Light Yagami is the best student of Japan. One day, his life undergoes a radical change, when he is bored, finds a strange supernatural notebook called "Death Note", fallen to the floor. Behind the notebook was instructions on its use, where it said that if you wrote a person's name and mentally visualized her face, she would die of a heart attack. At first, Light distrusted the authenticity of the notebook, but after testing it on two occasions, he realized that his power was true. After five days, he is visited by the real owner of Death Note, a shinigami named Ryuk, who tells him that he had dropped the notebook on Earth because he was bored, [3] and Light then tells him that his goal was To kill all the criminals, in order to purify the world of evil and to become the "god of the new world". Later, the number of unexplained deaths of criminals catches the attention of the FBI and a famous private detective known as "L." L quickly deduces that the serial killer - nicknamed by the public as "Kira" (キ ラ? Derived from the typical Japanese pronunciation of the English word "killer", lit. "killer") was in Japan. The need to put a finger on them. Light discovers that L will be one of its greater rivals, and will begin a psychological game between them. Misa Amane, a famous Japanese idol carrying a Death Note, in which it was delivered by Remu at the request of Jealus; Meets Light. [18] Misa became obsessed with Kira after he killed the murderer of his parents, by the way he dedicated himself to help Light, by making himself the "second Kira", [19] until he was captured and arrested by L, since he suspected it. Light devises a plan to renounce the possession of Death Notes - both his own and Misa's - and, therefore, lose their memories of these to be able to rescue it. After losing his memories, Light is released to begin investigating with L about a group of executives called "Yotsuba", who owned the Death Note of Misa. To stop them, Light recovers all your memories the moment you play Death Note. Remu, being manipulated by Light to act in his favor, kills L and his assistant, Watari. Once he violates one of the rules of Death Note, Remu dies soon after, increasing the life span of Misa. [21] After the death of L, Light assumes as the "new L" in the research group. [22] Five years later, appear Near and Mello, the true successors of L, that divide to see who will take Kira first. Near, with the help of the government, creates SPK, an organization founded with the explicit purpose of capturing Kira. While Mello makes an agreement with the Mafia to achieve the same objective. Mello begins to execute his plan and to investigate on the powers of Death Note and Near - pretending to be L - communicates with Light, who also happens through L. Light did not expect L to have successors, so he will have to escape Again from their deductions and thus, fulfill their ambitions. Later, Light decides to look for a person to replace it by a time in its work like Kira, since Near was beginning to suspect that he and Misa no longer served them. Thus, he chooses Teru Mikami, a man who admired Kira as a god. [26] Mello, with the help of his friend Matt, kidnaps Kiyomi Takada, who was Light's girlfriend at the university, but then Light uses her to complete his plans. Matt dies strafing after the pursuit of Takada's bodyguards, providing an opportunity to escape to Mello. However, he is killed by Takada, who owned a piece of Death Note, but then Takada is killed by Light. On the other hand, Near makes contact with Light and his team to hold a meeting. Light takes the opportunity to tell Mikami to investigate the true names of SPK members. [27] When the day of the meeting arrives, Mikami writes the names of the SPK members in his Death Note, but Near explains that nothing would happen, because with the help of Stephen Gevanni, he had changed this notebook by a false. Light, feeling trapped by the deductions of Near, reveals that everything was true and tries to kill him with a piece of Death Note that was on his watch. However, Matsuda - one of the agents in the Kira case - shoots at him, seriously wounding him. Mikami committed suicide because Light had been defeated and taking advantage of the moment in which escapes, Light happens to remember everything that lived. In the end, Ryuk writes the name of Light in his Death Note and he dies.
