Death Note II

Death Note II is a 2019 Japanese animated television series that acts as a direct sequel to the manga and anime. It takes place in modern times, as world renowned senior detective of the Japanese Police, T.J. Ichi investigates the New Kira cases that happened over the last four months using high spec technology.

The show will be produced by SurgeAnime, Madhouse, VAP, and Nippon Television and Seikunime and animated by Madhouse, Studio Acesky, Venga Tokyo, and Venga Atlanta. The anime will air in the Summer 2019 season on TV Surge Nippon, with a slightly uncensored airing on SurgeAnime the night after. It is currently unlicensed in the United States.

Characters

 * Akira Ichi - The son of the world renowned detective, T.J. Ichi. He gathers the Notebook after Ryuk decides to drop another one down to see how things will go this time. For fun. (voiced by Masataka Kubota for original version, voiced by Billy Kametz in the English version)

Production
Madhouse, Nippon Television, and VAP met with SurgeAnime, Ohba, and Obata about a new anime based off Death Note. Ohba and Obata gave Madhouse and SurgeAnime their blessing. Production of the new series started in the early summer of 2018, with animating going back and forth from Japan at Madhouse, to the secondary studio at Venga Atlanta, to the support studio at Studio Acesky, and back to Madhouse.

In April of 2019, it was reported that the total number of episodes will be 22.

Staff

 * Original Creator: Tsugumi Ohba (writer), Takeshi Obata (illustrator)
 * Director: Furuya Renzo (Adventure of Vanos, A New World Upon Us)
 * Character Designers: Kawata Masumi (Cybernetic, b0rderw0rlds), Koki Maemi (Adventures of The Man Called Gold: The European Files)