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Crunchyroll Lists Live-Action Death Note Show's Premiere Time, Regions
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Media service Death Note television series. The series will begin streaming on July 8 at 10:30 p.m. EDT in the United States and Canada, Central and South America (including the Carribean), the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Europe (except for Italian speaking territories), the Middle East, and North Africa.
Voice & Text: People whose names are written in this notebbok shall die.
News: The criminal suddenly fell dead.
Text: Light Yagami is…
Text: "Kira" (Killer) is…
Text: Savior
Text: Or
Text: Homicidal maniac
Text: Justice and evil intersect
Text: True justice standing before him
Text: Who is justice?
Text: Simultaneous streaming set in over 120 territories worldwide!!
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Text: Death Note
Text: Starts July 5 at 10:00 p.m.
Voice: Death Note starts on July 5
In Takeshi Obata's original supernatural suspense manga, a teenager named Light finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.
The live-action series will feature an original story not told in the anime or movies. The main cast of the new live-action version, which differs from the previous live-action adaptations, includes (from left to right in photograph below):
- Kyō, Koi wo Hajimemasu's Nishiki, Another's Koichi) as L
- Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru's Shinya) as Light Yagami
- As the Gods Will's Shoko) as Near
The previous live-action films and the musical did not feature Near.
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The remaining cast are:
Miss Hokusai) as Light's father Sōichirō Yagami
Reiko Fujiwara (live-action Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu) as Light's little sister Sayu Yagami
Honey and Clover) as Shōko Himura
When They Cry - Higurashi) as the detective Tōta Matsuda
Higanjima) as the detective Shūichi Aizawa
Kaibutsu-kun) as L's righthand man Watari
Judge) as the detective Kanzō Mogi.
The show will run in the United States and 126 other countries and territories, after it airs in Japan every week. The episodes will run on the Channel J cable station in South Korea about one week after their Japanese broadcast, and they will also stream in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Britain, , Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and other areas. In particular, the Crunchyroll service will stream the episodes in Europe, United States, the Middle East, and Africa a few days after their Japanese broadcast.
The manga ran in Viz Media released the Death Note manga, the anime series, and a spinoff novel in North America.
Ken'ichi Matsuyama as L.
More recently, the manga inspired a musical by a Japanese and American team that ran at Tokyo's Nissay Theatre from April 6-29. The musical traveled to Osaka and Nagoya in May, and it will also run in South Korea from July to August, but with a different cast.
