Death Note( 2006)

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All Humans Die The Same.

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?

Series Cast

Mamoru Miyano
Light Yagami (voice)
Shido Nakamura
Ryuk (voice)
Aya Hirano
Misa Amane (voice)
Kappei Yamaguchi
L (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)
Noriko Hidaka
Near (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Mello (voice)

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Season 1

2006 | 37 Episodes

An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.

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A review by Zak_Jaggs

Written by Zak_Jaggs on Thu Dec 19 2024

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 tensi...