In What Book Does Light Become Kira Again

Fictional character from Death Notation

Lite Yagami
Death Notation character
Light Yagami, drawn by Takeshi Obata
First appearance	Chapter 1: "Boredom" ( 退屈 , Taikutsu )
Last advent	Chapter 107: "Curtain" ( 幕 , Maku )
Created by	Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Portrayed by	Tatsuya Fujiwara (Japanese films) Kenji Urai (musical) Hayato Kakizawa (musical) Masataka Kubota (Television series) Nat Wolff and Margaret Qualley (American film)
Voiced by	Mamoru Miyano (Japanese) Brad Swaile (English)
In-universe data
Alias	Kira Light Asahi ( 朝日月 , Asahi Raito ) ^[1] 50 (from chapter 60 onward)^[2]
Nickname	God
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Pupil (formerly) Constabulary Detective Vigilante serial killer
Relatives	Soichiro Yagami (father) Sachiko Yagami (mother) Sayu Yagami (sister) Misa Amane (fiancée)

Light Yagami (Japanese: 夜神月ライト , Hepburn: Yagami Raito ) is the primary protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created past Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is portrayed as a brilliant but bored genius who finds the Decease Note, an otherworldly supernatural notebook that allows the user to kill anyone by knowing their proper noun and face, after it is dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk. Frustrated by the condition quo and unfairness of the world, Light uses the Decease Note to kill those whom he deems morally unworthy of life, masterminding a worldwide massacre as the vigilante Kira ( キラ ). Over the course of his efforts to create a world complimentary of crime and evil, over which he would serve every bit a godlike effigy, Light is pursued past a special job-forcefulness, headed by a consulting detective known as L.

In the anime adaptation, he is voiced by Mamoru Miyano in Japanese and past Brad Swaile in the English version. In the live-action moving picture series, he is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara with Swaile reprising his role as his English dub vox; he is portrayed past both Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa in the musical; in the TV drama, he is portrayed past Masataka Kubota; his counterparts in the American motion-picture show are portrayed past Nat Wolff and Margaret Qualley.

Creation and conception [edit]

Tsugumi Ohba, the story author of Decease Note said that his editor suggested the family name "Yagami" for Light. Ohba said that he did not feel "likewise concerned" about the meaning of the name (the Kanji for "Yagami" are "night" and "god"); he said that after he created the final scene in the manga he "liked" that the last scene created "deeper significance" in the proper name, of Kira worshippers worshipping him at night nether the low-cal of the moon – his given proper noun Lite is written with the graphic symbol for "moon".^[iii]

Takeshi Obata, the creative person of Death Notation, said that he had "no trouble" designing Low-cal as the character description presented to him, "A bright honors student who'due south a little out there," was "clear and detailed". As the weekly serialization connected, Obata simplified the design by subconsciously removing "unnecessary" lines and felt that he became "better" at drawing Light. When Chapter 35 appeared and the editor informed Obata that Light loses his memories, Obata had to depict Calorie-free in a similar manner as he appeared in Affiliate one; Obata said "It was like I had to forget everything I had learned." Obata said that he used "a lot of effort" to design Calorie-free's wardrobe. Co-ordinate to Obata, he encountered difficulty imagining the clothing of "a vivid person," then he looked through fashion magazines. Obata envisioned Calorie-free every bit a "smart and formal guy" who wears formal shirts. Most of Light'southward vesture in Death Note is "fitted" and Obata avoided jeans.^[4]

For color illustrations, Obata assigned specific colors to each chief graphic symbol to help "get the atmosphere correct" when designing them. He assigned "a lack of color or clear" to Light.^[5]

Films [edit]

Shusuke Kaneko, manager of the flick, intended for Light to appear sympathetic at the start of the motion-picture show; when Light first gains the Death Note, Kaneko "was careful" to accept Calorie-free react in a manner "every bit you lot and I would". Kaneko changed the story involving Light gaining his outset notebook as he felt that the audience "would take a difficult time sympathizing" with Light if the scene remained the same every bit it was in the manga. Kaneko added that every bit he portrayed Calorie-free as "being enthralled" as he "becomes more than fell" to make the audition members feel that they could "do the terrible things he does" fifty-fifty if the members do not sympathize with Light.^[6]

Tatsuya Fujiwara said that he felt difficulty portraying Light in the film series because of the lack of "action" and considering Low-cal has no signature mannerisms and therefore has his feelings displayed by his confront; Fujiwara added that he struggled conveying Light'southward "incredible intelligence" and that the performance would appear "very empty or simplistic" if Light received an improper portrayal. Fujiwara explained that he wanted Lite to weep in a particular scene fifty-fifty though Kaneko told Fujiwara "Light doesn't weep" since Fujiwara believed that the scene would feel "more than honest"; Kaneko used the take.^[vii]

Kaneko designed Low-cal's room to reverberate the grapheme'south personality past making it make clean and neat and filling it with legal, criminal history, foreign, and academic books. The original version of Light's room included a stereo; Kaneko replaced information technology with a vacuum cleaner to reflect Light's "clean-freak self".^[8]

Kenichi Matsuyama, the actor who portrayed L, said that he and Fujiwara became "then immersed" in their character portrayals that they did not talk to one some other while on the set; when filming ceased they conversed and "went out for a drink or two".^[7] Matsuyama also said that Light and Fifty are "extremely" alike in that they have "a very strong sense of justice".^[9]

Appearances [edit]

In Death Note [edit]

Light as he appears in the anime.

Light Yagami was born on February 28, 1986.^[10] He is portrayed as a teen genius and a model educatee with a polite, reserved, and gentleman-like personality, who is popular amid his peers and teachers and is known for being the class topper.^[11] ^[12] At the outset of the story, Lite is a student in his last twelvemonth of high schoolhouse; he afterwards attends To-Oh University ( 東応大学 , Tōō Daigaku ). His father, Soichiro Yagami, is the primary of the National Police Agency and the head of the job force hunting for "Kira", the name the public has given to the perpetrator of a string of inexplicable murders around the world. His mother, Sachiko, is a housewife. His younger sister, Sayu, acts as a cheerful, less academic foil of Light himself.

Light initially becomes horrified at the Decease Note's abilities later on he tests the notebook on two criminals out of curiosity, but he eventually convinces himself that the criminal's resulting deaths were justified, thinking he would bring criminal offence rates down around the world. Light soon becomes driven to atomic number 82 a personal crusade to rid the world of law-breaking by using the notebook. While his agenda originates with good intentions,^[13] Light eventually finds himself killing law enforcement and fifty-fifty innocents in order to elude capture. His ethics are utilitarian, justifying the most extreme acts in service of his cause. He is as well driven by a demand for victory, which motivates most of his cruelest acts. Combined with the power of the Death Note, his hubris and genius-level intellect convince him that only he tin can relieve the globe.

Eventually, a modest chore forcefulness of Japanese police officers, including Low-cal's father, under the direction of the eccentric genius detective L begin to shut in on Light. Although he suspects Light is Kira, 50 allows him to collaborate with the constabulary on the case. This begins a game of cat and mouse between the 2, with Calorie-free trying to acquire Fifty'southward real name then he can kill him, and L trying to become Light to expose himself and so that he can arrest him. Because the actions of Misa Amane, a fervent Kira supporter and young man Death Notation owner, nearly implicates Light, he becomes compelled to temporarily relinquish ownership of his notebook and subsequently loses his memories of using the Death Note. It is during this time that Light reverts to his original persona: a caring, level-headed, and compassionate individual unwilling to manipulate others or commit or justify acts of offense, such as murder. After Light regains ownership of his notebook and his memories, he manipulates Misa's Shinigami Rem into killing L. Light then assumes the "L" persona and continues his deception of searching for Kira with the task force while carrying out the killings himself with assistance from Misa.

Over four years subsequently, Low-cal is able to garner most of the world'southward support, reaching the point where his followers have begun to worship Kira as a literal deity. However, information technology is effectually this time that ii of 50's protégés, Mello and Well-nigh, begin their investigation against Kira. Well-nigh heads the SPK (Special Provision for Kira), an American investigation squad equanimous of CIA and FBI agents, while Mello works with the Mafia. Although Mello dies working separately from Near, his actions lead Teru Mikami, a man selected by Light to kill criminals using another Death Notation, to make a mistake that results in Light'southward capture by About, the SPK, and Japanese constabulary. Seeing that Light has finally lost, he is killed when Ryuk writes his name in his own Death Note, just equally the Shinigami had warned when they showtime met.^[14] Light Yagami died on January 28, 2010.

In moving-picture show [edit]

Japanese film series [edit]

In the Japanese pic serial, Calorie-free Yagami is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara, known for his role equally Shuya Nanahara in Boxing Royale. In the films, he is portrayed every bit a distinguished, popular and intellectually gifted higher student, who has a disregard and frustration of the incapability of the police enforcement system to quell the rampant increase in criminal activities effectually the globe, which drives his motives to use the Expiry Annotation, to modify the world into a utopian society without criminal offense, under the allonym of a god-similar vigilante known equally "Kira", much like his manga counterpart. However, some slight changes and modifications were made to the character. At the film's beginning, Light is a kickoff-year police educatee at a university, instead of notwithstanding being in high school as in the beginning of the manga and anime. Calorie-free's motives besides slightly differ; in this version, he uses the Death Notation mainly out of his frustration from the perceived failures of the Japanese justice organisation. Low-cal, prior to his discovery of the Death Note, hacks into the national police database and finds that the government is unable to prosecute many criminals, either due to lack of testify or technical loop-holes, amongst other reasons. Also, Light discovers the Death Notation in an aisle during a rainy dark after encountering an acquitted felon named Takuo Shibuimaru in a night-order. Another difference is that Light meets Ryuk right after killing Shibuimaru with the Decease Note. At the stop of the first movie, Light reluctantly kills his girlfriend, Shiori Akino, and frames her decease as a murder and reason to foster hatred for "Kira", in order to join the Kira investigation team equally a result of their sympathy.

Light relinquishes ownership of the Expiry Notation to Kiyomi Takada. After Takada is caught, Lite kills her to recover the Death Notation, simply it is taken by the investigation team. Fifty states that he will exam the 13-Solar day Rule, a false Death Note rule designed to show Low-cal and Misa'southward innocence. Rem, knowing that L's actions volition reveal Misa'southward identity as the second Kira, writes both Fifty and his handler: Watari's names in the Death Notation. Lite then proceeds to write his father's name in the book, manipulating his male parent to render the confiscated Death Note. Light confronts his father, only Soichiro does not die. The investigation team members, including L, reveal themselves. Having already written his ain name in the Decease Note, thus negating Rem'southward deportment, 50 tells Light that he had just written in a fake annotation. Light tries to write on a hidden piece of Death Note, just is shot by Matsuda, an investigation squad member. Low-cal tells Ryuk to write the squad'due south names, promising to evidence him many interesting things, and begins to laugh. He stops, however, when Ryuk shows him that he had written just one name: Light'south. Light tries to stop Ryuk, but but passes right through him. As Light begins to succumb to the furnishings of the Death Note, Ryuk takes this opportunity to reveal to him that humans that accept used the Death Notation are barred from inbound either Heaven or Hell, instead spending eternity in nothingness. Lite dies in his father'south arms, begging him to believe that he acted every bit Kira to put the justice, which Soichiro had taught him since his childhood, into exercise.

Several years after Low-cal's expiry, however, it is revealed in the sequel picture Decease Note: Low-cal Upwardly the New World that Lite secretly had a son, Hikari Yagami (夜神光 Yagami Hikari), who was expected to inherit a Decease Note and carry on Kira'southward legacy. Teru Mikami'south status equally Hikari's appointed guardian implies that Misa Amane was the male child's nascency female parent. Mikami kills Hikari over control of the notebook, and is then killed by police officer Tsukuru Mishima who decides to employ the notebook to go along Light'south work in ridding the world of crime. During the form of the film, Mishima is eventually defenseless past the police force and he willingly turns himself in and the notebook to the government, seemingly thus ending Kira's legacy. A mid-credits scene reveals a video recorded past Calorie-free addressing the film'south events to have occurred just equally he has expected them to, teasing his potential resurrection.

American film [edit]

Nat Wolff portrays "Lite Turner": a Seattle high schoolhouse student, in the American film accommodation, every bit an intelligent yet quiet and socially introverted teenager, who stumbles across the mystical Decease Note and eventually decides to apply the notebook's god-like abilities to commit a worldwide massacre, in order to change the world into a utopian gild without crime, nether the allonym of a literal human being deity: "Kira", while being hunted down by an elite task-forcefulness of constabulary enforcement officials within Seattle Metropolis, led by an enigmatic international detective known as L and his own begetter, veteran Seattle police detective: James Turner.^[15] ^[16] Margaret Qualley portrays Mia Sutton (based on the sociopathic qualities of Lite Yagami^[17]), Light'due south girlfriend who assists him in his activities as "Kira". In this adaptation, Light has vast character differences from his manga counterpart, lacks much of the sociopathic, malicious and ruthless qualities of the original character, is more naive, sympathetic and idealistic, does non have a sis and has lost his mother in a striking and run incident, which partially serves as his inspiration to operate as Kira. He has a close nevertheless somewhat strained relationship with his father and while considered academically gifted by peers and authorities, is not a popular student and is considered equally a social outsider and lacks friends. Unlike his manga analogue, he is besides far less charismatic and confident, but more morally driven and demonstrates a reluctance to murder innocents and law enforcement individuals attempting to capture him, while somewhen demonstrating a more darker, morally ambiguous, cunning and meticulous personality, towards the moving-picture show's ending. Furthermore, instead of obtaining the notebook past chance, Ryuk deliberately easily Light the Death Note, in order to entertain himself and to see how an indifferent loftier schooler would apply the Death Note'due south god-similar abilities.^{[ citation needed ]}

Later on being enticed to kill a bully by Ryuk, Light murders the criminal who killed his mother. Along with Mia Sutton, his classmate and love interest, Light begins a crusade similar to his manga counterpart to rid the globe of criminal offence. However the pair eventually come to a disagreement on how they should bargain with law enforcement targeting them, including 50 and Light's father James. Afterward Mia kills Watari, L's handler, she schemes to steal the notebook from Light, but Lite outmaneuvers her and kills her and concocts an elaborate programme through the Death Note, by manipulating a number of criminals to go along his activities every bit "Kira" through the notebook, before all of them commit suicide and induces himself into a medical blackout for around a month, which seemingly proves Calorie-free'due south innocence to the authorities. At the end of the picture show, James presents Light with evidence that he killed his female parent's murderer and Calorie-free confesses to existence Kira and reveals how he cleared himself of suspicion. Meanwhile, L, disgraced by his superiors due to failing to implicate Light and seeking to avenge Watari, considers killing Light with a subconscious piece of the notebook he finds in Mia'south room. The motion picture ends, as Ryuk laughs to a bed-ridden Light and comments that "humans are so interesting".

In other media [edit]

In the 2015 drama, Masataka Kubota plays the role of Lite Yagami.^[18] Like to the Netflix adaptation, Light is portrayed as less charismatic, insecure and is initially hesitant to kill law enforcement. His relationship with his male parent Soichiro is also strained due to the death of his mother prior to the start of the series. However, in the later half of the series he grows to demonstrate the same level of ruthlessness, intellect and hubris as his manga analogue.

Like the Netflix adaption, Light does not obtain the notebook by chance and it is given to him past Ryuk in response to a confrontation with a slap-up. After write the bully's name in the Death Annotation and realize it is real, he is and so horrified by what he did that almost commits suicide. Later on again using the notebook to salve his father from existence held hostage, Light proceeds to use the notebook to impale criminals every bit Kira. In response to the killings, the detective L leads a law task force alongside Lite'southward father Soichiro to capture Kira. Toward the finish of the series, Fifty and Soichiro run into through Light's deception and each attempt to convince him to plow himself in. When Light refuses to relent, he is baited into confessing after L and Soichiro both cede their lives. The data obtained from their deaths is relayed to the police chore force, who ambush Light in a warehouse in a sting operation lead past L's successor Near. In a desperate endeavour to help him evade capture, Low-cal'south accomplice Teru Mikami sets burn to the warehouse simply Light is instead trapped by the fire and burns to decease.

In the musical adaptation, Light is portrayed by Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa in the Japanese productions and Hong Kwang-ho and Han Ji-sang in the Korean productions.^[nineteen]

Light also appears alongside Ryuk as a non-playable story grapheme for the crossover video game Jump Force, with Mamoru Miyano reprising his role equally Lite. He allies himself with the game'southward heroes until he acquires an Umbra Cube, a tool utilized by the game'due south antagonists, in order to replace the power of the Death Note that he lost before the game's events.^[20]

Reception [edit]

Assay [edit]

Ohba described Calorie-free equally a victim of the Decease Note, with Calorie-free's life beingness "ruined" once he obtained it. According to Ohba, Light was "a young man who could sympathize the pain of others" when he start encountered the Death Note. Ohba said that if Ryuk never adult an interest in the human world, Light would take become "one of the greatest police force leaders in the world" who, with L, worked against criminals.^[21] He added that he believed that debating whether Calorie-free's deportment were skillful or evil is not "very of import". Ohba said that he personally sees Light every bit a "diabolical" character.^[22] Obata said that Light was his second favorite human being character and that he was not sure whether that was because he "liked" Light or because he drew "such a diabolical character" in a magazine for children.^[23]

According to Ohba, Light sees Misa Amane, whom he uses as an accomplice, as a "bad person" who killed people, so he acts emotionally cold towards her and manipulates her, although he pretends to love her, and even says he volition ally her. He is only stopped from killing her by the shinigami Rem, who threatens to kill him if she dies early or if he tries to kill her, despite her knowledge that doing so will cause her ain expiry.^[24]

Although Lite originally had good intentions, he was "very conceited", with a "warped ... desire to be godlike", begetting love for his family, and intending to transform the world into "a better place".^[24] Ohba also states that Light, "uncompromising" when achieving his ideals, "sullied" himself by using the Death Annotation and that his actions "may have been the upshot of the purity within him" prior to obtaining the Decease Note.^[25]

This purity is demonstrated in Lite's personality shift after he temporarily relinquishes the Death Note to ward off suspicion. Losing his memories as Kira along with buying of the notebook, Light demonstrates compassion, a reluctance to manipulate others, and an intense unwillingness to kill. One time his memories return, even so, he reverts to his ruthless Kira persona and remains that way until his expiry. Nevertheless, Ohba states that Lite never lost his love for his family since he viewed them equally righteous people.^[26]

Douglas Wolk of Salon describes Calorie-free as "coldly manipulative", "egomaniacal", and "an unrepentant serial killer, a butcher on an enormous scale" who is not "a Freddy Krueger, a monster who represents pure evil, or a Patrick Bateman, a demonic symbol of his historic period". Wolk describes Light as "the practiced guy, more than or less" who genuinely believes that he holds "the moral high ground".^[27] When asked nigh which character was near like to himself, Ohba indicated Near and "perchance Light." Regarding Light, Ohba cited "because I did well in school."^[28]

Travis Fickett of IGN describes Lite as a "sociopath".^[29] Tom S. Pepirium of IGN describes Light as "brilliant, but disturbed".^[30] Wolk describes Light'southward ideal world, a "totalitarian" place "ruled past a propagandistic Boob tube channel and an arbitrary secret executioner". Wolk said that Ohba sometimes suggests that this world is "in some ways a better, happier world than ours".^[27] Jolyon Baraka Thomas describes Light's vision of justice as "impure": "[His] supercilious effort to save lodge from itself is both self-aggrandizing and vicious".^[12] Toshiki Inoue, the series organizer for the Expiry Note anime, describes Light as a "child whose wish happens to come truthful".^[31]

Critical reception [edit]

Tom S. Pepirium of IGN said that he felt surprised when he learned that some viewers, while watching the series, wanted Lite to emerge every bit the victor of the storyline; Pepirium added that his wife said that she was "kinda rooting for Light". Pepirium compared wanting Calorie-free to win to "cheering for Kevin Spacey at the stop of 7".^[32] Pepirium added that Brad Swaile, Lite's English-language voice actor, "nails" the "difficult" task of making Calorie-free "both likable and hated".^[33] Jason Charpentier of The Anchor stated that Light's attributes and his role as a main grapheme class "part of what makes Expiry Note interesting".^[34] Lite was too listed 18th in IGN's 2009 best anime grapheme of all-fourth dimension list with writer Chris Mackenzie praising how Light is "mesmerizing".^[35] In 2014, he was placed seventh on IGN's list of greatest anime characters of all-time, with the cite stating that "Light Yagami was the force that drove Death Note and made information technology a miracle".^[36] He is frequently cited as beingness an anti-hero and sometimes a villain protagonist.^[37] ^[38] Manga artist Katsura Hoshino, a former assistant of Takeshi Obata, has said that she likes the way the Light is often drawn as he gives the appeal of a cool villain.^[39]

Tetsuro Araki, the director of the anime, said that he felt an urge to support and cheer for Lite. Araki added that Light would have used and killed him if he was one of Light's friends, but the director still believed that Light is "that interesting" and therefore he would take felt an attraction towards Low-cal.^[31]

Pauline Wong of OtakuZone had her opinions of the film portrayal of Light Yagami published in The Star, a Malaysian paper. In it, Wong says that the "very bishie-status-worthy" Fujiwara portrayed Light with "ataraxy and near-perfection, right down to the evil little smile". Kitty Sensei, quoted in the same Malaysian article, says that the portrayal of Light in the film is "very faithful to the manga's".^[forty]

Tatsuya Fujiwara, the actor who portrayed Calorie-free in the films, said that he "could understand" Light's intentions to create a new world even though "murder is a horrible thing".^[7] Matsuyama describes 50 and Light as having "such unique characters that they're impossible to empathise".^[7] Erika Toda, the actress who portrayed Misa Amane in the films, described Low-cal's and Misa'due south actions equally "criminal".^[41]

Come across as well [edit]

List of Expiry Annotation characters

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