 Aside from the initial anime and manga , Mello appears in other media based on Death Note . He serves as the narrator of Nisio Isin 's light novel Death Note Another Note : The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases . He is featured in two video games ; in the Death Note @-@ based Death Note : L o Tsugu Mono , he can serve as Kira or Kira 's accomplice , and in the Weekly Shōnen Jump @-@ based fighting game Jump Ultimate Stars , he is a support character . Mello also appears in the animated special Death Note : Relight 2 : L 's Successors , which retells the second half of the anime . On it , his story is almost the same , the only exception is that Mello 's involvement with the mafia is removed . 
