Light Yagami, a top in the nation honors high school student from Japan, witnesses a notebook fall from the sky. Perplexed where it came from he picks it up. A Shimigami (a God of Death) named Ryuk appears and claims the notebook rules are all real: “The Human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die.”

It doesn’t take long for the public to pick up on a mysterious perpetrator doing these string of inexplicable murders, which they name “Kira.” Many believe Kira is sentencing justice to all who are evil in this world.