Brilliant but bored high school student Light Yagami suddenly finds himself holding the power of life and death in hi...

While the world’s criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various nations. He ...

Ryuk, the Shinigami, or god of death, who dropped the Death Note into the human world, warns Light that someone is on...

Light—now known to the world as Kira—tests the Death Note to understand the scope of its powers by killing off six co...

Soichiro Yagami demands to meet with L in person when he finds out that L has secretly brought FBI agents into Japan....

Light meets a woman at the Police Department with an urgent message for the Kira task force. As son of the chief inve...

Light uses the Death Note to try to get rid of the woman who could get him captured, and is shocked when it doesn’t w...

L insists on setting up bugs and cameras in the homes of Chief Yagami and Deputy Director Kitamura—whom Raye Penber w...

The murders continue, and L grows suspicious of Light’s too-perfect behavior and decides to investigate him on his ow...

L's suspicion of Light deepens, compelling him to invite Light into the investigation. But then a phone call alerts t...

As predicted on the tapes sent to Sakura TV, news anchors and commentators who expressed doubt about Kira die one by ...

With a second Kira now on the loose, L asks Light to join the task force and pose as the real Kira in order to catch ...

Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious. But Misa Amane, th...

Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her shinigami Rem get rid of L. But Mis...

Evidence turns up that points to Misa Amane as the second Kira. In an effort to spare her, Rem forces Misa to forfeit...

Misa is in confinement, though her memories of the Death Note have been completely wiped away. When Light is confined...

After fifty days of confinement the killings continue, and Misa and Light are released. But L has devised a plan to e...

Though L is still suspicious, Light and Misa, their memories of being Kira wiped clean, return to headquarters, where...

Matsuda, the task force member assigned to watch Misa, is eager to distinguish himself, and while on a job with Misa,...

L's team discovers that the Yotsuba Group meet in secret to discuss the elimination of individuals who are troublesom...

The Task Force uses Misa as a way to get closer to the Yotsuba corporation. But things get complicated when Rem tries...

Thanks to Misa, the Task Force now knows the identity of the new Kira and L plans an elaborate scheme to smoke him ou...

L, Light and Misa watch from the investigation team building and wonder who he is talking to. L wonders if Higuchi is...

While Higuchi is finally captured, Light inadvertently regains his memories as Kira.

Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everyth...

Light has removed everyone in his way and is closer to achieving his perfect world.

A new investigator steps forward-Near, a central figure in the SPK, an organization that is trying to catch Kira with...

Light, acting as L, reveals to Near that his sister Sayu has been kidnapped by someone wanting to trade her for the D...

Mortified over allowing the Death Note to fall into Mello's hands in order to save his daughter, Soichiro puts himsel...

Mello busts into SPK headquarters to retrieve a photograph of himself to make sure he won't be killed by Kira. In exc...

Near contacts the Japanese task force and determines that Kira is among their members. He asks for insider informatio...

Star newscaster Kiyomi Takada becomes Kira's spokesperson to the world, after Demegawa is deleted by Mikami, and she ...

Near goes to Japan, allegedly as bait for Kira. Following Light's instructions, Takada asks Mikami to send her five p...

Aizawa figures out what's going on and tells Near, who already knows about the notes. Near instructs Aizawa to contin...

Light and Near agree upon a meeting place for the final confrontation. A key player is kidnapped and the end results ...

The Japanese Task Force and the SPK finally meet at YellowBox Warehouse on January 28th. However, a third party has c...

Though Mikami has written all the investigators' names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is still alive...