Near was able to plan things far in advance and even used Mello to help him in his goals. Feeling inferior to Near, he never wanted to work with him and left Wammy's House once L died. Though Mello was smart enough to manipulate the mafia, get the notebook, and even outsmart Near at times, he always felt like he was in second place whenever his opponent made a move.
While L loved sugar and Near enjoyed playing with toys, Mello constantly ate chocolate. Every kid from Wammy's House had quirks and this was his most recognizable.
When he first spoke to Soichiro, he purposely ate chocolate so Near would know that he got his hands on the notebook first. L must have been telling the truth when he said that eating sweets wouldn't raise his weight. When they learned that Kira killed L , Near and Mello chose to walk different paths in life. Near would go to the United States and become the leader of the SPK while Mello joined the mafia and became one of its most trusted members. He may have played the part well, but Mello was only using his new comrades to get the notebook.
They were simply the pawns that he was playing with in his game. Like the other kids at Wammy's House, Mello was given a fake name to hide his identity.
Lawliet was L's real name and Nate River was what Near was once called. Character While Mello is certainly a genius and more intelligent than most people, the concept of being only the second most intelligent person in Wammy's House, behind Near, fuels the inferiority complex that defines Mello's character. Likes Comments 0. Like Related wiki Death Catalog. Related wiki Touta Matsuda. Into Death Note? Join the community. Get App. He is left badly scarred along the left side of his face above his mouth; the gas mask he was wearing at the time protected the rest of his face.
Mello makes his way to New York where he hides out in the home of Halle Lidner , an SPK member, who keeps him up to date with Near's latest theories concerning the Kira case. Lidner wants Kira captured and appears to believe that Mello and Near are both needed for this to happen, even if they fail to work together. Mello later forces his way into the SPK HQ while holding Lidner at gunpoint, intending to retrieve the one existing photograph of himself from Near.
When Near states that Mello has actually been a big help in his own investigation, Mello becomes enraged and turns his gun on Near, saying that he isn't a tool Near can use to solve a puzzle. Near is unfazed by being held at gunpoint and even goes so far as encouraging Mello to shoot him. Seriously tempted, Mello is talked into lowering his weapon by Lidner, who steps in front of the gun and warns him that shooting Near will only result in him being killed by the other SPK members, leaving Kira victorious since he would be rid of the only persons capable of matching him and bringing him down.
Mello receives his childhood photo from Near, which has "Dear Mello" written on the back. Near gives Mello the photograph. In return, Mello tells him about the Shinigami and the fake Death Note rules. As Mello leaves, each wryly promises the other that the race is on to see who finds Kira first.
This meeting between the two successors has a profound impact, as the information Near receives from Mello drastically sharpens Near's suspicion of Light Yagami. Thinking that Near and Mello are actually in league with each other, Mogi refuses to talk, but Near and Mello's subsequent conversation over the phone and other events lead Mogi and Aizawa to suspect that Light Yagami may be Kira after all, though they hesitate, since it is based on trusting Mello, a sworn enemy, and his claims about the fake rules.
Aizawa eventually meets Near and reveals more information regarding the Death Note. Near gets Lidner to pass this info on to Mello, except for the fact that he has now identified Light Yagami as the new L and the prime suspect for Kira. Mello has now been joined by Matt , another boy from Wammy's House. Based on the information passed on by Lidner, Mello guesses that Misa is the Second Kira , though she strikes him as so feather-brained that it is hard to believe Kira ever willingly employed her.
However, he also concludes for himself that her boyfriend, Light Yagami, is L. Misa and the Task Force return to Japan where the police detectives intend to investigate Kiyomi Takada , a TV presenter who has been made Kira's new spokesperson. Mello and Matt follow them and continue to track Misa and Mogi. Mello had originally planned to take the Death Note from Misa but decides not to, concluding that she is not the Second Kira anymore.
At this stage in the manga, Mello and Matt's movements are unknown. The next eleven chapters, which cover a period of almost two months, focus on Light Yagami's meetings with Takada and the SPK's investigation of Teru Mikami , who has been entrusted with a Death Note and continues the killings under Light's distant supervision.
Lidner informs Mello of Near's plan to expose and capture Kira. Timing is essential, and there are only a few days to go before the plan is implemented.
Mello kidnaps Kiyomi Takada by having Matt attack Takada's motorcade with a gas grenade. Mello drives up on a motorbike and offers to take Takada to safety. In the confusion, and with reassurance from Lidner, Takada agrees, not realizing it is Mello until it is too late to get off. After a chase, Mello is able to evade Takada's guards and locks her in a shipping truck. While driving her to a different location, Mello sees on his portable television that Matt was cornered by Takada's guards and killed in a hail of gunfire — something he had not expected and regrets.
Mello forces Takada to strip in order to get rid of any tracking devices; however, he allows her to cover herself with a blanket.
This proves to be his undoing, as she has a piece of Mikami's Death Note hidden in her clothes and the blanket allows her to hide it. Since she knows Mello's real name from Light, Takada uses the hidden piece of the Death Note to kill him. Upon hearing of Takada's kidnapping, Teru Mikami takes his Death Note from a bank deposit box and uses it to make her kill herself by setting fire to the truck and destroying all the evidence — unaware that Light himself has used a piece of the Death Note in order to get her to do the same thing just one minute before Mikami sets it.
This initiative on Mikami's part, instigated by Mello's actions, requires him to go to the bank the day after he has already been there, which is a sudden breach of his usually meticulous habits. This alerts Near's agent, Gevanni , to the location of the real Death Note in the bank and enables them to seize it, bring down Light Yagami, and expose him as Kira. During the final showdown with Light and Mikami, Near credits Mello as the single most pivotal person in exposing Light's plans and thus bringing about his subsequent defeat.
This alerted Near's agents to the location of where Mikami had hidden the real Death Note in his possession, directly leading to Near's final defeat of Kira.
In the end, Near tells Light that Mello realized they couldn't live up to their predecessor, L, alone. Therefore, he worked with Near until his death shortly after. Ohba said that he introduced Near and Mello together because L individually could not defeat Kira.
Ohba felt that introducing one character individually would produce a "repeat" of the struggle between Light and L, so he instead wanted a story involving three combatants fighting each other. Ohba said that he let Takeshi Obata , artist of the series, create the character designs and asked him to make both characters look "a little 'L-ish. Ohba added that he did not initially develop their personalities as he wanted to "reveal" them through their actions.
Ohba said that he added the chocolate trait because he believed that chocolate "represented all sweets" and that the trait would fit with the story arc in the United States.
Ohba described the trait became "useful" during the discovery of Mello's base due to the discarded chocolate boxes. Ohba recalled that he considered having Mello be the character who ultimately defeats Light. According to Ohba, after the disappearance of Sidoh, the writer "struggled" with Mello's role. Ohba's idea of Mello ultimately defeating Light and Near being "the best" was strong in his mind, but once Mello had "learned too much about the Death Note" he had to kill him to "sustain the intensity of the story".
As a result, Ohba did not give Mello a "large role" at the conclusion of Death Note and instead had Mello negatively affect Light "indirectly". Ohba gave Mello a "very plain" death, depicted in only one panel; he felt that if Mello had perished "dramatically" it would reveal the truth behind his death. Obata said that, since Ohba wanted to "include a little L" in Near and Mello, he tried to keep "the weirdness and the panda eyes".
He also added that since L was an important character, he felt that he made Near and Mello look too much like L. He described the character designs as "a major struggle". Obata said that, when he first heard about Near and Mello, he assumed that Near and Mello would join as a team and work together, so he envisioned the two as twins when he created the character designs.
Obata said that at first he tried to depict Mello as having "more energy than Near".
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