Light Yagami, a student from Tokyo, Japan
Light Yagami, a student from Tokyo, Japan, experienced a major change in his life when, bored, he found a supernatural notebook called "Death Note" lying on the floor. He reads the instructions which said that by writing someone's name and visualizing their face mentally, they would die of a heart attack within 40 seconds (unless another death was specified). After testing the notebook on two occasions, he confirmed that its power was real. Five days after the discovery, Ryuk, the shinigami owner of the Death Note, appeared and revealed that he had dropped the notebook on Earth out of boredom. Light then told him that his goal was to kill all criminals and become the "god of the new world", which caused a series of unexplained deaths that caught the attention of the FBI and a notorious private detective, known as "L"... Did you know?