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| “ | You can invest your life in something, and it might make you money, but it won't necessarily make you happy. As long as I can feed myself and spend my days in peace and stability, that's all I need. Or so I thought. | „ |
| ~ Light after using the Death Note for the first time. |
Light Yagami is the main protagonist of the 2015 adaptation television series Death Note.
He was portrayed by Masataka Kubota.
Plot[]
Light is a university student who hates crimes & injustice, and grew up to a happy childhood with his family which included a close bond with his mother until she was diagnosed with terminal illness. While Light and his sister, Sayu, were beside her for his mother's last hours, his father Soichiro Yagami was a policeman chasing a criminal named Kurou Otoharada.
Light's father had rushed to see his wife after doing so, only find it was too late, as she'd passed away and the relationship between father and son strained as Soichiro tried best to raise his children as a single father. Sayu took care of herself by cooking and cleaning while Light studied in high school, where he was helpless as he watched his best friend Masaru Kamoda getting bullied by seniors led by Genbu Sakota.
Light wanted to become a lawyer to defend innocents against criminals until Sakota tracked down Light and Kamoda then demanded cash after they left work. After discovering a mysterious black notebook claiming to be able to kill anyone while walking back home, he decides to test it.
After he writes Sakota's name in the Death Note and realizes it's real, he was so horrified by what he did that almost commits suicide, but after meeting with Ryuk who pressured him to kill criminals, Light becomes as known as Kira, a vigilante seen as a god by many followers, such as Misa Amane, who became his girlfriend.
After learning from Touta Matsuda that the police discover that Kira is a university student by looking at the times of Death, Light realizes that manipulating the time is also possible after reading & learning more about the Death Note Rules. Light then begins killing criminals in 1-hour increments in order to specifically contradict the "Kira is a student" theory, letting L & the police know that Kira has access to police info, with Light's main goal in mind being the spawning of distrust among the police and L, as L will be bound to investigate the police now.
At Ichigo Berry's concert, Light is informed by Ryuk that someone is stalking him. In order to prevent him from being investigated, Light is determined to kill his stalker.
As Light arrives home, he finds the doorknob of his bedroom (which is usually lowered by a few millimeters) is strangely at the very top. Not only that, but his bluff, a piece of paper, was strangely put back in his door. This has Light believing that L has installed surveillance cameras and wiretaps within his room. Light then bribes Ryuk with apples, asking him to find where the surveillance cameras are.
Light reveals he has hidden scandalous magazines and proceeds to browse through them in order to give off the impression to L that he is a normal teenager, and that the magazines were what he was hiding all along. During dinner, L has a message appear on TV, stating that the ICPO has dispatched 1500 investigators to Japan to investigate Kira, but Light sees through this bluff.
When Light is about to study for his upcoming entrance exams, he has placed a snippet of the notebook and a mini-LCD TV within a potato chip bag (which contains a flavor which only he out of the rest of his family prefers). While studying, whenever Light places his hand in the potato chip bag, he actually checks for criminals' names using the mini-TV then writes down their names. The main idea is that L would see that criminals have died which Light could not have possibly see, being busy in his room, studying. With this trick, Light manages to kill two petty criminals.
Eventually, the surveillance cameras get removed and Light plans on finding L through his father.
After managing to lower their suspicions by having Ryuk & Rem erase his & Misa's his memories and giving the Death Note to Kyosuke Higuchi to act as the Third/Yotsuba Kira, he later joins the Task Force & L with Misa, due to the mysterious killings of Kira, Later joining with Misanthropist, they both manage , it worked for a while, until L wrote a fake rule into the Death note and exposed Light as Kira without the Task Force involved, he then tries to write Light's name which caused a scuffle, which ended when Mikami gave Light L's name which he wrote, but did not work for a while, upon revealing to L that he was Kira before the latter died.
Light meets his brutal and agonizing end when Mikami burns down the Warehouse after they were exposed by Near and Mello, leaving Light trapped in the blaze alone and unable to escape, due to suffering from the gunshot wounds by the Police as well as eradicating the other notebooks in the process, which including every individual's Memory of being Kira being erased.
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