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Spoilers for Death Note manga/anime
Written Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata,
Death Note tells the story of a genius Tokyo teen named Light Yagami who comes across the notebook Death Note left in the human realm by the shinigami Ryuk. Ryuk is here for the lols.
The notebook grants the user the power to kill anyone whose name is written into the book (along with a bunch of other rules we learn throughout the series).
Initially reluctant, Light uses the notebook to kill a criminal, which slowly crafts a new vision of society in his mind. Light decides to use the Death Note to create a crime-free society. Seen by society as a vigilante savior by some, he is dubbed “Kira” by the general public and attracts the attention of an elite Japanese police task force, led by his own father, and strange detective L.