A NOTEBOOK THAT KILLS

“The human whose name is written in this Death Note shall die.”

It is the first rule of the Death Note and whoever founds it and read the first rule may laugh and consequently jump to a conclusion that it was a silly joke created by its original owner scare anyone who picked the notebook… but heavens no! It really kills. Raito (Light), the leading character in the series have the same impression when he picked the dropped notebook and tested it by writing a criminal’s name. The next day, he was totally shocked after learning that the criminal whose name he had written on the Death Note died of heart attack.

Things began to change as the story progress as well as the character of Raito. He finally decided that he will use the Death Note to eliminate anybody he feels that doesn’t necessarily live in this world. In addition, Raito dreamed that with the Death Note, a powerful instrument of death in his hands, he will be able to create his ideal world, a world where crime, violence and other forms of evil don’t exist. He called that world Utopia.

On that world which he dreamed, he stands firm and declared himself as the god who will bestow judgment to evildoers.

The notebook of death which came to Raito was dropped purposely by a bored death god and he’s the true owner of the Death Note. But, not just one, there are many of them.

They are the shinigamis or death gods.