In the World of anime and manga
Death Note seems to be quite an influential anime among the fan base. Often we
see its live action adaptation. There seems to be quite a few adaptations of
this franchise due to its popularity. Even the esteemed streaming site Netflix
wanted a piece of that cake and made a fool out of themselves! But that’s a
completely different story.
Its My Anime List (MAL) rating is 8.77 rated by 175,857 and favourited
by 22,673 members as of today. it has only 12 volumes and 108 chapters. It's
manga was first published in December 1 2003 and was finished in may 15 2006.
It was serialized weekly by none other than the famous Shonen Jump.
The Death Note manga got a 37 episode anime adaptation named Death Note(DN) by studio Madhouse. D.N Dream Partners, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Shueisha and VideoAudio Project (VAP) was also in the production company. Viz Media was its licensor.
It was produced by,
Toshi Nakatani (Producer 37 Episodes)
Manabu Tamura (Producer 37 Episodes)
Masao Maruyama (Producer 37 Episodes)
The long list of
directors –
Tetsuro Araki (37 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Tomohiko Ito (7 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Hiroyuki Tsuchiya (3 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Matsuhiro Yoneda (3 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Eiko Nishi (3 Episodes, 2007)
Makoto Bessho (2 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Shinji Nagamura (2 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Oyunamu (2 Episodes, 2006 - 2007)
Naoyasu Habu (2 Episodes, 2006)
Hisato Shimoda (2 Episodes, 2007)
Yukio Okazaki (1 Episode, 2006)
Kei Tsunematsu (1 Episode, 2006)
Hironobu Aoyagi (1 Episode, 2007)
Naoto Hashimoto (1 Episode, 2007)
Takayuki Hirao (1 Episode, 2007)
Hideki Ito (1 Episode)
Mitsuyuki Masuhara (1 Episdoe)
Ryosuke Nakamura (1 Episode, 2007)
Tetsuhito Saito (1 Episode, 2007)
Tomio Yamauchi (1 Episode, 2007)
Total 20 directors was
involved in the making of this anime.
DN anime has a MAL rating
of 8.69 rated by 1,264,853 members and has been favourated by 80,760 MAL
members till now. In IMDB Death Note has a rating of 9.0 rated by 144,768
users!
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The Series aired from October 4 2006 to June 27 2007. Just as the series ended, on August 31 2007 a summary of the first arc of the anime series was aired. Its name was Death Note Rewrite or in English Death Note: Relight. The first episode was called Genshisuru Kami or Visions of a God.
These special episodes
has a 7.82 MAL rating scored by 48,457 users at the time of writing this
article. 492 people made it into their favorite.
The 1st Episode
Visions of a God has score of 7.8 by 491 users in IMDB.
The 2nd
episode L’s Successor has a score of 7.6 in IMDB by 369 users.
I've only seen the anime so I can say it's pretty good. We can just assume that the manga was on the same level considering it’s the source material and the high rating and popularity in MAL.
There have been many
live action adaptations of Death Note up until this day.
In 2006 there was a live action movie adaptation of Death Note. The
adaptation has two parts. The first part "Death Note" was released in 17 June 2006 in Japan which has
a IMDB RATING of 7.9 rated by 24,913 users.
Shusuke Kaneko was the director and the producers were –
Seiji Okuda (Executive Producer)
And
The movie has a total
length of 2 hours and 6 minutes.
It had an estimated
budget of $20,000,000.
Opening Weekend of
Hong Kong had an estimated income of $627,378.
The 2nd part of the movie named "Death Note: The Last name" was released in 3rd November of the same year. It has an IMDB rating of 7.3 by 13,260 users which is much lower compared to the first part of the movie. It was 2 hours and 21 minutes in length.
Like the first part this movie also had an estimated budget of
$20,000,000.
Gross income outside
USA was $39,600,000 and in Japan the income was ¥5,200,000,000.
Produced by –
Toyoharu Fukuda
(Executive Producer)
Seiji Okuda (Executive
Producer)
Takahiro Sato
(Producer)
The producers were
also the same again except Takahiro Kobashi wasn’t included this time.
Both Toyahara Fukuda
and Seiji Okuda acted as executive producers this time.
In 2008 a Spin-Out sequel came out Named – Death Note: L Change the World. In this movie the story focuses on the character “L”.
It was released in USA in 2009.
The producers are,
Nobuhiro Iizuka (Producer)
Katsu Kamikura (Co – Executive Producer)
Takahiro Kobashi (Producer)
Hirohisa Mukuju (Co- Executive Producer)
Seiji Okuda (Executive Producer)
Hironao Ryoki
(Co – Executive Producer)
Takahiro Sato (Producer)
Tadashi Tanaka (Co – Executive Producer)
It’s a 2 hour 9 minute movie and has only a rating of 6.2 rated by
6,564 users in the IMDB.
That’s very low compared to the previous two movies and as a
stand-alone movie as well.
It had an estimated budget of $10,000,000.
Outside USA and Japan it had a gross income of $4,900,000.
Gross inside Japan to 24 February 2008 was $28,719,534 and to 9
March 2008 was $18,661,058.
In 2015 a DeathNote TV Series was released. The series has a rating of 7.4 scored by 793 users is IMDB. It’s 3,307th in the IMDB popularity ranking at the moment.
It has 11 episodes and the episodes running time is from 55
– 85 minutes.
In Japan its
release date was 5 July 2015. The production company is Nippon Television
Network (NTV).
The series
was directed by –
Ryuichi Inomata (5 Episodes)
Ryo Nishimura (4 Episodes)
Marie Iwasaki (2 Episodes)
Produced By
–
Katsu Kamikura (Executive Producer)
Yoshitaka Ohmori (Producer)
Yoshinori Shigeyama (Producer)
Akino Suzuki (Producer)
In 2016 a sequel of the 2015 Death Note series came out named DeathNote: New Generation directed by Shinske Sato.
It was made to be the sequel of the 2006 movie Death Note 2: The Last Name and a prequel to the 2016 film Death Note: Light Up the New World.
The mini TV series had only 3 episodes and each episodes
was only 20 minutes of length. This time the production company was Hulu.
In Japan it was released on 16 September 2016.
In
the Year 2016
another Death Note Movie
came out. But this time it’s from Hollywood. Clutch
Films produced the movie and Ansyl Carpenter was the writer, director and the producer for this movie. Courtney Dietz was the associated producer. Ansyl
was also the Cinematographer.
It came out 8 April 2016 in USA. The movie had a length of
12 minutes and only an estimated budget of $1000. So as you can see it can be
considered as a pilot project. So it’s natural that the movie (or pilot) has a
score of 7.4 by only 8 users in IMDB!
The Year 2016 seems to be the year of Death Note.
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| Death Note Light & L |
The Year 2016 seems to be the year of Death Note.
Because Japan released a sequel of the movie Death Note 2:
The Last Name. The story of this movie named Death Note: Light Up the New World take place after the
Death Note: New Generation mini TV series.
The Movie was directed by Shinuske Sato and produced by Takahiro
Sato.
It has a length of 2 hours and 15 minutes and was first
aired in Japan on 29 October 2016.
The Movie’s IMDB score is 5.9 rated by 1,469 users.
The main production companies are –
Let’s not talk about how it was made or how good it was,
instead let’s see what the viewer’s think.
Netflix’s version of Death Note has an IMDB rating of 4.9 scored by 47,578 users. That’s
by far the lowest IMDB score for any Death Note Adaptation.
In Rotten Tomatoes, Death Note got an average rating of 4.6/10 in the sites Tomato meter
by the critics. 40% of the critics have given the movie a positive review than
the average score.
But as for the normal users, they were a bit merciless. The
average audience score is 2.1/5 and only 24% gave it a score of 3.5 or higher.
The producer list is below –
Jonathan Eirich (Executive Producer)
Pauline Fischer (Executive Producer)
Ryan Halprin (Co - Producer)
Brendan Ferguson (Executive Producer)
Jeffrey Harlacker (Associate Producer: Post Production)
Jason Hoffs (Producer)
Roy Lee (Producer)
Dan Lin (Producer)
John Powers Middleton (Executive Producer)
Masi Oka (Producer)
Sarah Perlman Bremner (Executive Producer)
Ted Sarandos (Producer)
Miri Yoon (Executive Producer)
Total 23 producers worked on this movie and among them 6
were executive producers, 1 Co- producer, 1 associate producer, 5 of them were
producers.
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I hope you now have enough info on Death note franchise.
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