Light Yagami is an extremely intelligent young man who resents what appears to be a relentless increase of crime and corruption in the world around him. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", lying on the ground. 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 notebook's authenticity, but after experimenting with it, he realizes that the Death Note is real. After meeting with the Назад owner of the Death Note, a shinigami named Ryuk,...

Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto?) is a Japanese Манга series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and Манга artist Takeshi Obata. The series centers on Light Yagami, a университет student who discovers a Сверхъестественное notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a shinigami (death god) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose face they have seen, by Письмо the victim's name in the notebook. The story follows Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him, his opponents and a mysterious...

    
The Герои go without parade, the only reward

Being death by a pen deadlier than swords.

A letter, a cake, a Шоколад bar,

Cigarettes strewn before the варенье, джем jar...

Nothing еще stands in remembrance of them:

The heroes, then children, forced to be men.

Death was their solace, their ultimate goal

But was justice worth the cost of a soul?

The boy in white sits alone at his shrine.

He can't predict where his loyalties align,

So he looks to the trinkets left from his friends

Who gave up their lives in untimely ends.

He is their legacy, alone bearing the pain.

For them he has дана his...

Spoilers:
N: (to Light) "The first L...he gave his life and brought to light that the dreaded Kira operates from Japan, and the nature of the tool he uses to carry out murder. While you, who've taken on his name, have managed--well--nothing. No--actually, now that I think about it, what Ты HAVE managed is to increase the numbers of kiras out there. I can't really expect anything from Ты as far as dealing with the kidnappers is concerned, now can I? I believe I'm being as clear as possible here. The same goes for the japanese police. The one who should be in charge of it, subdirector Yagami,...

There have been various copycat crimes around the world which were based on Death Note. On September 28, 2007, two notes written with Latin characters stating "Watashi wa Kira desu" (わたしわきらです, meaning "I am Kira" in Japanese) were found near the unidentified remains of a Caucasian male in Belgium. Nothing was found on или near the victim besides these two notes.[90] A senior at the Franklin Military Academy in Richmond, Virginia, United States was suspended after being caught possessing a replica "Death Note" notebook with the names of fellow students.[91]

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Main characters
Light Yagami
Main article: Light Yagami

The main character of Death Note, Light is an extremely intelligent but bored 17-year old student. When he finds the Death Note, dropped in the human world by the shinigami Ryuk, he decides to use it to kill all criminals and earns the Название Kira. His ultimate goal is to cleanse the world of evil to create a world without criminals and then reign over this new world as its "god."
L
Main article: L (Death Note)

L is the world's Самый высокий рейтинг detective and tasked with tracking down and arresting Kira. He often takes drastic strategies to confuse and...

Near (ニア, Nia?), whose real name is Nate River (ネイト・リバー, Neito Ribā?), is a fictional character of the Аниме and Манга series Death Note and in the film L: Change the WorLd. Near is the younger of the two successors of L, and the leader of the SPK (Special Provision for Kira), an organization that looks into the Kira case and, in the end, succeeds in uncovering Kira's identity.

In Death Note, Near is the younger of L's two successors raised in Wammy's House, Watari's orphanage for gifted children, in Winchester, England, United Kingdom. Of the successors, Near is еще level-headed,...