Death Note

Light Yagami is a genius high school student who resents the 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, as well as various other rules. Though Light is initially skeptical of the notebook's authenticity, he realizes that the Death Note is real after experimenting with it on criminals. After meeting with the previous owner of the Death Note, a shinigami named Ryuk, Light plans to become a god and establish a new world order by passing his keen judgment on those he deems evil and anyone who gets in his way.

Soon, the number of inexplicable deaths of reported criminals catches the attention ofInternational Police Organization and a mysterious detective known only as "L". L quickly learns that the serial killer, dubbed by the public as "Kira" (キラ^?, derived from the typical Japanese pronunciation of the English word "killer"), is located in Japan. He also concludes that Kira can kill people without laying a finger on them and that he is in Japan after using a convicted criminal named Lind L. Tailor, whose capture was kept secret and who was condemned to die at that hour, and pretending Tailor is L so that Kira would kill him. He then reveals this was only being broadcast in the Kanto region of Japan, and that the first Kira killing was of a criminal only broadcast in Japan. Light realizes that L will be his greatest nemesis, and a nuanced game of psychological cat and mouse between the two begins.

L realizes Kira is getting information from inside the task force and sends 12 FBI agents to follow people connected to the Japanese police. Light tricks Raye Penber, his tail, into showing his ID, after which he kills all the FBI agents. Naomi Misora, Raye's fiancee, suspects Kira was one of the people he tailed, but Light finds out and makes her commit suicide using the Death Note.

Noticing Raye Penber's odd behaviour, and the fact that Raye's fiancee is missing, L begins to suspect those Raye Penber was investigating, and places cameras in their homes. Light realises their presence, but continues the killings with help from a miniature TV. L finally decides to remove the cameras, and enrolls at the same university as Light. His suspicions grow of Light, but he asks him to join the taskforce.

Misa Amane, another Death Note owner, finds Light, after sending a video in which she claims to be Kira. She possesses Shinigami eyes which allow her to see a person's name and lifespan, but at the cost of half her remaining lifespan to obtain this information. Ryuk offered Light Shinigami eyes when Raye Penber was following him but Light declined. Obsessed with Kira after the death of her parents' murderer who was being acquitted for lack of evidence, she devotes herself to helping Light, but is captured by L. Light makes a plan involving renouncing ownership of both Death Notes and all of his memories of them, and turns himself in to L for surveillance, as Rem threatens to kill him if Misa is not freed. Together, Light and L investigate eight people from the company "Yotsuba" who are using a Death Note for their own profit. While arresting the third Kira Higuchi, Light recovers all his memories when he touches the Death Note. Using a death note fragment in his watch, he kills Higuichi thus becoming the owner of the Death Note. He remembers and continues his plan of compelling the former owner of Misa's Death Note, the shinigami Rem, into killing L and his assistant Watari, which causes Rem to lose her life, as a Shinigami is not allowed to purposely extend a human's life. Light then gets her Death Note. Meanwhile, Misa again acquires her memories and the Shinigami eyes from Ryuk.

After L's death, Light is given the position of the "new L" by the Japanese Task Force. Four years later, Near and Mello - two children who were raised to be successors to L in an orphanage founded by Watari - appear, with the goal of finding Kira. In the meantime, Kira has gained much public support, and has contacts. Mello, one of L's successors who has joined the Mafia, kidnaps the Director of the NPA, but after Kira kills him, he kidnaps Sayu Yagami, Light's little sister, as a bargaining chip to get the Death Note. The Japanese Task Force plans to go to Los Angeles to rescue Sayu but ends up losing the Notebook. The Task Force later attempts to retrieve it and succeeds in doing so, they also get Mello's real name due to Sochiro making the deal for Shinigami eyes with Ryuk. However, as a result of an explosion that Mello uses to cover his escape and one of his henchmen, Light's father Soichiro Yagami dies.

Near begins to suspect the second L of being Kira thus causing some members of the Japanese task force to also openly suspect him. Realizing the risk of being caught, Light has Misa give up ownership of her Death Note. He then finds his next successor, Teru Mikami, a strong, almost crazed Kira supporter, who trades for the shinigami eyes and kills Kira's last spokesman - for his greed - who helped Near escape from a crowd of Kira supporters. Mikami later recruits a new spokesman for Kira, Kiyomi Takada, a newscaster and one of Light's former college girlfriends. Teru Mikami and Kiyomi Takada continue killing criminals while Light is unable to do so himself, but has revealed he is Kira to Kiyomi. Kiyomi is later kidnapped by Mello and is forced to kill him with a hidden piece of the Death Note. Light kills Kiyomi by making her commit suicide by setting fire to the location and everything she wrote on, to avoid her implicating him after she uses the note to kill Mello. Mikami, unaware of this action, writes her name in his notebook which is hidden in a bank vault, exposing it to the members of the SPK. Near has its pages replaced with a fake version and, in a final confrontation with Light, is able to use it to prove that Light is Kira. Realizing that Light had lost, Ryuk writes down Light's name in his own notebook, killing him with a heart attack.

Manga

Death Note 1 : Boredom	07/07/2009
Death Note 2 : L	07/07/2009
Death Note 3 : Family	07/07/2009
Death Note 4 : Electric Current	07/07/2009
Death Note 5 : Eye	07/07/2009
Death Note 6 : Control	07/07/2009
Death Note 7 : Target	07/07/2009
Death Note 8 : Woman	07/07/2009
Death Note 9 : Hole	07/07/2009
Death Note 10 : Junction	07/07/2009
Death Note 11 : One	07/07/2009
Death Note 12 : God	07/07/2009
Death Note 13 : Countdown	07/07/2009
Death Note 14 : Seduction	07/07/2009
Death Note 15 : Phone	07/07/2009
Death Note 16 : Upside Down	07/07/2009
Death Note 17 : Trash	07/07/2009
Death Note 18 : Sight	07/07/2009
Death Note 19 : Humiliation	07/07/2009
Death Note 20 : First Hand	07/07/2009
Death Note 21 : Reverse	07/07/2009
Death Note 22 : Misfortune	07/07/2009
Death Note 23 : Frenzy	07/07/2009
Death Note 24 : Shield	07/07/2009
Death Note 25 : Fool	07/07/2009
Death Note 26 : Reversal	07/07/2009
Death Note 27 : Love	07/07/2009
Death Note 28 : Judgement	07/07/2009
Death Note 29 : Weapon	07/07/2009
Death Note 30 : Bomb	07/07/2009
Death Note 31 : Easy	07/07/2009
Death Note 32 : The Gamble	07/07/2009
Death Note 33 : Movement	07/07/2009
Death Note 34 : Surrender	07/07/2009
Death Note 35 : Blank Paper	07/07/2009
Death Note 36 : Father	07/07/2009
Death Note 37 : 8 People	07/07/2009
Death Note 38 : Strike	07/07/2009
Death Note 39 : Seperation	07/07/2009
Death Note 40 : Comrades	07/07/2009
Death Note 41 : Matsuda	07/07/2009
Death Note 42 : Heaven	07/07/2009
Death Note 43 :	07/07/2009
Death Note 44 : Successor	07/07/2009
Death Note 45 : Absurdity	07/07/2009
Death Note 46 : Unsuited	07/07/2009
Death Note 47 : Running Ahead	07/07/2009
Death Note 48 : Exchange	07/07/2009
Death Note 49 : Potted Plant	07/07/2009
Death Note 50 : Yotsuba	07/07/2009
Death Note 51 : Misunderstanding	07/07/2009
Death Note 52 : Split Second	07/07/2009
Death Note 53 : Scream	07/07/2009
Death Note 54 : Middle	07/07/2009
Death Note 55 : Speculation	07/07/2009
Death Note 56 : Hug	07/07/2009
Death Note 57 : Two Choices	07/07/2009
Death Note 58 :	07/07/2009
Death Note 59 : Zero	07/07/2009
Death Note 60 : Kidnapped	07/07/2009
Death Note 61 : Number Two	07/07/2009
Death Note 62 : The Decision	07/07/2009
Death Note 63 : Target	07/07/2009
Death Note 64 : Right Angle	07/07/2009
Death Note 65 : Responsility	07/07/2009
Death Note 66 : Death	07/07/2009
Death Note 67 : The Button	07/07/2009
Death Note 68 : Discovered	07/07/2009
Death Note 69 : Flight	07/07/2009
Death Note 70 : Shudder	07/07/2009
Death Note 71 : Contact	07/07/2009
Death Note 72 : Confirmation	07/07/2009
Death Note 73 : Last Ditch	07/07/2009
Death Note 74 : Enthusiastic Play	07/07/2009
Death Note 75 : Recognition	07/07/2009
Death Note 76 : Greeting	07/07/2009
Death Note 77 : Use	07/07/2009
Death Note 78 : Prediction	07/07/2009
Death Note 79 : Feigned	07/07/2009
Death Note 80 : Sweep	07/07/2009
Death Note 81 : Warning	07/07/2009
Death Note 82 : Myself	07/07/2009
Death Note 83 : Deletion	07/07/2009
Death Note 84 : Accident	07/07/2009
Death Note 85 : Elected	07/07/2009
Death Note 86 : Japan	07/07/2009
Death Note 87 : Tomorrow	07/07/2009
Death Note 88 : Conversation	07/07/2009
Death Note 89 : Focal Point	07/07/2009
Death Note 90 : Advanced Notice	07/07/2009
Death Note 91 :	07/07/2009
Death Note 92 : Night	07/07/2009
Death Note 93 : Decision	07/07/2009
Death Note 94 : Outside	07/07/2009
Death Note 95 : Acceptance	07/07/2009
Death Note 96 : Meanwhile	07/07/2009
Death Note 97 : Various Things	07/07/2009
Death Note 98 : Everyone	07/07/2009
Death Note 99 : Two	07/07/2009
Death Note 100 : Meeting	07/07/2009
Death Note 101 : Guidance	07/07/2009
Death Note 102 : Patience	07/07/2009
Death Note 103 : Declaration	07/07/2009
Death Note 104 : Answer	07/07/2009
Death Note 105 : Impossible	07/07/2009
Death Note 106 : Murderous	07/07/2009
Death Note 107 : Curtain Fall	07/07/2009
Death Note 108 : End	07/07/2009
Death Note 109 : Death Note Special One-Shot	07/07/2009