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Video games. A Death Note video game developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo DS, titled Death Note: Kira Game (デスノート キラゲーム, Desu Nōto Kira Gēmu), was released on February 15, 2007. [96] Kira Game is a strategy game where the player takes on the role of Kira or L.
- List of Death Note Episodes
Death Note is a Japanese anime television series based on...
- List of Death Note Characters
The main characters of Death Note.From left to right: Misa...
- Tsugumi Ohba
Tsugumi Ohba (Japanese: 大場 つぐみ, Hepburn: Ōba Tsugumi) is the...
- Death Note 2: The Last Name
Death Note 2: The Last Name (デスノート the Last name, Desu Nōto...
- L: Change The World
L: Change the World (stylized as L: change the WorLd) is a...
- Death Note: Light Up The New World
Death Note: Light Up the New World (デスノート Light up the NEW...
- Mello
Mihael Keehl (Japanese: ミハエル・ケール, Hepburn: Mihaeru Kēru),...
- Light Yagami
Light Yagami (Japanese: 夜神 月 ライト, Hepburn: Yagami Raito) is...
- Manga Murder
A short while later the two notes referring to the Death...
- Death Note: New Generation
Death Note: New Generation (デスノート NEW GENERATION) is a...
- List of Death Note Episodes
Death Note is a Japanese anime television series based on the manga series of the same name written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.It was directed by Tetsurō Araki at Madhouse and originally aired in Japan on Nippon TV every Wednesday (with the exception of December 20, 2006, and January 3, 2007) shortly past midnight, from October 4, 2006, to June 27, 2007.
Death Note is a shounen series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata. It began as a manga serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump in 2003, and it has been adapted into a live-action Japanese film series beginning in 2006, an anime series in 2006, a musical in 2015, a live-action television drama in 2015, an American film in 2017 ...
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Obata said that he encountered difficulty in designing Ryuk. He said that his original idea of Ryuk consisted of Ryuk looking like a "young man similar to Light" with black hair and wings. Obata said that he had the idea of Shinigami looking like "attractive rock stars." Obata felt that if Ryuk appeared more attractive than Light, he would "appear ...
In Death Note
Ryuk is a Shinigamibored with the activities (or lack thereof) of the Shinigami realm, so he decides to obtain a second Death Note and drop it in the human world for someone to find, hoping to relieve his boredom. He succeeds in tricking the Shinigami King out of a second Death Note. He deliberately writes the instructions inside the front cover (in English, which he assumed to be the most popular language in the human realm) so people would understand its purpose. The Death Note is discovere...
In the anime
In the anime adaptation, Light does not ask for Ryuk's help and manages to escape the warehouse thanks to Teru Mikami's suicide distracting everyone else. However his wounds are too severe for him to escape very far, and Ryuk, who is watching him from atop a pole, decides that following Light around during a prison sentence is not worth his time and thus writes Light's name in his Death Note, remarking that he had a lot of fun with him regardless. Unlike in the manga, Light passed away peacef...
In the pilot chapter
In the pilot chapter of Death Note, Ryuk is the master of two Death Notes which he drops into the human world; Taro Kagami picks up the first one, and Ryuk talks to Taro. The other is picked up by Taro's classmate, Miura. The police burn Miura's book, not knowing of the existence of the first book. At the end of the chapter, Ryuk follows an older Taro. Death Note 13: How to Readdescribes the Ryuk of the pilot chapter as "really lazy" and "incompetent".
Tsugumi Ohba, story writer of Death Note, said that Ryuk is his favorite Shinigami and that "If I didn't say Ryuk here, his whole character would be in vain. [laughs] While praising Obata's artwork for the series, Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network singled out Ryuk as the prime example; describing him as "a grotesque hulking beast, the kind of thin...
- Manga series. Main article: Death Note (manga) The manga is the original series of Death Note and the version on which all adaptations are based. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump beginning with the 2004 No.01 issue (first sold December 1, 2003) and ending with the 2006 No.24 issue (first sold May 15, 2006).
- Anime series. Main article: Death Note (anime) The 37-episode anime series closely adapts the entire manga series. It was animated by Madhouse and directed by Tetsurō Araki.
- Japanese live-action film series. Main article: Death Note (film series) The first two films, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, were released in 2006 and are the main adaptation of the original series.
- Musical. Main article: Death Note: The Musical. Death Note: The Musical is a stage musical production composed by Frank Wildhorn, written by Ivan Menchell, with lyrics by Jack Murphy.
Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is an animated television series adaptation of the 2003 manga series Death Note. The series was directed by Tetsurō Araki and animated by Madhouse. The anime series is comprised of 37 episodes of about 20 minutes each. For a list of televised episodes, see List of Episodes. The series was later condensed into two films: Death Note Relight 1: Visions of ...
Death Note (デスノート Desu Nōto?) is a manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a death god named Ryuk. It centers around Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook and the efforts of ...
