Telly Leung plays the bored death god Ryuk, who opts to accompany Light on his murderous quest for perfect justice. Death Note : The Musical first ran in Japan and South Korea in 2015. Death Note : The Musical 's website is at https://deathnotethemusical.com/. What I loved about the Death Note anime was that so often these characters were animated with their mouths closed, but the audience could hear their thoughts, which happens naturally in a musical. And so in many ways, the Death Note musical is aligned with the source material.