Light Yagami (夜神 月, Yagami Raito?), also known as Kira (キラ?) is the protagonist of the mangá and animê series Death Note. He is an extremely intelligent, athletic, popular, but bored, young man who finds the Death Note dropped por the Shinigami Ryuk por sheer chance. In the Japanese version of the animê he is voiced por Mamoru Miyano, and in the English version por Brad Swaile.

Ohba described Light's life as "ruined" once he obtained the Death Note, and that Light became a victim of the Death Note "in many ways," Ohba described Light as bearing good faith intentions and having a "very...

Light Yagami is an extremely intelligent young man who resents what appears to be a relentless increase of crime and corruption in the world around him. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", lying on the ground. The Death Note's instructions claim that if a human's name is written within it, that person shall die. Light is initially skeptical of the notebook's authenticity, but after experimenting with it, he realizes that the Death Note is real. After meeting with the anterior owner of the Death Note, a shinigami named Ryuk,...

There have been various copycat crimes around the world which were based on Death Note. On September 28, 2007, two notes written with Latin characters stating "Watashi wa Kira desu" (わたしわきらです, meaning "I am Kira" in Japanese) were found near the unidentified remains of a Caucasian male in Belgium. Nothing was found on or near the victim besides these two notes.[90] A senior at the Franklin Military Academy in Richmond, Virginia, United States was suspended after being caught possessing a replica "Death Note" notebook with the names of fellow students.[91]

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Main characters
Light Yagami
Main article: Light Yagami

The main character of Death Note, Light is an extremely intelligent but bored 17-year old student. When he finds the Death Note, dropped in the human world por the shinigami Ryuk, he decides to use it to kill all criminals and earns the título Kira. His ultimate goal is to cleanse the world of evil to create a world without criminals and then reign over this new world as its "god."
L
Main article: l (Death Note)

L is the world's top-rated detective and tasked with tracking down and arresting Kira. He often takes drastic strategies to confuse and...

I awoke to the sound of my alarm clock going off. I slammed my hand on the snooze button and lazily sat up.
I really didn’t feel like going to school today but I knew I had to…

I slid out of bed, got into my school uniform, sat in front of the mirror, and began to brush my long dark red hair.

“Suzuki? You up?” my mother called from downstairs.

“Yeah,” I called back down to her.

“Well hurry up and get ready or you’ll be late.”

I sighed.

Whatever…

I put on my makeup then went downstairs. My mother was in the kitchen, sitting at the table, and looked up at me with a sad smile when...

Light hadn't texted or talked to me in a few days and it really pissed me off. I had been led on before por countless guys and I hated it!

I was about ready to soco him right in the face as I stormed up to him in class that Friday when he turned around and explained that he had been real busy with his studies and how sorry he was. I cooled off and accepted it. He invited me over after school and I agreed to go início with him.

My mom would just have to get over it.

"So what do you think of Kira?" he asked as we walked to his house.

"Umm I'm not sure. I mean, crimanals do need to die, yes, but my...

The last period of the day, finally.
I got in my assento and got out my Religons book and notes. When I looked around the room, I noticed Light and I were the only ones there. He looked just as bored as I did just waiting there...

I blushed lightly as I stared at him. Our seats weren't very far so I could see him closely. Every flawless angle...
As I stared, I must have bumped my escrivaninha, mesa because my pencil rolled off my escrivaninha, mesa and straight toward him!

He looked down at it then looked at me, "I bleive you dropped this..." he picked it up and came over to me to give it back. "U-uh yeah...thanks..." I took...

Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto?) is a Japanese mangá series created por writer Tsugumi Ohba and mangá artist Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a universidade student who discovers a sobrenatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth por a shinigami (death god) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose face they have seen, por composição literária the victim's name in the notebook. The story follows Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him, his opponents and a mysterious...