Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects & he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies & now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life? The battle ends here!