Death Note in other media

Death Note's reception and praise by critics has allowed the franchise to garner much attention in both Japan and overseas. However, this has also exposed Death Note to become a subject of parody in various television shows, anime and even comic books.

Full Metal Panic
An episode features Light, Misa, L and possibly Soichiro in a cameo exercising.

Gin Tama
Episode 25 of the anime is completely "Death Note themed". Ryuk even makes a cameo at the end of the episode.

They Are My Noble Masters
In one episode, the character Yume (which means "dream" in Japanese) aqcuires a notebook titled the "Yume Note". The scene where she uses it is a parody of a scene in episode 8 of the anime.

Keroro Gunso
Similar to Gin Tama, episode 185 of Keroro Gunso features a "Death Note theme". The end of the episode parodies the final episode of the Death Note anime.

Seitokai No Ichizon
has this scene.

Kurohime
has a cameo appearance of a shinigami, who is supposed to be similar to Ryuk.

Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai
In the drama CD involves the club members as voice actors for an RPG whose characters were based on their likeness. Turns out the game they were to have voice roles in — Heaven of the East — is actually an eroge, and everyone is not happy that Rika didn't tell them. Cue Rika's reaction: Rika: "Just as planned." A shout out to Death Note.

Gintama
On episode 25, this line: "You should hate me more, curse me, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world." Same episode as above, to finish up the strategizing that was going on, Ryuk appears at the end.

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
At the beginning of Episode 7, the main character hides his porn the same way Light hides the death note in his desk.

Hayate the combat butler
Chapter seven makes a reference to Watari and later a girl holds the death note. There is also a poster theta has the caption Birth Note on it, and an apple.

Bart Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror
Bart Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror Volume 14 of the annual Treehouse of Horror comic books features a parody of Death Note titled "Murder, He Wrote".


 * The comic starts with Bart showing Milhouse a notebook that he just found. Jimbo steals the book from him, becasue it "totally matches [his] shirt". Bart yells at him to give it back, but Jimbo says that he already's written his name in it. Bart goes to complain to princible skinner, but Jimbo is already hanging dead on the monkey bars.


 * Later in the day, Bart is sitting in his room. He looks through the notebook, and notices that Jimbo isn't the only person to put their name in the note book, along with Harry Houdini, Amelia Airhart, and Buddy Holly. Just as he is about to put his name in the notebook, Krusty the clown appears and tells him that he shouldn't. Bart exclaims that he should be dead, when he died in the middle of one of his sketches from a heart attack. Krusty tells Bart that he is now a ghost, and that if Bart writes a name in the book that they will die, and that if he doesn't write how they die, the notebook will choose their death.


 * Krusty tells Bart that he found the book a year prior. He thought it would make a good little black book, but the girls whos names he wrote in the book would never be home. He found out later that the girls had all dies in strange ways. He didn't use the book anymore, but kept it in his dressing room. One day, a fan, Bart, asked him for his autograph. He then found out that it works, even if you wrip out the page.


 * Krusty asks Bart who he is going to kill. Bart, suprised, tells Krusty that he won't write any name in the notebook. Krusty insists that some people deserve to die, but Bart desides to just ignore him. Watching Tv instead.


 * On the news, a man named Bob has been released from prison and plans to kill Bart. Bart quickly writes Bob's name in the notebook. Bob is instanly attacked by a swarm of bees, falls into a Pika Dogs Hotdog cart, and stumbles into the street, where a steemroller, from Springfield's Annual Steamroller Parade, runs him over. Bart exclaims that that's exactly what he had written in the book.


 * Chief Wiggum is now on the Tv along with Kent, the news reporter. Wiggum tells Kent that Bob's death wasn't an accident, as he just recieved a text-message from a super detective, who goes by the codename of L, that it was actually a murder. Bart wonders who it could be, as Lisa walks by on a cellphone. Bart throws the book away, telling him that it's too dangerous, and Krusty says that he's no fun.


 * Later that day, Bart's mother is looking through Bart's room. She notices the notebook and is annoyed that he would throw out a prefectly good notebook. She keeps it and decides that she will use one page for her shopping list and leave the rest for someone else to use it. Later, Bart and his father are watching TV. Betty Crocker, Uncle Ben, and Sir Francis had all dies under mysterious cercumstances, Homer is upset, claiming that Sir Francis cracked the Cookie to cream code. Marge walks in the house, and asks who would like to help her bring in the groceries. Homer tells her that Bart will help.


 * While in the kitchen, Bart looks over his mother's shopping list. Betty Crocker Cake Mix, Uncle Ben's Wild Rice, Oreo Cookies, Mell-o gelatine, "Eat It!" potato chips, and apples. Bart realizes that all the products that she bought are named after people that had dies that day. He then realizes that the page is from the notebook.


 * In the living room, Ned runs into the Simpson's house while being caught on fire, with a dress with sharks biting his butt. Homer, holding the notebook, tells Bart that's what he wrote today. Bart asks why he would write something like that, and Homer says that it's Kill Flanders Fanfiction, and he writes it to relax.


 * Chief Wiggum shows up at their door, claiming that "[They] had a report of a flamming flanders running through here." He looks at the body and tells Marge and Homer that L is on the case, and that the series of deaths are very close to being solved.


 * Bart runs up to his room and Krusty tells Bart that he must kill Wigguma and L if he wants to stay out of jail for the rest of his life, and anyone else who has seen him with the notebook. Bart says outloud that that would be Principle Skinner, Dolph, Kearny and Milhouse. Just then, his mother apears in the doorway. She thanks Bart, telling him that she was just going to ask him who he would like to invite to his birthday party, and that she would just add those names, and they would be having coconut cake. Bart screams no as she writes, but she just mistakes it for complaining about the cake.


 * A few seconds later, Dolph and Learny have both died, by giving wach other weagies. A freak windstorm accident caused Princible skinner to be inpaled by his own mother. Milhouse was told by his parents that they were getting back together, and just froze with a wide grin on his face. Dr. Hibert tells his parents that his body wasn't used to the emotion and it shut down.


 * Back at the Simpson's house, Bart goes into Lisa's room to ask her what she's doing. She tells him that she is getting all the updates about the deaths. Bart tells her that they'll probably never find out what caused all of the deaths, and that it's probably just a coinsidence. Lisa disagrees and tells Bart that it probably isn't a coinsidence and that the killer has probably made a fatal mistake, as criminals always do. Bart thinks that she knows and wonders if she could be L. Krusty replies to Bart, and he says outloud to stop reading his thoughts. Krusty tells Bart that he has to write her name, but he tells him, out loud, that he can't. Lisa turns away from her computer and asks Bart if he said something. She wasn't listening as she was about to sent an email to the police. Krusty tells Bart again that he should do it now, as he won't be able to do it later. Bart throws the book at lisa and says that he can't hurt his sister. Bart admits to causing Sideshow Bob, and being the reason for the other deaths. Lisa is suprised, as she had no idea.


 * Chief Wiggum steps in the room and tells Bart that he heard everything, and that he is going to jail for murder. Bart tells Lisa that she emailed the police. She tells Bart that she was just going to email about another notebook she had found. There is instructions inside that say that it is part of a set, and that it could bring dead back to life. Bart takes the book and brings Krusty back to life. Krusty is annoyed though because he had just found a way to heaven, and was about to make out with Shelly Winters.


 * Bart tells Lisa that he thought she was L. Ralph, who just entered the room, says that it was him. His father explains that he likes to help to solve crimes, but never gets anything right, but enjoys getting mentioned on TV. Bart asks why he didn't use "R" instead of "L", and Chief Wiggum replies that Ralph isn't too good with the alpabet and tells Ralph to resite the alpabet. Ralph says "A, B, C, D, Blue, Five, Cow..." Bart asks what is going to happen to him now, but Wiggum says that, since it's his first offence, he won't go to jail as long as he brings his victums back to life.


 * In the next few days, Bart has his party. His victims attend and they are still injered, but alive, like Sideshow Bob is still flat, Milhouse is still smiling and Principle Skinner is still impailed. Meanwhile, Marge discovers that Ned Flanders is laying dead, as pinguines had pecked him to death. She asks Homer if he had caused it, and he tells her that he was going to bring him bak to life. Marge tells him to be sure that he does. Homer throes the book in the recycling bin and joins the reast for ice cream.

Bart
Bart is the main character in the manga. He has a similar role to Light Yagami, but none of his mannerisms.

Lisa
Lisa is the sister of Bart. She shares many mannerisms with L. Including her posture, love of cake and putting her finger in her mouth.


 * Krusty the clown is Ryuk
 * There is a parody of Jello, called Mell-o, a reference to Mello.
 * There is a bag of chips called "Eat It! Potato Chips" are a reference to when Light says "I'll take a potato chip... AND EAT IT!"

Real Death Note
A video of the Internet conducted by the group Smosh that, an adult finds the Death Note (which is always the cause of death is by suffocation) and is defeated by the friend that finds the "Life Note" that brings people from the dead to the living again.

Meath Note
A series of adult films where the female protagonist owns a notebook similar to the Death Note. Humorously, rather than kill people, its sole function is to force people into having intercourse with the owner.

"Shinigami" by Machinae Supremacy"
The song seems to be about Ryuk watching Light.