Episode 1
Rebirth
Brilliant but bored high school student Light Yagami suddenly finds himself holding the power of life and deat...
Episode 2
Confrontation
While the world’s criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various natio...
Episode 3
Dealings
Ryuk, the Shinigami, or god of death, who dropped the Death Note into the human world, warns Light that someon...
Episode 4
Pursuit
Light—now known to the world as Kira—tests the Death Note to understand the scope of its powers by killing off...
Episode 5
Tactics
Soichiro Yagami demands to meet with L in person when he finds out that L has secretly brought FBI agents into...
Episode 6
Unraveling
Light meets a woman at the Police Department with an urgent message for the Kira task force. As son of the chi...
Episode 7
Overcast
Light uses the Death Note to try to get rid of the woman who could get him captured, and is shocked when it do...
Episode 8
Glare
L insists on setting up bugs and cameras in the homes of Chief Yagami and Deputy Director Kitamura—whom Raye P...
Episode 9
Encounter
The murders continue, and L grows suspicious of Light’s too-perfect behavior and decides to investigate him on...
Episode 10
Doubt
L's suspicion of Light deepens, compelling him to invite Light into the investigation. But then a phone call a...
Episode 11
Assault
As predicted on the tapes sent to Sakura TV, news anchors and commentators who expressed doubt about Kira die...
Episode 12
Love
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...
Episode 13
Confession
Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious. But Misa Am...
Episode 14
Friend
Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her shinigami Rem get rid of L....
Episode 15
Wager
Evidence turns up that points to Misa Amane as the second Kira. In an effort to spare her, Rem forces Misa to...
Episode 16
Decision
Misa is in confinement, though her memories of the Death Note have been completely wiped away. When Light is c...
Episode 17
Execution
After fifty days of confinement the killings continue, and Misa and Light are released. But L has devised a pl...
Episode 18
Ally
Though L is still suspicious, Light and Misa, their memories of being Kira wiped clean, return to headquarters...
Episode 19
Matsuda
Matsuda, the task force member assigned to watch Misa, is eager to distinguish himself, and while on a job wit...
Episode 20
Makeshift
L's team discovers that the Yotsuba Group meet in secret to discuss the elimination of individuals who are tro...
Episode 21
Performance
The Task Force uses Misa as a way to get closer to the Yotsuba corporation. But things get complicated when Re...
Episode 22
Guidance
Thanks to Misa, the Task Force now knows the identity of the new Kira and L plans an elaborate scheme to smoke...
Episode 23
Frenzy
L, Light and Misa watch from the investigation team building and wonder who he is talking to. L wonders if Hig...
Episode 24
Revival
While Higuchi is finally captured, Light inadvertently regains his memories as Kira.
Episode 25
Silence
Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that...
Episode 26
Renewal
Light has removed everyone in his way and is closer to achieving his perfect world.
Episode 27
Abduction
A new investigator steps forward-Near, a central figure in the SPK, an organization that is trying to catch Ki...
Episode 28
Impatience
Light, acting as L, reveals to Near that his sister Sayu has been kidnapped by someone wanting to trade her fo...
Episode 29
Father
Mortified over allowing the Death Note to fall into Mello's hands in order to save his daughter, Soichiro puts...
Episode 30
Justice
Mello busts into SPK headquarters to retrieve a photograph of himself to make sure he won't be killed by Kira....
Episode 31
Transfer
Near contacts the Japanese task force and determines that Kira is among their members. He asks for insider inf...
Episode 32
Selection
Star newscaster Kiyomi Takada becomes Kira's spokesperson to the world, after Demegawa is deleted by Mikami, a...
Episode 33
Scorn
Near goes to Japan, allegedly as bait for Kira. Following Light's instructions, Takada asks Mikami to send her...
Episode 34
Vigilance
Aizawa figures out what's going on and tells Near, who already knows about the notes. Near instructs Aizawa to...
Episode 35
Malice
Light and Near agree upon a meeting place for the final confrontation. A key player is kidnapped and the end r...
Episode 36
1.28
The Japanese Task Force and the SPK finally meet at YellowBox Warehouse on January 28th. However, a third part...
Episode 37
New World
Though Mikami has written all the investigators' names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is stil...