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Death Note
The human whose name is written in this note shall die.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mamoru Miyano
Light Yagami (voice)
37 eps
Shido Nakamura
Ryuk (voice)
37 eps
Aya Hirano
Misa Amane (voice)
37 eps
Kappei Yamaguchi
L (voice)
37 eps
Kimiko Saito
Rem (voice)
37 eps
Naoya Uchida
Soichiro Yagami (voice)
37 eps
Ryou Naitou
Touta Matsuda (voice)
37 eps
Keiji Fujiwara
Shuichi Aizawa (voice)
37 eps
Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Watari (voice)
6 eps
Kazuya Nakai
Kanzo Mogi (voice)
37 eps
Noriko Hidaka
Near (voice)
37 eps
Nozomu Sasaki
Mello (voice)
37 eps
Tomohiro Nishimura
Shibuimaru Takuo (voice)
1 eps
Takeharu Oonishi
Gukku (voice)
1 eps
Tetsuo Goto
Deridovely (voice)
1 eps
Ai Satou
Sachiko Yagami (voice)
11 eps
Haruka Kudou
Sayu Yagami (voice)
9 eps
Hideo Ishikawa
Raye Penber (voice)
2 eps
Ami Koshimizu
Yuri (voice)
1 eps
Katsuhisa Houki
Kiichiro Osoreda (voice)
1 eps
Naoko Matsui
Naomi Misora (voice)
3 eps
Chafurin
Hitoshi Demegawa (voice)
2 eps
Kensuke Nishi
Hideki Ryuuga (voice)
1 eps
Hidenobu Kiuchi
Hirokazu Ukita (voice)
1 eps
Masaru Ikeda
Koreyoshi Kitamura (voice)
1 eps
Kenichi Matsuyama
Geius (voice)
1 eps
Masumi Okamura
Kiyomi Takada (voice)
2 eps
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Takeshi Ooi
1 eps
Rintaro Nishi
Eiichi Takahashi (voice)
1 eps
Masaki Aizawa
Masahiko Kida (voice)
1 eps
Issei Futamata
Kyousuke Higuchi (voice)
1 eps
Hirofumi Nojima
Reiji Namikawa (voice)
1 eps
Hiroyuki Yokoo
Suguru Shimura (voice)
1 eps
Ryuji Mizuno
Shussekisha B (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Death Note actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Death Note reads strongest on World Building, Bingeability and Spectacle.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E25
Silence
Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everything is going according to Light's plan, and that L will arrest Misa as Kira-unless Rem acts quickly.
- Directed by Mitsuyuki Masuhara
- Written by Toshiki Inoue
S01E07
Overcast
Light uses the Death Note to try to get rid of the woman who could get him captured, and is shocked when it doesn’t work. Realizing she must have given him an alias, he’s only got minutes to find out her real name before she tells her story to the task force.
- Directed by Tomohiko Ito
- Written by Shouji Yonemura
S01E24
Revival
While Higuchi is finally captured, Light inadvertently regains his memories as Kira.
- Directed by Hisato Shimoda
- Written by Shouji Yonemura
S01E37
New World
Though Mikami has written all the investigators' names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is still alive. Near seizes Mikami's Death Note, and all is at last revealed.
- Directed by Tetsuro Araki
- Written by Toshiki Inoue
S01E02
Confrontation
While the world’s criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various nations. He requests that a task force be set up in Japan, under the direction of none other than Soichiro Yagami, Light’s father.
- Directed by Tomohiko Ito
- Written by Toshiki Inoue
S01E04
Pursuit
Light—now known to the world as Kira—tests the Death Note to understand the scope of its powers by killing off six convicts in various ways—and confirms he can control his victims’ actions before they die.
- Directed by Naoyasu Habu
- Written by Toshiki Inoue
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E32
Selection
- Directed by Hironori Aoyagi
- Written by Yasuko Kobayashi
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Masao MaruyamaProducer
- Manabu TamuraProducer
- Toshio NakataniProducer
Writing
- Yasuko KobayashiWriter
- Shouji YonemuraWriter
- Tomohiko ItoWriter
- Toshiki InoueWriter
Direction
- Kei TsunematsuDirector
- Mitsuhiro YonedaDirector
- Takayuki HiraoDirector
- Ryosuke NakamuraDirector
- Mitsuyuki MasuharaDirector
- Hideki ItoDirector
Cinematography
- Kazuhiro YamadaDirector of Photography
Music
- Hideki TaniuchiOriginal Music Composer
- Yoshihisa HiranoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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