Ohba, Tsugumi

Light Yagumi comes across a Death Note dropped by a Shinigami death god and vows to use this power to rid the world of evil; but when criminals start dropping dead, the great detective is sent to track down the killer.

Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god, and has vowed to use its power to rid the world of evil.

Light Yagami discovers a notebook with the names of the rogue Shinigami death god's next victims and vows to stop the killings, but his obsession with exposing the Death Note killer soon takes over his life and endangers his new relationship.

Light, under extreme surveillance by authorities after he finds the Death Note, dropped by a rogue death god, and begins using the notebook to kill off criminals, is distracted from his mission by a family emergency, but it soon becomes obvious that someone is carrying on without him.

Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god, and has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.

Light regains the Death Note and his memories and continues to evade L as well as the Shinigami thanks to the planning he put in place before he went into confinement.

Light, working as Kira and L in the NPA intelligence bureau, has nearly succeeded in creating his ideal world, but the years of victory have made him complacent and unprepared for a new attack, and when his younger sister Sayu is kidnapped for a ransom of the Death Note, Light must travel across the world and confront two new adversaries.

Light has always been confident in his ability to out think everyone, but now L's proteges are working to break the taskforce apart and expose Kira from within.

Light Yagami, having vowed to use the Death Note to rid the world of evil, attracts the attention of authorities who are curious to know why criminals are suddenly dropping dead, but Light crosses the line when he decides to kill the agents who are chasing him, and soon finds himself pursued by his father, the legendary detective L, and the determined fiancee of one of the agents he has eliminated.

After a week of being locked up, Light gives up his death note and all memories of it, but L is convinced that Light is guilty when the killings stop immediately after locking him up.