The miniseries focuses on the three new lead characters of the film Death Note: Light Up the NEW World: Tsukuru Mishima, Ryuzaki, and Yuki Shien. Each episode provides backstory for one of the characters and bridges the 10-year gap between the previous films, which canonically took place in 2005-2006, and the new film taking place in 2016.
Japanese study overview
Death Note: New Generation is a Japanese drama of 8,150 characters, with 1,112 unique words and 587 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 1,112 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 五頭Gotou×24
- 事件event×23
- 僕I×20
- 俺I×16
- 夜night×15
- 殺すto kill×15
- 死ぬto die×14
- 夏河Natsuka×14
- お前you×12
- 年year×11
- 所有者owner×11
- 君you×10
- 三島Santō×6
- 神月tenth lunar month×6
- 慎弥Shin'ya×5
- 変死unnatural death×5
- 対策本部countermeasures headquarters×5
- 金友Kanatomo×5
- 滑川Katsukawa×5
- 神さんGod×4