YMMV / Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv)

• Angst? What Angst?:
  Light: L, why?! Why did you leave me?! Why did you leave me alone with these IDIOTS! *sobbing* And... yeah, I'm over it now.
  • And:
  Matsuda: My life's work has just gone up in flames! Just like Light's ex-girlfriend.
  Near: Too soon, Matsuda.
  Light: No it's fine. I'm over it.
• Badass Decay: Near does his Avatar stare with the room spinning effect... and gets really dizzy and throws up. Also:
  Light: As I'm walking down the street / wanna kill everyone that I meet / Look at that top, it's sweet!
• Crosses the Line Twice: Souichiro's death Also:
  Light: I'm rigging my desk so it will explode if anyone tries to steal my diary.
  Ryuk: That's a good idea! Wait... Where's your sister at?
  Light: What sister?
  Sayu: *screaming*
• Fashion-Victim Villain: Mello
  Souichiro: So... Lady Gaga has teamed up with the aliens...
• Growing the Beard: The first two to three episodes are admittedly pretty bad. The series starts to gain its footing after that, but doesn't really fully mature until Season 2. The quality gradually increases, right up until the finale.
• Ho Yay:
  Ryuk (to Light): I just noticed how pretty your eyes are.
  • And Light has a one-sided crush on L.
  • Light and Namikawa. "Hey, L-boy!" Phone sex!
  • Roger/Watari:
  Roger: Such an angel was plucked from this world too soon!
• Inferred Holocaust: What with the Shinigami invasion and Near taking over the world.
• Jerkass Woobie: Light. Sure he's a Serial Killer killing off celebrities but he's also being molested by Shinigami and the man he's fallen in love with just wants to see him executed. His Freak Out after L dies (while simultaneously being Nightmare Fuel) cements his Woobie status.
  • Mello is a strong candidate as well. That poor psycho had to grow up with Near! And he gets killed over a stupid misunderstanding.
  • Poor Mikami. The writer really has it in for him. [1]
  • L is ever a Grade A Jerkass but still being being Buried Alive / resurrected just to die again was not cool. Actually that was (probably) Beyond Birthday who had stolen L's identity so that also qualifies him for this trope. L himself still qualifies seeing as the real L was being kept alive in Light's basement / lovenest for the last five years. (Probably).
• Les Yay: Misa and Takada.
• Memetic Molester: Ryuk. Also Matsuda and Mogi were hiding in Sayu's room while wearing a giant bear costume in order to spy on her... a "pedobear," if you will.
  • "I was only seven. Beyond Birthday NOOOOOO!!!"
• No Yay: Ryuk/Light, Beyond/L, Ryuk/Misa, Near/Light, Ryuk x Apples, Souichiro/Ryuk, Matsuda/Ryuk, Demegawa/Kira, Aizawa/Yumi (Aizawa's daughter), Osoreda/Near and the taskforce wanting to gang rape Misa. There's also Gevanni (or rather Raye Penber/the Death Note and Light keeping L (or is it B?) as his Sex Slave.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Takada and Near are far more likeable and/or interesting than their canon counterparts. Takada is a reasonable and likeable Only Sane Woman and Near is Laughably Evil.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Take That Misa:
  Takada: I hope you're not mad but I think my bodyguard crippled your fake girlfriend today.
  Light: Oh no, that's terrible! Is she paralyzed?
  Takada: I don't know I'm not a doctor.
  Light: Will she be able to talk?
  Takada: At the rate she was blabbing I doubt that death itself would shut her up.
  Light: Dammit! You should fire your bodyguards!

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