Is Death Note on Netflix? The UK removal date, the US listing, and where else it streams
Five separate products carry the name Death Note, and they sit in five different rights positions. That is why one page says it is leaving Netflix while the next says it is staying, and both can be correct. The product that was listed to leave is the anime series. The one that is not going anywhere is the Netflix film with Nat Wolff.
What follows separates the five, names the source behind each removal date instead of repeating it, and explains why the answer is different in Berlin than in London. Streaming rights to this title are sold market by market and renewed on their own clocks, so no single removal list covers every Netflix country.
The anime, 37 episodes: listed for removal from Netflix UK on 1 October 2026 by What's on Netflix. An AnimeBlurayUK post on X gave 30 September as the last day to watch.
Netflix US: 15 October 2026 on the same tracker, a single source that Netflix never confirmed.
The Netflix film is a Netflix Original, which is why it carries no end date anywhere.
The four Japanese live-action films turned up on Netflix Japan and on no other Netflix in the sample.
After Netflix, on the September listings: Crunchyroll across much of Europe, and free with ads on five services in the United States.
What the listings said about Death Note on Netflix, country by country
The 2006 Death Note anime was on Netflix in eighteen of the nineteen countries in a JustWatch snapshot dated 27 September 2026. What's on Netflix listed it for removal from Netflix UK on 1 October and from Netflix US on 15 October. Nothing has been measured since that snapshot. The 2017 Netflix film with Nat Wolff is a Netflix Original and carries no end date.
The table below records what each source published, with its date and its owner in the cell. Read the second column as a claim with an owner, not as a live reading of the catalogue.
Region | What the published listings said |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | Present in the JustWatch snapshot dated 27 September 2026. Listed for removal on 1 October 2026 by What's on Netflix. Separately, an AnimeBlurayUK post on X dated 7 September gave 30 September as the last day to watch. |
United States | Present in the same snapshot. Listed for removal on 15 October 2026 by What's on Netflix only, not confirmed by Netflix. |
Japan | Present in the same snapshot, no end date published, and the only Netflix in it carrying the four Japanese live-action films. |
Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, Philippines, South Africa | Present in the same snapshot, no end date published. |
South Korea | Not on Netflix in that snapshot, and on no service in it at all. |
Why no list here is current: the snapshot behind this table is dated 27 September 2026, both removal dates in it have since passed, and no later check is recorded on this page. Anyone publishing a country-by-country table of this title as today's truth is copying an older one.
Five products share the name, and only one was listed to leave
Most of the confusion on this question is not about dates. It is that two very different products are both called Death Note on Netflix, and the one that generates the removal headlines is not the one most people are looking at.
The anime series, 37 episodes
Broadcast from 4 October 2006 to 27 June 2007 and licensed to Netflix rather than owned by it. A licence has an expiry date, which is the entire reason this title appears on removal lists while the film never does.
The Netflix film with Nat Wolff
A Netflix Original, so Netflix holds the rights worldwide and has nothing to renew. It was on Netflix in every country in the snapshot, with no end date in any of them. If a page tells you Death Note is safe on Netflix, this is the title it is describing.
The four Japanese live-action films
Released in 2006, 2006, 2008 and 2016. In the snapshot they appeared on Netflix Japan and on no other Netflix. For the United States, the UK and the Netherlands no streaming route was listed for them at all, only discs and digital purchase.
The Japanese television drama, eleven episodes
A separate 2015 adaptation, listed on Prime Video in the United States and the UK and not on Netflix in either. People searching for the Death Note series without meaning the anime often land on this one and conclude Netflix has lost it.
The game that gets filed as a series
Death Note: Killer Within is a Grounding Inc. and Bandai Namco game released on 5 November 2024, not a Netflix show. It sits in enough listings as a title that it pollutes search results for the series.
Where the two removal dates came from, and how firm each one is
Both dates come from trackers, not from Netflix. That does not make them wrong, it means the confidence behind them differs, and the difference is worth knowing before you plan around either.
The UK date has two sources that agree
The What's on Netflix UK removal list, published 16 September and updated 21 September 2026, filed "Death Note (1 Season)" under 1 October 2026. An AnimeBlurayUK post on X from 7 September gave 30 September. Those two do not contradict each other: a last day to watch and the day a title is gone from the catalogue are two labels for the same boundary. Neither is a notice from Netflix, and neither has been rechecked since it was published.
The US date has one source, and a history that undercuts it
The same site's US list, published 25 September and updated 26 September 2026, filed "Death Note (Multiple Seasons)" under 15 October. No second source confirmed it, Netflix did not confirm it, and that tracker had already listed 15 October for the same title in 2022. An inherited entry from an earlier licence cycle cannot be ruled out, so treat the US date as likely rather than settled.
What changes for the reader
If you are in the UK, the listed date has passed, and whether the licence actually lapsed is something only your own account can show you. If it has lapsed, the practical question is where to watch the anime instead. If you are in the United States, the title may still be sitting in the catalogue, and the ad-supported routes recorded further down mean the answer need not cost anything either way. Nowhere does a removal listing justify buying a subscription in a hurry.
Why the answer changes by country, and how to check yours
The honest answer for most countries is that nobody outside Netflix and the rights holder knows yet. Understanding why is more useful than another country list, because it tells you which evidence to trust when you look it up yourself next month.
Licences are sold market by market
Nippon Television and its co-owners sell streaming rights per territory, to different buyers, for different terms. A UK window closing on 1 October says nothing about the Dutch window, and the two documented dates in this case are two weeks apart inside one company. That is also why the anime has no single home: it is on Netflix in one market and on Crunchyroll in the one next door.
What the trackers can and cannot show
JustWatch returned no Netflix end date for any of the nineteen countries in the snapshot, including the two with documented departures. The same field was populated for HBO Max in Brazil and Mexico, at 31 December 2026, so the gap is not a broken field. These tools read what is in the catalogue now and are not told what Netflix plans. The season count shows the same limit: the US list said "Multiple Seasons", the UK list said "1 Season", and JustWatch said one season everywhere. Episode count is the figure that holds, at 37.
The check that settles it for your account
Search the title inside your own Netflix app and read the title card, because availability follows the country your account is registered in, not the country you happen to be sitting in. If a licence is ending, Netflix adds a last-day notice there. If the title does not appear at all, the licence has already lapsed in your market, and the alternatives below are the next step rather than a different Netflix.
Where the anime streams after Netflix, and what owning it costs
This exit matters less than the headlines suggest, and that is the part most pages leave out. The anime is licensed widely rather than held exclusively, so a Netflix removal usually moves it to a service you can reach from the same sofa.
Subscription routes outside Netflix
In the snapshot the series was on Crunchyroll in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and South Africa. In the United States it was on Hulu, which Disney is folding into the Disney+ app during 2026, and in Brazil and Mexico on HBO Max with a listed end date of 31 December 2026. One piece of old advice to discard: Crunchyroll closed its free tier on 31 December 2025, so a free Crunchyroll account is no longer a route to anything.
Free with ads in the United States
American readers have the least to solve here. The series was listed free with ads on Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home Free and Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads. Five ad-supported routes to the same 37 episodes is the reason a US removal from Netflix is not worth paying to work around.
Buying it outright is priced oddly by market
Fandango At Home listed the complete series at $29.99, the cheapest digital purchase in the snapshot. Netflix's own ads-plan page lists Standard with Ads at $8.99 a month, so owning it costs roughly three and a third months of that plan. No other Netflix plan price was recorded here, so the comparison is to Standard with Ads and nothing else. The Apple TV Store sells the same episodes as a complete-series bundle, but no price for it was recorded on the day, so no comparison is offered for it.
Outside the United States the same episodes cost considerably more. In Germany, Amazon Video listed the series at €69.98 in SD and €79.98 in HD, and Thalia listed the DVD set at €50.99. Those are shop prices from the snapshot rather than currency conversions, which is what makes the gap with the $29.99 US price interesting. No Crunchyroll price was recorded for the UK or Germany, so no subscription comparison is offered for those two markets. In the UK the series was sold as a download by the Apple TV Store, Amazon Video and the Sky Store, with no per-store price recorded, so none is quoted. The decision this leaves you with is personal: buy only if you want it ad-free and permanently, because in the United States the ad-supported routes in those listings cost nothing and the one monthly price recorded here sits well under the purchase price.
What a VPN changes here, and what it does not
What it moves, and what it leaves alone
A VPN changes the network location your connection appears to come from. It does not change the country your account is billed in, it does not add a licence to your plan, and switching regions to reach a catalogue conflicts with Netflix's terms of use. Netflix also blocks commercial VPN address ranges and maintains that blocking, so a server that worked for someone last month proves nothing about this month.
For most readers of this page the tool is aimed at the wrong problem. In the snapshot the anime was listed free with ads on five United States services, and on Crunchyroll across much of Europe, so for most readers there was nothing to unblock.
The one case where it is the right tool
Netflix Japan is the exception worth naming. It was the only Netflix in the snapshot carrying all four Japanese live-action films, and for the United States, the UK and the Netherlands those films had no streaming route listed at all. That is a catalogue with no substitute, which is a different situation from an anime series available on five other services.
If that is the case you are in, judge providers on what they commit to in writing rather than on unblocking claims that expire. The NordVPN review and the Surfshark review are the two most recently published on this site. A monthly plan is the sane commitment for a single catalogue you want to try, since the thing you are testing can stop working without notice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Death Note leaving Netflix?
In stages, and only the anime. What's on Netflix listed removal from Netflix UK on 1 October 2026, and an AnimeBlurayUK post on X gave 30 September as the last watch day. The same tracker listed 15 October 2026 for Netflix US, without confirmation from Netflix. No removal date was published for the other sixteen countries in the snapshot. The Netflix film with Nat Wolff is an Original and is not on any removal list.
Is Death Note on Netflix in the Netherlands?
It was present in the snapshot dated 27 September 2026, with no end date published. The UK and US dates sit two weeks apart, so neither is evidence for the Dutch one. Check the title card in your own account for a current answer.
Are the Japanese live-action films on Netflix?
Only on Netflix Japan in the snapshot, which covered nineteen countries. For the United States, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, India, the Philippines and Brazil they appeared only as discs or digital purchases.
Will a VPN put Death Note back on my Netflix?
Not reliably, and in most cases not usefully. Netflix blocks VPN ranges continuously, and the services that carried the anime in the September listings were mostly reachable without one. The exception is the live-action films on Netflix Japan. If that is what you are after, the VPN ranking is the place to start, and a monthly plan keeps the risk small.
How many episodes and seasons are there?
The anime runs to 37 episodes, broadcast between 4 October 2006 and 27 June 2007. Listings disagree on seasons, with the US tracker saying multiple and the UK tracker and JustWatch saying one, so the episode count is the figure to go by.
Last reviewed 27 October 2026, against availability listings dated 27 September 2026.
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