Death Note Director Knows All About The Anime’s Yaoi Ships

In any fandom, there is bound to be some intense shipping. Fans are always looking to make popular heroes fall in love with each other, and Death Note is no exception. Ever since the series first debuted in December 2003, there have been fans hoping for Light and L’s eventual hook-up. And, now, one Death Note director is nodding to the widely discussed ship.

Over on Twitter, Adam Wingard sent a flurry of anime fans into a tizzy with a single message. The director has been talking to fans on social media all day following the release of Death Note’s first trailer. The live-action movie will see Light and L brought to life in an Americanized adaptation, and the Twitter outing revealed Wingard’s education on all things yaoi.

It all began when someone wrote a short message about the Light/L ship online. “At least five minutes of gay L on Light action is all I’m asking for I think you can swing that,” one fan tweeted to Wingard. So, naturally, the director took a moment to respond.

“I pitched this every day on set!” Wingard tweeted.

Of course, it seems likely that the director’s comment was all in jest, but anime fans now know their yaoi prayers have been heard. The live-action director of Death Note knows there are fans who want Light and L to shack up, and the fandom may never be the same.

For Death Note fans, the message is either a hysterical or traumatizing. The anime fandom has been scrutinized before for its intensive yaoi ships, but fans seem alright with Wingard nodding to the head-canon. Death Note has its own set of popular ships, but the fandom as a whole houses dozens if not hundreds. Couples like Naruto/Sasuke, Sebastian/Ciel, and even Lelouch/Suzaku continue to occupy the thoughts of fangirls everywhere. And, now, Death Note shippers have gotten a go-ahead to make the fan-fic they want about the Netflix’s films leads when they finally debut in August.

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You can read up on Death Note below thanks to Viz Media’s Synopsis:

“Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?”

What if you had the power to decide who lives and who dies? We suggest you obey the rules. Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone’s name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.

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Death Note will be available to stream on Netflix beginning August 25, 2017.