The Death Note Counter You Never Knew Existed

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Any anime fan knows Death Note, even non-anime fans have perhaps heard the name peripherally. The classic anime is beloved to all, but do fans know of or remember the Death Eraser? Death Note is an anime about a high school boy named Light Yagami who finds a supernatural notebook called a «Death Note». Death Notes belong to shinigami, or Gods of Death, in which they kill humans by writing their names and means of death in this notebook.

In the anime, the Death Note that Light finds belongs to a shinigami named Ryuk. Audiences follow Light's journey as he learns about the Death Note, how he uses it to kill fellow humans, and more specifically how he evades a brilliant detective named L after using it. However, a special tool known as the Death Eraser was omitted from the anime adaptation of Death Note.

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Before the original Death Note manga that is commonly read today, creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata published a one-shot Death Note manga pilot titled The Taro Kagami Story. This plot is set before Light's arc. Thirteen-year-old Taro Kagami stumbles across Ryuk's Death Note and uses it as a journal, not knowing what the book actually is. Upon writing about his school experiences, he unknowingly causes the deaths of the school bullies that tormented him. After wrestling with the horror of these deaths, Ryuk gives Taro a Death Eraser, which gives him the power to erase the names of the people he wrote down in the Death Note and consequently revive them, provided that they were not cremated.

Ohba, the author, did not care for the Death Eraser as a useful tool in the Death Note universe. It can be inferred that this disinterest is the reason why