"Death Note" was created by Tsugumi Ohba and painted by Takeshi Obata. It is a set of psychological suspense reasoning comics serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The protagonist of the story is a high school student who accidentally picks up a notebook and finds that as long as he writes a person's name on the notebook, that person will die instantly.
A series of mysterious deaths created by the high school student draws the attention of a detective who sets out to track down the killer and try to unravel the truth.
Death Note has been adapted into an animated TV series, two live-action films and a video game set in Japan. Warner Bros. bought the rights to the U.S. version of the film a few years ago, and it was only earlier this year that Adam Wingard, the director of "The Guest," was set to direct.
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