History of "Death Note"

Death Note tops the manga list with its extraordinary story. The manga series is written by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. Light Yagami, a history of death note high school student is the main character who discovers a supernatural notebook, known as the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a death God named Ryuk. Light attempts to rule the world using this supernatural notebook and detective "L" and his successors makes effort to stop him. The Death Note hold great power as it grants its user ability to kill anyone whose name they know, by writing the name in the notebook. The image of the face is created whose name is written on the notebook.

Death Note serialized in 108 chapters by Shueisha in Weekly Shonen Jump. With a total of 12 volumes, the series also published in special  format in Japan. Furthermore, the series was adapted into live-action films and was released in Japan. With a total of 37 episodes, the anime series aired in Japan from October 3,2006 to June 26,2007 developed by Madhouse and directed by Tetsuro Araki. 

A light novel based on the series, written by Nisio Isin, was released in Japan and various video games have been published by Konami for Nintendo DS. The manga gained worldwide popularity and hence was released at various places. Viz Media licensed the manga in North America published all the twelve volumes from the series. 

The plot and violence of the story has been praised but the series is banned in China. Parents had complains that their children had been altering their notebooks to resemble the supernatural Death Note. On April 30,2010, Variety magazine announced that Warner Bros. acquired the rights for the Death Note manga to be adapted into a live-acton movie in the US. and according to this Warner Bros. has hired screenwriters Vlas parlapanides and Charley to adapt the manga into a screenplay. The US-version of the live-action movie will not be similar to the Japanese Death Note live-action

trilogy.

According to IMDb the movie has been listed under pre-production with a tentative release date in 2011.