Death Note (2006)
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Who else could've done it, and come this far?
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?
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Last Season
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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Facts
StatusEnded
Networks
TypeScripted
Original LanguageJapanese
Keywords
- detective
- journalism
- secret identity
- police
- supernatural
- sociopath
- rivalry
- murder
- serial killer
- grim reaper
- psychological thriller
- based on manga
- justice
- death
- shounen
- anime
- shinigami
- time skip
- magic book
- psychological
- fantastic
- prosocial psychopath
- horror