Death Note

The highly intelligent high school student Light Yagami is disappointed with the world around him. That's why he wants to study law in order to speak justice in the world and punish criminals like his father who is a policeman. One day Light finds a black notebook at school, which turns out to be a Death Note and previously belonged to the god of death Ryuk. It details the rules of how to kill a person. A person you want to kill dies if you write his name in the Death Note and imagine his face. Light sees this as his possibility to create a perfect world in which he kills all criminals and keeps the citizens from further deeds by this form of deterrence. At his side is always the Shinigami Ryuk, who can only be seen by people who have touched the Death Note.

Light first has to explore the rules of the booklet. After numerous and increasing deaths of prisoners, the police and a mysterious master detective named L are led on his trail. Thus begins a pure cat and mouse game between Light, who is called among the population only Kira (similar to the English word killer) and the master detective L who works for and with the Japanese police. While L tries to reveal the identity as well as the killing method, Light has to find out L's face and true name in order to register him in the Death Note. After L notices that Light somehow gets to police information, he has FBI agents spy on police families in the Kanto region. After they are killed by Kira, the family Yagami gets into L's sights and he decides to show Light under a false name as Ryuzaki. Light manages to get involved in the investigation of the Kira case and gets closer and closer to his goal of uncovering L's identity.

Suddenly the pop star Misa Amane, a new owner of a Death Note, appears. Misa has been in love with Kira since she punished her parents' murderers and wants to meet him at any price. However, she is anything but clever and so Light decides to bring her under his control. Misa has made a deal with her god of death Rem. He gave her the eyes of a god of death, with whom she can see the names and lifetimes of all people. For this gift she had to sacrifice half of her remaining lifetime. Light wants to use Misa's gift to find out L's name. But L notices the appearance of the second Kira and Light has no choice but to come up with a plan to protect his identity. Shortly afterwards Light and Misa are arrested by L.

It comes to the showdown Light against L. L is already on the right track but doesn't find enough evidence against Light, as he has taken the memory of Death Note with a targeted plan and is now well human again. He is released by L and from now on investigates at L's side to find Kira. 

Light's plan works out and he regains his memories of the Death Note as planned. Now nothing more stands in his way to get L out of the way but will he finally succeed or is L nevertheless faster than Kira? This exciting question is answered in the Anime Death Note. You should definitely take a look and don't miss it!