Light Yagami • Death Note - Absolute Anime

Light is a typical seventeen year old, except that he's a genius. While looking out the window of his class one day, he sees a black book fall out of the sky. After school ends, he goes over and picks up the book, with the words "Death Note" written in a creepy font. While looking over the book, he reads that the book will kill the person whose name is written in it.

At first, Light doesn't believe it, but ends up taking the book home, where he writes down the name of a criminal that was on TV. As the book said, the man died. Light realizes his amazing possibilities, and starts killing criminals who have done major or minor crimes, or people he feels the world will be better off without.

After a few days of messing around with the Death note, he is confronted by Ryuk, the former owner of the Death Note. Ryuk gives him a lot of information regarding the Death Note. But even despite his scary appearance, Ryuk is crazy for apples, which Light supplies him with.

Unfortunately, because most of the criminals are dying of cardiac arrest, the police get involved, and Light, now dubbed "Kira" by the public, is risking himself every time he kills a convict. Another genius, who goes by the alias of "L", is trying his hardest to stop Light, but both always seem a few steps ahead of each other.

Kira lives with his mother, father, and younger sister.

According to Death Note: How To Read 13, his date of birth is February 28, 1986, while Misa's birthdate is December 25, 1984. Thus, he is younger than Misa. His date of death is January 28, 2010, one month short of his birthday. His likes are listed as justice, and his dislikes as evil.

Editor’s Note:

I've seen several different ages listed for Light Yagami. I believe there are two reasons behind this. First, his date of birth in the anime is listed as being in 1989 while in the manga it's listed as being in 1986. And second, he ages throughout the series. In chapter one of the manga it says Light is age 17. Then in chapter 28, volume four, Light is telling his mom and sister that he has a girlfriend, and he states that he's now 18. By the time the manga gets to chapter sixty, volume seven, Light is 23 years of age.