Aaaah, your right. It is a was aired on TV, and not cinemas (from what I can tell). Most places list it as a movie, or a TV film, but on animenewsnetwork (at least) it says it's a TV special.
Appreciate you linking the correct manual, though it seems to be the more or less the same rules (just from the correct source, this time).
I do still think relight should be included, because of the added scenes plus it's closer to a retelling from another perspective than just a recap.
I just searched it up. It was the first link I could find regarding deleted entries.
Yeah, it doesn't directly mention Death Note but it does mention the format "Recaps are only to be added if the format is different from the original (Example: TV to Movie)". Also, yh it is outdated. I didn't notice the "Last modified 4yr ago" at first, coz it was greyed out at the bottom of the page ?
But it does mention movie recaps in the deletion notification tho, "As recaps are typically not allowed unless they are movie recaps from another format" (Death note being a tv show, relight being a movie).
Edit: Emojis aren't allowed? it changed the emoji to a question mark
It must be an accident coz I don't think it goes against the rules. It has different scenes to the original + movie recaps of tv shows are allowed anyways (they even have it listed as an example in the submission manual
Why is it good that TOHO are involved? Are they good producers, genuinely curious
Personally I've been kinda tired of MAPPA taking over so much anime recently, really wish they'd slow down and give their animators some rest (though I understand this is an industry wide problem). Also, what do you mean by new Seong-Hu Park studio? Is he making his own studio, or something