Light Yagami is the main character of Death Note, the manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, and of the anime adapted from it. He is a gifted high school student in Japan who finds a notebook dropped by a Shinigami named Ryuk. Anyone whose name and face he knows can be killed by writing their name in it, and he begins secretly judging criminals as Kira.

He is known for his intelligence, his skill at manipulation, and his self-declared role as the god of a new world. Much of the story follows his cat-and-mouse game with the detective