Death Note (film series)/Timeline

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 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
 * Various news outlets report on the number of suspicious heart attack deaths among criminals.


 * November 2005, date unknown
 * Light wins a basketball game and buys Shiori Akino lunch.

2006

 * March 9, 2006
 * 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's being followed, but says nothing.


 * March 27, 2006
 * Light realizes he's 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
 * Light and Shiori go out and take the bus, 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 (later read by Naomi Misora).


 * April 1, 2006
 * Naomi Misora follows her fiancee 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 fiance 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.
 * 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, decide 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 is set up in the Yagami and Kitamura households.
 * Light realizes someone's 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 Bangnum, Thailand is bombed to contain 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.


 * 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
 * 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.