This is a timeline of events that take place in the Death Note film series. This information has been compiled from the films, the miniseries Death Note: New Generation, the book L FILE No. 15, as well as the official movie guides.
2005[]
- October 2005, date unknown
- Light Yagami tracks down Takuo Shibuimaru using information from hacking into the police database.
- Light finds the Death Note.
- Yosuke Kaonuma dies of a heart attack, killed by Light with the Death Note.
- October 2005, next day
- Light reads about Kaonuma's death in the morning paper.
- October 28, 2005[1]
- Various news outlets report on the number of suspicious heart attack deaths among criminals.
- November 2005, date unknown[2]
- Light wins a basketball game and buys Shiori Akino lunch.
2006[]
- March 9, 2006[3]
- Naomi Misora and Raye Iwamatsu work on a case with L in the United States. This is Naomi's second case with L after the LABB case.
- L asks Watari to make arrangements to go to Japan, as he is 97% certain that Kira is there.
- March 20, 2006
- Lind L. Tailor, pretending to be L, broadcasts live on television in the Kanto region of Tokyo, Japan.
- Tailor dies of a heart attack on live television, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- L reveals on live television that he has narrowed in on Kira's location.
- March 21, 2006
- Various news outlets are reporting on "L vs Kira!"
- Shiori and Light visit Omei Art Gallery.
- L narrows down the suspects to students based on the times of deaths.
- Soichiro rejects his son Light's offer to help with the case.
- Light looks up the investigation report by hacking his father's computer.
- Light begins writing down criminals to die every hour on the hour.
- March 24, 2006
- For the third day in a row, a criminal has died every hour on the hour of a heart attack, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- L tells the task force that Kira can manipulate the times of death, and also that Kira has access to task force information.
- March 25, 2006
- Ryuk realizes Light is being followed but chooses to say nothing.
- March 27, 2006
- Light realizes he is being followed.
- Ryuk offers to make the Shinigami Eye Deal, but Light declines.
- Light begins experimenting with the Death Note to test its limitations.
- Masaaki Shirami draws a pentagram on the wall of his prison cell in blood and dies of a heart attack, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- Ken Yadanaka leaves a note and dies of a heart attack, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- Tobe escapes his prison cell to a nearby restroom and dies of a heart attack, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- March 28, 2006
- Reports come into the task force about the strange deaths. The task force keeps the information out of the media, reporting them as simple heart attacks.
- Light accesses the information and sees the results.
- Kiichiro Osoreda is reported in the news and Light writes his name in the Death Note.
- March 29, 2006[4]
- Light and Shiori go out and take the bus. They are followed by Raye Iwamatsu.
- Kiichiro Osoreda hijacks the bus and dies when he is struck by a car, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- Raye Iwamatsu shows his FBI badge to Light and Shiori during the hijacking.
- Light takes Shiori to a hospital to treat her for shock.
- March 30, 2006
- A newspaper reports on Osoreda's death and is later read by Naomi Misora.
- April 1, 2006[5]
- Naomi Misora follows her fiancé Raye Iwamatsu because he is acting out of character.
- Taruhito Ozaki dies of a heart attack on a train, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- Raye Iwamatsu dies of a heart attack, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- Miles Fitzerald and 11 other FBI agents die, unwittingly killed by Raye Iwamatsu using Death Note paper, working under duress by Light.
- Naomi sees her fiancé Raye die.
- Light sees Naomi and some of the papers she was holding for her wedding at Minami-Aoyama Catholic Church.
- The FBI issues a letter to Naomi, informing her that the investigation is formally closed.
- April 2, 2006
- Soichiro gives the task force members the option to resign, and most do so. The task force is reduced to six members: Soichiro, Matsuda, Aizawa, Mogi, Ukita, and Sanami.
- L meets the remaining task force members in a private hotel room.
- The task force begins reviewing surveillance tapes.
- That night, L narrows the suspects down to those being investigated by Raye Iwamatsu.
- April 3, 2006
- L informs the task force of revised suspect list and decides to bug the Yagami and Kitamura households.
- Naomi finds and questions Shiori as part of her investigation into Raye's death.
- Naomi and Shiori meet up with Light, and Naomi accuses Light of being involved with Raye's death.
- L has surveillance set up in the Yagami and Kitamura households.
- Light realizes someone has been in his room, and he convinces Ryuk to find the cameras.
- April 5, 2006
- Third day of surveillance.
- Reports come in that criminals have died of heart attacks, but it is not enough to clear L's suspicions.
- April 9, 2006
- Seventh day of surveillance.
- Using a bag of potato chips as cover, Light kills new criminals.
- Toru Kashimayama dies of a heart attack, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- L announces that the surveillance can be removed.
- April 10, 2006
- Ryuk confirms that the bugs have been removed.
- April 15, 2006
- Naomi Misora calls L and tells him that she will prove that Light is Kira.
- At 14:15, Shiori Akino calls Light and invites him to Omei Art Gallery, while held at gunpoint by Naomi.
- At 14:55, Shiori is shot by Naomi and dies in Light's arms, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- At 14:55, Naomi Misora commits suicide by shooting herself in the head, killed by Light using the Death Note.
- Light is welcomed into the Task Force. He and L meet for the first time.
- Misa Amane is attacked by Ryotaro Sakajo, an assistant director of her show.
- Ryotaro Sakajo dies of a heart attack, killed by the shinigami Gelus using his Death Note.
- Gelus dies as punishment for saving a human's life.
- Rem brings Gelus's Death Note to the human world and gives it to Misa Amane.
- April 29, 2006
- Sayu Yagami and a friend attend the Sakura TV festival.
- A video from the second Kira airs on Sakura TV at 2:59 pm.
- Mogi dies of a heart attack at the Sakura TV festival, killed by Misa Amane using the Death Note.
- Misa Amane sees Light Yagami with her Shinigami eyes and realizes that he is Kira.
- May 11, 2006
- Misa Amane and L both visit Light on campus.
- L has Misa apprehended and put into confinement on suspicion of being the second Kira.
- May 15, 2006
- Misa Amane's fifth day of confinement.
- Misa asks Rem to kill her, but Rem convinces her to give up ownership instead. Misa loses her memories of the Death Notes and of being the second Kira.
- Light Yagami takes ownership of Misa's Death Note.
- May 16, 2006
- Misa Amane's sixth day of confinement.
- Light buries one of the Death Notes and releases Rem to find another Kira.
- Light voluntarily begins confinement to prove he isn't Kira.
- Soichiro thoroughly searches his son's room for evidence.
- May 29, 2006
- Misa Amane's nineteenth day of confinement; Light Yagami's fourteenth day of confinement.
- New criminals have begun to die of heart attacks, killed by Kiyomi Takada using the Death Note.
- June 2, 2006
- Misa Amane's twenty-third day of confinement; Light Yagami's eighteenth day of confinement.
- Misa Amane and Light Yagami's confinements end. They are both given medical treatment.
- July 7, 2006
- The village of Bangnum, Thailand, is bombed, causing a deadly viral outbreak.
- F gives a young Thai boy instructions on how to contact Watari, and gives him a computer chip.
- F dies, drawing attention to himself to save the boy.
- F's biomonitors flatline, noticed by H.
- H sends Watari an email alerting him and L of F's death.
- L writes his own name in the Death Note, specifying that he will die in 23 days.
- July 10, 2006
- L has 20 days left to live.
- Watari dies of a heart attack, killed by Rem using the Death Note.
- Rem dies as punishment for saving a human life.
- L fakes his death to trick Light.
- Light Yagami and Misa Amane are discovered and cornered by the Task Force.
- Light Yagami dies of a heart attack, killed by Ryuk using the Death Note.
- L burns the Death Notes.
- Misa Amane loses her memories of being the second Kira since her Death Note was burned.
- L emails other Wammy's House members, informing them that Watari has died.
- K responds to L's email.
- July 11, 2006
- L has 19 days left
- L contacts Italian authorities and gives them evidence against Alfredo Cassio, who has been murdering clergymen.
- L contacts French authorities and gives evidence that Princess Joanne's death was an assassination.
- L contacts American authorities and gives evidence that the leader or an arms syndicate is Rod Ross.
- July 2006, date unknown, between 11-15
- Matsuda visits L one last time and brings him cake.[6]
- July 29, 2006
- L has 1 day left to live.
- L brings the boy to Wammy's House and names him Near.
- July 30, 2006
- Soichiro Yagami sees L one last time.
- L Lawliet dies peacefully in his sleep from a heart attack, caused by writing his own name down in the Death Note 23 days earlier.
2007[]
- February 28, 2007
- Sayu and Sachiko make a birthday cake for Light.
- Sayu brings an umbrella to her father and they walk home together.
- Misa wishes Light a happy birthday with a picture of him in her family shrine.
- Ryuk flies around Tokyo Tower.
2015[]
- Date unknown
- Tsukuru Mishima passes a polygraph test performed by Touta Matsuda, and he is allowed into the Task Force.
2016[]
- November 19, 2016
- Alexey Ivanov dies of an overdose, killed with a Death Note.
- December 7, 2016
- Roger Irving dies by jumping off the roof of his office building, killed by Yuki Shien with a Death Note.
- December 10, 2016
- Sakura Aoi goes on a killing spree in Shibuya.
- Sakura dies of a heart attack, killed by Yuki Shien with a Death Note.
- December 17, 2016
- Using L's image, Ryuzaki responds to Kira's message on Daily Station.
- At 3:32pm, Yuki Shien joins a private chatroom and converses with Ryuzaki.
- At 4pm, Touta Matsuda dies by shooting himself in the head, killed by Yuki Shien with a Death Note.
- Sugawara shuts down the Task Force and takes over the investigation.
- Tsukuru Mishima discovers Ryuzaki's hidden message to Kira and confronts him at his home.
- Mishima is questioned and detained for allegedly hiding information from the Task Force regarding Light Yagami's son.
- December 18, 2016
- Ryuzaki gets Mishima out of jail.
- Kuromoto dies of a heart attack, killed by Misa Amane with the Death Note.
- Uragami dies of a heart attack, killed by Misa Amane with the Death Note.
- Misa Amane dies of a heart attack after writing her own name in the Death Note.
- Mishima touches a Death Note and gets his memories back.
- Yuki Shien dies by being shot by police.
- Sho Nanase dies of a heart attack, killed by Arma with a Death Note to save Mishima's life for Ryuzaki.
- Arma dies as punishment for saving a human life.
- December 25, 2016[7]
- Ryuzaki visits Tsukuru Mishima in prison and has Mishima released to find the stolen Death Notes.
- Ryuzaki dies of a heart attack, killed by Tsukuru Mishima writing his name down in the Death Note days earlier.
References[]
- ↑ Death Note (2006), about 3:55 into the film the date is shown on newspapers.
- ↑ Light remembers that it was one month earlier that he got the Death Note, and he got the Death Note in October, placing this day sometime in November.
- ↑ 120 days before L writes his name in the Death Note.
- ↑ Date is confirmed when the details of Osoreda's death are revealed in the Death Note.
- ↑ Date is confirmed on surveillance tapes reviewed by the task force.
- ↑ Events shown in Matsuda's spin-off short film. The cake box is seen on L's desk on July 16th, but not before the 11th.
- ↑ Ryuzaki's date of death is visible when Mishima is shown writing his name in the Death Note.