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...