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The story revolves around a very intelligent and agile high school student named Yagami Raito. This student always felt that life was boring until one day he accidentally picked up a notebook called "Death Note". The notebook has a special power that when someone's name is written on it, that person will die, it is also accurate to the hour of death and the cause of death. If there is no cause of death, the person recorded in the notebook will die of a heart attack. Discovering this, Yagami Raito took the nickname Kira and used the notebook to write the names of criminals on it with the desire to punish the evil in the world so that the world becomes more pure. The mysterious deaths of criminals attract the attention of the police and a detective named L. With his acumen, L quickly discovers this is the crime of a serial killer. with the nickname Kira. And Yagami Raito also realizes that L is a very dangerous opponent that can't write his name in the notebook because he doesn't know L's real name. And from there the battle between the two began, L wanted to find out. The person behind the name Kira to bring to light the law and Yagami Raito wants to know who L really is so that he can fill in the Death Note book.