death note

The Death Note anime, directed by Tetsurō Araki and animated by Madhouse, began airing in Japan on October 3, 2006,[23] and finished its run on June 26, 2007, totaling 37 twenty-minute episodes.[24] It is set in the year 2007, instead of starting at the year 2003. The series aired on the Nippon Television network "every Tuesday at 24:56".[25] The series was co-produced by Madhouse, Nippon Television, Shueisha, D.N. Dream Partners and VAP.[26] 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. 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".[27] The downloadable episodes contain the original Japanese audio track and English subtitles,[28] and is available through IGN's Windows-only Direct2Drive service.[29] DVDs of the series are also being released,[28] containing both an English dubbed audio track, produced by The Ocean Group, and the original Japanese audio track with optional English subtitles.[30] Viz announced at Anime Expo 2007 that the first DVD was officially released on November 20, 2007, in both regular and special editions,[31] and also confirmed at Comic-Con International 2007 that the first 15,000 copies of each DVD contains collectible figures.[32] Death Note was slated to make its North American television premiere in Canada on YTV's Bionix programming block on September 7, 2007;[33] however, the show was removed from the schedule at the last minute.[34] The Canadian premiere was pushed back to October 26, 2007, at 10:00 p.m., when it finally premiered. Death Note premiered in the U.S. on October 20, 2007, at 11:30 p.m. on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.[35] The last episode aired on Canada's YTV channel on July 4, 2008, with Adult Swim airing it 2 days later. The show also streams online for free on Adult Swim Video, with a new episode uploaded every Saturday afternoon, on the day of its broadcast premiere. Death Note has also been aired by the anime television network Animax across its respective networks worldwide, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. A two-hour animated Death Note Rewrite: The Visualizing God' (DEATH NOTEリライト・幻視する神, Desu Nōto Riraito: Genshisuru kami?) TV special aired on Nippon Television in Japan on August 31, 2007, at 8:03 PM. It is a recap which takes place after the series end, where a Shinigami approaches Ryuk in the Shinigami realm in order to learn more about the human world. Instead, Ryuk tells him of all the events leading up to the Mello/Near arc, about Light Yagami and his rival L. Originally, this special was advertised as a retelling told from Ryuk's point of view, but it does not give a different point of view than what was originally told. However, it contains updated dialog, as well as a few new scenes, including an alternate ending.[36]