Crunchyroll to stream live-action Death Note drama to the UK

As well as their latest anime announcements, the weekend also saw Crunchyroll add a major new Japanese drama offering to their line-up - what's more, it's going to be available in the UK to boot!

Thus, as of Thursday, 9th July, the new live-action Death Note drama will be airing on the service, with new episodes appearing every week at 3:30AM. Here's what Crunchyroll themselves have to say about this new adaptation:

Based on the wildly popular manga and anime series of the same name, Death Note centers around a teenager named Light Yagami, who finds a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, or death god. Once he discovers that any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, he begins to use it as a vigilante and bring justice to criminals. However, as criminals begin dropping dead left and right, the authorities become suspicious and turn to genius detective L to try and track down the killer. A deadly game of wits begins as Light tries to stay one step ahead of the police with Light hot on his heels on pursuit.

The drama will feature a different cast than the previous live-action movies, with Masataka Kubota, who also starred as Akira in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin movie, being cast as Light, Kento Yamazaki, who also was in the drama No Dropping Out -Back to School at 35- as Ryo Akutsu, will be playing L, and Mio Yuki, Yukiko in the live-action Assassination Classroom, stars as Near.

You'll be able to watch this live-action drama from this Crunchyroll page.