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Death Note

Name: Death Note
Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2006-10-04
Rating: 8.6

★ 8,6 /10 (5,207 Votes)

2006 JA 1 Seasons

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?

Stream

First air date

04/10/2006

Votes

5,207

Popularity

57.4

The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

Genres

Animation Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Networks

Nippon TV

Original title

DEATH NOTE

Language

Last air date

2007-06-27

Episodes

Episode runtime

22 min

Website

www.ntv.co.jp

Mamoru Miyano

Light Yagami (voice)

Kappei Yamaguchi

L (voice)

Shido Nakamura

Ryuk (voice)

Aya Hirano

Misa Amane (voice)

Noriko Hidaka

Near (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki

Mello (voice)

Kimiko Saito

Rem (voice)

Naoya Uchida

Soichiro Yagami (voice)

Ryou Naitou

Touta Matsuda (voice)

Keiji Fujiwara

Shuichi Aizawa (voice)

Kazuya Nakai

Kanzo Mogi (voice)

Original Soundtrack

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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 tens…

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Such a great anime; if you're not into anime, Death Note is a welcome mat, a hello, and a welcome to the best of anime. A great intellect battle in a TV show and delivering a compelling story deep and dark and one of the most philosophically dense manga ever written. It's a genuine philosophical argument about power, justice, and human nature.

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