TV Series · 2006 · TV Series · 2000s
Death Note
Scored from 617 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
High school student Light Yagami discovers a supernatural notebook that grants him the power to kill anyone by writing their name in it. He uses this power to eliminate criminals and reshape society according to his ideals, while a mysterious detective known only as L works to identify and stop him.
Death Note is a 2006 thriller, mystery and supernatural television series starring Mamoru Miyano, Kappei Yamaguchi and Haruka Terui. Episodes run about 24m. It was made in Japan. Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata created it. Its certificate is TV-14. It plays in Japanese.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 74 of whom clear the calibration test. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 617 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 704 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Death Note lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 617.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
