Death Note

TV-MA

37 episodes1 season

US Release

~ Who else could've done it, and come this far? ~

Overview:

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Created by:

Status:

Ended

Language:

Japanese

First air date:

10/4/2006

Last air date:

6/27/2007

Key words:

detective
journalism
secret identity
police
supernatural
sociopath
rivalry
murder
serial killer
grim reaper
psychological thriller
based on manga
justice
death
shounen
anime
shinigami
time skip
magic book
psychological
fantastic
prosocial psychopath
horror

Seasons

Season 1

37 Episodes

Cast

Mamoru Miyano

~ as ~

Light Yagami (voice)

Shido Nakamura

~ as ~

Ryuk (voice)

Aya Hirano

~ as ~

Misa Amane (voice)

Kappei Yamaguchi

~ as ~

L (voice)

Kimiko Saito

~ as ~

Rem (voice)

Naoya Uchida

~ as ~

Soichiro Yagami (voice)

Ryou Naitou

~ as ~

Touta Matsuda (voice)

Keiji Fujiwara

~ as ~

Shuichi Aizawa (voice)

Kazuya Nakai

~ as ~

Kanzo Mogi (voice)

Noriko Hidaka

~ as ~

Near (voice)

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Reviews (1)

Z
Zak_Jaggs
Written 6 month(s) ago
10
My favourite ever series not just of anime but TV in general, Death Note is simply beautiful television. The production is amazing from great animation to brilliant music and wonderful performances in English and Japanese. The characters of Light, L, Ryuk, Misa and so on are all truly iconic and entertaining, with Light Yagami being my favourite ever fictional character (he is a brilliant psychopath) and his rivalry with L being simply incredible. Episodes 25 and 37 stand-out as two of the greatest episodes of any TV show ever, especially episode 37 which releases the brilliantly built-up tension in a wonderful way. Tension is Death Note's speciality; it is brimming with tension and the few moments it lets loose are really quite special. If you want a high-stakes, morally grey battle of geniuses that sees almost every character get emotional broken and subjected to horrific fates, then watch Death Note. And the end of Death Note actually left me speechless.