Fields |
USA Info |
Japanese Info |
Image |
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Title |
Death Note | Death Note(デスノート) |  |
Released |
37 TV episodesm, 1 special | 37 TV episodes | |
Dates |
October 20, 2007(on Adult Swim) | October 3, 2006 | |
Company |
Viz/Ocean Productions | Madhouse/NTV/Shueisha/VAP | |
Creator |
Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ooba | ||
Director |
Tetsuro Araki | ||
Genre |
Paranormal, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | Paranormal, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | |
Characters |
Hideki Ide | Hideki Ide | |
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Hirokazu Ukita | Hirokazu Ukita | |
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Kanzo Mogi | Kanzo Mogi | |
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Kiyomi Takada | Kiyomi Takada | |
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L | L | |
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Light Yagami | Light Yagami | |
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Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon, and in manga at Amazon.
English Name |
Japanese Name |
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English Name |
Japanese Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hideki Ide | Hideki Ide | Misa Amane | Misa Amane | |
| Hirokazu Ukita | Hirokazu Ukita | Naomi Misora | Naomi Misora | |
| Kanzo Mogi | Kanzo Mogi | Near | Near | |
| Kiyomi Takada | Kiyomi Takada | Rem | Rem | |
| L | L | Ryuk | Ryuuuku | |
| Light Yagami | Light Yagami | Shuichi Aizawa | Shuichi Aizawa | |
| Matsuda Tota | Matsuda Touta | Teru Mikami | Teru Mikami | |
| Matt | Matt | Watari | Watari | |
| Mello | Mello |
Light Yagami, an intelligent high school student with a loving family and high social status is bored with his life. Being the son of a Police Detective, he becomes despondent with the constant crimes he witnesses on the news. One day, he finds a notebook entitled the "Death Note" which has the power to kill anyone whose name is written into it. He doubts the book's power until he tests it out for himself, and to his shock it proves to work with deadly efficiency.
He meets a Shinigami (Death God) named Ryuk, who was also bored of his life in the Shinigami Realm. He is the owner of the Death Note and drops it out of boredom. Light decides to undergo a massive plot to completely wipe evil from the world and become its new God, by using the Death Note to kill each and every criminal on Earth. (Even to the point of eliminating anything and anyone that gets in the way of his plans.)
As more and more names are written into the Death Note, the world takes attention to the massive number of criminal deaths. The International Police Organization scrambles to find out who is responsible and how the murders are being committed. Gaining the help of the eccentric master detective known as "L," he makes his presence known to Light (known to the world as "Kira"), resulting in a massive battle of wits between the two minds.
Who will win and who will die first? And what type of "Justice" will ultimately prevail in the end?
Death Note is a 12 volume manga series (plus one extra 13th issue called "How to Read 13") that has recently been turned into a 37 episode anime series (plus one 3-hour special) and has a live-action movie that was released in Japan June 17th, 2006.
It's about a high school student by the name of Raito. One day he finds a strange book called Death Note. The book reads that if a human's name is written in the Note then that person will die in 40 seconds. At first, Raito didn't believe this, until a few experiments proved him wrong. And also, meeting the Shinigami Ryuk helped him believe in the Note.
After Raito learns a bit more about the Note he begins to 'Cleanse the World', as he puts it. He kills off all the criminals and gains the nickname 'Kira' in the process. Now he has to cleanse the world, and help the Japanese police force try and capture 'Kira' along side Raito's new suspicious enemy who goes simply by the name, L.
Flag[admin]#38 - Posted by Nikola Nasberg on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 at 5:50am:
I think Kira is retarded, why do I think that? Because his idea of killing all of the crinimals was perfect, I'm totally with that, but then he ruined it by trying to kill crinimals and killing anyone that gets in his way...well that's just-anyways I love the show and I am DEARLY in love with detective L and I hate how they killed him-L haters those directors are!!!!!! ... show more »
Flag[admin]#37 - Posted by DanTheman on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at 6:39pm:
They take Light and make him into a truly evil character, just by that the whole thing was ruined, the series becomes dark and then L appears and you're filled with tension because you don't want Light to screw up but L is also epic!! AWRGH!!
Flag[admin]#36 - Posted by Shanti1112 on Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 6:11am:
Any1 who hates Death Note has 2 answer 2 me!!!! It's that good!!!!!!!!
Flag[admin]#35 - Posted by Death Note lover 4ever!!!!!! on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 at 12:13pm:
I love Death Note, I love it sooooooooo much I keep waffle cakes of them,(other people:O.O Okaaaay???) Yeah, these are my favorite Death Note characters in order:
Near I <3 him
L
Mello
Matt
Misa
Ryuk
Rem
and
Light ... show more »
Flag[admin]#34 - Posted by AnimeRox on Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at 6:56pm:
BEST ANIME THE WORLD HAS EVA SEEN!!! It is so AWESOME!
Flag[admin]#33 - Posted by Kurina the Imiko on Friday, April 22nd, 2011 at 11:21pm:
yeah, BB is the guy who looks exactly like L, kumiko_VK, and um dunno bout reading DN online
Flag[admin]#32 - Posted by Alice on Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 3:45am:
I have to disagree with "xGreenLing".. I don't feel it "lost steam" once L died. And there is a time skip for the years Light was the new L and Near and Mello set off to establish their own ways of catching Kira. But how long do you think it took Mello to be trusted in the Mafia and for Near to catch up? It's not like he was handed L's notes and what not to read. Although I hated that L had to die, it introduced new characters to move the story along. L and Light couldn't play cat and mouse forever and the writers decided to go with a more dramatic twist and in turn made the show last longer. I'm a huge Whammy fan, and I enjoyed the introduction of Mello especially. And eventhough you don't truely get to know him, Matt is just awesome. =) Death Note is by far my absolute favorite anime. You have to respect the different level it is on compared to the usually anime themes. It's not your regular high school anime where boy meets girl, nor is it your average mecha.. ... show more »
Flag[admin]#31 - Posted by xGreenling on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 7:31pm:
I was really sad about how quickly this series lost steam once L was dead. It was like the writers just lost track of what they were doing. I honestly feel that you can go straight from L's death, skim through to the bits with Mello acting amusingly weird and Mikami doing likewise, then just fast forward to Light's death... and you will lose nothing. That said, everything beforehand is a wonderfully tense game of cat-and-mouse between two charismatically wicked genius megalomaniacs, and well worth watching/reading. ... show more »
Flag[admin]#30 - Posted by francis mar on Saturday, February 19th, 2011 at 5:29am:
i'm gonna write your name in the death note for you to die
Flag[admin]#29 - Posted by jameela on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 4:24am:
I am a fan now of kira............joke i dont want to be bad but i love the story of the death note because it show that we should always be a good person.