Season 1
(2006)
Overview
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.
Cast
as Light Yagami (voice)
as Ryuk (voice)
as Misa Amane (voice)
as L (voice)
as Rem (voice)
as Soichiro Yagami (voice)
as Touta Matsuda (voice)
as Shuichi Aizawa (voice)
as Kanzo Mogi (voice)
as Near (voice)
as Mello (voice)
Episodes
Rebirth 8.1
October 4, 2006
Brilliant but bored high school student Light Yagami suddenly finds himself holding the power of life and death in his …
Confrontation 8.3
October 11, 2006
While the world’s criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various nations. He re…
Dealings 8.0
October 18, 2006
Ryuk, the Shinigami, or god of death, who dropped the Death Note into the human world, warns Light that someone is on h…
Pursuit 8.2
October 25, 2006
Light—now known to the world as Kira—tests the Death Note to understand the scope of its powers by killing off six conv…
Tactics 8.0
November 1, 2006
Soichiro Yagami demands to meet with L in person when he finds out that L has secretly brought FBI agents into Japan. L…
Unraveling 8.0
November 8, 2006
Light meets a woman at the Police Department with an urgent message for the Kira task force. As son of the chief invest…
Overcast 8.6
November 15, 2006
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 wor…
Glare 8.1
November 22, 2006
L insists on setting up bugs and cameras in the homes of Chief Yagami and Deputy Director Kitamura—whom Raye Penber was…
Encounter 8.1
November 29, 2006
The murders continue, and L grows suspicious of Light’s too-perfect behavior and decides to investigate him on his own.…
Doubt 7.8
December 6, 2006
L's suspicion of Light deepens, compelling him to invite Light into the investigation. But then a phone call alerts the…
Assault 8.1
December 13, 2006
As predicted on the tapes sent to Sakura TV, news anchors and commentators who expressed doubt about Kira die one by on…
Love 7.9
December 27, 2006
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 th…
Confession 7.8
January 10, 2007
Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious. But Misa Amane, the …
Friend 7.9
January 17, 2007
Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her shinigami Rem get rid of L. But Misa …
Wager 8.1
January 24, 2007
Evidence turns up that points to Misa Amane as the second Kira. In an effort to spare her, Rem forces Misa to forfeit h…
Decision 7.8
January 31, 2007
Misa is in confinement, though her memories of the Death Note have been completely wiped away. When Light is confined a…
Execution 7.7
February 7, 2007
After fifty days of confinement the killings continue, and Misa and Light are released. But L has devised a plan to ens…
Ally 7.0
February 14, 2007
Though L is still suspicious, Light and Misa, their memories of being Kira wiped clean, return to headquarters, where L…
Matsuda 7.3
February 21, 2007
Matsuda, the task force member assigned to watch Misa, is eager to distinguish himself, and while on a job with Misa, h…
Makeshift 7.5
February 28, 2007
L's team discovers that the Yotsuba Group meet in secret to discuss the elimination of individuals who are troublesome …
Performance 7.6
March 7, 2007
The Task Force uses Misa as a way to get closer to the Yotsuba corporation. But things get complicated when Rem tries t…
Guidance 8.1
March 14, 2007
Thanks to Misa, the Task Force now knows the identity of the new Kira and L plans an elaborate scheme to smoke him out …
Frenzy 8.2
March 21, 2007
L, Light and Misa watch from the investigation team building and wonder who he is talking to. L wonders if Higuchi is t…
Revival 8.6
March 28, 2007
While Higuchi is finally captured, Light inadvertently regains his memories as Kira.
Silence 9.0
April 4, 2007
Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everythin…
Renewal 7.1
April 11, 2007
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 …
Abduction 7.4
April 18, 2007
A new investigator steps forward-Near, a central figure in the SPK, an organization that is trying to catch Kira withou…
Impatience 7.2
April 25, 2007
Light, acting as L, reveals to Near that his sister Sayu has been kidnapped by someone wanting to trade her for the Dea…
Father 7.6
May 2, 2007
Mortified over allowing the Death Note to fall into Mello's hands in order to save his daughter, Soichiro puts himself …
Justice 7.7
May 9, 2007
Mello busts into SPK headquarters to retrieve a photograph of himself to make sure he won't be killed by Kira. In excha…
Transfer 7.6
May 16, 2007
Near contacts the Japanese task force and determines that Kira is among their members. He asks for insider information,…
Selection 7.7
May 23, 2007
Star newscaster Kiyomi Takada becomes Kira's spokesperson to the world, after Demegawa is deleted by Mikami, and she ju…
Scorn 7.0
May 30, 2007
Near goes to Japan, allegedly as bait for Kira. Following Light's instructions, Takada asks Mikami to send her five pag…
Vigilance 7.2
June 6, 2007
Aizawa figures out what's going on and tells Near, who already knows about the notes. Near instructs Aizawa to continue…
Malice 7.6
June 13, 2007
Light and Near agree upon a meeting place for the final confrontation. A key player is kidnapped and the end results ar…
1.28 8.2
June 20, 2007
The Japanese Task Force and the SPK finally meet at YellowBox Warehouse on January 28th. However, a third party has com…
New World 8.2
June 27, 2007
Though Mikami has written all the investigators' names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is still alive. …