The man pulls out a gun and points it to the driver, taking the bus hostage. Light prompts his follower to say something by passing Yuri a note which contains Light's plans to apprehend the busjacker. Light asks Raye to show him proof that he is not the busjacker's accomplice, forcing him to show Light his proof of being an FBI agent, along with his name, Raye Penber. Light drops a note, which prompts the busjacker to pick it up, only for the note to have been a snippet of the Death Note, meaning the busjacker can see Ryuk.
In shock, the busjacker empties his gun and exits the bus, before dying in an accident. Light tells him that it would look too suspicious if he does so immediately after they met. On December 27, , Light goes to an underground section of the Shinjuku Station.
Light figured out that he can write the date and cause of death in the Death Note without a name, and the Death Note will work when the name is added later. While wearing a hood to obscure his identity, Light appears behind Penber unaware that it is Light and tells Penber that he is Kira.
Light threatens Penber by stating that non-compliance would lead to his death, the death of his love, and the deaths of his family. Light asks Penber if he's carrying a laptop, and if he has a file containing the names of all of the FBI agents in Japan.
Penber says that he doesn't have a file like that, and Light hands him an envelope. He tells Penber to hold onto the envelope, take out the transmitter and put the earphones in. Over transmitter, Light leads Penber through a turnstile in the western entrance at PM. Penber enters a train on the Yamanote Line at and takes a seat.
Light asks how many FBI agents there are, and Penber says that he thinks there are four groups, totaling twelve agents. Light says to call an agent that is ranked lower than him and ask for the names and faces of all agents sent to Japan.
Penber uses his cell phone and calls an agent, and then asks him for the name and faces of the agents. Light tells Penber to take the contents out of the folder he gave him, and Penber takes out four envelopes with ten rectangular spaces cut out of the left side of each one.
Light says to write down the names of the agents into the blocks on the folders. At PM, when Raye exits the train, he dies of a heart attack while turning around and seeing Light. Light takes the files home and takes the pages of the Death Note out of their envelopes, revealing the times and causes of death for each agent. Each agent will receive the file and die at a different time. After the sudden death of Raye, Naomi Misora decides to take part in the Kira case herself.
Having been told by Raye that he showed his FBI badge to someone during a bus-jacking, Naomi deduces that Kira must have been on the bus. Light uses his father's status to his advantage, telling Naomi that he is Chief Yagami's son, which allows him to slowly win her trust. Cautious at first, she uses the false name Shoko Maki in order to protect herself until she can reach L.
After he realizes that this was an alias from the way Ryuk laughed, Light finally gets Naomi to reveal her name by saying that he is a member of the Task Force and is actually working with L. Light says that he will need to see a form of identification before she can join, and Naomi shows him her driver's license. Using a piece of the Death Note, Light writes down Naomi's name, resulting in her death by suicide. Her body is never found due to the specifications made by Light in the Death Note.
As Light arrives home, he finds the doorknob of his bedroom which is usually lowered by a few millimeters is strangely at the very top, plus the pencil lead placed on his door hinge is broken. Not only that, but his bluff, a piece of paper, was strangely put back in his door. This has Light believing that L has installed surveillance cameras and wiretaps within his room. Light then bribes Ryuk with apples, asking him to find where the surveillance cameras are.
Light reveals he has hidden scandalous magazines and proceeds to browse through them in order to give off the impression to L that he is a normal teenager, and that the magazines were what he was hiding all along. When Light is about to study for his upcoming entrance exams, he has placed a snippet of the notebook and a mini-LCD TV within a potato chip bag which contains a flavor which only he out of the rest of his family prefers.
While studying, whenever Light places his hand in the potato chip bag, he actually checks for criminals' names using the mini-TV then writes down their names. The main idea is that L would see that criminals have died which Light could not have possibly see, being busy in his room, studying.
With this trick, Light manages to kill two petty criminals. For the next few days, Light proceeds to kill more criminals, petty or not, in order to cover up the fact that petty criminals have died solely while he was studying. Eventually, the surveillance cameras get removed and Light plans on finding L through his father. Light performs his entrance exams, when he notices a student sitting strangely on his seat. He passes the exams, scoring perfectly, and is able to become a student of To-Oh University.
Alongside another student who scored perfectly, who was the student sitting oddly earlier, he gives a speech. Noticing the strange behavior of this student, who named himself after the famous pop idol, Hideki Ryuga , Light feels annoyed at his constant chattering that concerns Light's character. Light is shocked by this and is attempting to stay calm around this supposed new friend he's made.
When Light arrives home, he throws a tantrum, and explains L's strategy, that should Light write down L's name using the alias even with the off-chance that it's real, the real Hideki Ryuga will die since Light will have subconsciously pictured Ryuga's face , and suspicion will be pointed towards him. Not only that, but even if Light finds out L's real name, this L could very well be a proxy and suspicion from the hypothetical real L will be pointed towards Light again, as the timing will still be too convenient.
Light accepts this challenge from L, getting excited over this upcoming battle of wits. L asks Light to play tennis with him, and they do so, nearly evenly matched. During the tennis game, both of them ponder strategies.
Light comes to the conclusion that L asked him to play tennis in order to lay the groundwork for future meetings which will essentially be tests; Light also plans on confirming that Ryuga is L with confirmation from the Task Force.
After Light wins the intense tennis match, L reveals that he is suspicious of Light being Kira, with Light still being forced to put up the act and pretends to be shocked. Light comes to the conclusion that, with this act, L is attempting to prevent Light from meeting with the Task Force. They hang out together at a cafe afterward. At the cafe, L tests Light multiple times, with Light managing to evade L's psychological traps.
L asks Light to help the Kira investigation; if Light is Kira, then L will be closer to him and there is more room for Light slipping up, and if he isn't Kira, then his great intellectual ability will be of use to the investigation.
Light takes advantage of this by demanding that he meet the Task Force members to confirm L's identity in order for him to begin helping the investigation. Much to Light's surprise, L accepts. Soichiro collapses due to stress, and both Light and L visit him at the hospital.
There, through Soichiro, Light manages to confirm that the L who appeared before him is, in fact, the real L. On April 22, in anime , in a broadcast on Sakura TV, "Kira" sends tapes stating that if criminal reports stop, Kira will kill police officers and reporters, and then demands that the life of someone in charge of the Kira investigation be handed over—the Director's or L's.
Light watches this broadcast, amused at the fact that someone else possesses a Death Note, likely with the Shinigami Eyes. Light figures this person is dangerous as they could tarnish Kira's reputation and their capture would be detrimental for Light, so Light figures he needs to join the Task Force in order to keep an eye on L as well as this fake Kira.
A few days later, L asks Light to join the Task Force. Light arrives at the hotel and appears surprised at the small size of the Task Force, and L tells Light that there are a few outsiders who know what happens within the investigation and only one can contact L directly.
Light thinks to himself that if everyone in the Task Force dies but one, the killer is revealed, so he must find out who the outsider with the information is. Light is told to look over the papers of the investigation and then watch the tape without taking notes or removing anything.
After watching the tapes, Light says that there may be someone else with Kira's abilities, citing the difference in criminals killed, as well as the fact that some were killed immediately after revealing their faces. Light realizes that L would have told him his plan regardless of what he told L and that he set things up so that if Light didn't say there was another Kira, he would look suspicious, and if he did, he would help strengthen L's theory to the Task Force.
L asks Light to help their case by pretending to be Kira and tells Light that only he is able to play this role, starting with writing a draft for the speech as Kira. Later, the tape is created and sent to various TV stations. The Second Kira responds with videos which contain indirect, and some rather direct, comments about Death Notes, Shinigami, and how they can meet.
Light goes to Aoyama to find the Second Kira, but is unable to meet this Kira. However, due to having Shinigami Eyes, the Second Kira is able to identify Light as Kira because of her being unable to see Light's lifespan.
After finding out his address, the Second Kira arrives at Light's house, and Light invites Misa to his room and asks her to explain her actions. Misa says that she wanted to meet Kira because her parents were murdered in front of her, and Kira killed the man who did it. Misa asks to be his girlfriend, admitting that she wouldn't even mind if he simply uses her.
Light agrees, intending to kill her after she outlives her usefulness. However, Misa's Shinigami, Rem , promises to kill him if he ever harms Misa. Light finds Rem to be a massive threat, as having limited control over Misa would result in her doing something reckless, not to mention Misa's capture could result in Rem killing Light. Light has to now keep a gaggle of girlfriends so that his newfound relationship with Misa won't stand out, as L had already deduced that Kira and the second Kira have allied.
Misa goes directly against Light orders and, instead of meeting two weeks after their first meeting as Light requested, Misa meets up with Light only two days following their first meeting. Light uses this opportunity to convince Rem to help him kill L, promising her that it's for Misa's happiness. Rem agrees to do so, and Light said that she must follow his command only when he tells her to. At campus, Light surprisingly meets up with L again, where L steals Misa's phone after taking advantage of a crowd.
This is dangerous for Light, as Misa being the second Kira would point towards Light being the original Kira. Light, now cornered by L, puts his master plan into action. Rem had already relinquished ownership of Misa's notebook to Light, wiping her memories and preventing her from confessing. Light then swaps the notebooks with their respective Shinigami, with Ryuk being attached to the notebook originally owned by Misa and Rem attached to Light's.
Light places two fake rules in the notebook Rem is attached to, one being that when the notebook is destroyed, anyone who has touched the notebook will die, and, most importantly, whoever doesn't write names within the notebook within 13 consecutive days dies.
Light instructs Rem to allow Kyosuke Higuchi to become the new owner of the Death Note she is attached to, then asks L to detain him. During his confinement, no criminals die, which strengthens the case for Light being Kira. Within seven days of confinement, Light gives up his ownership of his notebook, and consequently has all of his memories of being Kira wiped and altered.
During his fifteenth day of confinement, criminals begin dropping dead again, and on his 50th day, the Task Force has L release Light and Misa. Soichiro then fakes an execution by shooting Light and Misa with a blank gun, which convinces L to release Light and Misa from their confinement as Misa would have killed Soichiro in this situation.
Light accepts L's offer to join the investigation team to hunt down Higuchi, who has taken up the mantle of Kira. During the investigation of Yotsuba, Light works under the alias "Light Asahi". L handcuffs him and Light together, displeasing Misa and Light.
L suggests manipulating Misa in order to get information from her, but Light refuses, as he dares not to ever take advantage of someone's feelings. While Misa is resting in her hotel room, L acts lethargic about how catching Kira will be difficult, prompting Light to fight him.
Months later, while L is sulking and not working on the case, Light finds a correlation between the killings and the growth of Yotsuba , having the investigation believe that Kira is either within Yotsuba or working behind Yotsuba, and also leads them to the conclusion that Kira can kill through means other than heart attacks. Keeping watch of the meetings held by the head of the Yotsuba members, Light objects to L letting the killings continue, and poses as L and decides to call Reiji Namikawa , who agreed to help L and postpone the killings.
Misa eventually finds evidence pointing towards Kyosuke Higuchi being Kira. While L and the investigation team enacts the plan to take down Higuchi, Light keeps watch of the situation and follows L, eventually to the point where he is riding on a helicopter with L, and witnesses Higuchi's arrest. In order to claim ownership of the Death Note he is currently holding, Light kills Higuchi using a snippet of the notebook within his watch.
L and the Task Force then find the day rule, successfully clearing Light and Misa of being suspected, while L is still skeptical. Light instructs Misa to find her buried Death Note, which results in her regaining her memories. Light instructs Misa to kill L if she remembers his real name from when they were on campus, but Misa doesn't remember and so makes the Shinigami Eye deal again, which is what Light wanted in case Misa forgot L's name, as taking the Eye deal and halving her lifespan would pressure Rem.
Light then instructs Misa to begin killing criminals again so that L would suspect Misa is behind the killings. This is in order to put Rem in a situation where she'd be forced to kill L in order to save Misa. Rem does indeed kill L and Watari , which results in her death, just as Light planned. After winning the battle with L and taking his persona, Light gains control of the Kira investigation team.
This puts him on the safest ground as his role as a second generation L, covering his identity as Kira. Perhaps the only problem with the show is that the characters are a little too lovable, no matter how bad they are.
As an example, one of my favorite characters who makes his entrance later in the series is the teenage mafia leader with anger issues, who kidnaps at least three people and probably kills much more than that. I recommend it for any teen or highly mature tween.
Helped me decide 2. Teen, 16 years old Written by moviemogul 2. April 9, But I also cringe at the idea of people turning the show into a mob mentality, mainstream sort of thing like with what happened with Bleach and Naruto.
I honestly can't say that I'll probably watch the televised version, since the manga first came out four years ago in , so the books first storyline is long over, and even the Japanese television show has been over for some time now whether or not Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata will choose to make more I have no idea yet. But given the standards of American TV, and the fact that this show will probably be on Adult Swim, I expect that the show won't be too bad in terms of content.
In the original show, there were f-bombs, bloody deaths, and some mild sexuality which will probably still remain given that Misa is such a big character in the show. But what I expect WON'T be edited out, would be some of the more mild cussing, the tame deaths like the heart attacks and getting run over by cars, and probably the scenes when Mello blows up his base to try to kill the Tokyo police force will still remain. That, and the main concern of the manga and show is just the premise itself, and the overall very dark tone of it all.
The main character Light also Kira finds a Death Note in the first episode, and discovers that by writing in a person's name while visualizing their face, that person will die from a heart attack unless otherwise specified.
Light learns more and more as the series progresses just how much he can control the person before they die, as well as their cause of death and who they can affect in the process. It is literally brilliant, all the different situations Light uses, especially when he enters a cat and mouse type of psychological battle with the renowned detective L who he actually comes to work with, though both of them suspect the other of being Kira and L.
And L, being that he never shows his face at first and never reveals his real name, is safe from Kira's Death Note. The ensuing psychological battle and chases that follow are the most intriguing, gripping, and need I say it again brilliant scenes in television and manga I have ever witnessed.
And despite the premise of the show, there is relatively little violence: the deaths are usually shown, but most of them are far from graphic except a few, but those as I said will probably be edited from American broadcast , and up until the climax with Mello, there are literally almost no weapons or physical violence between two people.
So honestly, the reason I can't stop writing about this show is because it is truly that much better than everything else being offered. I was elated when I found the manga in , and hopefully it'll retain its exact format for the American show so that others can see how much they were missing out.
If ever you thought anime was for kids, nerds, or was just a dumed down version of entertainment-- watch Death Note. It will blow you away if you stick with it each episode I seriously cannot emphasize how great and air-tight the writing is-- the authors leave absolutely no plot holes and every action by the finely nuanced characters are brilliant very few people will not be in awe of the events that play out.
And for those interested, two live-action movies have been made out of the series, the first chronicling the first third of the series, and the second following the other two-thirds. There's also a prequel in the works for L's origins and how he grew up to become such a brilliant and stoic person. The films are pretty good, but they move along too quickly which ruins the carefully mounted pace of the show and some scenes can be a bit cheesy for American viewers.
I can't really say anything more, given that I've already repeated myself so many times. I just hope you take the time to watch a few episodes-- it seriously tops everything else out there if you invest in the evolving plot. Had useful details 2.
Kid, 12 years old December 27, It's really good though, just make sure you're not easily frightened by creatures, dark messages, and violence. There's a tiny bit of swearing, but nothing that someone over 9 would never hear.
The main thing is killing. The entire series revolves around a killer, who thinks he's doing good by killing criminals, but ends up killing MANY MANY innocent people in the process. The main character becomes a psychopath by the fourth episode. There's not too much blood, but occasionally there will be scenes with blood. Helped me decide 1.
Had useful details 1. Read my mind 4. Kid, 11 years old January 6, Yeah if you're mature I'm 12 and I watched death note, I loved it. But you should only watch this if you're mature and aren't easily frightened cause trust me, death note gets dark quick. Also the ending is very sad, so if you're ready for that then go ahead but you will be scarred. Had useful details. Read my mind. Kid, 12 years old October 31, Most Epic Anime Mature 12 year olds and maybe even 10 year olds could watch this, but they have to have developed morals and not be an idiot fan girl.
This series was intended for complex minds, not idiots. This series is a good message, by showing you the dangers of relying on a human and putting humans in the place of God.
It was the greatest and my favorite anime. The violence isn't too bad, but the ending episode may be to dark for kids.
Helped me decide. Teen, 14 years old Written by Crisp74 July 28, PLEASE Make sure your child has a strong mentality and tolerance for violence I remember watching this show with my 9 year old brother and thinking to myself if it might be too much for him. I have a considerably stronger mental fortitude and tolerance for violence than most other kids my age, however this show really challenges your sense of justice and can lead you to confusion about even some things about yourself.
It puts up with what is morally right and morally wrong. For example, in the begging of the show the protagonist finds the death note and tries to become a vigilante by killing off criminals using heart attacks. He is ridding the world of criminals, but at the same time killing without remorse or any regard for human life. Language is mild with words like "hell" or "damn" but cursing isn't a big problem here.
Violence is frequent but it truly is just a matter of maturity. You can be 45 years old and look away at the slightest bit of violence or confrontation. If your child has night terrors or is easily spooked, please, just keep this show away from them, as a supporting character is a demon who looks a bit unsettling at times and can talk without a voice you will understand once you watch the show he also plays around with life as if its a game the entire show started because a demon was bored.
You see the main character a perfectly sane high school boy turn into a dark and twisted anti hero who does everything for himself. As he ends up becoming the thing he feared the most, which can be hard to watch because it puts out a sad vibe, but overall the message I am trying to give is that, parents if your child can handle psychological type of things and knows the difference between right and wrong, let them give it a try as it really is a fantastic show and is a must for ALL anime watchers.
This title contains: Positive role models. Teen, 13 years old Written by thing June 3, Crime Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. The basic concept of the book is that good and evil are not absolute, but rather social constructions and thus have different meanings varying from society to society. When the window is enlarged, it is switched back to Raye Iwamatsu. Quotes Ryuuk : You know, Light User reviews Review. Top review. Excellent Film. Despite what some may say, this is as great as adaptation of the manga as one could ask for.
The actors portray their characters perfectly. The calm menace of Light is portrayed perfectly, with a clear distinction between Light and "Kira" Light, which is impressive considering anime would allow stronger visual cues.
L is an honest to god incarnation of his manga and anime counter part down to the smallest detail. Ryuk is also impressive, the CGI effects do him justice and his voice is much better then the one for the subbed anime which was horrendous.
Now obviously the plot needed to be condensed and changed but they did very well. All the important parts are there and the ending, which strays far from the manga, is actually even better then what actually happened in that instance in the story. It wasn't conveyed the complex story involving a genius highschool student who's use of a notebook that kills people that get's him involved in a proverbial chess match with the detective L, but they did a fine job.
Misa, despite her short screen time, acted the part of Misa perfectly, down to the voice. Fans of the manga should enjoy as long as they don't expect an exact replica of the manga, and fans of thrillers should enjoy this as well. Ore-Sama Mar 25, FAQ 1.
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