Death Note/Trivia

Hey, it's that guy/voice
Many well-known voice actors provided their talent for Death Note, for example:
 * Chairman Kaga is Light's dad! And it's exactly as awesome as it sounds.
 * Moose is a serial killer?!
 * Light Yagami is:
 * Shuuya Nanahara
 * A certain former business executive
 * English dub: "Become Gundam".
 * He piloted the the Sandrock, Nu Gundam and the original gundam!
 * Dearka
 * Auel
 * Japanese Light is also the founder of a certain host club. He also happens to be a Hunter turned vampire.,an Ambiguously Gay Bishonen, and a certain wolf searching for paradise in a rotten world, and had to avoid getting voted off the island (no not that one.). Also, a certain emo who let himself be consumed by darkness and the son of the Shinigami and is a (lesser) Shinigami himself with OCD -- Lookie, he wrote his name in the Death Note.
 * Light's German dubber also voiced JD from Scrubs.
 * Light's French voice actor is also Tommy Pickles. And in Spain, he's Darkwing Duck.
 * Ryuk's Death Note must have OVER 9000!! names.
 * In English, Mikami is voiced by Kirby Morrow, AKA Miroku. Rape Note, anyone?
 * Dubbed Mikami was also a villain on Stargate Atlantis, and a shapeshifting Serial Killer Killer on Fringe
 * Raye Penber is traded in The Movie for... Kamen Rider Hibiki.
 * Naomi, in english.
 * The Melancholy of Misa Amane, perhaps?
 * And L is voiced by KAPPEI YAMAGUCHI. Where to even begin? Inuyasha, Ryuichi Sakuma, Usopp, Saotome Ranma...
 * Near: known in another life as a certain priestess who refused to die or a certain emotionless bamfy swordsman who gave everyone's favorite rurouni a run for his money.
 * In fact, Matt Lagan as Lind L. Tailor (live action) was kind of hilarious for seasoned Survival Horror gamers - he dubs the majority of the male ghosts in Fatal Frame's first instalment, and Leonard in Silent Hill 3.
 * Watched any CGI Barbie movies recently? Try watching the dub with a straight face now.
 * Mello was Johan in another life.
 * Dubbed Sidoh is.... DOUBLE D?!?
 * In the anime, the shinigami Gelus is voiced by Ken'ichi Matsuyama, the live action actor of L.
 * Spike is still Near in Germany.
 * In the English dub Light is Nightcrawler, L is Gambit, Mikami is Cyclops, Rem is Mystique, Raye Penber is Colossus, Naomi Misora is Danielle Moonstar, and Sidoh is Forge (and HERBIE).
 * Naomi Misora is Rarity, Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon, Granny Smith, Rarity's mom, Mrs. Cup Cake, Pound Cake, Twilight Sparkle, Photo Finish and (in the original version, at least) Derpy Hooves, but the only pairs of these characters who've had on-screen, two-way conversations are Rarity with Photo Finish and Rarity with her mom. Near is Spike, Light is Ace (a tennis-playing "bad" pony), Pinkie Pie has Misa's singing voice , and Shidoh is a Pegasus bully.

Other trivia

 * Banned in China: They're 'a poison which creates wicked hearts', apparently.
 * No Export for You: The one-shot chapter has never been released in North America.
 * Also unreleased in North America are the three DS games produced by Konami, four of the DVD collector's figures (Soichiro, Takada, Mikami and the King of Shinigami) and the anime guidebook.
 * The theme playing at the very beginning of the pilot is a chanted variation of the taize prayer Kyrie Eleison, which is Greek for "Lord have mercy."
 * The theme that plays at various key moments - the "I am Justice" duet, the capture of the Yotsuba Kira, the revelation of Light's final gambit against Near, and the timeskip montage (where it plays in full) - is a Dies Irae. Oddly, it does not include the fifth verse of said apocalyptic choral number ("The written book will be brought/In which all is contained/Whereby the world will be judged"), but that is covered in "Teleology of Death", which plays when less overblown Ominous Latin Chanting is called for.
 * In the first episode (blink and you miss it) one of the names written in the Death Note is Uwe B ...
 * One subtle indication of Light and L's opposition: Light uses a PC whereas L uses an Apple Macintosh.
 * In episode 24, when L pilots a helicopter, he sits normally. There's an in-universe reason for this, as helicopter controls cannot be used from L's usual sitting position.
 * During the English dub scene in the helicopter in episode 24, when L is holding the Death Note and giving a stream of thoughts showing how this notebook proves that Light is Kira, that last thing he says at the end of the stream is 'Yellow Box'. As this is the name of the abandonned warehouse mentionned and used in episodes 36 and 37, this can either be considered an accidental spoiler or epic Foreshadowing. In original audio he just says "two notebooks".
 * The "13th" issue of the manga (basically a Death Note encyclopedia) notes that any time L gave a percentage of the likelyhood that Light was Kira, he was lying-- it was always 100% - in fact, "any time L throws out a percentage, it basically means that he suspects that person by over 90 percent." It also notes that he was lying when he called Light his friend.
 * L has enough symptoms to be diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Same with Near, but he doesn't have enough symptoms to be albino.
 * Even though he is shown mostly sitting, Near is shown standing while meeting with the President.
 * Minus Takada if you count her as the fifth Kira, the Kiras die in alphabetical order. Higuchi is killed by Light, Light is killed by Ryuk, Mikami dies by Near's actions (I follow the Near manipulated Mikami with the DN theory) and a year after Light's and Mikami's deaths, Misa commits suicide. H,..L, Mik, Mis... Clever, eh?
 * It's the same with L and his successors. L, then Mello, and eventually Near. So it's L, M, N.
 * Mello and Near's character designs were accidentally switched during character creation explaining why they have Ironic Codenames-they were originally going to be Meaningful Names-Mello was intended to be the "mello" one and Near was intended to be the Axe Crazy one that was drawing "near."
 * What Could Have Been: The author originally intended to use Mogi for an awesome and epic plot development, but could never figure out what that would be (beyond it being awesome and epic).
 * According to How To Read 13,
 * Ryuk was originally going to look like this: but the creators were worried that if he looked cooler or more attractive than Light then the fans wouldn't pay attention to Light.
 * Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Ohba admitted to doing this in an interview; Obata, who was present at the time, was shocked and thought Ohba was joking at first.