27 Facts About Death Note

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Death Note is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

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The story follows Light Yagami, a teen genius who discovers a mysterious notebook: the "Death Note", which belonged to the shinigami Ryuk, and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages.

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The series centers around Light's subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral and to create a crime-free society, using the alias of a god-like vigilante named "Kira", and the subsequent efforts of an elite Japanese police task force, led by enigmatic detective L, to apprehend him.

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Death Note ran in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006.

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Light arranges a scheme in which he and Misa temporarily lose their memories of the Death Note, and has Rem pass the Death Note to a less morally driven individual, Kyosuke Higuchi of the Yotsuba Group.

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Death Note appoints newscaster Kiyomi Takada as Kira's public spokesperson.

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Death Note concept derived from a rather general concept involving Shinigami and "specific rules".

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The writer wanted an ongoing plot line instead of an episodic series because Death Note was serialized and its focus was intended to be on a cast with a series of events triggered by the Death Note.

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Death Note said that Near's climactic speech about good and evil was rooted in his own beliefs.

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Death Note process began when Ohba brought thumbnails for two concept ideas to Shueisha; Ohba said that the Death Note pilot, one of the concepts, was "received well" by editors and attained positive reactions by readers.

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Death Note added that the story had to revive the killed characters with the Death Eraser and that he "didn't really care" for that plot device.

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Death Note said he wondered about the progression of the plot as he read the thumbnails, and if Jump readers would enjoy reading the comic.

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Death Note stated that he drew the pilot chapter so that it would appeal to himself.

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Death Note concluded that Light's presence was "the most compelling" aspect; therefore the adaptation chronicles Light's "thoughts and actions as much as possible".

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Death Note is written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

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16.

Sound of Death Note is a soundtrack featuring music from the first Death Note film composed and arranged by Kenji Kawai.

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17.

Death Note Tribute is a tribute album dedicated to the live action film Death Note.

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18.

Death Note was adapted into a series of live action films in 2006.

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19.

Several characters from Death Note appear in Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars, a fighting game featuring multiple characters from Shonen Jump titles.

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20.

On ICv2's "Top 10 Shonen Properties Q2 2009", Death Note was the third best-selling manga property in North America.

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21.

In 2007, the first three volumes of Death Note were on the American Library Association's 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten list.

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Death Note noted that the difference between the series and other manga from the same demographic was very big due to the murders the main character commits as well as how he hides his identity of Kira.

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Death Note felt that while the series' second half was not as good, with Light seeming less intelligent and once vital characters fading into the background, the ending brings back what the fans loved about the first volume and the supporting cast are "given a chance to shine".

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24.

Pepirium, saying that translating Death Note is "no small task", stated that Stephen Hedley created an English dub with "nothing clunky".

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Death Note added that Karl Willems, director of the dub, assembled a "stunning voice cast of professionals" with a "solid tone minus some of the cheesy yelling and screaming of other dubs".

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26.

Sparrow said that fans of Death Note who read Another Note will "find a welcome home" in Nisio Isin's work which "adds a few more fun layers" to the Death Note franchise.

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In Gadsden, Alabama in April 2008, two sixth-grade boys were arrested for possession of a "Death Note" that listed names of several staff members and fellow students.

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