In Canada, the series premiered on YTV's Bionix programming block on October 26, 2007. EST, starting with episode 1, 'Rebirth', on Adult Swim. On November 9, 2008, Death Note began airing weekly, at 3:30 a.m. Death Note episodes were also added to Adult Swim's streaming video service, Adult Swim Video, on Fridays before airing on television. On October 21, 2007, Death Note premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. In addition to this downloadable release of a subtitled version of the series, Viz also acquired the rights for the home video release of both the subtitled and dubbed version of the series. Episodes of the series were officially available for download soon after they aired in Japan according to Viz, this was 'significant because it marked the first time a well known Japanese anime property made legally available to domestic audiences for download to own while the title still on Japanese television.' Viz Media began releasing these episodes via Direct2Drive on May 10, 2007. In 2007, Viz Media licensed the series for a bilingual release in North America. These specials recap the first and second arcs of the anime, respectively, with new scenes added to fill in any plot holes resulted from omitted footage. Although advertised to be the 'complete conclusion', the popularity of the series inspired the release of a second TV special, titled Death Note: Relight 2: L's Successors nearly a year later. This book causes the death of anyone whose name is written in it and is passed on to Light by the Shinigami Ryuk after he becomes bored within the Shinigami world.Ī two-hour 'Director's Cut' compilation television film, titled Death Note: Relight: Visions of a God, aired on NTV a few months after the anime concluded. The plot of the series primarily revolves around high school student Light Yagami, who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook called a Death Note.

It was directed by Tetsurō Araki at Madhouse and originally aired in Japan on Nippon TV every Tuesday shortly past midnight, effectively from October 4, 2006, to June 27, 2007. Death Note is a Japanese anime television series based on the manga series of the same name written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

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