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Death Note

Season 1

Death Note - Season 1

2006

Drama, Crime

TV Season

Season 1 - 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. (imdb)

Death Note - Season 1

2006

Drama, Crime

TV Season

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Ratings & Reviews Episodes (37) Cast Collections Similar Stats Trailer

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Geniasis

26 Sep 2025

Season 1 reveals a world shaped by modern mechanisms of power. Light’s use of the notebook becomes a disciplinary tool that turns death into administration, while L embodies surveillance and analytic truth. Their struggle exposes competing regimes of control, where fear, visibility, and judgment reshape society. Ultimately, the series shows how the pursuit of perfect order traps both the watcher and the watched. - Full Review

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Shinsei (2007) - S1E1

A brilliant but bored student finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name he writes in it. (imdb)

Confrontation (2006) - S1E2

While the world's criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various nations. He requests that a task force be set up in Japan. (imdb)

Dealings (2006) - S1E3

L continues to expand his investigations and suspects the police force while Light starts to use another trait of the book to prove wrong the theories of L. In the meantime, Ryuk offers Light a deal. (imdb)

Pursuit (2006) - S1E4

After testing the power limits of the Death Note on six convicts, Light manipulates the circumstances of a psychotic bank robber's death to reveal the name of his stalker, FBI man Ray Pember, which includes putting the presence of Ryuk to purposeful use. (imdb)

Tactics (2006) - S1E5

After further tests with the Death Note, Light targets Agent Pember to remove him and all other FBI agents from the investigation. Unbeknownst to Light, it leaves behind Pember's fiancée, also an agent, who wasn't part of the investigation but now has reason to join it. (imdb)

Unraveling (2006) - S1E6

Light meets a woman at the Police Department with an urgent message for the Kira task force. (imdb)

Overcast (2006) - S1E7

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 work. (imdb)

Glare (2007) - S1E8

Light, entirely aware of L's surveillance equipment in his home, begins a very careful game to throw off suspicion. (imdb)

Encounter (2007) - S1E9

L makes a direct move against his top suspect when Light enters To-Oh University. (imdb)

Doubt (2007) - S1E10

L challenges Light to a tennis match and tests his deductive abilities; an urgent call has them rushing to the hospital. (imdb)

Assault (2006) - S1E11

Video tapes reportedly from Kira air on Sakura TV, although L suspects that this is the work of another Kira. (imdb)

Love (2006) - S1E12

Light is invited into the Task Force to help respond to the second Kira, and Rem tells Misa how she came by her Death Note. (imdb)

Confession (2007) - S1E13

Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious, but Misa Amane, the new Kira, uses her unusual gift to find Light before he finds her. (imdb)

Friend (2007) - S1E14

Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her shinigami Rem get rid of L, which Misa will do in order to have Light fall in love with her. (imdb)

Wager (2007) - S1E15

Convinced the two Kiras have met and worried at the prospect of his own murder, L declares that the event of his death will prove Light is Kira.

Decision (2007) - S1E16

Light decides to tell L that he thinks he may be Kira.

Execution (2007) - S1E17

Getting nowhere fast, L thinks of a new plan to get Light, Misa and Mr. Yagami out of confinement.

Ally (2007) - S1E18

L's depression causes a scuffle to break out in the new headquarters, and a recent string of CEO deaths has L and Light thinking that Kira may be killing for monetary profit

Matsuda (2007) - S1E19

Matsuda, the task force member eager to distinguish himself, decides, while assigned to watch Misa, to do a little snooping on his own at the Yotsuba Group's Tokyo headquarters.

Makeshift (2007) - S1E20

After Light establishes a mole within the Yotsuba Group, L separates himself from the rest of the task force and recruits Misa. (imdb)

Performance (2007) - S1E21

The third Kira sets his eyes on Misa after meeting her. While Misa takes a break from meeting the Yotsuba Group, Rem contacts her. Misa is able to see the shinigami, but her memories of being the second Kira do not return.

Guidance (2007) - S1E22

After learning that Higuchi is Kira, L decides that they mustn't apprehend him till they understand his killing method.

Frenzy (2007) - S1E23

L and Light, watching from the investigation team building, wonder whom Higuchi (seemingly alone) is talking to. L wonders if it's a shinigami. With Rem beside him, Higuchi - frantic to kill Matsuda - takes "the deal" to become unstoppable.

Revival (2007) - S1E24

The team arrests Higuchi for being Kira and causing multiple murders. Inspecting Higuchi's Death Note, team members who touch it abruptly discover that shinigami do exist, and when Light takes the Death Note from L, his memory returns.

Silence (2007) - S1E25

Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everything is going according to Light's plan, and that L will arrest Misa as Kira unless Rem acts quickly.

Renewal (2007) - S1E26

After L's death, the world needs a new great detective, and it's generally agreed that Light take his place.

Abduction (2007) - S1E27

The first moves of two new investigators cause Light to make a spontaneous decision with long-term consequences.

Impatience (2007) - S1E28

In trying to retrieve his kidnapped sister, Light learns of two opposing factions trying to take him down, the SPK lead by N and a crime syndicate lead by Mello.

Father (2007) - S1E29

Mello learns some valuable information concerning false entries in his Death Note from its true owner. Soichiro agrees to take on the shinigami eyes to thwart him.

Justice (2007) - S1E30

Mello busts into SPK headquarters to retrieve a photograph of himself to make sure he won't be killed by Kira. In exchange for Near giving him the picture, Mello drops an important hint about the Death Notes: some of the rules are fake.

Transfer (2007) - S1E31

Near escapes the mob attack, and Light once again proves his ability to stay a step ahead by creating a fourth Kira.

Selection (2007) - S1E32

Star newscaster Kiyomi Takada becomes Kira's spokesperson to the world (after Mikami "deletes" Demegawa). She just so happens to have been Light's girlfriend in college. Aizawa's suspicions about Light grow.

Scorn (2007) - S1E33

Near goes to Japan, allegedly as bait for Kira. Following Light's instructions, Takada asks Mikami to send her five pages of the Death Note. She tells him that he will continue his work in a fake book made to look like the real one.

Vigilance (2007) - S1E34

Aizawa figures out what's going on and tells Near, who already knows about the notes. Near instructs Aizawa to continue watching Light, and then puts in motion a plan to separate Misa from Light.

Malice (2007) - S1E35

Mello kidnaps Takada in a daring operation, getting in the way of both Near and Light's plans to set up a meeting between the SPK and the investigation team.

1.28 (2007) - S1E36

Near, along with the SPK, meets Light and the task force at a warehouse for the final showdown. To everyone's shock, Near reveals that Kira's follower, Mikami, is at the warehouse and is writing everyone's name in the Death Note.

New World (2007) - S1E37

Though Mikami has written all the investigators' names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is still alive. Near seizes Mikami's Death Note, and all is at last revealed.

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