The manga followed the story of high school student
Light Yagami as he encounters the otherworldy notebook: the Death Note, which belonged to the death god Ryuk.
The brilliant student
Light Yagami finds the notebook, and starts using it to purge those people he deems wicked or corrupt.
Death Note concerns one
Light Yagami, a model high school student.
The premise is a student named
Light Yagami finding a notebook dropped by a Shinigami.
Death Note tells the story of an extremely intelligent high school student,
Light Yagami, who comes across the Death Note, a notebook that kills any person whose name is written into it.
Turns out, it's law student
Light Yagami (Fujiwara), who has already become disenchanted with Japan's justice system.
Seventeen-year-old
Light Yagami wants to make the world a better place.
Netflix's 'Death Note' stars Natt Wolff as Light Turner (
Light Yagami in the manga) and his quest to 'cleanse humanity' through the use of a supernatural notebook, with the power to kill anyone whose name is written on it.