Death Note season 1 Assault - Metacritic

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TV-14
Nippon TV
Dec 12, 2006
24 m

TV-14
Nippon TV
Dec 12, 2006
24 m

Summary "The human whose name is written in this note[book] shall die." These are the first words read in the Death Note by Light Yagami, a straight-A student who develops a god complex when he finds a notebook, dropped by shinigami Ryuk, that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written down in it. However, matters get out of hand when...

Directed By: Tetsurô Araki, Naoyasu Habu, Norimitsu Suzuki, Kei Tsunematsu

Written By: Tsugumi Ôba, Takeshi Obata, Shôji Yonemura, Toshiki Inoue

TV-14
Nippon TV
Dec 12, 2006
24 m

TV-14
Nippon TV
Dec 12, 2006
24 m

S1 • Episode 11

Assault

Air Date: Dec 12, 2006

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Summary "The human whose name is written in this note[book] shall die." These are the first words read in the Death Note by Light Yagami, a straight-A student who develops a god complex when he finds a notebook, dropped by shinigami Ryuk, that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written down in it. However, matters get out of hand when...

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Episode 1 • Oct 3, 2006 • 24 m

Brilliant but bored high school student Light Yagami discovers a Shinigami's notebook and plans to use it to create a better world.

Episode 2 • Oct 10, 2006 • 24 m

The series of mysterious deaths catches the attention of world-renowned detective L, who confronts the killer on live television.

Episode 3 • Oct 17, 2006 • 24 m

As the Task Force and L's investigation deepens, Ryuk tells Light that someone is shadowing them. Light needs the man's name, and Ryuk makes an offer.

Episode 4 • Oct 24, 2006 • 24 m

While formulating a plan to get the name of the man following him, Light tests the limits of the Death Note.

Episode 5 • Oct 31, 2006 • 24 m

Soichiro confronts L about the FBI agents investigating the police, and Light makes a move against the FBI.

Episode 6 • Nov 7, 2006 • 23 m

Light runs into a woman at the police department who has information for L that could lead to Light's capture.

Episode 7 • Nov 14, 2006 • 23 m

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.

Episode 8 • Nov 21, 2006 • 23 m

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

Episode 9 • Nov 28, 2006 • 23 m

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

Episode 10 • Dec 5, 2006 • 23 m

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

Episode 11 • Dec 12, 2006 • 24 m

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

Episode 12 • Dec 26, 2006 • 23 m

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.

Episode 13 • Jan 9, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 14 • Jan 16, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 15 • Jan 23, 2007 • 23 m

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.

Episode 16 • Jan 30, 2007 • 23 m

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

Episode 17 • Feb 6, 2007 • 23 m

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

Episode 18 • Feb 13, 2007 • 23 m

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.

Episode 19 • Feb 20, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 20 • Feb 27, 2007 • 24 m

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

Episode 21 • Mar 6, 2007 • 23 m

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.

Episode 22 • Mar 13, 2007 • 23 m

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

Episode 23 • Mar 20, 2007 • 23 m

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.

Episode 24 • Mar 27, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 25 • Apr 3, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 26 • Apr 10, 2007 • 24 m

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

Episode 27 • Apr 17, 2007 • 24 m

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

Episode 28 • Apr 24, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 29 • May 1, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 30 • May 8, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 31 • May 15, 2007 • 24 m

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

Episode 32 • May 22, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 33 • May 29, 2007 • 23 m

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.

Episode 34 • Jun 5, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 35 • Jun 12, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 36 • Jun 19, 2007 • 24 m

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.

Episode 37 • Jun 26, 2007 • 23 m

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.

Top Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Light Yagami

Brad Swaile

Light Yagami

Vincent Tong

Touta Matsuda, News Reporter

Ryô Naitô

Touta Matsuda, Tôta Matsuda

Trevor Devall

Shuichi Aizawa, Shingo Mido, Police Receptionist A

Brian Drummond

Ryuk, Suguru Shimura, Hideki Ryuga

Naoya Uchida

Soichiro Yagami

Chris Britton

Soichiro Yagami

Keiji Fujiwara

Shuichi Aizawa, Shûichi Aizawa

Kappei Yamaguchi

L

Aya Hirano

Misa Amane

Shannon Chan-Kent

Misa Amane, Yumi Aizawa

Alessandro Juliani

L, Assistant Director, Spectator 2

Shidô Nakamura

Ryuk

John Murphy

Kanzo Mogi, Lind L. Tailor, Math Teacher

Kazuya Nakai

Kanzo Mogi, Kanzô Mogi, Ryô-chin

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Watari

French Tickner

Watari, Coadjuvant Shinigami

Masaki Aizawa

Anthony Rester, Masahiko Kida, Amerika daihyô, Kurofuku A, Rod Ross, Sôsa-kan B, Sôsa-kan D

Brian Dobson

Hideki Ide, Rod Ross, Task Force Member, ICPO Member, Kiichiro Osoreda, News Anchor, Rioter, Security Guard, Teacher

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