There is obviously a great deal of manga style action that helps display these conflicts and the artwork by Takeshi Obata ( Hikaru No Go) suits the actions here. The conflict between Light and his adversary, L, sets up an interesting contest between two different views of morality and man's obligations to use whatever means necessary to effect change in the world. Using the files, Light can stay one step ahead of the Police but now he's picked up a strange person following him. Light gets some unexpected help from his father, the head of Japanese National Police Agency who leaves his files about the case lying about the house.

As Light slowly discovers more of the powers held within the Death Note, he decides to try and use it to eliminate L, the only thing standing between him and a 'perfect world'. The police send the legendary detective L to track down the killer and it isn't long before he's hot on Light's trail. This obviously catches the attention of the police and the crime figures that haven't shuffled off this mortal coil just yet. Any human that happens have their name in the book dies so Light starts using the book to take out the world's criminals. Finding the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami Death God, Ryuk, who is equally bored of his own existence, Light decides to use that power of the Death Note to rid the world of all evil.

Light Yagami is an ace student that is bored out of his mind.

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