List of Death Note chapters

Tsugumi Ohba stated that most of the chapter titles for Death Note were selected during the development of the thumbnails. He sometimes came up with several names and consulted his editor about the selection. They often decided on the name of the following chapter while he made corrections to the one he was then working on. Ohba selected the names of Chapters 107 and 108 before the thumbnail stages. After Chapter 3, Ohba decided each chapter name would be a single Japanese word. Around the time he was naming Chapter 4, he began to "have fun" with the names and began trying to avoid spoilers in the names. He wanted many of the titles to have multiple meanings.[17]

Ohba decided to end the series at 108 chapters when he decided how it would end, and he kept this in mind when he created thumbnails. When Kiyomi Takada was reintroduced, Ohba had already determined the plot, chapter numbers, and Yellow Box warehouse scene. He had difficulty ending the series in exactly 108 chapters.[18]

The issues of the original Japanese manga are labeled as "pages" rather than "chapters". They are labeled "chapters" in the English-language Viz editions.

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Ten years after the events of Kira, Ryuk returns to the human world and approaches Minoru Tanaka, a middle-school student as intelligent as Light, and offers him the Death Note. Minoru inquires about Kira's use of the book, as well as the rules of the Death Note. As the world has adopted more intense surveillance to prevent another Kira incident, Minoru devises a scheme and willingly gives Ryuk the notebook back but asks him to return in two years before he loses his memories. Two years later, Ryuk returns and touches Minoru with the book, restoring his memories. Minoru reveals his plan is to auction off the power Kira had to the highest bidder, and uses Ryuk to have this broadcast over television. The bids over social media escalate quickly, while Near and the surviving SPK members, having had touched the Death Note previously, see Ryuk via camera footage but no way to trace him to the new "A-Kira". SPK try to catch Ryuk during another message but inadvertently appear on-screen, giving weight to the seriousness of the auction, and soon world leaders start bidding, including the presidents of China and the United States (appearing similar to Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, respectively, though otherwise not named)[39][40] The US president offers a bid of a quadrillion yen, upon which Minoru decides to close the auction. Through Ryuk, Minoru instructs the U.S. to deposit the amount across all accounts of Japanese citizens under 60 years old with Yotsuba bank accounts, an amount that comes to roughly one billion yen per person. However, the activities on Earth over the Death Note have alerted the Shinigami King, who orders Ryuk to come once he leaves Minoru. After the U.S. follows through on payment, Minoru relinquishes the Death Note again for Ryuk to deliver and asks him never to see him again. Near realizes that A-Kira's activities have made it impossible to identify his identity outside of one to benefit from this economic boon, and abandons the case. When Ryuk arrives at the White House, Ryuk reveals there was a change in the Death Note rules by the King: that anyone attempting to sell or purchase the book would be killed upon completion of the sale. The President refuses to take ownership of the book, and instead will assert that he still has the power of Kira but chooses not to use it to improve his standing. To follow the new rule, Ryuk writes Minoru's name in the Death Note when he attempts to take out his share of the newfound wealth, killing him.