Death Note: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Death Note
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery
• Premiere date: 2015-07-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-09-13
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NTV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 48 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 4712

Cast and credited roles

• Masataka Kubota — Light Yagami
• Kento Yamazaki — L
• Mio Yuki — Near / Mello
• Goki Maeda — Tota Matsuda
• Sano Hinako — Misa Amane
• Sato Jiro — Kanzo Mogi
• Kazuaki Hankai — Watari
• Tomohisa Yuge — Shuuichi Aizawa
• Yutaka Matsushige — Soichiro Yagami
• Seki Megumi — Shoko Himura
• Reiko Fujiwara — Sayu Yagami
• Shugo Oshinari — Public Prosecutor Teru Mikami

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-07-05; final listed air date 2015-09-13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Death Note on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.