Death Note 「デスノート Desu Nōto, illuminated. "Notebook of Death" is a manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, which was published in the magazine Weekly Shounen Jump through the Shueisha publishing house. It began to be published on December 1, 2003, with a total of 12 volumes and 108 chapters, and ended on May 15, 2006.
The series is based on a one-shot that was published by the publisher Shueisha for the magazine Weekly Shounen Jump, and was made again as an inclusion in the official fanbook volume, Death Note: How to Read, which is a guide that contains data relating to the franchise, including the profile of all the main characters.
The series currently has multiple adaptations of all kinds from animation, novels, live action to games and musicals.
Manga[]
Light Yagami, the best high school student in all of Japan who, despite his grades and intelligence, considers his life boring and is tired of the rotten state of the world. One day, leaving his extracurricular classes, he finds an abandoned notebook on a walk through his school. This notebook is called the Death Note, which is capable of killing anyone whose name is written in it as long as the person who writes the name name of the person visualize and keep in mind the face of the person you intend to kill.
After realizing that the notebook works, Light develops a new ambition: to create a new world where crime does not exist and where, in turn, people worship him as a true God. Obtaining the notebook leads him to meet Ryuk, the Shinigami who owns that notebook, who decides to follow the young man's plans since he considers them something interesting to observe.
The unexplained death of many criminals around the world begins to attract the attention of authorities around the world, including the FBI, so with no way to solve the case they decide to contact L, a famous private detective, considered the best. . Detective of the world, who begins his own investigation to try to discover the identity of Kira, the name given to that criminal killer by the local and international media, with the aim of bringing him to justice.
From that moment, a battle of wits will begin, where the winner will make his ideal of justice prevail where each person will do everything possible to discover the identity of the other, a notion in constant confrontation between both characters.
Anime[]
A dangerous notebook called the Death Note falls into the hands of Light Yagami, a 17-year-old boy. He found this black notebook one day in the playground of his school. When you open it, you find clear instructions and a dark magic: if someone writes a name on its pages, that person dies within seconds.
Light doesn't believe it at first, but once he tries it and finds that it's true, his whole life changes completely. From then on he will use this gadget to eliminate from the world all those bad people, criminals and dark and evil beings that stalk him.
International institutions are on alert due to the sudden increase in the number of deaths of criminals, but Interpol keeps a secret with its own name: L, a detective who has solved mysterious cases that were never thought could be solved.