Underplayed Gems

Death Note (2006)

Death Note poster
Original title
DEATH NOTE
Genre
thriller anime, mystery anime, supernatural anime, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 37 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
8.6 of 10 from 5,000 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A high school student gets a notebook that can kill anyone whose name is written in it. He uses it to try to eliminate criminals and becomes locked in a cat-and-mouse game with a detective.

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What happens

Death Note (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese anime television series based on the manga series Death Note, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It was directed by Tetsurō Araki at Madhouse and aired in Japan on Nippon Television every Wednesday (with the exception of December 20, 2006, and January 3, 2007) shortly past midnight, from October 4, 2006, to June 27, 2007. The plot of the series primarily revolves around high school student Light Yagami, who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook called a Death Note. This book causes the death of anyone whose name is written in it and is passed on to Light by the Shinigami Ryuk after he becomes bored within the Shinigami world. A two-hour "Director's Cut" compilation television film, titled Death Note: Relight – Visions of a God, aired on Nippon Television two months after the anime series concluded. Although advertised to be the "complete conclusion", the popularity of the series inspired the release of a second TV film, titled Death Note: Relight 2 – L's Successors nearly a year later. These films summarize the first two parts of the series' narrative, but they alter the plot by adding and omitting scenes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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