To say any more would be to risk spoiling the twists and developments in the story, and Death Note is a fundamentally plot-driven story. Writer Tsugumi Ohba and artist Takeshi Obata's manga opens with teenager Light, a brilliant student with a strong sense of justice, finding the Death Note and deciding, after some hesitation and experimentation, to use the note to wipe the criminal and corrupt from the face of the Earth.Īs awareness of Light's actions spread, public opinion is split as to the merits of the war on crime being waged by 'Kira' (a pun on Japanese pronunciation of the English word 'killer'), and a mysterious detective called 'L' decides to bring Kira down. If such a note existed, whose hands could it fall into, and what would they do with it? Inside the cover, a set of rules on 'How to Use It', the first of which sets up the premise of the entire series: 'The human whose name is written in this note shall die'. It's a brilliantly straightforward high concept to open a story. A student's simple notebook, with 'Death Note' scrawled on the front in English.
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