Death Note is a Japanese television series that is available on DVD.
Death Note . The episodes from the anime first appeared in North America as downloadable from IGN , before Viz Media licensed it and it aired on YTV 's Bionix anime block in Canada and on Adult Swim in the United States with a DVD release following . Death Note is an upcoming American supernatural thriller film directed by Adam Wingard , based on the manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata .