‘Death Note’ is Getting an Audio Drama in Both English and German

While some of us are still cringing on the recent release of Netflix’s Death Note live-action movie, translator and writer Jonathan Clements announced last week that Lübbe, a German publisher, will be adapting the Death Note anime series in an audio drama. It will have a whole duration of 12 hours and it is slated for released in 2018 in both English and German languages.

In the original Death Note manga, Light Yagami was just an ordinary boy living a normal ordinary life. Everything seemed to have turned different when he found the Death Note, a supernatural notebook that kills anyone by just writing their name. The time that he found the notebook was also the time he was acquainted with the shinigami named Ryuk.

Light uses the Death Note to put criminals and unlawful people to their death. This took the attention of L, a detective who does what he can to investigate on the mysterious deaths caused by this person being called as “Kira”.

Aside from the Death Note manga and anime series, a Japanese live-action series released as well as a few live-action films like Death Note: The Last Name, L change the WorLd, and Death Note: Light Up the NEW world. The manga also inspired Broadway veterans to produce a musical adaptation in 2014.

The Netflix Death Note live-action movie was released last Friday and so far received very mixed reviews from those who watched it. However, the original manga creators Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba have praised this live-action movie adaptation. To quote Ohba, “It was more interesting that I expected. Every bit of it is high quality and very fashionable, it’s definitely Hollywood’s Death Note. I think a wide range of people can enjoy this movie, not just fans, because there are parts that follow the original work but also changes too.”

He then continued that, “I hope people overseas who did not know Death note until now can enjoy watching it on Netflix”. As a way to show their praise on the Western adaptation, Obata released a drawing of Nat Wolff (Light Turner) and Ryuk.

Source: Le Monde.