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Light Yagami (夜神 月, Yagami Raito?) is the protagonist and anti-villain of the series. At the start of the series, he discovers the Death Note and uses it to kill criminals, becoming known to the people of Japan as Kira (based on the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "killer"). He is voiced by Mamoru Miyano in the Japanese anime and by Brad Swaile in the English dub. In the live-action film, he is played by Tatsuya Fujiwara.

Light Yagami is characterized as an extremely intelligent but bored young man. He is confident of his own intelligence and how smart he is in relation to others, but is rarely overconfident in his own abilities. Being a genius, Light feels that only he is fit to judge humanity and steer it on a proper moral course, viewing himself as the "god" of the new world he is creating. In the film, Light's motives differ; his boredom trait does not exist, and he instead uses the Death Note out of frustration from the perceived failures of the Japanese justice system. Light, prior to his discovery of the Death Note, hacks into the government database and finds that the government secretly acknowledges that many criminals are unable to be prosecuted.

Light's immediate family is his father, Soichiro Yagami, a member of the investigation team opposing Kira; his mother, Sachiko Yagami; and his younger sister, Sayu Yagami. His blood type is A (see Japanese blood type theory of personality). His name is a play on the theme of good and evil in the series, as Light — an unusual pronunciation of the kanji for "moon," normally pronounced tsuki — is his given name, and Yagami is written with the kanji for "night" and "god".


Ryuk is looking at Light with the Shinigami Eyes, revealing Light's real name and remaining lifespan (in Shinigami time).Light was born on February 28, 1986 (1989 in the anime).[1] Light was the junior high school tennis champion in 1999 and 2000; after his 2000 victory, Light quit tennis as he entered high school.[2] At the start of the series, he is a third year high school student (12th Grade) at Daikoku Private Academy (大国学園, Daikoku Gakuen?)[3] who also attends supplemental classes at Gamou Prep Academy.[4] In Spring 2004, Light becomes a first-year student (freshman) at To-Oh University (東応大学, Tōō Daigaku?),[5] becoming one of two freshman representatives, L being the other.[6] In the film, Light is a first-year university student studying Law, instead of still being a high school genius.

Shortly after gaining the Death Note from its owner, Ryuk, Light sets to work ridding the world of criminals. He has them all die of heart attacks so people realize the deaths are deliberate, attracting the attention of the master detective L. Though Light is able to avoid suspicion initially, he becomes a suspect after killing Raye Penber, a FBI agent assigned to follow him by L. With the introduction of the second Kira, Misa Amane, L is finally able to corner him. With the help of Ryuk and Rem, Misa's Shinigami partner, Light hides one of the Death Notes and delivers the second to Kyosuke Higuchi, making him the third Kira. By doing this, both Misa and Light have their memories erased. Now unaware of his time as Kira, Light joins L in hunting the latest Kira. Upon capturing Higuchi and regaining the Death Note, Light's memories are temporarily restored. Light then kills Higuchi to permanently secure his memories. Light manipulates Rem into killing L, using her concern for Misa to convince her that L's death will keep Misa out of danger.

With L dead, Kira takes up his mantle to keep the world in the dark about L's death, becoming the second L while putting him in the perfect position to continue killing criminals. He comes into conflict with L's true successor, Near, during this time. Near quickly deduces that Light is both the second L and the first Kira, but cannot prove it. Using the criminal prosecutor Teru Mikami as a proxy, Light attempts to once again cast suspicion away from himself. However, it is Mikami's ability to predict Kira's will that ultimately proves to be Light's undoing, and Light is revealed as Kira during a final clash between himself and Near.

The exact series of ending events differs between mediums, though Light always dies in the same manner: Ryuk writes Light's name in his Death Note. In the manga, after his attempts to write Near's name down are thwarted, Light begs Ryuk to help him, which Ryuk naturally refuses. In the anime, Light manages to flee the warehouse after Mikami commits suicide, and as he hides in a nearby warehouse, Ryuk writes his name in his Death Note from a tower. As Light slowly closes his eyes, an apparition of L appears before Light, mirroring Light standing over L in episode 25 at L's death. The film ends similar to the manga, but Light is initially led to believe that Ryuk will help, only to discover otherwise. He dies in his father's arms (who in this version does not die), begging him to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had taught him since his childhood, into practice.
L Lawliet

L Lawliet as he appears in the anime.L Lawliet (エル・ローライト, Eru Rōraito?), commonly known by his given name alone, is considered the world's greatest detective. Through clever use of aliases, he's also known as the world's second and third greatest detectives, Eraldo Coil and Deneuve, respectively. When it becomes clear that the one known as Kira is responsible for the many heart attacks among the criminal population, L makes it his duty to bring him to justice. He is voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi in the Japanese anime and by Alessandro Juliani in the English dub. In the live-action film, he is played by Ken'ichi Matsuyama.

L was born on October 31, 1979 (1982 in the anime),[1] making him 25 when he dies on November 5, 2004. It is implied that L was a former resident of Wammy's House, one of Watari's orphanages, as well as a safe haven and educational facility specifically for intellectually-gifted children. L stayed in England for five years, and during that time he was the champion in tennis for the England Junior Cup.


Ken'ichi Matsuyama as LDespite being about as tall as Light (179 cm), L only weighs 50 kg, making him severely underweight for his size. Though outwardly appearing as disheveled and languid, L is a genius on par with Light. His powers of deduction and insight allow him to draw conclusions from the smallest of clues. Furthermore, L's reputation makes others take his conclusions seriously, even when based on a seemingly flimsy pretext. He tends to second-guess everything he is presented with, and is extremely meticulous and analytical. He has several quirks such as preferring to crouch rather than sit, eating only sweet foods like desserts and fruits, and holding items very delicately. He claims that his eating habits have not made him overweight because the brain uses the most calories of any organ in the body. Likewise, he explains that his odd sitting habits are a matter of necessity, as his reasoning ability would drop 40% if he sat normally.

L is quite secretive and only communicates with the world through his assistant, Watari. He never shows his face to the world, instead representing himself with a capital L in Old English 5 Font. He only first reveals himself to the Kira investigation team, and has them refer to him as Ryuzaki (竜崎, Ryūzaki?) for discretion. When he attends Light's college, he takes the name Hideki Ryuga (流河 旱樹, Ryūga Hideki?), deliberately using the name of a popular singer to see if Light was Kira. Even the Kira investigation team never learns his true name.

Once L begins investigating the Kira case, he quickly suspects that Light Yagami is Kira, but cannot obtain any concrete evidence. Even with Light's numerous successful ruses that seem to indicate he can't be Kira, L remains skeptical. Because of his suspicions, L decides to join To-Oh University, the university that Light attends. He reveals to Light that he is L; this, combined with his fake name, ensures that Light (if he were Kira) would never try to kill him for fear of quickly being discovered. Although L cannot shake the conclusion that Light is the first Kira, Light is the only person L had ever identified or connected with, and he openly states on one occasion that even though it would hurt his pride to admit that he has been wrong, he hopes that he would be. Despite Kira being L's opponent, at the core, Light and L share many traits, including extraordinary intelligence and strong opinions of what constitutes true justice. Light manages to kill L by manipulating Rem into killing L for him, making her believe that she must kill him for the sake of Misa's life. During his final days, L seems very depressed, mostly because he, somehow, knew that his death was drawing near. Since L's efforts at the time would have actually cast suspicion on Misa (again; Light's creation of a fake rule had cleared them both, and L was about to test it), this also kills Rem, as Shinigami cannot use a Death Note to extend the lives of others intentionally. L's last sight before death is Light triumphantly smiling over his defeated rival, and in his last moment L confirms to himself that Light is the first Kira. In the anime's finale, an apparition of L appears before the dying Light, who closes his eyes in the same fashion L does in the 25th episode.

In the film, L's death is quite different. Having already written his name in Misa's Death Note beforehand, Rem's attempt to kill him fails (regardless of the time specified, the first Death Note used takes priority). Rather than Near capturing Light later on, it is L's self-sacrifice that allows the investigation team to eventually apprehend Light. After Ryuk kills Light, Ryuk offers L the Death Note. L refuses, and Ryuk calls him "no fun" for it. Twenty-three days after writing his name in the Death Note, during which he burns all the remaining Death Notes and has a final conversation with Soichiro, L dies peacefully while eating a chocolate bar, with a picture of Watari lying right beside him. A third film is scheduled to premiere in February of 2008, titled L: Change the WorLd. It is a film spin-off which focuses on L's final twenty-three days of living after defeating Kira.