About Death Note
Light Yagami is an extremely intelligent young man who resents the crime and corruption in the world. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", lying on the ground in the year 2003. 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 Death Note's authenticity, believing it is just a prank. However, after experimenting with it and killing two criminals, Light is forced to admit that the Death Note is real. After meeting with the previous owner of the Death Note, a shinigami named Ryuk, Light seeks to become "the God of the new world" by passing his judgment on criminals.
Soon, the number of inexplicable deaths of reported criminals catches the attention of the International Police Organization and a mysterious detective known only as "L". L quickly learns that the serial killer, dubbed by the public as "Kira" (derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the word "Killer"), is located in Japan. L also concludes that Kira can kill people without laying a finger on them. Light realizes that L will be his greatest nemesis, and qame of psychological cat and mouse between the two begins.
Death Note HistoryDeath Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a Japanese manga series created by the writer Tsugumi Ohba and illustrator Takeshi Obata. The series primarily centers around a high school student who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
Death Note was first serialized by Shueisha in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from the first issue in December 2003 to May 2006, with 108 chapters in total. The series has been published in its entirety in 12 tankōbon volumes in Japan and in North America. The series has been adapted into a pair of live-action films released in Japan on June 17, 2006 and November 3, 2006, and an anime series which aired in Japan from October 3, 2006 to June 26, 2007. Also, a novelization of the series, written by light novelist Ishin Nishio, was released in Japan on August 1, 2006.
Main CharactersL -
Considered one of the best detectives in the world, no one really knows much about the mysterious L. He speaks to his clients through faceless means such as his lap top, a PowerBook G4, and only takes on cases that interest him. [See also: Ryuuzaki]
Ryuuku -
A God of Death who tricked his boss into giving him two Death Notes. Out of boredom he drops one of them on Earth, and takes to following around the boy who found it. He takes a lot of interest in the travails of humans, and has a penchant for video
qames and apples.
Ryuuzaki -
The man most refer to as 'L', he was forced to show himself to the Japanese police during the Kira case. He is a young, highly intelligent boy who masquerades as several internationally reknowned detectives. Ryuuzaki is the name he uses with the Japanese police, while Ryuuga is the name he used to enroll in Raito's school. His real name is unkown so far in the story.
Kira/ Raito -
Raito is an above average seventeen-year-old boy when the reader first meets him. He is extremely intelligent, handsome, and popular. When he finds the Death Note he decides to create a kind of Utopia by killing off all the criminals in the world. In some scanlations he is called "Light" instead of Raito. After Raito starts killing off criminals he is given the name "Kira" by his fans, a name they derived from the word "Killer".
Other Characters Takeshi -
One of the Yotsuba corporation's employees, he is part of a board who decides which competitors should be killed to benefit the company. They use a third Kira to accomplish this. He is head of the TV Enterprise Department. Other board members: Hatori, Higuchi, Kida, Midou, Namikawa, Shimura, Takahashi [Appearance: ch. 37]
Aber -
A con artist who has worked with L in the past. He has extensive knowledge of psychology, linguistics, and diplomacy. [Appearance: ch.4]
Aizawa -
One of the five police agents who decide to work with L to pursue Kira, along with Yagami Souichirou, Matsuda, Ukita, and Mogi. [Appearance: ch.11]
Amane Misa -
Amane is a model and also the owner of a second Death Note. She uses it to become the 'second Kira' because she idolizes the first Kira and wants to meet him. Her parents were killed and the murderers were not punished, until the first Kira killed them. For that reason she would do almost anything for Kira, including putting herself at great risk. [Appearance: ch.23]
Coil -
A detective who is said to surpass even L, he is hired by Yotsuba Corporation to find out L's identity.
Danuvue -
In addition to L and Coil, Danuve is one of the three best detectives in the world.
Demegawa -
The director of sleazy television station Sakura TV, he was nonetheless integral in the Kira case. [Appearance: ch.22]
Hatori -
One of the Yotsuba corporation's employees, he is part of a board who decides which competitors should be killed to benefit the company. They use a third Kira to accomplish this. He is head of the Advertising Planning Division. Other board members: 001, Higuchi, Kida, Midou, Namikawa, Shimura, Takahashi [Appearance: ch. 37]
Kida -
One of the Yotsuba corporation's employees, he is part of a board who decides which competitors should be killed to benefit the company. They use a third Kira to accomplish this. He is head of the Lights Planning Department. Other board members: 001, Hatori, Higuchi, Midou, Namikawa, Shimura, Takahashi [Appearance: ch. 37]
Kitamura -
The vice director of Japan's police force.
Lind L. Taylor -
A criminal on death row who pretends to be L for the purposes of finding out more about "Kira". [Appearance: ch.2]
Matsuda -
A young officer on the Japanese police force. He's not taken very seriously by his peers, though he puts himself in several life-threatening scenarios in the pursuit for Kira. He also works undercover as Amane's manager. [Appearance: ch.3]
Midou Shingo -
One of the Yotsuba corporation's employees, he is part of a board who decides which competitors should be killed to benefit the company. They use a third Kira to accomplish this. He is head of financial planning. Other board members: 001, Hatori, Higuchi, Kida, Namikawa, Shimura, Takahashi [Appearance: ch. 37]
Misora Naomi -
Raye Penber's fiancee and, apparently, one of the FBI's brightest female agents until she quit to get married. Despite the fact that she's a strong American woman, she's perfectly docile to her fiance's statement that "it's true you were an outstanding FBI agent...but now you're just my fiancee" when she tries to help him with the Kira case. Argh. Uses the alias Maki Shouko. [Appearance: ch.8]
Mogi -
One of the five police agents who decide to work with L to pursue Kira, along with Yagami Souichirou, Matsuda, Ukita, and Aizawa. [Appearance: ch.11]
Reiji -
One of the Yotsuba corporation's employees, he is part of a board who decides which competitors should be killed to benefit the company. They use a third Kira to accomplish this. He is head of the First Sales Division and graduated from Harvard. Other board members: 001, Hatori, Higuchi, Kida, Midou, Shimura, Takahashi [Appearance: ch. 37]
Nori -
A friend of Amane's. She helps Amane ditch her bodyguard at one point by dressing up as her. [Appearance: ch. 48]
Kurou -
Raito's first victim. He is an unemployed forty-two-year-old man who killed and/or wounded six innocent people in Shinjuku. Raito gives him a heart attack while Otoharada is holding eight infants and daycare workers hostage at a nursery school. [Appearance: ch.1]
Takada -
Takada is supposedly a very smart girl at Touou. She is one of the girls that Raitou dates. [Appearance: ch. 32]
Ukita -
One of the five police agents who decide to work with L to pursue Kira, along with Yagami Souichirou, Matsuda, Aizawa, and Mogi. [Appearance: ch.11]
Watari -
Watari is L's assistant. He is also a physical go-between that L uses to deal with the police or any other parties that have business with him. He is usually dressed in a trench coat and hat so that no one can see what he looks like. [Appearance: ch.2, ch.13]
Zyerasu -
A God of Death of who fell in love with a human. When he saw that she was about to die, he gave up his life to save hers. [Appearance: ch.27]
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