When Raye's fiancée, a former FBI detective named Naomi Misora, kidnaps Light's girlfriend Shiori Akino, Light pleads for her safety. Light, pursued by L and by FBI detective Raye Iwamatsu, outsmarts them, killing Raye and his partners in the process. Light realizes that L will be his greatest nemesis, and a game of psychological "cat and mouse" between the two begins. L also concludes that Kira can kill people without laying a finger on them. L quickly deduces that the murderer, dubbed by the public as Kira (a Japanese approximation of the English word "killer"), is located in Japan. Soon, the number of inexplicable deaths of reported criminals catches the attention of Interpol, as well as a mysterious detective known only as " L". After meeting with the previous owner of the Death Note, a Shinigami named Ryuk, Light seeks to become "the God of the New World" by passing his judgment on those he deems to be evil or who get in his way. Light is initially skeptical of the notebook's authenticity, but after experimenting with it, Light realizes that the Death Note is real. The Death Note's instructions claim that if a human's name is written within it, that person shall die. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", lying on the ground. Light Yagami is an extremely intelligent university student who resents crime and corruption in the world. Another sequel, Death Note: Light Up the New World, was released in October 2016. The film was licensed by VIZ Pictures, Warner Bros.Ī spin-off film directed by Hideo Nakata and titled L: Change the World, was released on February 9, 2008. The two films were directed by Shūsuke Kaneko, produced by Nippon Television, and distributed by Warner Bros. The films primarily center on a Tokyo college student who attempts to change the world into a utopian society without crime, by committing a world-wide massacre of criminals and people whom he deems morally unworthy of life, through a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in the pages, while being hunted down by an elite task-force of law enforcement officers within Tokyo, led by an enigmatic international detective. It was followed by a sequel, Death Note 2: The Last Name, released in the same year.
Death note 2006 series series#
In 2015, the collected volumes of the Death Note manga had over 30 million copies in circulation.Death Note ( デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a 2006 Japanese supernatural thriller film based on the manga series of the same title by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The live-action films briefly played in certain North American theaters in 2008, before receiving home video releases. The episodes from the anime first appeared in North America as downloadable from IGN, before Viz Media licensed it and it aired on YTV's Bionix anime block in Canada and on Cartoon Network in the United States with a DVD release following. A fourth film is scheduled for release in 2016.ĭeath Note media is licensed and released in North America by Viz Media, with the exception of the video games and soundtracks. The series was adapted into three live-action films released in Japan on June 17, 2006, November 3, 2006, and February 2, 2008, and a television drama in 2015. Additionally, various video games have been published by Konami for the Nintendo DS. A light novel based on the series, written by Nisio Isin, was also released in 2006.
Composed of 37 episodes, the anime was developed by Madhouse and directed by Tetsuro Araki. A television anime adaptation aired in Japan from October 3, 2006, to June 26, 2007. The 108 chapters were collected and published into 12 tankōbon volumes between May 2004 and October 2006. The series centers around Light's attempts to create and rule a world " cleansed of evil" as " God" using the notebook, and the efforts of a detective known as L to stop him.ĭeath Note was first serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The story follows Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook from a Shinigami named Ryuk that grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face he knows. Is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
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