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Death Note

20157.41 Season11 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a "Death Note", which changes his life. The Death Note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer Kira and punishes criminals. L is a well known private detective. L appears in front of Light Yagami. L defines Kira as evil and decides to catch Kira. Then N, who has a beautiful appearance but dangerous existence, appears.

Created by Yoshihiro Izumi
Written by Yoshihiro Izumi, Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Produced by Suzuki Akino, Shigeyama Yoshinori, Yoshitaka Omori
NetworksNippon TV

Top Cast

Masataka Kubota

Masataka Kubota

Light Yagami

Kento Yamazaki

Kento Yamazaki

L

Mio Yuki

Mio Yuki

N

Hinako Sano

Hinako Sano

Misa Amane

Reiko Fujiwara

Reiko Fujiwara

Sayu Yagami

Megumi Seki

Megumi Seki

Shoko Himura

Tomohisa Yuge

Tomohisa Yuge

Shuichi Aizawa

Shugo Oshinari

Shugo Oshinari

Teru Mikami

Kazuaki Hankai

Kazuaki Hankai

Watari

Jiro Sato

Jiro Sato

Kanzo Mogi

Themes & Keywords

japandetectiveinvestigationpolicesupernaturalpsychopathpsychological thrillerbased on mangajusticedeathethical dilemmahidden identitymagic bookgod of deathsuspense

About Death Note

Death Note is a crime, drama series that first aired in 2015 exploring themes of japan, detective, investigation, police, supernatural, psychopath. Created by Yoshihiro Izumi, it stars Masataka Kubota, Kento Yamazaki, Mio Yuki. Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a "Death Note", which changes his life. The Death Note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer Kira and punishes criminals. L is a well known private detective. L appears in front of Light Yagami. L defines Kira as evil and decides to catch Kira. Then N, who has a beautiful appearance but dangerous existence, appears.

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