List of Death Note characters
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The manga series Death Note features an extensive cast of fictional characters designed by Takeshi Obata with their storylines created by Tsugumi Ohba. The story follows the character named Light Yagami, who chances upon a supernatural notebook which grants him the ability to cause the death of anyone he writes in it. Light uses the notebook he finds in order to cleanse the world of humans he has deemed unfit for society. A team of professional investigators set out to find out the mysterious killer and arrest him, and thus many other characters are introduced until Light is eventually caught.
In the fictional stories featured in the Death Note universe, Tsugumi Ohba, the story writer, created characters that lived in a world featuring a notebook in which names written on it would lead to the ones named to die, typically the cause of death being a heart attack when otherwise not specified. Ohba chose names for his characters in a way that, as he described, "seemed real but could not exist in the real world", due to the fact that most of the characters were criminals or victims. Some character details differ between the manga and its anime, live-action film and drama adaptations.
Main characters
Light Yagami
Light Yagami (夜神 月, Yagami Raito) is the protagonist of Death Note, a brilliant yet bored genius who adopts the alias "Kira" to cleanse the world of criminals. Created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, he is portrayed as a ruthless, ego-driven character aiming to become the god of a new, crime-free world.
L Lawliet
L Lawliet (エル・ローライト, Eru Rōraito), known mononymously as L, is a world-renowned detective who takes on the challenge of catching the serial killer known as Kira.
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