Death Note

by Tsugumi Ohba

Light Yagami finds a supernatural notebook: write someone's name in it and they die. He decides to use it to create a utopia by killing criminals. The world calls him "Kira" — some worship him, some fear him, and the enigmatic detective L is determined to catch him. Death Note is a cat-and-mouse thriller between two geniuses where the weapon is a pen.

53 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Aiber — L's con artist — a professional impersonator who infiltrated the Yotsuba Group using Eraldo Coil's identity.
• Anthony Rester — Near's right hand — the SPK's field commander and the calm authority that executes Near's plans in the real world.
• Gelus — The shinigami who fell in love with a human and died saving her — his sacrifice set the entire Misa-Light chain of events in motion.
• Halle Lidner — An SPK agent caught between two of L's successors — serving Near officially while feeding information to Mello.
• Hideki Ide — The Task Force member who left and came back — skeptical of L, loyal to the mission.
• Hirokazu Ukita — The Task Force member who charged into Sakura TV to stop the Kira broadcast — and died because the Second Kira could see his name.
• Hitoshi Demegawa — Sakura TV's shameless director — a man with zero morals and a perfect nose for ratings, who rode the Kira wave until it drowned him.
• Kanzo Mogi — The quietest member of the Task Force — a man of almost zero words and absolute reliability.
• King of Death — The ruler of all shinigami — a monstrous, ancient entity who wrote the rules of the Death Note and mostly just sits on his throne while his subordinat
• Kiyomi Takada — Kira's public voice — an ambitious newscaster who became the spokesperson for a god and died when she stopped being useful.
• Kyosuke Higuchi — The Yotsuba Kira — a greedy corporate executive who used the Death Note to eliminate business rivals, too stupid to realize he was a pawn in Light's l
• L Lawliet — The world's greatest detective — an insomniac sugar addict who sits wrong, never wears shoes, and deduced that Kira was Light Yagami within weeks, onl
• Light Yagami — A perfect student who found a god's weapon and decided he deserved to use it — the most dangerous teenager in the world, hiding in plain sight as the
• Lind L. Tailor — The condemned criminal who L used as a decoy on live television — and whose death proved Kira existed, was in Japan, and could kill with just a name a
• Matt — Wammy's House third-in-line — a chain-smoking gamer who showed up for Mello when it mattered and died in a hail of bodyguard bullets.
• Mello — L's second successor — brilliant, reckless, and consumed by the need to beat Near, even if it means allying with the mafia and blowing things up to ge
• Misa Amane — A pop idol who worships Kira for killing the man who murdered her parents — and gave up half her lifespan twice for a boy who never loved her back.
• Naomi Misora — A brilliant former FBI agent who deduced critical information about Kira — and made the fatal mistake of sharing it with the wrong person.
• Near — L's true successor — a toy-obsessed prodigy who finished the case his predecessor couldn't, dismantling Kira with patience where L used provocation.
• Raye Penber — An FBI agent assigned to tail Light Yagami — who became the unwitting proof of concept that Kira could kill anyone.
• Reiji Namikawa — The sharpest of the Yotsuba Eight — smart enough to hedge his bets by cooperating with Light while the other executives scrambled.
• Rem — A shinigami who made the fatal mistake of caring about a human — and died for it, exactly as the rules demanded.
• Rod Ross — The mafia boss who bankrolled Mello's Kira investigation — because having a genius teenager owe you a favor is good business.
• Roger Ruvie — The caretaker of Wammy's House — the man who told Near and Mello that L was dead and watched them choose opposite paths.
• Ryuk — A bored shinigami who dropped a Death Note into the human world just to see what would happen — and got the most entertaining show of his eternal life
• Sachiko Yagami — Light's mother — the heart of the Yagami household, who never learned the truth about her son or the case that destroyed her family.
• Sayu Yagami — Light's younger sister — an innocent bystander who got kidnapped by the mafia because her brother was secretly a mass murderer.
• Shuichi Aizawa — The Task Force member who trusted his instincts over his loyalty — the one who suspected Light when no one else would.
• Sidoh — The shinigami whose Death Note was stolen by Ryuk — a nervous, cowardly god of death who just wanted his notebook back.
• Soichiro Yagami — The chief of the Kira Task Force and Light's father — the most honest man in the investigation, who made the Shinigami Eye deal to protect his family
• Stephen Gevanni — The SPK's infiltration specialist — the man who forged the Death Note pages that ended Kira's reign.
• Teru Mikami — Kira's most devoted disciple — a fanatical prosecutor who believed so completely in divine justice that Light trusted him with the Death Note, and who
• Touta Matsuda — The youngest and most impulsive Task Force member — the one everyone underestimated, who ended up putting five bullets in Light Yagami when the truth
• Watari — The man who built Wammy's House, raised L, and served as the bridge between the world's greatest detective and the world — killed by Rem in the same m
• Wedy — L's cat burglar — a professional thief hired to bypass security systems the legal way wouldn't touch.

Locations

• Kanto Region — The metropolitan heart of Japan — where thirty million people live, work, and die, and where L's first broadcast narrowed the world's most wanted kill
• Sakura TV — Tokyo's most sensationalist television station — the network that broadcast Kira's tapes to the world and turned a serial killer into a media phenomen
• Shinigami Realm — The rotting wasteland where gods of death gamble away eternity — and where the most devastating weapon in human history came from because one of them
• Task Force Headquarters — L's purpose-built investigation fortress — 23 floors of surveillance equipment, holding cells, and meeting rooms, funded by Watari and designed to cat
• Teito Hotel — The luxury hotel where Light met Takada under surveillance — every whispered conversation a performance for hidden audiences.
• To-Oh University — Japan's most elite university — where Light and L sat next to each other in the entrance exam and the greatest intellectual rivalry in fiction officia
• Wammy's House — An orphanage for the world's most gifted children — the factory that produced L, Near, and Mello, and the reason the Kira investigation didn't die wit
• Yagami Residence — The Yagami family home — where a teenage boy sat at his desk, opened a supernatural notebook, and started killing people while his mother made dinner
• Yellow Box Warehouse — The warehouse where Kira fell — the final confrontation site where Near's trap snapped shut and Light Yagami's new world died on a concrete floor.
• Yotsuba Group Headquarters — The corporate fortress where eight executives met in secret to use the Death Note as a business tool — because even divine power gets monetized.

Items

• Death Note (Gelus's Notebook) — The second Death Note in the human world — born from a shinigami's love, inherited by Misa, and ultimately entrusted to the fanatic Mikami.
• Death Note (Sidoh's Notebook) — The notebook that started everything — stolen by a bored shinigami, dropped into a high school courtyard, and picked up by the smartest teenager in Ja
• Kira Tapes — The video messages that turned a serial killer into a media phenomenon — broadcast on Sakura TV and watched by millions.
• Light's Watch — A gift from his father with a hidden compartment — Light's emergency kill method, disguised as sentimentality.
• Rules of the Death Note — The absolute, unbreakable laws that govern the most powerful weapon in existence — written by the Shinigami King and printed in every notebook.
• Shinigami Eyes — The trade that defines every Kira user's character: half your remaining life for the power to kill anyone on sight.
• Surveillance Equipment — 64 cameras hidden in the Yagami household — L's attempt to catch Kira in the act, defeated by a teenage boy and a bag of potato chips.
• The Fake Rules — Light's most devious insurance policy — two fabricated Death Note rules that cleared him and Misa of suspicion and derailed L's investigation.

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