Season 1 poster

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

Mamoru Miyano as Light Yagami (voice)
Mamoru Miyano

as Light Yagami (voice)

Shido Nakamura as Ryuk (voice)
Shido Nakamura

as Ryuk (voice)

Aya Hirano as Misa Amane (voice)
Aya Hirano

as Misa Amane (voice)

Kappei Yamaguchi as L (voice)
Kappei Yamaguchi

as L (voice)

Kimiko Saito as Rem (voice)
Kimiko Saito

as Rem (voice)

Naoya Uchida as Soichiro Yagami (voice)
Naoya Uchida

as Soichiro Yagami (voice)

Ryou Naitou as Touta Matsuda (voice)
Ryou Naitou

as Touta Matsuda (voice)

Keiji Fujiwara as Shuichi Aizawa (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara

as Shuichi Aizawa (voice)

Kazuya Nakai as Kanzo Mogi (voice)
Kazuya Nakai

as Kanzo Mogi (voice)

Noriko Hidaka as Near (voice)
Noriko Hidaka

as Near (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki as Mello (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki

as Mello (voice)

Episodes

Rebirth poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

Revival 8.6

March 28, 2007

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

Silence poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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. …