Death Note

It is a Japanese manga series by Tsugami Ohba & illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The anime TV series was released in 2006.

It follows Light Yagami, a genius high school student who discovers a mysterious notebook: the ‘Death Note’, which belongs to the shinigami Ryuk. It grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in it’s pages.

The series follows Light ‘s subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral & to create a crime -free society. He uses the alias of a Godlike vigilante named ‘Kira’. Also the efforts of an elite Japanese police task force, led by enigmatic detective L, to apprehend him.

On Rotten Tomatoes it holds approval of 100 %. With an average of 8.5 /10. It won the Best TV Anime at the 2007 Tokyo International Anime fair.

Three films were made by Digital Frontier & distributed by Warner Bros. The first film ‘Death Note’ premiered in Japan on June 17, 2006& topped the Japanese box office for two weeks, pushing ‘The Da Vinci Code’ into second place.

‘Death Note’ in 2015 TV series is an honest adaptation. Only viewers have to adapt to the high schooler with the book. Masataka Kubota doing a good job. With Mio Yuki, Hinako Sano, Goki Maeda, Yutaka Matsushige & others. But above all is the shining, enigmatic , all in whites Kento Yamazaki as ‘L’!

‘Death Note’ the film in 2017 shows a high schooler Light Turner. He stumbles across the book & encounters a supernatural creature. The film is fast paced & gory. He also has a girlfriend who shares his secret. It stars Nat Wolff, La Keith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley. Shea Whigham with others. Directed by Adam Wingard.

The theme being the same , the treatment is so different! Perception of an animator, to the actors in Japanese setting to the Netflix original directed by Adam Wingard. From the animation to the TV series the shinigami is perfect! ( Let me share a secret, I absolutely did not like the first frame but as the story progressed, there was no escape! )

It was banned in China. Elsewhere also there were a few instances, but it’s popularity remains the same.

I watched all three for comparison. ‘Evil never wins’. We are not Gods. Good things come out of it. So, good.