The platform MyAnimeList reports that the anime adaptation of the manga Death report became the first series in their general catalog with more than 3 million “registered members follow“. At the time of this writing, the number is 3,031,548 memberswhich are distributed as follows: 148,305 in “Watching”, 2,510,768 in “Completed”, 87,523 in “On-Hold”, 93,117 in “Dropped” and 191,835 in “Plan to Watch”. It should be mentioned that Shingeki no kyojin shortly afterwards it exceeded the same value.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata published the manga in the magazine Weekly shonen jump from the publisher Shueisha published between December 2003 and May 2006 with a total of twelve anthologies. A novel by Nisio Isin, titled Death Note Another clue: The Los Angeles BB Murders, was released in Japan in August 2006.
The piece inspired a 37-episode anime adaptation produced by the studios. Madhouse, Headed by Tetsurou araki and scripts written by Yoshiki Inou, released October 2006. Two compilation films entitled Death note: rewrite were published on August 31, 2007 and August 22, 2008.
Summary of Death Note
As a god of death, a Shinigami can kill anyone as long as he knows the face of his victim and writes his name in a notebook called “Death Note”. One day, Ryuk, bored with the Shinigami lifestyle and interested in seeing how a human would use the notebook, drops it into the human world. High school prodigy Light Yagami is the one who stumbles upon the notebook and tests its skills by writing a criminal’s name on it. When the criminal dies immediately after his experiment, Light is shocked and quickly realizes how devastating the power he has now acquired can be.
Source: MyAnimeList
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