THE SUPERNATURAL THRILLER SERIES THAT HAS BECOME A GLOBAL PHENOMENON FINALLY ARRIVES ON DVD IN THE UK
A brand new anime based on the best-selling manga by writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata (Hikaru no Go), the supernatural thriller DEATH NOTE makes its UK DVD debut in April as a two-disc release featuring the first eight episodes of the series that is already being hailed as an anime classic.
The story concerns a brilliant but bored high school student, Light Yagami, who finds himself holding the power of life and death in his hands in the form of the Death Note, a notebook dropped into the human realm by Ryuk, a rogue Shinigami god of death. When Light discovers that any human whose name is written in the notebook will die within minutes, he embarks on a vigilante campaign to rid the world of evil by killing off criminals one by one.
To date, the 12-volume Death Note manga series has sold over 21 million copies in Japan and, in addition to the anime series, has also inspired three live action movies. Volumes 11 and 12 of the Death Note manga will be published in the UK by VIZ Media on 1st June 2008.
The two-disc DEATH NOTE VOLUME 1 (cert. 15) will be released on DVD (£19.99) by VIZ Media and Manga Entertainment on 28th April 2008.
