Death Note

I have recently become slightly obsessed with a comic called Death Note. It is soon to be made into a film and having seen the trailer, I decided to start reading the books. A very bad idea!


To steal a plot synopsis from Wikipedia...

"Light Yagami is a bright young high school student who has until recently led a boring and uneventful life. That changed very quickly when he found a strange notebook with the title "Death Note" lying on the ground one day in 2003. After realizing that the "Death Note" was a shinigami's tool with the power to kill anyone whose name was written on its pages, Light decided to use it to "cleanse" the world of evil.

Soon the many unexplainable deaths of newly released criminals is being noticed, and Light becomes hunted by the Japanese police force and a mysterious detective known as "L". L quickly discovers that the murderer, that they decide to name Kira, is located in Japan, and that he can kill just by knowing someone's face and name. Light realises that L is also a genius, and L and Light begin a cat and mouse chase to see who will be the first to have their identities exposed."

There is a whole load more on the Wikipedia entry, including the rules of the Death Note and character profiles.