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Sep 7, 2024 · Mystery. Tragedy. Ryuk, a god of death, throws his Death Note into the human world out of pure amusement. Light Yagami, a smart high school student from Japan, finds the note and reads a menacing message: anyone whose name is written in it will die.
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, alternatively Death Note: Rewrite ～The Visualizing God～ (DEATH NOTE リライト ～幻視する神～, Death Note: Riraito ~Genshisuru Kami~), is an animated feature-length film condensing part of the Death Note anime series. The film covers the first half of the series, and the series' second half is covered in the film Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors.
The film is a "director's cut" of the anime series, in this case meaning a heavily-condensed, non-canon version of the original anime episodes.
Although the Japanese version was named "rewrite," the North American version was released as "relight."
The film aired on Nippon Television in Japan on August 31, 2007, and it was released on DVD on March 19, 2008. In the USA, the DVD was released on June 23, 2009.
The film begins in the Shinigami realm with an unnamed Shinigami seeking out Ryuk, complaining that the Shinigami realm is boring and in search of a good story. In return for the story, he brings him a Shinigami apple. Ryuk accepts a Shinigami apple for his tale, which turns out to be the first half of the Death Note anime series. After Ryuk is don...
The film mostly uses original scenes from the anime, but it includes some additional scenes and changes, mostly to replace longer events with shorter ones to fit the content into a feature-length film.
•The opening with Ryuk and the unnamed Shinigami is new for the film.
•There is a new scene where L shows Light the Second Kira videos in a private theater.
•There is a new scene involving Light gloating over L's grave.
•The film aired on television just two months after the anime's final episode.
•Many fans believe that the unnamed Shinigami may, in fact, be Light Yagami due to their many similar characteristics.
Jul 1, 2023 · Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God in Japanese with English subs.
Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. When approached by a fellow death god tempted to visit the human realm, Ryuk recounts his own journey to the other side and the story of Light Yagami—a brilliant young man who impressed him there.
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In an attempt to purge the world of evil, he uses the book's powers to claim the lives of criminals and establish himself as a god. Not long after his quest begins, though, he finds himself confronted by a man calling himself "L" who vows to put an end to Light's reign of tyranny before it can begin.
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Jun 23, 2009 · Yagami Light is an ace student with great prospects, who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the "Death Note": a notebook from the realm of the Death Gods, with the power to kill people in any way he desires. With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create his perfect world, without crime or criminals.
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In the world of the gods of death, Shinigami Ryuk looks back on what is without doubt the most interesting period of his life. All this happened many years before: The star student Light Yagami finds a notebook, the so-called 'Death Note'.
