Death Note

Death Note is an immensely popular manga, anime and series of movies.



The story is about a young teenager, Light Yagami, who finds the notebook of a shinigami (death god). This notebook allows the owner to kill whoever they write the name of in it. In order to kill, all you need is the name and face of a person and you can kill them within minutes with a heart attack, or you can control their actions before they die in any way you want by writing those details as well. Light uses this notebook as a tool to kill criminals to create a new world of no crime. The series follows Light and his shinigami companion Ryuk while they evade a mysterious master detective L, and is full of drama and mind games.
Genre: thriller, supernatural, action, mystery, gothic, drama



The manga was written by Tsugami Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata. There are 12 volumes and 108 chapters as well as a one-shot. The manga is Japanese.



The anime was directed by Tetsuro Araki and the writer is Toshiki Inoue. It ran in 2006 and 2007 and had 37 episodes. There were also two movies called Death Note : Rewrite and Death Note : Rewrite 2. The anime follows the same basic plot as the manga in a more condensed version. The movies follow different perspectives than the series, the series is following Light, while the first movie is from Ryuk's perspective, and just recaps the story, while the second movie follows L and shows a bit more to the story.



The live-action movies topped the japanese box offices over The Da vinci Code in 2008and star Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light, Ken'ichi Matsuyama as L, and Erika Toda as Miss Amane. There are 3 movies in total, the first two movies, Death Note and Death Note 2 - The Last Name follow the plot of the anime and manga. The third movie is independant from the anime and shows life after Light and stars L specifically and is called Death Note 3 - L : Change the World. The third movie is by far my favourite as L is my favourite character and his personality is better understood as well as his past.

Death Note is rated a 4.5 out of 5 in my opinion and is a must-see, I recommend the anime the most and the live action films are fun to watch after you already know the plot but are a bit too rushed to watch without knowing the background information.

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