Tsugumi Ōba

Light, under extreme surveillance by authorities after he finds the Death Note, dropped by a rogue death god, and begins using the notebook to kill off criminals, is distracted from his mission by a family emergency, but it soon becomes obvious that someone is carrying on without him.

A guide to the manga series "Death Note" provides character profiles, interviews with the author and artist, plotlines, commentary on the design process, trivia, and a series of side stories not published in the original series.

As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans with the winner becoming the next god of the world. Mirai may have an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive. With the tragic events at the baseball stadium behind them, Mirai...

"Is Kira's story truly over, or does his influence linger? In this complete collection of Death Note short stories penned by the series' creators, discover tales of lives irrevocably changed by the sinister influence of the Death Note, with surprising and thrilling answers to the question of what it truly takes to use the Death Note...or fight it"--

Rogue shinigami Ryuk drops his Death note in the human world out of boredom. High school student Light Yagami picks it up and vows to rid the world of evil. When criminals begin dropping dead, detective L steps in to track down the elusive killer known as Kira.

Light Yagami is an ace student who finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.