![]() ![]() Obviously they didn’t actually work, but it was a “psychological health” thing.) I can see why it appealed to young people, too - what youth hasn’t wished certain annoying people would just drop dead? (Some places banned the manga because its popularity was leading to kids making their own Death Note books, writing in names of classmates and teachers. It’s a good setup for a story, a premise that invites moral conundrums and “what would you do?” questions. Also on the case is a reclusive genius detective known only as ‘L’ (Kenichi Matsuyama), who quickly suspects Light of being Kira, initiating a game of cat and mouse between the pair. While much of the public agree with his actions, the police are stumped in their investigations. Light begins to use it to execute criminals who’ve escaped justice, a pattern of killings that is quickly noticed by the police and the media, who dub the mysterious murderer “Kira”. Whenever a name is written in the Death Note, that person drops dead. ![]() In case the whole thing passed you by, it’s the story of student Light Yagami ( Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) who discovers a supernatural notebook, the titular Death Note, that was dropped by death-god Ryuk (voiced by Shidou Nakamura). Something of a worldwide phenomenon in the ’00s, Death Note started life as a manga and is perhaps best known for its anime adaptation, but it was also adapted into a series of live-action films, the first of which actually predates the anime. ![]()
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