even met Light, L managed to cook up a brilliant one against Kira, having already figured out that they're prideful and believe what they're doing is just. Appeal to Force: Light thinks he has the right to be the God of the New World because he has a tool of the Gods—the Death Note—and is therefore the person chosen to steer the world in the right direction. Character-Driven Strategy: When Light and L play a casual game of tennis, the two's inner thoughts are shown, each trying to read and outmaneuver the other, setting the tone for their mind games going head-to-head in the Kira investigation.

This is used by Light as a mechanism to attempt to gain the real name of Detective Raye Penber's girlfriend.Instead of everyone in the room dying at Mikami's hand as Light intended, they are all spared by Near switching Mikami's Death Note with a fake, meaning they all hear Light point-blank confess to being Kira.