<P> Ryuk has a great fondness for apples, comparing their effect on Shinigami to that of cigarettes and alcohol . He claims to go through a type of withdrawal if he goes for too long without them . His withdrawal symptoms involve twisting himself up like a pretzel and doing handstands . He also states that he is shy around girls; when Misa Amane hugs him he becomes intangible . In addition to apples, Ryuk is fond of video games, first shown in the omake eight - panel comic series, where he asks for a Silver Game Boy Advance SP, originally published in Weekly Shonen Jump Volume 4 - 5 (double issue) in 2005 . On another occasion, Ryuk asks Light if he wants to play Mario Golf (changed to "video games" in the anime), but receives no answer since Light's bedroom is bugged with cameras . </P> <P> As Ryuk explains when he first meets Light, he is bound to take Light's life when his time comes . In the manga, Ryuk does this after Light is shot several times by Matsuda . He desperately begs Ryuk to write the names of the investigation team and the SPK members in the Death Note, which he first implies he will do, but Ryuk, reminding Light that he is not on anyone's side, just writes Light's name instead . He was expecting Light might have thought of some way out of his situation, but seeing as he was desperate enough to go to Ryuk for help, he decided it was all over for him . Ryuk returns to the Shinigami realm . </P> <P> In the pilot chapter of Death Note, Ryuk is the master of two Death Notes which he drops into the human world; Taro Kagami picks up the first one, and Ryuk talks to Taro . The other is picked up by Taro's classmate, Miura . The police burn Miura's book, not knowing of the existence of the first book . At the end of the chapter, Ryuk follows an older Taro . Death Note 13: How to Read describes the Ryuk of the pilot chapter as "really lazy" and "incompetent". </P> <P> In the anime, Light does not ask for Ryuk's help and manages to escape the warehouse thanks to Teru Mikami's suicide distracting everyone else . However, his wounds are too severe for him to escape very far, and Ryuk, who is watching him from atop a pole, decides that following Light around during a prison sentence is not worth his time and thus writes Light's name in his Death Note, remarking that he had a lot of fun with him regardless . Light dies peacefully, with an apparition of L standing over him - mirroring Light standing over L on his death . </P>

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