Death Note - Season 1

An intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.

37 Episodes

Rebirth

Season 1 - Episode 1

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

Confrontation

Season 1 - Episode 2

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

Dealings

Season 1 - Episode 3

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

Pursuit

Season 1 - Episode 4

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

Tactics

Season 1 - Episode 5

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

Unraveling

Season 1 - Episode 6

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

Overcast

Season 1 - Episode 7

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 work. Realizing she must...

Glare

Season 1 - Episode 8

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

Encounter

Season 1 - Episode 9

The murders continue, and L grows suspicious of Light’s too-perfect behavior and decides to investigate him on his own. In order to get clos...

Doubt

Season 1 - Episode 10

L's suspicion of Light deepens, compelling him to invite Light into the investigation. But then a phone call alerts them that Soichiro Yagam...

Assault

Season 1 - Episode 11

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

Love

Season 1 - Episode 12

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 the copycat. Light agre...

Confession

Season 1 - Episode 13

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

Friend

Season 1 - Episode 14

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

Wager

Season 1 - Episode 15

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

Decision

Season 1 - Episode 16

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

Execution

Season 1 - Episode 17

After fifty days of confinement the killings continue, and Misa and Light are released. But L has devised a plan to ensure no more murders o...

Ally

Season 1 - Episode 18

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

Matsuda

Season 1 - Episode 19

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

Makeshift

Season 1 - Episode 20

L's team discovers that the Yotsuba Group meet in secret to discuss the elimination of individuals who are troublesome to their company, and...

Performance

Season 1 - Episode 21

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

Guidance

Season 1 - Episode 22

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

Frenzy

Season 1 - Episode 23

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

Revival

Season 1 - Episode 24

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

Silence

Season 1 - Episode 25

Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everything is going according ...

Renewal

Season 1 - Episode 26

After L's death, the world needs a new great detective. Is Wammy's house, where L comes from, able to find a new super detective who can com...

Abduction

Season 1 - Episode 27

A new investigator steps forward-Near, a central figure in the SPK, an organization that is trying to catch Kira without relying on L. Near ...

Impatience

Season 1 - Episode 28

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

Father

Season 1 - Episode 29

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

Justice

Season 1 - Episode 30

Mello busts into SPK headquarters to retrieve a photograph of himself to make sure he won't be killed by Kira. In exchange for Near giving h...

Transfer

Season 1 - Episode 31

Near contacts the Japanese task force and determines that Kira is among their members. He asks for insider information, and Aizawa, beginnin...

Selection

Season 1 - Episode 32

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

Scorn

Season 1 - Episode 33

Near goes to Japan, allegedly as bait for Kira. Following Light's instructions, Takada asks Mikami to send her five pages of the Death Note....

Vigilance

Season 1 - Episode 34

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

Malice

Season 1 - Episode 35

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

1.28

Season 1 - Episode 36

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

New World

Season 1 - Episode 37

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