

Though initially terrified and distraught by how he killed people, Light decides that he will use the Death Note to rid the world of evil and become the new god. He makes it clear Light found it by chance and was not 'chosen'.

5 days later, Ryuk, a shinigami confronts him at his home, telling him the book belongs to the human owner who found it first and cannot be returned unless the owner dies or relinquishes ownership. He tests the mysterious powers of the notebook and finds to his astonishment that the book has the power to kill people whose names are written in it. High school student, Light Yagami finds a notebook dropped from the sky named the "Death Note". The English version of the song is performed by Misa's English dub actress, Shannon Chan-Kent. "Misa's Song", performed by Aya Hirano, is heard as an insert for episode 25.
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The final episode's ending theme is "Coda ~ Death Note" by series co-composer Yoshihisa Hirano. Maximum the Hormone also performed the second ending theme, "Zetsubō Billy" ( 絶望ビリー, Zetsubō Birī ?, "Desperate Billy"), which also appears as an insert in "Director's Cut Complete Conclusion Rewrite: The Visualizing God". The second opening theme, starting from episode 20 onwards, is "What's Up, People?!" performed by Maximum the Hormone.
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Nightmare also performs the ending theme "Alumina" ( アルミナ, Arumina ?), and also appears as the ending theme in the TV special "Death Note:R From Vision of God," and as an insert in episodes 12 and 19. The first opening theme, titled "The World", is performed by Nightmare. On April 14, 2008, Death Note premiered in Australia, where it aired on ABC 2 on Mondays at 9:30 pm.įive pieces of theme music were used for the series. On October 2007, Hong Kong began airing the Cantonese version of Death Note at 12:00 am Saturday nights on TVB. Eastern Standard Time, starting with episode 1, "Rebirth" on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. On November 9, 2008, Death Note began airing weekly, at 3:30 a.m. On October 26, 2007, it premiered on YTV's Bionix block. Death Note episodes are also added to Adult Swim's streaming video service, Adult Swim Video, Fridays before airing on television. Most episodes have a TV-14 rating, except for the first 5, episode 12, episode 15, episode 17, which was TV-14-DV, episode 21, which was TV-14-DLV, episode 23, and episode 25. The first episode had a "TV-14-V" rating, while the second was given a TV-14-LV rating. On October 21, 2007, Death Note premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. VIZ Media began releasing these episodes via Direct2Drive on May 10, 2007.

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Significantly, episodes of the series were officially available for download soon after they aired in Japan according to VIZ, this is "the first time a well known Japanese anime property was made legally available to domestic audiences for download to own while the title still aired on Japanese television". In 2007, Viz Media licensed the series for a bilingual release in North America. The book was property of the God of Death, or Shinigami, named Ryuk, who became bored within the Shinigami world. 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 titled Death Note that causes the death of anyone whose name is written in it. A special two-hour "Director's Cut" compilation episode, entitled "Death Note:R (Rewrite)", was aired on August 31, 2007. Death Note aired in Japan on the Nippon Television (NTV) network every Tuesday at 24:56 The series began broadcasting on NTV on Octoand ended on June 26, 2007. Death Note is an anime series based on the manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.
