High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Death Note is an anime series based on the manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. Death Note aired in Japan on the Nippon Television (NTV) network every Tuesday at 24:56 The series began broadcasting on NTV on October 3, 2006 and ended on June 26, 2007. A special two-hour "Director`s Cut" compilation episode, entitled "Death Note:R (Rewrite)", was aired on August 31, 2007. 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 titled Death Note that causes the death of anyone whose name is written in it. The book was property of the God of Death, or Shinigami, named Ryuk, who became bored within the Shinigami world.