Death Note media, except for video games and soundtracks, is licensed and released in North America by Viz Media. An American film adaptation was released exclusively on Netflix in August 2017 and a sequel is reportedly in the works. A miniseries titled Death Note: New Generation and a fourth film were released in 2016. The series was adapted into three live action films released in Japan in June 2006, November 2006, and February 2008, and a television drama in 2015. Additionally, various video games have been published by Konami for the Nintendo DS. A light novel based on the series, written by Nisio Isin, was also released in 2006.

A 37-episode anime television series adaptation, produced by Madhouse and directed by Tetsurō Araki, was broadcast in Japan on Nippon Television from October 2006 to June 2007. Its 108 chapters were collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. Death Note ran in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The series centers around Light's subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral and to create a crime-free society, using the alias of a god-like vigilante named 'Kira', and the subsequent efforts of an elite Japanese police task force, led by enigmatic detective L, to apprehend him. The story follows Light Yagami, a teen genius who discovers a mysterious notebook: the 'Death Note', which belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk, and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. Death Note (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

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