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I just finished watching _Death Note_ , but I am still confused whether I
watched the full story or not. I binged through the anime with 37 episodes.

For example, there is Beyond Birthday's theme on YouTube, but I never heard
his name in the anime?

What is _Death Note Relight_? What is _Death Note Rewrite_? Where can I get
these?

How many books/novels about Death Note are there in total?


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How many Death Note anime and manga are there?


The core of the Death Note series is comprised of the 108 manga chapters
created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata and its 37 episode anime adaptation
which covers the same material. Consuming either covers the entire main story
of Death Note and everything beyond that is supplemental which you can peruse
if you want more from the Death Note universe.

In roughly chronological order the pieces of Death Note supplemental media
are:

The [Death Note one-
shot](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note_Manga_Pilot) (2003) is the
pilot chapter for the Death Note manga which does not share a continuity with
the main series and features a different main character and a Death item not
seen in the main series.

[Death Note 13: How to
Read](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note_13:_How_to_Read) (2006) is
the unofficial 13th volume of the manga which is an encyclopedia style tie-in
book for the Death Note manga featuring character profiles, interviews with
the creators, etc. along with an exclusive set of yonkoma (4-panel) comics.

[Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder
Cases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_Another_Note:_The_Los_Angeles_BB_Murder_Cases)
(2006) is a prequel tie-in light novel penned by Nisio Isin (not the duo who
made the Death Note manga). The story features Mello's retelling of a case L
was involved in prior to the start of the main series.

The live action film [Death
Note](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_\(2006_film\)) (2006) is a
mostly faithful adaptation of the first 2 volumes of the manga and its sequel
[Death Note 2: The Last
Name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_2:_The_Last_Name) (2006)
continues the story where the previous film leaves off but veers away from the
source material and concludes with a film original ending which differs from
the manga/anime.

These live-action films lead into the spin-off light novel [L: change the
World](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/L:_Change_the_WorLd_\(novel\)) (2007)
penned by someone going by the pseudonym M and its film [L: change the
World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L:_Change_the_World) (2008) which are
both spin-offs from Death Note 2: The Last Name and not the Death Note manga
due to the differences in endings.

The anime films [Death Note: Relight - Visions of a
God](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note_Relight_1:_Visions_of_a_God)
(2007) and its sequel [Death Note: Relight 2 - L's
successors](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note_Relight_2:_L%27s_Successors)
(2008) are cinematic recaps of the first and second half of the main story
respectively with a framing story involving an unnamed Shinigami asking Ryuk
for a tale and Ryuk retelling the events of Death Note.

The live action film [Death Note: Light Up the New
World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note:_Light_Up_the_New_World)
(2016) and its associated light novel adaptation [Death Note: Light Up the NEW
World Film
Novelization](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note:_Light_Up_the_NEW_World_Film_Novelization)
(2016) are a direct sequel to Death Note 2: The Last Name and not the manga.
This is a wholly original story set 10 years after the events of DN2: TLN.

[The C-Kira story](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/The_C-Kira_Story) (2008)
and [The A-Kira story](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/The_a-Kira_Story)
(2020) are epilogue one-shot manga made by the original creators which take
place after the events of the main series detailing the further exploits of
Ryuk. These one-shots along with the pilot chapter, a pair of short manga
chapters (L-One Day and L-The Wammy's House) and the yonkoma from Death Note
13: How to Read were collected into a collection titled [Death Note: Short
Stories](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note:_Short_Stories) (2021)
which is set to be released in the West in 2022

We're going to stop here because this already covers a huge breadth of
supplemental material beyond Death Note's core story and the rabbit hole goes
even deeper to include things like [a photo
book](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/L_FILE_No._15), video games, [a
musical](https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Note:_The_Musical) and the
[Netflix adaptation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_\(2017_film\))
featuring everybody's favourite American high-schooler Light Turner.


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