

ET, as part of YTV moving the Bionix block to a 2-hour only block on Saturdays. YTV took away the show on July 5, 2008, with the last airing being the last episode rerun at 1:30 a.m. The last episode aired on Canada's YTV channel on July 4, 2008, and on Adult Swim two days later. on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, until January 10, 2010, when the contract expired. ĭeath Note was slated to make its North American television premiere in Canada on YTV's Bionix programming block on September 7, 2007, The Canadian premiere was pushed back to October 26, 2007, at 10:00 p.m., when it finally premiered. Viz announced at Anime Expo 2007 that the first DVD was officially released on November 20, 2007, in both regular and special editions, and also confirmed at Comic-Con International 2007 that the first 15,000 copies of each DVD contains collectible figures. DVDs of the series have also been released, containing both an English dubbed audio track, produced by Ocean Productions, and the original Japanese audio track with optional English subtitles. The downloadable episodes contain the original Japanese audio track and English subtitles, and are available through IGN's Windows-only Direct2Drive service. This move is seen as "significant because it marks the first time a well known Japanese anime property will be made legally available to domestic audiences for download to own while the title still airs on Japanese television. In North America, the series has been licensed by Viz for residents in the United States to use "Download-to-Own" and "Download-to-Rent" services while it was still airing in Japan. The second film, Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors, aired on August 22, 2008, at 9:03 pm. The first film, Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God, aired on Nippon Television in Japan on August 31, 2007, at 8:03 PM.

The anime series was first released on 13 DVDs.įollowing the end of the series, two films that heavily condensed the anime series were released. The series was co-produced by Madhouse, Nippon Television, Shueisha, D.N. The series was first broadcasted from October 3, 2006, to June 26, 2007, airing on the Nippon Television network "every Tuesday at 23:34". The films notably include a few new scenes, such as Light visiting L's grave, and Near recalling a time when L spoke to the children at Wammy's House. The first film aired on TV in Japan in 2007, and the second aired in 2008.Ĭontent was heavily revised to make the films feature-length. The series was later condensed into two films: Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God, which covered the first part of the story, and Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors, which covered the second part. For a list of televised episodes, see List of Episodes. The anime series is comprised of 37 episodes of about 20 minutes each.
