Both songs appear on their album The World Ruler. Nightmare also perform the first ending theme, 'Alumina' ( アルミナ, Arumina), which reappears as the ending theme in the television film Death Note: Relight: Visions of a God and as an insert in episodes 12 and 19. The first opening theme, titled 'The World', is performed by Nightmare. On April 14, 2008, Death Note premiered in Australia, where it aired on ABC2 on Mondays at 9:30 p.m.įive pieces of theme music are used for the series. In October 2007, Hong Kong began airing the Cantonese version of Death Note at 12:00 a.m. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV's Bionix block on October 26, 2007. EST, starting with episode 1, 'Rebirth', on Adult Swim. On November 9, 2008, Death Note began airing weekly, at 3:30 a.m. Death Note episodes were also added to Adult Swim's streaming video service, Adult Swim Video, on Fridays before airing on television. On October 21, 2007, Death Note premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. In addition to this downloadable release of a subtitled version of the series, Viz also acquired the rights for the home video release of both the subtitled and dubbed version of the series.

Episodes of the series were officially available for download soon after they aired in Japan according to Viz, this was 'significant because it the first time a well known Japanese anime property made legally available to domestic audiences for download to own while the title still on Japanese television.' Viz Media began releasing these episodes via Direct2Drive on May 10, 2007. In 2007, Viz Media licensed the series for a bilingual release in North America.

These specials recap the first and second arcs of the anime respectively, with new scenes added to fill in any plot holes resulted from omitted footage. Although advertised to be the 'complete conclusion', the popularity of the series inspired the release of a second TV special, titled Death Note: Relight 2: L's Successors nearly a year later. This book causes the death of anyone whose name is written in it and is passed on to Light by the Shinigami Ryuk after he becomes bored within the Shinigami world.Ī two-hour 'Director's Cut' compilation television film, titled Death Note: Relight: Visions of a God, aired on NTV a few months after the anime concluded. The plot of the series primarily revolves around high school student Light Yagami, who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook called a Death Note. It was directed by Tetsurō Araki at Madhouse and originally aired in Japan on the Nippon TV (NTV) network every Tuesday, from October 3. Death Note is a 37-episode anime series based on the manga series of the same name written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

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