SYNOPSIS
A shinigami, as a god of death, can kill
any person—provided they see their victim's face and write their
victim's name in a notebook called a Death Note. One day, Ryuk, bored by
the shinigami lifestyle and interested in seeing how a human would use a
Death Note, drops one into the human realm.
High school student and prodigy Light Yagami stumbles upon the Death
Note and—since he deplores the state of the world—tests the deadly
notebook by writing a criminal's name in it. When the criminal dies
immediately following his experiment with the Death Note, Light is
greatly surprised and quickly recognizes how devastating the power that
has fallen into his hands could be.
With this divine capability, Light decides to extinguish all criminals
in order to build a new world where crime does not exist and people
worship him as a god. Police, however, quickly discover that a serial
killer is targeting criminals and, consequently, try to apprehend the
culprit. To do this, the Japanese investigators count on the assistance
of the best detective in the world: a young and eccentric man known only
by the name of L.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Background
Death Note has been
adapted into live action films, TV dramas, video games, light novels and
a musical composed by a Broadway composer. It is licensed in North
America by Viz Media.
Related Anime
Characters & Voice Actors
Staff
Opening Theme
#1: "the WORLD" by Nightmare (eps 1-19)
#2: "What's up, people?!" by Maximum the Hormone (eps 20-37)
Ending Theme
#1: "Alumina" by Nightmare (eps 1-19)
#2: "Zetsubō Billy" by Maximum the Hormone (eps 20-36)
#3: "Coda ~ Death Note" by Yoshihisa Hirano (ep 37)
copy from :
http://myanimelist.net/anime/1535/Death_Note