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OK OK so apparently death note is having a 10th anniversary special coming out March 3 and wowie wow wow this is exciting because an update!!
I just came here to post this. The English info is probably the most useful.
If you visit the Japanese info page with a browser that auto-translates, you’ll see that people do the “First!” thing on Japanese blogs, too. OH MY GOD IT’S AN INTERNATIONAL PLAGUE.
The last time they released new material, it changed people’s understandings of several of the characters. I wonder if that will happen again, and how people will deal with it?