Light Yagami (夜神 月, Yagami Raito?), also known as Kira (キラ?) is the protagonist of the मांगा and ऐनीमे series Death Note. He is an extremely intelligent, athletic, popular, but bored, young man who finds the Death Note dropped द्वारा the Shinigami Ryuk द्वारा sheer chance. In the Japanese version of the ऐनीमे he is voiced द्वारा Mamoru Miyano, and in the English version द्वारा Brad Swaile.

Ohba described Light's life as "ruined" once he obtained the Death Note, and that Light became a victim of the Death Note "in many ways," Ohba described Light as bearing good faith intentions and having a "very...