Death Note Volume 1 Essay

The book I read this week is called Death Note Volume 1, written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. I am currently finished with this volume and would like to blog about it. The book first introduced the main character, Light Yagami, who is an ace student and is currently bored. When exiting school, he encounters a strange black book called a “Death Note”. These rules were written inside:

The humans whose is written in this notebook shall die
This notebook will not take effect unless the writer has the subject’s face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.
If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the person’s name, it will happen.
If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.
After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written in the next 6

Unexpectedly the criminal dies in 40 seconds by a heart attack which proves the death note is real. After a week, A shinigami (Death God) name Ryuk, the past owner of the death note, visits Light. Ryuk is a bored shinigami who finds humans interesting and intentionally drops the death note in the human world for “fun”. When Light and Ryuk encountered, Light explains how he wants to exterminate all criminals from the world to make the world a better place for good people to live in. With the notebook he would become their “God” of his new world. When a mass killing spree of criminals goes on, it caught the attention of the international police organization and gave Light the nickname Kira (means “killer”). When the police found out that Kira is in Japan, Light’s worse enemy, L, appears. L is an unknown person/detective who can solve any case. In the end, it became a cat and mouse game, Kira vs L. (End of volume