Death Note Series Overview

• The manga series Death Note follows the story of Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a mysterious notebook that allows him to kill anyone whose name is written in it.

• The series centers around Light's efforts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals he deems immoral, and to create a crime-free society.

• An anime television series adaptation, produced by Madhouse and directed by Tetsurō Araki, was broadcast on Nippon Television from October 2006 to June 2007.

• A light novel based on the series, written by Nisio Isin, was also released in 2006.

• Various video games have been published by Konami for the Nintendo DS.

• The series was adapted into three live action films released in Japan in June 2006, November 2006, and February 2008, and a television drama in 2015.

• A miniseries titled Death Note: New Generation and a fourth film were released in 2016.

• An American film adaptation was released exclusively on Netflix in August 2017.

• As of April 2015, the manga had over 30 million copies in circulation.

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