Near's finger puppets

Near's finger puppets are some of the various toys Near plays with. They represent characters in the Death Note series who play a significant role in his theories.

Conception
Tsugumi Ohba stated that the finger puppets used by Near in the final chapter did not exist in the thumbnails and that he felt the final scenes "looked cooler" with the presence of the puppets. Takeshi Obata said that he felt he could express "negative" parts of Near with the puppets, adding that one could see "his dark side in his kind of puppets he used."

Trivia

 * Obata said that Near made the Kira finger puppet first and drew on it with a magic marker. Near must have created the other puppets afterward.
 * Obata notes that while Near respects L, he doesn't really like him as a person, so Obata had Near depict L as ugly. However, Near honestly likes Mello and worked hard on the Mello finger puppet.