Episodes

The opening chapter of the live-action miniseries Death Note: New Generation revives the old terror nearly a decade later. A meticulous task force recruit grows obsessed with the long-dead first Kira, just as a fresh hand opens a notebook and the heart attacks begin again.

The opening episode of the Death Note anime introduces a brilliant, disillusioned student who discovers a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written inside. As Light Yagami tests its lethal power and resolves to purge the world of criminals, the death god who dropped it descends to watch his experiment unfold.

Death Note's second anime episode. Light refines his methods while Interpol turns to the enigmatic detective L, whose televised gambit using a condemned stand-in goads Light into a fatal mistake and sets the two minds against each other.

The second installment of the live-action miniseries Death Note: New Generation follows Ryuzaki, a young successor to the legendary detective, as a string of notebook-driven deaths pulls him into a fresh hunt. A cryptic online video and a taunting stranger reveal that more than one killer now walks free.

Death Note's third anime episode. As investigators close in on the idea that Kira is a student, Light exploits his father's police access, while Ryuk dangles a tempting bargain: the eyes of a death god in trade for half a human life.

The final chapter of the live-action miniseries Death Note: New Generation reveals the wound that made Yuki Shien a zealot. A childhood massacre and a faith born from Kira's judgment drive the young hacker to wield a fallen notebook against the killers the courts set free.

The fourth chapter of the Death Note anime sends Light Yagami onto a public bus with a hidden agenda: to learn the name of the man trailing him. A jittery armed criminal who handles a torn notebook page suddenly glimpses a death god, and his terrified flight ends in the road, clearing the path Light needs.

Death Note's fifth animated episode. Light lures Raye Penber into writing down his fellow FBI agents before killing him, the Bureau pulls out as distrust of L spreads, and the shrunken investigation team finally meets the detective in person at his hotel.

Death Note's sixth animated episode. L finally meets the pared-down police team face to face, dazzling and unnerving them with his read on Kira, while Light, drawn into helping Penber's fiancee, realizes she may be the one who can expose him.

The seventh anime chapter traps a former FBI investigator in a quiet game of names. Working against the clock, Light coaxes the alias-shielded Naomi Misora into surrendering her true identity, sealing her fate with the notebook moments before a colleague unknowingly passes them by.

The eighth chapter of the anime tightens the net around the Yagami home. Investigators reconstruct an agent's final minutes aboard a Tokyo train, while their prime suspect sweeps his bedroom for dozens of hidden lenses and bluffs past a televised trap. A discarded snack conceals his deadliest tool.

Death Note's ninth anime episode. With surveillance lifted, Light sits his university entrance exam only to find a strange student watching him, and the freshman ceremony delivers a shock: the top scorer beside him introduces himself, face to face, as L.

Episode ten of the Death Note animation. To read his suspect, L draws Light into a tennis duel and a coffee-shop riddle, Light answers with a bold bid for month-long confinement, and a TV station takes delivery of menacing tapes from a voice posing as Kira.

Death Note's eleventh anime episode. A scrambled broadcast on Sakura TV kills news personalities live on air to prove Kira's reach, costing the Task Force one of its own, while a second wielder of the notebook steps from the shadows.

The twelfth anime chapter brings the second Kira into the open through a televised exchange of messages. Light scripts a trap, an infatuated model answers it, and the tragic origin of her notebook unfolds: a shinigami who chose to love a human enough to die for her.

Death Note's thirteenth anime episode. The second Kira's diary sets up a rendezvous, but Misa already knows Light's true name through her Shinigami Eyes and walks straight to his doorstep, offering her notebook and her devotion in exchange for his affection.

Death Note's fourteenth anime episode. Light secures Misa's loyalty only to find himself bound to protect her by Rem's threat, while L names Light his first friend even as he quietly sets a tail on his suspect.

Midway through the first arc, the fifteenth episode tightens the noose as L gambles his own safety to flush out Light. Misa's capture, the cruel terms of her confinement, and Rem's desperate solution drive the hour, which ends with Light coldly choosing to surrender Misa's memories.

Death Note's sixteenth anime episode. Light surrenders one notebook while secretly clinging to his memories, then volunteers for confinement to clear himself, gambling that the killings he can no longer commit will resume on their own.

Death Note's seventeenth anime episode. A staged drive to the execution grounds becomes L's final test of his two suspects, clearing their names, while a businessman backed by Rem quietly carries on the Kira killings for Yotsuba's gain.

The eighteenth chapter of the Death Note anime. A demoralized L proposes that Kira's killing ability hops from host to host, the team turns its attention to Yotsuba's suspiciously thriving stock, and the investigation splinters as members weigh their police badges against the hunt.

The nineteenth anime chapter hands the spotlight to its most underestimated detective. Stung by feeling useless, Matsuda slips alone into Yotsuba's tower, stumbles straight into the killers' boardroom, and survives only through a staged plunge from a high balcony engineered by his own teammates.

The twentieth anime chapter turns surveillance into leverage as the investigators eavesdrop on Yotsuba's lethal boardroom. Light impersonates L to stall a wave of killings, L dangles his own succession as a trap, and Misa is recruited to slip inside the company that bends Kira to its profits.

The twenty-first anime chapter slides Misa into the lion's den. A staged job interview masks the team's hunt for the Yotsuba killer, Rem stirs her buried memories just enough to act, and Higuchi exposes himself as Kira during a reckless drive that the model secretly records.

The twenty-second anime chapter sets L's snare for the Yotsuba killer. With cameras barred from a fortress-like estate, the detective stages a televised bluff designed to panic Higuchi into a fatal move, while a boardroom of executives quietly agrees on who among them deserves to be sacrificed.

The twenty-third episode of the Death Note anime. Higuchi takes the death god's eyes and kills openly, exposing himself to the Task Force, who spring a televised trap and run him down before he can silence himself.

The twenty-fourth episode of the Death Note anime detonates Light Yagami's most intricate scheme. Higuchi's capture hands the notebook back to its true author, restoring Light's buried memories and exposing the forged rules that shield him, even as the detective quietly grasps that supernatural forces are real.

The twenty-fifth episode of the Death Note anime delivers the detective's quiet end. Sensing his death approaching, L spends his final hours in melancholy reflection, unaware that Light's trap has already turned the death god Rem into the instrument of his undoing.

Episode twenty-six of the Death Note anime opens in the void left by L's death. Light Yagami seizes the dead detective's identity, moves the investigation into his own apartment, and quietly resumes his killings, while a distant English orphanage delivers grim news to two gifted boys who will one day hunt him.

This installment reshapes the series for its second half, introducing the rivalry that will define the hunt for Kira. Five years after L's death, his two heirs split apart: Near builds an American task force, while Mello turns to the Mafia and kidnaps a police official to pry a notebook loose from the Japanese authorities.

In the twenty-eighth anime chapter, the hunt for Sayu's kidnappers collapses into a desert ambush of helicopters and missiles. As the trail to the stolen notebook goes cold, Near guts his own task force to mask a death, and two shinigami begin plotting to reclaim what Ryuk let fall.

Death Note's twenty-ninth anime episode. Light orchestrates an elaborate scheme to reclaim the stolen notebook from Mello's mafia, and his father Soichiro, granted the eyes of a death god, learns the cost of that bargain on the warehouse floor.

The thirtieth anime chapter pits Near's quiet suspicion against Light's tightening grip. A scarred Mello resurfaces to barter a secret, the United States bows out of the Kira fight, and a televised mob is steered toward the agents who still dare to oppose the world's self-appointed god.

Episode thirty-one of the Death Note anime shifts the war's momentum. Near survives a siege through sheer cunning and pieces together Light's dual role, while Light quietly passes the notebook to a fervent stranger whose killings begin to clear the very suspects closing in on him.

Episode thirty-two of Death Note's anime adaptation. A flashback traces Teru Mikami's hardening into a fanatic for justice, criminals begin dropping from heart attacks, Light hands him a notebook, and the newscaster Kiyomi Takada is chosen to be Kira's public voice.

The thirty-third entry in Death Note's animated run. Near flies to Japan and splits Kira into two suspects, Light recruits the broadcaster Takada as a fresh Kira while steering Mikami toward a decoy notebook, and a drunken hotel dinner between Misa and Takada hardens into a veiled threat.

The thirty-fourth installment of the anime carries Near's investigation into its decisive phase as surveillance tightens around the prosecutor Teru Mikami. Aizawa's hidden marks expose Light's secret correspondence with Takada, while a stolen photograph of Mikami's writing finally hands Near the thread he has been seeking.

The thirty-fifth anime chapter detonates Mello's last gambit. He seizes Kira's spokeswoman in a smoke-screened street raid, only for Light's chess play to turn captor, hostage, and a loyal accomplice into ash, erasing every loose scrap of the notebook in a single burning truck.

The penultimate chapter of the anime brings every thread to the Yellow Box Warehouse for the long-promised confrontation between Light and Near. With both sides convinced they have already won, the standoff hinges on a single notebook and the question of whose name goes unwritten.

The thirty-seventh and final anime chapter ends the long duel in a warehouse and a stairwell. Near's swapped notebook strips Light bare, a bullet ends his bravado, and the shinigami who started it all keeps an old promise, closing the book on Kira beneath a crescent moon.