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"If we catch Kira, he is evil. If he wins and rules the globe, and then he is justice."

— Light Yagami ("Justice")

Light Yagami (夜神月, Yagami Raito) is the main protagonist of the Death Annotation series. Afterwards discovering the Expiry Notation, he decides to apply information technology to rid the world of criminals. His killings are somewhen labelled by the people living in Japan as the piece of work of "Kira."

1 Appearance
2 Character
3 History
four Plot
- four.i Part I
  - 4.i.1 Finding the Death Notation
  - four.1.ii The FBI Agents
  - 4.one.3 Naomi Misora
  - 4.1.4 Surveillance Cameras
  - 4.1.5 Meeting L
  - 4.1.vi The Second Kira
  - 4.ane.7 Imprisoned
  - 4.i.8 Yotsuba
  - 4.1.9 The End of 50
- four.ii Part II
  - 4.2.1 Mello's Kidnappings
  - 4.ii.two The Boxing with Nearly
- 4.3 Fate
  - 4.3.1 Manga
  - four.3.2 Anime
5 In other media
- 5.one Picture series
  - 5.i.one Decease Note
  - five.1.2 Death Notation: The Last Name
  - 5.1.3 Formulation of Light in the films
- 5.ii Television drama
- five.3 The Musical
- 5.4 2017 American motion picture
- v.5 Video games
6 Relationships
7 Formulation
- seven.1 Overview
- 7.2 Pattern
viii Trivia
9 Quotes
ten Gallery
eleven Themes
12 References

Appearance

Lite is a young man, continuing at above average height with light-brown hair and brown eyes. During Part I, when non wearing his schoolhouse compatible, which consists of a tan adjust and red tie, he dresses fairly casually, sometimes sporting a clothes shirt underneath a jacket or a V-neck sweater with a collared t-shirt underneath. During Part II, if not wearing a similar fashion of clothes, he is seen wearing a suit.

He is considered to be quite handsome, a trait noted by Misa Amane and Kiyomi Takada, among others.

Character

Low-cal is characterized every bit hardworking, talented, and a natural genius. Highly perceptive and proficient with problem solving skills, Light is a skilled planner and good at mapping out scenarios. Furthermore, Lite is very popular among peers and adored by his family members. Even so, his high intelligence and constant praise from adults laid the foundation for an intense level of hubris which quickly took effect one time he obtained the notebook.

Even after being corrupted past the Death Note, Light continues to show a willingness to protect his family.

Like to his male parent Soichiro, Light has a stiff sense of justice simply this speedily becomes warped subsequently he becomes tainted past the notebook's power. Believing the world to be "rotten," he uses his Death Note equally a means by which he can enact his volition to rid the globe of evil people. Light'due south master goal is to create a new world that is free of injustice and populated only with people whom he deems honest and kind, thus becoming the "God of the new world". Calorie-free is decisive and driven to achieve his ambitions, without faltering 1 bit in his beliefs. Despite knowing the criminality of murder, Light would consider his actions the ultimate "cede" to help the world.

Through use of the Death Note, Low-cal speedily begins to develop a cold and ruthless nature. Equally a utilitarian, he volition take any means in order to achieve his goals. However, though his actions do put his family unit in impairment'southward way, he continues to show love and genuine business organization for them. This is demonstrated when his sister Sayu is kidnapped and held for ransom; Light prevents Soichiro from taking drastic action in order to keep Sayu safe in spite of knowingly increasing Mello's chances of obtaining the Death Notation.

In the anime, Low-cal reflects on his actions before his expiry.

Additionally, the series shows that Light was not built-in remorseless. Afterwards relinquishing the notebook and losing his memories to temporarily avert suspicion, Light demonstrates pity, a reluctance to manipulate others and an intense unwillingness to kill. Once his memories return, however, he reverts dorsum to his ruthless Kira persona and remains that way until his death.

The degree of Low-cal'southward hubris and ruthlessness varies by adaption. In the manga, Japanese films, musical and anime (at least earlier the terminal episode), Light is steadfast in his decisions equally Kira and rarely expresses whatsoever doubt in his actions. An case of this is shown early on on in the series when he resolves, quickly and without hesitation, to kill FBI amanuensis Raye Penber for tailing him in spite of Raye not being a criminal. Notwithstanding, in the final episode of the anime, Light, defeated by About and in disquisitional condition as he tries to evade capture, imagines sorrowfully what his life could have been if he did non pick upwardly the Death Note.

Light's hubris and ruthlessness is especially downplayed in the drama and Netflix film adaptions. In these continuities, he presents as less confident, demonstrates hesitation with killing the FBI agents investigating him and even considers abandoning his mission when feeling cornered. Nevertheless, beyond adaptions, Light has consistently been portrayed as an idealist and as an individual who is willing to become to extreme measures in guild to defend his idea of justice.

History

Low-cal grew up in Japan with his family, which consists of his begetter, Soichiro Yagami, who is a member of the Japanese Task Force (an investigation team opposing Kira), his mother, Sachiko Yagami, and his younger sis, Sayu Yagami.

At the start of the series, Low-cal is a 3rd-twelvemonth loftier school student (12th Form) at Daikoku Private University and also attends supplemental classes at Gamou Prep Academy in the beginning of the story. He later attends higher at To-Oh University (東応大学, Tōō Daigaku).

Plot

Part I

Finding the Death Note

In the yr 2003 (2006 in the anime), Light Yagami discovers a mysterious notebook on the ground at his school. Written on the cover are the words "Decease Note". The Death Note's instructions state that if a man'southward name is written inside it, that person shall dice. Light is initially skeptical of the notebook's authenticity, but after experimenting with it, Light realizes that the Death Note is real.

After putting much thought into whether or not he should continue using the notebook, he ascertains that no one else will be able to acquit the brunt of improving the world. Light then meets the previous owner of the Death Note, a Shinigami named Ryuk. He explains his reasons for dropping the Decease Notation in the Human Globe, and when it is Light's time to dice, he volition exist the one to write Light's proper noun in his notebook. Lite then tells him of his goal of getting rid of all the evil people in the world, and ruling over it every bit God.

Light laughs at the notion of existence caught.

Light'southward killings reach a monumental scale, alluring the attending of the chief detective known equally L. The outset conflict betwixt Light and L happens over the television, kickoff with the broadcast of Lind L. Tailor. 50 places Tailor every bit a decoy on idiot box in order to trick Light, with the network stating that the broadcast is worldwide.

Light kills Tailor by writing his name down.

Tailor provokes Kira by calling him "evil", and, in a rage, kills Tailor with a centre attack.

Light thinks the ordeal is over, but the circulate of Tailor is suddenly cut, and L's signature letter 'Fifty' appears. Using a vox synthesizer, the real L announces that Lind Fifty. Tailor was a decoy and a criminal on expiry row. He explains that Tailor'due south information was never made bachelor to the public, and then there was no way Kira could have killed him until now. Fifty boldly taunts Kira, asking him to try to kill him, as Calorie-free stares at the Television receiver, angrily shocked that he's been fooled. After several seconds, L learns that Kira needs the person's existent name and confront to kill the victim, otherwise Kira would have already killed him. 50 announces that the video was aired simply in the Kanto area of Japan as a ploy to determine the location of Kira. 50 says that he is at present speaking straight to Kira and tells Kira that he volition take hold of him, then the broadcast ends.

L and Light declare that they are "justice."

As Low-cal ponders over this, he accepts L's claiming to him. He too declares that he will find 50 and he will eliminate him. The two announce their intentions, and both declare that they are "justice", with Light needing to avert suspicion and capture by Fifty all while needing to impale him.

The FBI Agents

Before long subsequently, now working with the Japanese police, L begins to lead a Task Force alongside Calorie-free's ain father, Soichiro, in guild to expose and capture Kira.

Lite hacks into his father's computer without leaving a trace, and discovers that 50 and the Task Force speculate that Kira may well exist a student. Light figures that considering one would exist able to control the conditions of death using the Death Note, manipulating the time of decease is possible as well. Light then begins killing criminals in one-hour increments in order to specifically contradict the "Kira is a student" theory, letting L know that Kira has access to police force information, with Calorie-free's main goal in mind beingness the spawning of distrust amidst the police and L, as L will be spring to investigate the police now.

When walking home from schoolhouse, Lite is informed of by Ryuk that someone is tailing him. In order to prevent him from existence investigated, Low-cal is determined to impale his stalker.

Ryuk tells Light the purpose of the Death Note. A Shinigami gets extra life from killing humans with a Death Annotation, which is why a Shinigami tin can live for many years and cannot exist killed in whatsoever other way. And then, Ryuk explains to Light that the Shinigami have eyes that permit them to run across any human's real proper name and lifespan over their caput. In addition, a Shinigami tin can make a deal with the possessor of the Death Note to receive the "Shinigami Eyes" in exchange for half of that man's remaining lifespan, with Ryuk offer to make the deal. Lite refuses the deal, stating that he needs to live for a long time in order to rule over his utopian world.

Suddenly, Light has an idea about how to detect out the FBI agent's proper noun. He decides to utilise his stock criminals in order to observe out how specific the details of death need to be.

Low-cal boards a charabanc with his engagement, Yuri, and Low-cal's follower takes a seat behind the couple.

Prior to the engagement, Light had written the proper noun of Kiichiro Osoerda, having him hijack the motorbus, so leave the double-decker and die of an accident after seeing a phantom. Osoreda boards the omnibus. The human being pulls out a gun and points it to the commuter, taking the charabanc hostage.

Calorie-free prompts his follower to say something by passing Yuri a note which contains Light's plans to apprehend the busjacker. Low-cal asks Raye to bear witness him proof that he is not the busjacker'south accomplice, forcing him to evidence Lite his proof of being an FBI agent, along with his name, Raye Penber. Low-cal drops a note, which prompts the busjacker to selection it up, only for the note to have been a snippet of the Death Note, significant the busjacker can meet Ryuk. In shock, the busjacker empties his gun and exits the motorcoach, before dying in an accident.

Back at Calorie-free's house, Ryuk asks him if he's going to write Penber's name down in the Death Notation. Light tells him that it would expect also suspicious if he does so immediately after they met. In addition, he wants Penber to evidence him the names and faces of every FBI agent sent to investigate the NPA.

Light follows Penber and gives orders with a transmitter.

On December 27, 2003, Light goes to an underground section of the Shinjuku Station. Light figured out that he can write the date and cause of death in the Expiry Note without a proper name, and the Expiry Note will work when the proper name is added later. While wearing a hood to obscure his identity, Light appears behind Penber (unaware that information technology is Light) and tells Penber that he is Kira. Lite threatens Penber by stating that non-compliance would atomic number 82 to his death, the decease of his love, and the deaths of his family.

The envelopes containing pages of the Decease Annotation

Low-cal asks Penber if he's carrying a laptop, and if he has a file containing the names of all of the FBI agents in Japan. Penber says that he doesn't have a file similar that, and Light easily him an envelope. He tells Penber to concord onto the envelope, take out the transmitter and put the earphones in. Over transmitter, Light leads Penber through a turnstile in the western entrance at 3:xi PM. Penber enters a train on the Yamanote Line at 3:13 and takes a seat. Light asks how many FBI agents there are, and Penber says that he thinks there are four groups, totaling twelve agents. Light says to phone call an agent that is ranked lower than him and ask for the names and faces of all agents sent to Nihon. Penber uses his cell phone and calls an agent, then asks him for the name and faces of the agents. Penber receives the FBI file at 3:21 PM, and Penber is the second FBI agent that receives it. Calorie-free tells Penber to take the contents out of the folder he gave him, and Penber takes out four envelopes with ten rectangular spaces cut out of the left side of each i. Lite says to write downwards the names of the agents into the blocks on the folders. At 4:42 PM, when Raye exits the train, he dies of a heart assail while turning around and seeing Light.

Light takes the files domicile and takes the pages of the Decease Annotation out of their envelopes, revealing the times and causes of death for each agent. Each agent volition receive the file and die at a different fourth dimension.

Naomi Misora

After the sudden decease of Raye, Naomi Misora decides to take role in the Kira instance herself. Having been told by Raye that he showed his FBI badge to someone during a passenger vehicle-jacking, Naomi deduces that Kira must take been on the bus. In her attempts to contact the Japanese Task Force, she comes beyond Calorie-free Yagami. Light uses his father'southward status to his reward, telling Naomi that he is Chief Yagami's son, which allows him to slowly win her trust. Cautious at start, she uses the imitation name Shoko Maki in gild to protect herself until she can accomplish L.

Later on he realizes that this was an alias from the manner Ryuk laughed, Light finally gets Naomi to reveal her name by saying that he is a fellow member of the Job Force and is actually working with 50. Taking advantage of Naomi's emotional land, Lite gives the possibility that she could bring together the Job Forcefulness and help catch her fiancé's murderer. Light says that he volition need to see a grade of identification before she can join, and Naomi shows him her driver's license. Using a piece of the Death Note, Low-cal writes down Naomi's name, resulting in her death by suicide. Her torso is never found due to the specifications made by Low-cal in the Death Note.

Surveillance Cameras

Every bit Light arrives home, he finds the doorknob of his bedroom (which is commonly lowered by a few millimeters) is strangely at the very top, plus the pencil lead placed on his door hinge is broken. Not only that, only his bluff, a piece of newspaper, was strangely put back in his door. This has Light believing that L has installed surveillance cameras and wiretaps within his room. Low-cal then bribes Ryuk with apples, asking him to observe where the surveillance cameras are.

Lite reveals he has hidden scandalous magazines and proceeds to browse through them in lodge to give off the impression to 50 that he is a normal teenager, and that the magazines were what he was hiding all along. During dinner, Fifty has a bulletin appear on TV, stating that the ICPO has dispatched 1500 investigators to Japan to investigate Kira, but Calorie-free sees through this barefaced.

When Light is about to written report for his upcoming entrance exams, he has placed a snippet of the notebook and a mini-LCD TV inside a murphy chip bag (which contains a flavor which just he out of the rest of his family prefers). While studying, whenever Light places his hand in the potato scrap handbag, he actually checks for criminals' names using the mini-TV then writes down their names. The main idea is that 50 would see that criminals accept died which Light could non have possibly run into, being decorated in his room, studying. With this trick, Light manages to kill two petty criminals.

For the side by side few days, Lite gain to kill more criminals, picayune or non, in guild to comprehend upwardly the fact that picayune criminals take died solely while he was studying.

Somewhen, the surveillance cameras get removed and Lite plans on finding Fifty through his father.

Meeting L

Low-cal performs his entrance exams, when he notices a student sitting strangely on his seat.

He passes the exams, scoring perfectly, and is able to become a pupil of To-Oh University. Alongside another student who scored perfectly, who was the student sitting oddly earlier, he gives a speech communication. Noticing the strange behavior of this student, who named himself later the famous pop idol, Hideki Ryuga, Calorie-free feels bellyaching at his constant chattering that concerns Light's character.

Calorie-free, frustrated over L having revealed himself.

"Hideki Ryuga" then reveals himself to Light as L. Low-cal is shocked by this and is attempting to stay calm effectually this supposed new friend he's made. When Light arrives dwelling, he throws a tantrum, and explains L's strategy, that should Light write down L's name using the alias even with the off-chance that it's real, the real Hideki Ryuga will die (since Light will accept subconsciously pictured Ryuga's face), and suspicion will be pointed towards him. Not only that, but fifty-fifty if Low-cal finds out L's real name, this L could very well be a proxy and suspicion from the hypothetical real Fifty will exist pointed towards Light again, every bit the timing will still be also user-friendly. Low-cal accepts this challenge from Fifty, getting excited over this upcoming battle of wits.

L asks Light to play lawn tennis with him, and they practise so, almost evenly matched. During the lawn tennis game, both of them ponder strategies. Light comes to the conclusion that L asked him to play tennis in order to lay the background for future meetings which will essentially exist tests; Low-cal also plans on confirming that Ryuga is L with confirmation from the Task Force.

Subsequently Calorie-free wins the intense tennis match, L reveals that he is suspicious of Light beingness Kira, with Calorie-free still beingness forced to put up the human activity and pretends to be shocked. Light comes to the conclusion that, with this act, L is attempting to prevent Low-cal from meeting with the Task Forcefulness. They hang out together at a cafe after.

At the cafe, L tests Low-cal multiple times, with Light managing to evade Fifty's psychological traps. L asks Light to help the Kira investigation; if Light is Kira, then L will exist closer to him and there is more room for Light slipping up, and if he isn't Kira, and so his swell intellectual ability will exist of use to the investigation. Light takes advantage of this past demanding that he meet the Task Forcefulness members to confirm L's identity in guild for him to begin helping the investigation. Much to Light's surprise, L accepts.

Soichiro collapses due to stress, and both Calorie-free and L visit him at the infirmary. There, through Soichiro, Light manages to ostend that the Fifty who appeared before him is, in fact, the real L.

The Second Kira

On April 22, 2004 (2007 in anime), in a broadcast on Sakura TV, "Kira" sends tapes stating that if criminal reports stop, Kira volition kill police officers and reporters, and then demands that the life of someone in charge of the Kira investigation be handed over—the Director's or L's. "Kira" says to choose i and reveal them in four days and that, considering Kira knows the Director'south face, there are no special requirements; yet, if they should choose L, he must appear on Sakura TV and give a ten-minute speech. "Kira" says that they will decide if the person on the news is L, and if information technology is decided that he isn't, Kira will have the lives of several police officers as bounty.

Light watches this circulate, amused at the fact that someone else possesses a Death Note, likely with the Shinigami Eyes. Light figures this person is dangerous as they could tarnish Kira's reputation and their capture would be detrimental for Low-cal, and then Light figures he needs to join the Task Force in order to go along an eye on L as well as this fake Kira.

A few days later on, Fifty asks Light to join the Task Force. Low-cal arrives at the hotel and appears surprised at the small size of the Task Strength, and 50 tells Light that there are a few outsiders who know what happens within the investigation and merely one can contact L directly. Light thinks to himself that if anybody in the Task Force dies merely ane, the killer is revealed, so he must find out who the outsider with the data is. Light is told to await over the papers of the investigation and then lookout man the tape without taking notes or removing anything. After watching the tapes, Calorie-free says that there may exist someone else with Kira's abilities, citing the divergence in criminals killed, as well as the fact that some were killed immediately after revealing their faces.

Lite realizes that 50 would accept told him his plan regardless of what he told L and that he set things up and so that if Light didn't say there was some other Kira, he would look suspicious, and if he did, he would help strengthen 50'due south theory to the Task Force. 50 asks Light to help their case by pretending to be Kira and tells Light that only he is able to play this part, starting with writing a draft for the speech as Kira. Later on, the tape is created and sent to diverse Goggle box stations. The Second Kira responds with videos which contain indirect, and some rather straight, comments about Death Notes, Shinigami, and how they tin can run across. Light goes to Aoyama to discover the 2d Kira, merely is unable to come across this Kira. However, due to having Shinigami Eyes, the Second Kira is able to identify Light equally Kira because of her being unable to see Light'due south lifespan.

Light hugs Misa, successfully having swayed her.

Later on finding out his address, the 2nd Kira arrives at Light's house, and Calorie-free invites Misa to his room and asks her to explain her actions. Misa says that she wanted to meet Kira because her parents were murdered in front of her, and Kira killed the homo who did it. Misa asks to be his girlfriend, admitting that she wouldn't even listen if he simply uses her. Light agrees, intending to impale her later she outlives her usefulness. Yet, Misa'due south Shinigami, Rem, promises to impale him if he ever harms Misa. Light finds Rem to exist a massive threat, every bit having limited command over Misa would issue in her doing something reckless, not to mention Misa's capture could result in Rem killing Light.

Light has to now keep a gaggle of girlfriends and so that his newfound relationship with Misa won't stand out, as L had already deduced that Kira and the second Kira have allied.

Misa goes directly against Light orders and, instead of meeting two weeks after their first coming together every bit Light requested, Misa meets up with Light only two days following their first meeting. Lite uses this opportunity to convince Rem to help him kill L, promising her that it's for Misa's happiness. Rem agrees to do so, and Calorie-free said that she must follow his command only when he tells her to.

At campus, Lite surprisingly meets up with 50 again, where 50 steals Misa's phone later on taking advantage of a crowd. Misa is then taken abroad, with L revealing that he constitute DNA evidence in Misa's room pointing towards Misa being the second Kira. This is dangerous for Calorie-free, as Misa existence the 2nd Kira would point towards Light being the original Kira.

Imprisoned

Light, now cornered by Fifty, puts his master programme into action. Rem had already relinquished ownership of Misa's notebook to Light, wiping her memories and preventing her from confessing.

Light then swaps the notebooks with their respective Shinigami, with Ryuk beingness attached to the notebook originally owned by Misa and Rem fastened to Light's. Light places two fake rules in the notebook Rem is attached to, one being that when the notebook is destroyed, anyone who has touched the notebook will die, and, virtually importantly, whoever doesn't write names within the notebook within xiii consecutive days dies.

Light instructs Rem to allow Kyosuke Higuchi to become the new possessor of the Expiry Annotation she is attached to, then asks L to detain him. During his solitude, no criminals die, which strengthens the instance for Low-cal being Kira. Within vii days of confinement, Low-cal gives upwardly his ownership of his notebook, and consequently has all of his memories of being Kira wiped and altered. During his fifteenth twenty-four hours of confinement, criminals brainstorm dropping dead again, and on his 50th mean solar day, the Task Force has L release Light and Misa.

Soichiro then fakes an execution past shooting Lite and Misa with a bare gun, which convinces L to release Light and Misa from their confinement as Misa would have killed Soichiro in this situation.

Yotsuba

Light accepts L's offer to join the investigation squad to hunt downwards Higuchi, who has taken upward the mantle of Kira. During the investigation of Yotsuba, Light works under the alias "Lite Asahi".

Light, enraged at L for suspecting he is Kira, resorts to physical violence.

L handcuffs him and Light together, displeasing Misa and Light. 50 suggests manipulating Misa in lodge to get information from her, but Lite refuses, as he dares non to ever have advantage of someone's feelings. While Misa is resting in her hotel room, Fifty acts lethargic nigh how catching Kira will be hard, prompting Calorie-free to fight him.

Months later, while L is sulking and non working on the case, Light finds a correlation between the killings and the growth of Yotsuba, having the investigation believe that Kira is either within Yotsuba or working behind Yotsuba, and also leads them to the conclusion that Kira tin impale through means other than middle attacks. Keeping watch of the meetings held by the head of the Yotsuba members, Light objects to L letting the killings continue, and poses as L and decides to phone call Reiji Namikawa, who agreed to help Fifty and postpone the killings.

Misa eventually finds testify pointing towards Kyosuke Higuchi existence Kira. While 50 and the investigation team enacts the program to take down Higuchi, Light keeps lookout of the situation and follows L, eventually to the bespeak where he is riding on a helicopter with Fifty, and witnesses Higuchi's arrest.

While the Task Force discovers the Death Notation, Calorie-free touches it, regaining his memories equally Kira again. In order to claim buying of the Death Notation he is currently holding, Light kills Higuchi using a snippet of the notebook within his sentry.

Fifty and the Chore Force then find the 13-day rule, successfully clearing Low-cal and Misa of existence suspected, while L is withal skeptical.

The End of L

Light instructs Misa to find her buried Death Note, which results in her regaining her memories. Light instructs Misa to kill L if she remembers his existent name from when they were on campus, but Misa doesn't call back and so makes the Shinigami Heart deal over again, which is what Light wanted in example Misa forgot L's proper name, as taking the Eye bargain and halving her lifespan would pressure level Rem. Light then instructs Misa to begin killing criminals once again and so that L would suspect Misa is backside the killings. This is in order to put Rem in a situation where she'd exist forced to kill L in social club to save Misa. Rem does indeed kill L and Watari, which results in her death, merely as Light planned.

After winning the battle with L and taking his persona, Light gains control of the Kira investigation team. This puts him on the safest ground as his role as a 2d generation L, covering his identity as Kira.

For the next five years, by using L'due south database of criminal records, Low-cal's judgments become more widespread than ever. As a upshot, the world falls into a dark historic period in which essentially everyone now lives under the law of Kira.

Part II

Mello'due south Kidnappings

Later v years of everything going swimmingly, Takimura, the head of the NPA, gets kidnapped in substitution for the Death Note. At the same time, an FBI amanuensis, John McEnroe, confronts Soichiro, and asks for the Decease Note. This FBI amanuensis too seeks cooperation from the Task Force to rescue Takimura from the kidnappers.

Lite feels obligated to get rid of the kidnappers likewise as the American organisation equally soon as possible, as they are currently the simply people too the Task Force who know of the existence of the Decease Annotation. Light kills Takimura so that they no longer have a bargaining chip to trade the Death Notation for, and it wouldn't look suspicious as one could hands assume the kidnappers killed him. Withal, the kidnappers then announce that they accept kidnapped Sayu Yagami, which puts Lite under pressure. In order to get assist, he contacts the organization which John McEnroe offered to take them to talk to, and Light talks to Near for the commencement fourth dimension, who introduces himself equally North and is enlightened of the previous L's decease.

Almost letting Light know of him having knowledge of the previous Fifty'south death.

Light tells Near the current situation and Near surveils the site of the trade using satellites. The substitution goes through, with the kidnappers gaining the notebook.

Near decides that he should hunt the kidnappers on his own, but for his program to fail as Mello uses the Death Note to wipe out more than half his team. Lite takes reward of this incident to trade all that he knows about the notebook for information on the perpetrator of the kidnappings. Near tells Low-cal that someone using the nickname Mello, who is using the Mafia, is backside the kidnappings, and Light has the Task Forcefulness investigate Wammy's Business firm, informing Light of Mello'southward motives.

The president calls Light, and Calorie-free figures out that Mello had blackmailed him. So, Light takes advantage of this to have the president organize a raid led by Yitzak Ghazanin. Low-cal learns the location of Mello and the Mafia past taking control of the current Death Note owner and having him mail service him their location. However, the raid fails cheers to the intervention of Sidoh, a Shinigami working with the Mafia.

Light then has Misa ship a message to the Job Force as Kira, that Kira relinquished buying of his Decease Notation to one of the members of the Task Forcefulness in order to attack the Mafia and regain the notebook. Light had expected Matsuda to gain ownership and brand the Shinigami Eye bargain, merely, unfortunately for Light, Soichiro does and then instead. The raid commences and they regain the Death Note, and Lite tells them to face Mello. Soichiro threatens Mello rather than killing him, giving Jose the opportunity to shoot Soichiro severely.

Mello then blows up the base and escapes, but Soichiro manages to give out Mello's real proper name to Lite. Soichiro then dies in the hospital, subsequently seeing that Light's lifespan was not absent, proving to him that Lite was not Kira.

The Battle with Near

Near tries to make the Chore Force members dubiety Light.

Light selects Demegawa equally the Kira spokesperson, intending to spread Kira's word in order to gain more than ability to take down Nigh and Mello. Thanks in part to David Hoope'southward death and the battle with the Mafia, the United states submits to Kira and dissolves the SPK, the arrangement Near is running. Near, deducing that the second L is Kira, calls Calorie-free and claims that he has interrogated Mello, and that he learned that at that place are fake rules. Virtually disproves the 13-day dominion, and gives pieces of bear witness to the Task Force pointing towards the second L being Kira, instilling some doubt inside the Task Force in an effort to plough them against the 2d 50.

Mello contacts Mogi and tells him to follow Mello to New York, which Mogi does so nether the supervision of Low-cal and the Task Force. Nonetheless, Mello has Mogi go to the SPK'southward headquarters, which puts Low-cal under farthermost force per unit area equally Mello and Near are constantly pressuring Mogi into spilling information. On ane paw, if Lite lets Mogi live, he might spill information that would exist detrimental for Low-cal, simply if Low-cal kills him, it'd only incriminate him.

Luckily for Light, Mogi doesn't give away any information. However, equally he can't guarantee that, and in order to kill off Nearly and Mogi, Low-cal sends Demegawa and tons of other Kira followers to assault Nearly. However, Nearly uses L'south inheritance to distract the crowd and escape.

Near lies to the Task Strength, claiming Mogi had died of a middle attack. This stirs suspicion against Light, which results in Aizawa giving Almost lots of data, which has him believing that Calorie-free Yagami is the 2nd L and Kira, while Mogi returns to the Chore Forcefulness. Calorie-free at present expects tighter surveillance now that Near turned the Task Force against him, and so he has Misa relinquish ownership of her notebook to Teru Mikami, who kills Demegawa for running amok, testifying his worth. Mikami so selects Kiyomi Takada as the new Kira spokesperson, who coincidentally had a past relationship with Calorie-free.

Light takes reward of this to use Takada to talk to Mikami. He does this while satisfying the Task Forcefulness, under the guise that he is investigating her. During their 2nd meeting, Mikami calls them, and Calorie-free manages to confirm to Mikami that Light is Kira and Mikami confirm to Light that Mikami is the new Kira proxy via subtle communication. Light then says that all the Job Force'due south surveillance cameras and almost of the wiretaps must exist removed as per Kira's request. Low-cal and then privately reveals to Takada that he is Kira.

The Chore Forcefulness moves to Nippon, with the aforementioned being done past the SPK.

For the rest of his meetings with Takada, Light and her communicate by writing notes every bit the Task Force placed a wire on Light. Low-cal instructs Takada to tell Mikami to forge a fake notebook and apply that fake to write down names in public, while he sends Takada the real names so she does the killings. Light's incentive is that, for his final confrontation with Near, he expects Near to swap his notebook with a faux, which is why he's already preparing a fake.

About and Light subtly make declarations of their battle.

Nearly calls Low-cal and informs him of their ongoing investigation of Takada.

Calorie-free also has Mikami say things in public suggesting Ryuk hasn't been post-obit him. This fashion, when Virtually touches the Death Note, he won't recall that at that place is no Shinigami because the notebook is a fake. Light'southward plan goes perfectly, with About having swapped the pages of Mikami'south fake notebook.

About calls the Task Force and informs them of a meeting Near wants to arrange, taking identify at Yellow Box Warehouse, which is but what Light had expected. Even so, not likewise many days before the planned meeting, Takada suddenly gets kidnapped by Mello. Takada successfully manages to kill Mello, while Light kills Takada using a fire to remove any testify.

The coming together commences, and Mikami begins writing everyone's name within the notebook, with the only one whose proper noun isn't written downward is confirmed to exist Kira. Having prepared a fake all forth, Light had expected to win, as he had planned things out and then that Mikami would bring the existent one.

Nevertheless, it is revealed to be a fake. Near reveals that Mikami had actually written down Takada'south name after her kidnapping, non knowing Light did the same. This allowed Almost to seize the real notebook which Mikami had used to write downwardly her name.

Light, being exposed as Kira, attempts to deny it, only with his declaration of victory as well as the evidence About provided, everyone is convinced Lite is Kira. Light laughs maniacally, and attempts to tell them the benefits of Kira's world. Nevertheless, Near responds by maxim that everyone has a right to choose what they recall is right or wrong, while Kira is killing people to selfishly force his ain personal utopia onto everyone. When Light so tries to appeal to anybody else in the room their cold gaze confirms that they too harshly reject his vision of a utopia.

Low-cal and then decides to distract anybody in the room by presenting the possibility that the notebook brought from the task force could be faux. While mid-speech he swiftly tries to utilise the scrap of the notation in his lookout man to kill Nigh. Matsuda responds by shooting Lite, interrupting him so berates him for driving his own father to his death for his vision. Calorie-free then tries to continue to cease writing the proper name using his claret from the gunshot wound. Matsuda, enraged at Light, shoots at Low-cal multiple times, leaving him severely injured. The task force then disarms Matsuda before he kills Calorie-free in his fit of rage and besides takes the annotation scrap as well then it couldn't go on to be used.

Fate

Manga

Lite is left incapacitated both physically and mentally. Calorie-free yells for Mikami to write downward the names of everyone present, just Mikami responds by asking how he is supposed to kill them with a faux notebook. This brings Mikami to the realization that Light is not "God". Light becomes increasingly distraught and begins request for help from Misa, but to be told that she isn't here. He then asks for Takada and is told that she is dead. In complete desperation, Lite begs Ryuk to help him past killing everyone in the room, nonetheless Ryuk reminds Light that he is on neither side. Ryuk fulfills his hope from the beginning: he writes "Light Yagami" in his Death Note, and Calorie-free futilely begs Ryuk to reverse the process. He begins to panic, repeating in his head "I don't want to dice," before the Death Annotation finally takes effect, thus killing him.

Anime

Mikami commits suicide past stabbing himself with his pen and losing a lot of claret, creating a diversion for both the Job Force and the SPK. Although weakened, Low-cal catches a second wind and manages to flee the warehouse. Near tells Aizawa, Mogi, Ide, and Matsuda that there is no reason to pursue Low-cal, given that there should exist no more hidden Decease Note pieces and Lite's wounds would forbid him from getting far. Aizawa refuses to listen Near'southward orders and has his team follow Low-cal. Meanwhile, Ryuk writes Light's name down when he finds another warehouse to hide in. As Calorie-free silently dies, an illusion of L appears before Light, mirroring a scene following L's defeat at Low-cal's hands in episode 25.

At the end of Death Note Relight ii: 50's Successors, Aizawa and Matsuda are revealed to accept plant the warehouse Light has fled to; their expressions of shock imply that they have seen Low-cal'south torso.

In other media

Motion-picture show series

Decease Note

In the picture, a few changes were made to Light. At the film's beginning, Light is a starting time-year university student studying law instead of still being a high school genius like in the beginning of the manga and anime. Low-cal's motives differ; his colorlessness trait does not exist, and he instead uses the Death Annotation out of frustration from the perceived failures of the Japanese justice system. Light, prior to his discovery of the Decease Note, hacks into the government database and finds that the authorities secretly acknowledges that many criminals can't exist prosecuted. Light discovers the Death Note in an alley during a rainy night after encountering Takuo Shibuimaru in a social club and throwing a police force book into the rain in a rage. Light meets Ryuk afterward killing Shibuimaru. Light has a girlfriend, Shiori Akino, who attends his university. Light kills Shiori at the end of the first movie to gain sympathy from 50 using Naomi Misora, whom he besides kills.

Death Note: The Last Proper noun

Later on Rem "kills" L and Watari, Light writes his father'due south proper name in an endeavor to kill him, an attempt that ultimately fails. The endings of both the second motion picture and the manga are like. In the second picture show, afterwards beingness exposed as Kira, Light asks Ryuk to write the names of the squad members in the book during the climax. The constabulary shoot but do not impale Ryuk as he writes in the Death Note. Light laughs until Ryuk shows Light the Death Note, revealing that Light's name was written in the volume. Low-cal tries to stop Ryuk, passing through the Shinigami. Light dies in his father'south arms, begging him to believe that he acted equally Kira to put justice into do: justice, which Soichiro Yagami had taught Low-cal since his babyhood. The flick concludes one yr later on Light's altogether. Sayu fetches Soichiro and says that Kira helped reduce crime rates. Still, she says that she does not support Kira as Light was killed by Kira (which is what Soichiro told her). Low-cal is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara, known for his role as Shuya Nanahara of Battle Royale.

Formulation of Light in the films

Shusuke Kaneko, manager of the film, intended for Calorie-free to appear sympathetic at the showtime of the film; when Light first gains the Decease Note, Kaneko "was careful" to have Lite react in a style "every bit you and I would." Kaneko changed the story involving Calorie-free gaining his starting time notebook as he felt that the audience "would have a hard time sympathizing" with Light if the scene remained the aforementioned as information technology was in the manga. Kaneko added that as he portrayed Light as "being enthralled" as he "becomes more roughshod" to brand the audience members experience that they could "do the terrible things he does" even if the members practice non empathise with Light.

Kaneko designed Light's room to reflect the character'southward personality by making it clean and neat and filling it with legal, criminal history, strange, and academic books. The original version of Lite'south room included a stereo; Kaneko replaced it with a vacuum cleaner to reflect Light'due south "clean-freak self."

Tatsuya Fujiwara said that he felt difficulty portraying Light in the motion-picture show series because of the lack of "action" and because Light has no signature mannerisms and therefore has his feelings displayed by his face; Fujiwara added that he struggled conveying Calorie-free's "incredible corporeality of intelligence" and that the performance would announced "very empty or simplistic" if Light received an improper portrayal. Fujiwara explained that he wanted Low-cal to weep in a item scene even though Kaneko told Fujiwara "Light doesn't cry" since Fujiwara believed that the scene would feel "more honest"; Kaneko used the take. Fujiwara said that he "could understand" Light's intentions to create a new earth even though "murder is a horrible thing."

Television drama

Calorie-free receives major character changes in the Japanese drama, notably being less ambitious and intelligent than his manga counterpart. At the beginning of the series, Light is an average twenty-year-old college educatee working function-fourth dimension at a pub, hoping to become a ceremonious servant and alive a tranquillity life. He is far more prone to emotional outbursts, even crying when he feels cornered past Fifty.

The Musical

Hong Kwang Ho every bit Low-cal (2015, Seoul) during Where is the Justice?

Lite is very similar to his catechism self in the musical, and the story approximately follows catechism upwardly through Misa's solitude. Calorie-free does non volunteer for confinement, and the final confrontation with L happens soon subsequently instead. Believing that Low-cal can no longer entertain him after he has eliminated L, Ryuk kills Light in the final scene.

Light is portrayed past various actors for the unlike musical productions. Kenji Urai (浦井健治) and Hayato Kakizawa (柿澤勇人) shared the role in the 2015 Japanese production, and they will both reprise the role for the 2017 Japanese product. Hong Kwang-Ho (홍광호) portrayed the graphic symbol for the 2015 Korean production, and Han Ji-Sang (한지상) is taking over the part for the 2017 Korean production. Jeremy Jordan voiced Lite for the English-language 2014 New York studio demo recordings.

Light performs the following songs in the Musical:

"Where is the Justice" is sung by Light and his loftier-school classroom. Lite also sings the commencement reprise afterward embracing his role as Kira.
"Change the World" is the song he sings when he jokingly writes a criminal's name in the Death Note for the first time.
"Death Note," aka "Hurricane," is the vocal Light sings once he realizes he has killed someone with the Death Note.
"Don't Cross That Line" is a vocal Soichiro sings about his disapproval of L's methods with Lind L. Tailor. Light joins in as well.
Secrets and Lies
"Stalemate," aka "A Game of Death," is a song between L and Light at the Todai University entrance anniversary. Misa also joins in for a poetry.
"Playing His Game," aka "Into Him," is a song between L and Light during their tennis match.
"Last Moments" is a song betwixt L and Low-cal during their final confrontation.

2017 American film

In Netflix's American Death Note film, Lite's name is inverse to Low-cal Turner and he is played by Nat Wolff.

Similar to the television drama, Light'due south intelligence is significantly toned-downwards and he is portrayed equally an average high school student with standard academic ability, albeit skilled plenty to exist able to complete other student'southward homework assignments for pay. Unlike his manga analogue, this Light is not as confident and is unwilling to kill law enforcement.

He as well demonstrates a willingness to use the notebook for personal proceeds, shown when he murders a criminal alive on the cyberspace news in guild to print his love interest, Mia Sutton (based on Misa Amane). Yet, Calorie-free however has a strong sense of justice in this adaption and, with encouragement from Ryuk and Mia, begins using the notebook to create a utopia. He adopts the name "Kira" as a way to throw off law enforcement into thinking he is Japanese.

Interestingly, Mia emulates the ruthless qualities that originated from Low-cal'south manga analogue such as a willingness to kill law enforcement to protect their identities as Kira. Light eventually kills Mia subsequently she attempts to steal the notebook from his possession, but this lands Light in a coma and in the hospital. After he awakens from the coma, Light'southward father (named James Turner in this adaption) confronts Light later deducing his identity as Kira. Light's fate at the end of the film is unknown.

Video games

Low-cal appears alongside Ryuk as a non-playable story character for the crossover video game Jump Force. When the real world begins merging with the fictional "Spring" worlds, his Death Note loses its ability to impale people. He assists the J-Strength, a team formed by heroes from other Jump worlds, with preventing the game'due south antagonists from completely merging the worlds together. During the game's ending, he acquires an Umbra Cube, a tool utilized by the game's antagonists, and voices his plan to use it "to make the world a better place."

Relationships

Conception

The following information is from Death Note 13: How to Read.

Tsugumi Ohba: Writer

Takeshi Obata: Creative person

Overview

Ohba said that Light was "a fellow who could understand the pain of others" when he starting time encountered the Expiry Note. Ohba said that if Ryuk never developed an involvement in the human being world, Light would have become "one of the greatest police leaders in the world" who, with L, worked against criminals. Ohba described Light's life equally "ruined" once he obtained the Death Note, and that Calorie-free became a victim of the Expiry Note "in many ways". Ohba described Light as begetting expert faith intentions and having a "very conceited" nature. Ohba also describes Light as having a "warped" "desire to be godlike," begetting love for his family, and intending to transform the world into "a better place". Ohba added that he believed that debating whether Light'due south actions were good or evil is not "very important." Ohba says that he personally sees Light as a "diabolical" character.

According to Ohba, Light sees Misa Amane, who he uses equally an accomplice, as a "bad person" who killed people, and then he acts emotionally common cold towards her and manipulates her. Despite this, he keeps her alive even after her memories of beingness Kira have been removed for the second (and last) time.

Ohba said that his editor suggested the family name "Yagami" for Light. Ohba said that he did not feel "too concerned" about the pregnant of the name (the kanji are "dark" and "god"); he said that after he created the final scene in the manga he "liked" that the last scene created "deeper significance" in the name.

Pattern

Obata said that he had "no problem" designing Low-cal as the graphic symbol clarification presented to him, "A brilliant honors student who'due south a trivial out there," was "clear and detailed." Every bit the weekly serialization connected, Obata simplified the design by unconsciously removing "unnecessary" lines and felt that he became "amend" at drawing Light. When Chapter 35 appeared and the editor informed Obata that Light lost his memories, Obata felt that he had to "forget everything he learned" and draw Light in a like mode as he appeared in Chapter 1.

Adult Light in the manga. He was typically assigned a "lack of color" by Obata.

Obata said that he used "a lot of effort" to design Low-cal'due south wardrobe. According to Obata, he encountered difficulty imagining the wear of "a brilliant person," and so he looked through manner magazines. Obata envisioned Calorie-free as a "smart and formal guy" who wears formal shirts. Most of Lite's clothing in Death Note is "fitted" and Obata avoided jeans.

When designing color volume covers, Obata assigned colors to characters to "get the atmosphere right." Obata assigned clear or "lack of a color" to Light.

When asked about which character was most like to himself, Ohba indicated Most and "possibly Light." Regarding Light, Ohba cited "considering I did well in schoolhouse." Obata said that Calorie-free was his second favorite human graphic symbol and that he was not sure whether that was because he "liked" Low-cal or considering he drew "such a diabolical grapheme" in a mag for children.

Trivia

The name Yagami means "night god."

Light's crucified position

Low-cal is portrayed in a crucified-similar position on the twelfth and last manga cover. This position is mimicked by Light during the 2nd ending sequence in the anime and over again when he is portrayed equally a secret Nendoroid figure for the Death Notation Instance File trade line. This position connects to Light'due south want to exist a Messiah effigy of the homo race similar to the Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ.
In the anime, certain characters have on stylized pilus colors while the viewer hears their thoughts; Light's colour is reddish.
In Death Notation Relight 1: Visions of a God, an unnamed Shinigami appears in the Shinigami Realm. This new Shinigami asks the others where the rogue Shinigami named Ryuk is. Some believe this unnamed Shinigami was created with the intention of having viewers connect him with Light equally a sort of reincarnation, though this isn't canonically possible due to the existence of Mu.

Light is one of the Decease Note characters that were made into Nendoroid figures. The Light Nendoroid comes with small Decease Note and a pen which he holds and three faces: a laughing face up, an angry face, and a normal face.

Quotes

"I'chiliad going to make the world know I'm here… that somebody is passing righteous sentence on them." (Chapter 1)
"I'm a hardworking honors student who'south considered to be one of Japan'southward all-time and brightest. And I… I will become the God of this new world." (Episode 1)
"This is interesting, Ryuga. If information technology's my friendship y'all want, I'll gladly have it. In time, I'll earn your trust. And once you've told me what I want to know, there'll be no point in keeping you live, and so I'll impale y'all. With my easily if I take to." (Episode 9)
"Y'all can't e'er win if you're always on the defensive, to win, you have to attack." (Chapter twenty)
(To Ryuk, regarding the Expiry Note) "I've never considered finding that notebook and gaining that ability a misfortune." (Chapter 22)
"This… is the kickoff time that I actually want to punch a girl." (Chapter 31)
"I'g going to get more intimate with Misa and make her fall helplessly in honey with me." (Affiliate 32)
"The thing I hate the most is to trample on other people's skilful will." (Chapter 37)
"I've won... Exactly as planned!" (Chapter 53)
"Under normal circumstances, humans should take continued to evolve equally the greatest creatures upon this world, but nosotros were actually regressing. A rotten world. Politics, police force, teaching… Was there everyone around who could correct this world? But someone had to do information technology." (Chapter 105)
"Follow the teachings of God and receive his blessings, and so it shall be that the seas again get bountiful." (Episode ane)
"This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, and so why not me? Even if information technology means sacrificing my own mind and soul, information technology'southward worth it. Because the world… can't get on like this. I wonder… what if someone else had picked upwards this notebook? Is there anyone out in that location other than me who'd be willing to eliminate the vermin from the world? If I don't do it, and so who will? That's just it: at that place's no one. But I can do information technology. In fact, I'm the merely one who can. I'll do it. Using the Death Notation, I'll change the earth." (Episode ane)
"I'll solve equations with my right manus and write names with my left. I'll take a white potato flake… and eat it!" (Episode 8)
"Kira has become law in the world we now live. He'south the 1 who'southward maintaining order. I accept become justice. The only hope for mankind. Kill me? Is that really the correct affair to do? Since Kira'due south appearance six years ago, wars have stopped, and global criminal offence rates accept been reduced by over 70 percent. Merely it's non plenty, this globe is nevertheless rotten, with too many rotten people. Somebody has to do this! And when I first got that notebook all those years ago, I knew I had to exercise it. No, I was the but one who could. I understood that killing people was a crime. At that place was no other style, the world had to be fixed! A purpose given to me! Only I could exercise it. Who else could have done it?! And come this far?! Would they have kept going?! The only one… who tin create a new world… is me." (Episode 37)

Gallery

Themes

Light's Theme

Lite Lights up Calorie-free

Kuroi Light

Modotta Lite

Light no Engi

References

↑ Chapter 26: Reversal.
↑ ^ii.00 ^two.01 ^2.02 ^two.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^ii.08 ^ii.09 ^two.ten From Decease Notation thirteen: How to Read.
↑ ^three.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^three.3 ^iii.iv From Death Notation/A Animation Official Assay Guide.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.one ^4.2 Info for the TV drama shown in Fifty'due south records in episode two.

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