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| Death Note Anime Series to Be Available for Digital Download VIZ Media has announced the availability of Death Note anime series via digital download on Direct2Drive, IGN Entertainment's premiere digital retail store. The subtitled version of the series will debut May 10,2007. VIZ Media secured the rights to Death Note from Nippon Television Network Corporation and anticipation for the launch of the series has built steadily since the company first announced it earlier this year. The launch is also significant because it marks the first time a well known anime property will be made legally available to U.S. audiences for download while the title still airs on Japanese television. Death Note, based on the Shueisha manga series of the same name, is currently one of the hottest anime titles in Japan. Licensed in North America by VIZ Media, it depicts the adventures of Light Yagami, an ace student with great prospects but who is bored out of his mind. All of that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to investigate, and he is soon hot on the trail of Light, who must now reevaluate his one noble goal. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |