Death Note
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[edit] Introduction
Death Note is a manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It has also been adapted into an anime series by the animation studio Madhouse.
The story is based around Light Yagami, a high school student who finds a notebook that has been dropped into the human world by a Shinigami. The book states that if the user were to write a human's name in it and know their face, then the book would kill them. Whilst the default cause of death is a heart attack that takes place forty seconds after the name has been written, due to the time that it takes between writing the name and death, elaboration is allowed to force a death in a different manner. After reading this, Light doesn't think that it's true, but after he finds out that it works, he wants to make the world a better place with it. The Shinigami that had dropped the book, Ryuk, appears before Light, approving of his methods; it is shown that the Shinigami world is dead and leaves them with no entertainment, so Ryuk is happy to stand alongside Light in his quest to remove the criminals from the world, the student effectively choosing to become a god.
However, the deaths caused by Light were quickly noticed by the police force, which Light Yagami's father, Soichiro, was a member of. This launched an international conference of the ICPO, bringing in the world's greatest detective, L, who would soon become Light Yagami's greatest rival.
The Death Note anime was first broadcast in Canada somewhere around late September to October of 2007.
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[edit] Timeline
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[edit] 2003
- In December 2003, the Death Note manga was released in Japan and Malaysia. [1]
[edit] 2004
- On April 7, 2004, the LiveJournal community death_note was created. [2]
- On May 31, 2004, A Cup of Tea by Cheryl-chan became the first Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [3]
- On June 5, 2004, the mailing list death_note was created. [4]
- On September 29, 2004, the Wikipedia article about Death Note was created by Greyweather. [5]
[edit] 2005
- On April 8, 2005, End of the Solitude by Nayami-san became the first Spanish language Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [6]
[edit] 2006
- On April 16, 2006, the Death Note FanFiction.Net forum Death Note YAOI at the Roundtable was created. [7]
- On October 28, 2006, the Death Note fansite Death Note Anime was created. [8][9]
- On November 20, 2006, Sztuka konwersacji by Akivaria became the first Polish language Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [10]
[edit] 2007
- On February 6, 2007, the FanFiction.Net Death Note forum Quirky, Dedicated, Devious: Our Main Loves was created by xThe Vampire Armandx. [11]
- On March 31, 2007, 千人目の男 by tiki-tiki became the first Japanese language Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [12]
- On April 5, 2007, Forty Percent by iced_blood became the first Death Note story to be published on FanLib. [13]
- On April 17, 2007, Hetki by Jadeile became the first Finnish language Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [14]
- On May 5, 2005, the Death Note FanFiction.Net forum Lair of the Obsessive, Freaky Fans of Death Note was created by killerdoodlebug. [15]
- On May 8, 2007, Gyűlölök Veszíteni by Dorchica became the first Hungarian language Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [16]
- On July 31, 2007, a wiki dedicated to Death Note was created on Wikia by Dragonrider99. [17]
- On August 23, 2007, the mailing list Kira_justice was created. [18]
- On October 19, 2007, the Death Note mailing list death_noteFC was created.[19]
- On October 20, 2007, the MySpace group deathnotetrainxxx was created. [20]
- On November 8, 2007, Perdente by Non al Denaro Non all'Amore became the first Italian language Death Note story published on FanFiction.Net. [21]
- On November 27, 2007, the MySpace group XdeathxnoteX was created. [22]
- On November 29, 2007, the MySpace group musiclives90 was created. [23]
[edit] 2008
- In April 2008, "two 12-year-old students at the West End Elementary School were arrested after school authorities discovered a Death Note-inspired notebook containing the names of faculty members, school personnel and students." [24] "The two boys, who have been suspended from school, explained that the got the idea from Viz Media's Death Note anime series, which is running on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim." [25]
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[edit] Influential fanworks
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[edit] Fandom members
- aelice, maintainer of death_note
- forunlawfulck, maintainer of death_note [26]. Deleted this account on LiveJournal prior to December 30, 2007.
- karma_soupra, maintainer of death_note
- killhamster, maintainer of death_note
- poonariffic, maintainer of death_note [27]
- threeyearplane, maintainer of death_note [28]. Deleted this account on LiveJournal prior to December 30, 2007.
See also Death Note fans.
[edit] Fandom size
[edit] December 2007
As of December 30, 2007, there were 33 fanworks on FanLib, 14 stories, 11 videos, 5 images and 1 poem. [29]
As of December 31, 2007, there were 4,001 stories on FanFiction.Net. [30] 305 of these stories were in Spanish and 1 in Italian. As of December 31, 2007, death_note had 3111 members and was watched by 3162 people. [31]
[edit] September 2008
As of September 22, 2008, there are 467 fans on FanPop. [32]
[edit] Misc
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[edit] External links
- Death Note @ FanFiction.Net
- Death Note @ FanLib
- Death Note @ FanPop
- Death Note @ FanWorksFinder
- Death Note @ Wikipedia
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