Will Light Yagami utilise the ability to control death he discovers in a notebook for good or evil? Light Yagami is an excellent student with promising future, but he is also incredibly bored. But when he discovers the Death Note, a book left behind by a mischievous Shinigami death god, everything changes. Light has promised to utilise the power of the Death Note to purge the world of evil since everybody whose name is inscribed in the notebook perishes. But when criminals start dying, the police send the renowned detective L to find the murderer. Will Light lose sight of his admirable objective?or his life?with L close behind him? After being imprisoned alone for a week, Ryuk for company, Light is ready to give up his Death Note and all memories of it. Freed from his past actions, Light is convinced he's innocent. But L is ready to keep Light under lock and key forever, especially since the killings stopped once Light was incarcerated. Then a new wave of Kira crimes hits Japan. Someone else has gotten their hands on a Death Note, and these new deaths aren't focused on making the world a better place, they're focused on making money. Big business can be murder, and Kira has gone corporate!