E01 - Shinsei

A brilliant but bored student finds a notebook that can kill anyone whose name he writes in it.

E02 - Confrontation

While the world's criminals continue to drop dead, L meets by computer with representatives from various nations. He requests that a task force be set up in Japan.

E03 - Dealings

E04 - Pursuit

Light (known to the world as Kira) tests the Death Note to understand the scope of its powers by killing off six convicts in various ways and confirms he can control his victims' actions before they die.

E05 - Tactics

E06 - Unraveling

Light meets a woman at the Police Department with an urgent message for the Kira task force.

E07 - Donten: Cloudy Weather

Light uses the Death Note to try to get rid of the woman who could get him captured and is shocked when it doesn't work.

E08 - Mesen

Light, entirely aware of L's surveillance equipment in his home, begins a very careful game to throw off suspicion.

E09 - Encounter

L's suspicions are momentarily subdued, but he does not discard the possibility that Light may be Kira and decides to meet him in person. At the college entrance exams, Light notices a mysterious and eccentric student staring at him.

E10 - Doubt

E11 - Totsunyû: Plunge

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E12 - Love

E13 - Kokuhaku: Confession

Light goes to Aoyama to discover the identity of the second Kira before L becomes more suspicious, but Misa Amane, the new Kira, uses her unusual gift to find Light before he finds her.

E14 - Tomodachi: Friend

Light and Misa show each other their Death Notes, and Light asks Misa to have her shinigami Rem get rid of L. But Misa asks something of Light in return-to fall in love with her!

E15 - Wager

Convinced the two Kiras have met and worried at the prospect of his own murder, L declares that the event of his death will prove Light is Kira.

E16 - Decision

E17 - Execution

Getting nowhere fast, L thinks of a new plan to get Light, Misa and Mr. Yagami out of confinement.

E18 - Nakama

L's depression causes a scuffle to break out in the new headquarters, and a recent string of CEO deaths has L and Light thinking that Kira may be killing for monetary profit.

E19 - Matsuda: Matsuda

Matsuda, the task force member eager to distinguish himself, decides, while assigned to watch Misa, to do a little snooping on his own at the Yotsuba Group's Tokyo headquarters.

E20 - Kosoku: Makeshift

After Light establishes a mole within the Yotsuba Group, L separates himself from the rest of the task force and recruits Misa.

E21 - Performance

The third Kira sets his eyes on Misa after meeting her. While Misa takes a break from meeting the Yotsuba Group, Rem contacts her. Misa is able to see the shinigami, but her memories of being the second Kira do not return.

E22 - Yûdô

After learning that Higuchi is Kira, L decides that they mustn't apprehend him till they understand his killing method.

E23 - Frenzy

L and Light, watching from the investigation team building, wonder whom Higuchi (seemingly alone) is talking to. L wonders if it's a shinigami. With Rem beside him, Higuchi - frantic to kill Matsuda - takes "the deal" to become unstoppable.

E24 - Fukkatsu: Resurrection

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E25 - Silence

Light, his memory recovered, orders Misa to begin killing after Higuchi dies. The Shinigami Rem realizes that everything is going according to Light's plan, and that L will arrest Misa as Kira unless Rem acts quickly.

E26 - Renewal

After L's death, the world needs a new great detective, and it's generally agreed that Light take his place.

E27 - Yûkai: Abduction

A new investigator steps forward-Near, a central figure in the SPK, an organization that is trying to catch Kira without relying on L. Near is aware of the existence of the Death Notes and wants to get his hands on one.

E28 - Impatience

In trying to retrieve his kidnapped sister, Light learns of two opposing factions trying to take him down, the SPK lead by N and a crime syndicate lead by Mello.

E29 - Father

E30 - Justice

E31 - Transfer

Near escapes the mob attack, and Light once again proves his ability to stay a step ahead by creating a fourth Kira.

E32 - Selection

E33 - Scorn

Near goes to Japan, allegedly as bait for Kira. Following Light's instructions, Takada asks Mikami to send her five pages of the Death Note. She tells him that he will continue his work in a fake book made to look like the real one.

E34 - Vigilance

Aizawa figures out what's going on and tells Near, who already knows about the notes. Near instructs Aizawa to continue watching Light, and then puts in motion a plan to separate Misa from Light.

E35 - Satsui

Mello kidnaps Takada in a daring operation, getting in the way of both Near and Light's plans to set up a meeting between the SPK and the investigation team.

E36 - 1.28

Near, along with the SPK, meets Light and the task force at a warehouse for the final showdown. To everyone's shock, Near reveals that Kira's follower, Mikami, is at the warehouse and is writing everyone's name in the Death Note.

E37 - Shinsekai: New World

Though Mikami has written all the investigators' names in the Death Note, a minute passes and everyone is still alive. Near seizes Mikami's Death Note, and all is at last revealed.